Academic Publications

Hennessy C. & Douglas, E. (2024) A life course approach to human development and ageing: impact of war. In Social Determinants of Health in Europe:  Direct and Indirect Consequences of War; The wicked issues of War. University of Bristol Press. Forthcoming.

Blanchflower, D., Bryson, A. and Bell, D.N.F. (2024) The Declining Mental Health of the Young in the UK, National Bureau of Economic Research, WP 32879, DOI 10.3386/w32879

Arakelyan S, Bell D, Douglas E, et al. (2023) Social, health and economic impact of COVID-19: Healthy Ageing In Scotland (HAGIS) – a protocol for a mixed-methods study. BMJ Open 2023;13:e061427. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061427

Bell, D.N.F. and Lemmon, E. (2023) The Economics of Social Care in The Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Ageing Edited by David E. Bloom, Alfonso Sousa-Poza and Uwe Sunde
 
Fawns-Ritchie C, Miller CB, van der Pol M, Bell D, Douglas, E., et al. (2022) Psychological correlates of free colorectal cancer screening uptake in a Scottish sample: a cross-sectional observational study
BMJ Open 2022;12:e042210. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-042210

Lemmon E, Rutherford A, Hall P, Bell D, Henderson D, Downing A, Clark S. (2022) The use of social care services by individuals aged 50 and over diagnosed with colorectal cancer in Scotland: a linked data study. Int J Popul Data Sci. 2022 Aug 25;7(3):2017. doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v7i3.2017. PMCID: PMC9645062.

Bell, D., Douglas, E. (2021). Healthy Ageing in Scotland (HAGIS). In: Gu, D., Dupre, M.E. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22009-9_338

Comerford D, Olivarius O, Bell D, Douglas E, et al. Did Negative News Regarding the Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccine end in Vaccine Hesitancy? A Repeated Cross-Section Event Study from the UK, 12 April 2021, PREPRINT (Version 2) available at Research Square [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-355311/v2]

Dawson A, Pemble C, Brown T, Comerford D, Olivarius O, Douglas E, McGregor L, Bell D, McCabe L. (2021) A rapid review of the development and validation of instruments specifically designed to assess or measure 'COVID-19 fear'. PROSPERO 2021 CRD42021250233

Fawns-Ritchie C, Altschul DM, Campbell A, Huggins C, Nangle C, Dawson R, Edwards R, Flaig R, Hartley L, Levein C, McCartney DL, Bell D, Douglas E, Deary IJ, Hayward C, Marioni RE, McIntosh AM, Sudlow C, Porteous DJ. (2021) CovidLife: a resource to understand mental health, well-being and behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. Wellcome Open Res. 2021 Jul 7;6:176. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16987.1. PMID: 38406227; PMCID: PMC10884595.

McCabe, L.; Dawson, A.; Douglas, E.; Barry, N. (2021) Using Technology the Right Way to Support Social Connectedness for Older People in the Era of COVID-19. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 8725. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168725

McCabe L, de Oca VM, Curreri N, Vivaldo M, Dawson A, Rivera M, Arroyo M, Douglas E. (2021) Staying Connected during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences of Older People in Mexico and Scotland. Innov Aging. 2021 Dec 17;5(Suppl 1):990–1. doi: 10.1093/geroni/igab046.3527. PMCID: PMC8682370.

Bell D, Comerford DA, Douglas E. (2020). How do subjective life expectancies compare with mortality tables? Similarities and differences in three national samples. The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Volume 16,100241,ISSN 2212-828X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeoa.2020.100241.

Douglas E, Bell D. Loneliness and Patterns of Health Service Usage: Evidence From Healthy Ageing in Scotland. Innov Aging. 2020 Dec 16;4(Suppl 1):642. doi: 10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2206. PMCID: PMC7740778.

Douglas, E. and Bell, D. (2019) “The relationship between loneliness, social isolation and health service usage in an older population: an example of administrative data linkage using Healthy Ageing In Scotland (HAGIS) and NHS records”, International Journal of Population Data Science, 4(3). doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v4i3.1283.

Douglas E, Bell D. (2019). Smoking Behaviour: Patterns and costs of health service usage using HAGIS and Linked Administrative Health Data. Innov Aging. 2019 Nov 8;3(Suppl 1):S943. doi: 10.1093/geroni/igz038.3429. PMCID: PMC6845726.

Douglas E, Rutherford A, Bell D. (2018) Pilot study protocol to inform a future longitudinal study of ageing using linked administrative data: Healthy AGeing in Scotland (HAGIS) BMJ Open 2018;8:e018802. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018802