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Tony Blakely

Professor of Epidemiology, University of Melbourne
Verified email at unimelb.edu.au
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[HTML][HTML] Food pricing strategies, population diets, and non-communicable disease: a systematic review of simulation studies

H Eyles, C Ni Mhurchu, N Nghiem, T Blakely - PLoS medicine, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Food pricing strategies have been proposed to encourage healthy eating
habits, which may in turn help stem global increases in non-communicable diseases. This …

Probabilistic record linkage and a method to calculate the positive predictive value

T Blakely, C Salmond - International journal of epidemiology, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Background Computerized record linkage is commonly used in cohort studies to ascertain
the study outcome, and as such its accuracy classifying the outcome can be described using …

Effectiveness of monetary incentives in modifying dietary behavior: a review of randomized, controlled trials

J Wall, CN Mhurchu, T Blakely, A Rodgers… - Nutrition …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
To review research evidence on the effectiveness of monetary incentives in modifying
dietary behavior, we conducted a systematic review of randomized, controlled trials (RCTs) …

Unemployment and suicide. Evidence for a causal association?

TA Blakely, SCD Collings, J Atkinson - Journal of Epidemiology & …, 2003 - jech.bmj.com
Objectives: To determine the independent associations of labour force status and
socioeconomic position with death by suicide. Design: Cohort study assembled by …

Inequalities in non-communicable diseases and effective responses

M Di Cesare, YH Khang, P Asaria, T Blakely… - The Lancet, 2013 - thelancet.com
In most countries, people who have a low socioeconomic status and those who live in poor
or marginalised communities have a higher risk of dying from non-communicable diseases …

Effect of insulating existing houses on health inequality: cluster randomised study in the community

P Howden-Chapman, A Matheson, J Crane, H Viggers… - Bmj, 2007 - bmj.com
Objective To determine whether insulating existing houses increases indoor temperatures
and improves occupants' health and wellbeing. Design Community based, cluster, single …

Ecological effects in multi-level studies

TA Blakely, AJ Woodward - Journal of Epidemiology & Community …, 2000 - jech.bmj.com
Multi-level research that attempts to describe ecological effects in themselves (for example,
the effect on individual health from living in deprived communities), while also including …

[PDF][PDF] Decades of disparity: ethnic mortality trends in New Zealand 1980–1999

S Ajwani, T Blakely, B Robson, M Tobias… - Wellington: Ministry of …, 2003 - otago.ac.nz
During the 1980s and early 1990s Mäori and Pacific mortality was seriously undercounted.
The undercounting occurred because ethnicity was recorded differently on death registration …

Neighborhood deprivation and access to fast-food retailing: a national study

J Pearce, T Blakely, K Witten, P Bartie - American journal of preventive …, 2007 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Obesogenic environments may be an important contextual explanation for
the growing obesity epidemic, including its unequal social distribution. The objective of this …

Fixed effects analysis of repeated measures data

FI Gunasekara, K Richardson, K Carter… - International journal of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The analysis of repeated measures or panel data allows control of some of the biases which
plague other observational studies, particularly unmeasured confounding. When this bias is …