Danny Dorling

London and the English Desert. The grain of truth in a stereotype (2008)

Danny Dorling

En ce début de XXIème siècle, affirmer que l’Angleterre est si divisée économiquement que Londres s’opposerait à un désert anglais comporte une part significative de vérité. La région...

Geographical trends in infant mortality in England and Wales, 1971-2006. (2008)

Norman, Paul, Gregory, Ian, Dorling, Danny, Baker, Alan

At national level in England and Wales, infant mortality rates fell rapidly from the early 1970s and into the 1980s. Subnational areas have also experienced a reduction in levels of infant mortality....

Health Informatics Journal (2008)

Dimitris Ballas, Graham Clarke, Danny Dorling, Jan Rigby, Ben Wheeler

Using geographical information systems and spatial microsimulation for the analysis of health inequalities

The shape of the global causes of death (2007)

Barford, Anna, Dorling, Danny

Abstract Background World maps can provide an instant visual overview of the distribution of diseases and deaths. Results There is a particular geography to each type of death: in some places many...

Measuring the impact of major life events upon happiness (2007)

Ballas, Dimitris, Dorling, Danny

Background In recent years there have been numerous attempts to define and measure happiness in various contexts and pertaining to a wide range of disciplines, ranging from neuroscience and...

Increasing geographical inequalities in health in New Zealand, 1980-2001 (2006)

Pearce, Jamie, Dorling, Danny

Background Recent studies have noted widening health inequalities between rich and poor areas in a number of OECD countries. This paper examines whether health in New Zealand has become more...

Increasing geographical inequalities in health in New Zealand, 1980-2001 (2006)

Pearce, Jamie, Dorling, Danny

Background Recent studies have noted widening health inequalities between rich and poor areas in a number of OECD countries. This paper examines whether health in New Zealand has become more...

A new classification of UK local authorities using 2001 Census key statistics, Working Paper 03/5 (2003)

Daniel Vickers, Phil Rees, Mark Birkin, Leeds Ls Jt, Daniel Vickers, Richard Webber, ...

The 2001 Census has been successfully administered and the Census Organisations are currently engaged in processing the returns. A very large and rich dataset will be produced for the 58,789,194...

Life and death of the people of London: a historical GIS of Charles Booth's inquiry (2002)

Orford, Scott, Dorling, Danny, Mitchell, Richard, Shaw, Mary, Davey Smith, George

Social reformer Charles Booth undertook a massive survey into the social and economic conditions of the people of London at the end of the 19th century. An important innovation of his Inquiry was the...

Life and death of the people of London: a historical GIS of Charles Booth's inquiry (2002)

Orford, Scott, Dorling, Danny, Mitchell, Richard, Shaw, Mary, Davey Smith, George

Social reformer Charles Booth undertook a massive survey into the social and economic conditions of the people of London at the end of the 19th century. An important innovation of his Inquiry was the...

Bringing the mission million home: correcting the 1991 small area statistics for the undercount (2002)

Mitchell, Richard, Dorling, Danny, Martin, David, Simpson, Ludi

The 1991 UK Decennial Census missed about 1.2 million people. These missing individuals present a serious challenge to any census user interested in measuring intercensal change, particularly amongst...

Health inequalities and New Labour: how the promises compare with real progress

Shaw, Mary, Davey Smith, George, Dorling, Danny

Inequalities in health between rich and poor areas of Britain widened in the 1980s and 1990s, and the current government has repeatedly expressed its intention to reduce these inequalities. In this...

Global inequality of life expectancy due to AIDS

Dorling, Danny, Shaw, Mary, Smith, George Davey

Global inequality in both health and wealth began to rise worldwide in the early 1980s and has been exacerbated by AIDS in Africa. This trend is not inevitable, and historical trends show that...

Who cares in England and Wales? The Positive Care Law: cross-sectional study

Shaw, Mary, Dorling, Danny

Background: The inverse care law proposing that medical services are distributed inversely to population health needs, and that this law operates more completely where medical care is most exposed to...

Health inequalities and New Labour: how the promises compare with real progress

Shaw, Mary, Davey Smith, George, Dorling, Danny

Inequalities in health between rich and poor areas of Britain widened in the 1980s and 1990s, and the current government has repeatedly expressed its intention to reduce these inequalities. In this...

Who cares in England and Wales? The Positive Care Law: cross-sectional study

Shaw, Mary, Dorling, Danny

Background: The inverse care law proposing that medical services are distributed inversely to population health needs, and that this law operates more completely where medical care is most exposed to...

Global inequality of life expectancy due to AIDS

Dorling, Danny, Shaw, Mary, Smith, George Davey

Global inequality in both health and wealth began to rise worldwide in the early 1980s and has been exacerbated by AIDS in Africa. This trend is not inevitable, and historical trends show that...

Worldmapper: The Human Anatomy of a Small Planet

Dorling, Danny

The Worldmapper Web site is a collection of world maps where territories are re-sized according to the subject of interest.

The global impact of income inequality on health by age: an observational study

Dorling, Danny, Mitchell, Richard, Pearce, Jamie

Objectives To explore whether the apparent impact of income inequality on health, which has been shown for wealthier nations, is replicated worldwide, and whether the impact varies by age.

Locating the altruistic voter: context, egocentric voting, and support for the Conservative Party at the 1997 General Election in England and Wales

Ron Johnston, Danny Dorling, Helena Tunstall, David Rossiter, Iain MacAllister, Charles Pattie

Egocentric economic voting models are widely used in studies of voting behaviour in Great Britain: they suggest that people whose standard of living has risen recently as a perceived consequence of...

How much does place matter?

Danny Dorling, George Smith, Michael Noble, Gemma Wright, Roger Burrows, Jonathan Bradshaw, ...

Anecdote is the singular of data Danny Dorling Do we care about area effects? George Smith, Michael Noble, Gemma Wright Evidence-based policy and practice Roger Burrows, Jonathan Bradshaw Is there a...

Bringing the missing million home: correcting the 1991 small area statistics for undercount

Richard Mitchell, Danny Dorling, David Martin, Ludi Simpson

The 1991 UK Decennial Census missed about 1.2 million people. These missing individuals present a serious challenge to any census user interested in measuring intercensal change, particularly amongst...

An environmental justice analysis of British air quality

Gordon Mitchell, Danny Dorling

This paper presents the results of the first national study of air quality in Britain to consider the implications of its distribution across over ten thousand local communities in terms of potential...

A nation still dividing: the British census and social polarisation 1971 - 2001

Danny Dorling, Phil Rees

This paper presents an analysis of the degree to which the population of Britain has become more or less geographically polarised as compared with 1991 and earlier censuses. We use the Key Statistics...

How many of us are there and where are we? A simple independent validation of the 2001 Census and its revisions

Danny Dorling

In this paper I present two simple checks on the geographical validity of the UK 2001 Census and on the revisions of population estimates which have been made after its release. The huge difficulties...

Jobs deficits, neighbourhood effects, and ethnic penalties: the geography of ethnic-labour-market inequality

Ludi Simpson, Kingsley Purdam, Abdelouahid Tajar, John Pritchard, Danny Dorling

The reduction of inequalities in the labour market both between ethnic groups and between local areas indicates improved access to jobs because a diverse workforce is socially and economically...