Background Although it is increasingly acknowledged that social networks are important to
our understanding ofoverweight and obesity, there is limited understanding about the …

The ways in which inequality generates particular population health outcomes remains a
major source of dispute within social epidemiology and medical sociology. Wilkinson and …

People who use alcohol and other drugs (hereafter “substances”) and who are over the age
of 40 are now more likely to die of a non‐drug related cause than people who use …

Prison populations across the world are increasing. In the United Kingdom, numbers have
doubled in the last two decades, and older prisoners now constitute the fastest growing …

Despite falling crime rates in England and Wales over the past 20 years, the number of
prisoners has doubled. People over the age of 50 constitute the fastest growing section of …

The idea that social inequality has deleterious consequences for population health is well
established within social epidemiology and medical sociology (Marmot and Wilkinson, 2001; …

Despite widespread epidemiological evidence of a social gradient in obesity, there has
been less attention focused on understanding this from a sociological perspective …

This article shifts focus from an individualised and anthropocentric perspective on obesity,
and uses a new materialist analysis to explore the assemblages of materialities producing …

Issues Numerous studies have explored alcohol consumption in pregnancy, but less is
known about women's drinking in the early parenting period (EPP, 0–5 years after …

Mothers' alcohol consumption has often been portrayed as problematic: firstly, because of
the effects of alcohol on the foetus, and secondly, because of the association between …