Mr Bruce Whyte
- Honorary Senior Lecturer, Public Health Programme Manager, Honorary Senior Lecturer (School of Health & Wellbeing)
Publications
2024
Ajetunmobi, O., McIntosh, E. , Stockton, D., Tappin, D. and Whyte, B. (2024) Levelling up health in the early years: a cost-analysis of infant feeding and healthcare. PLoS ONE, 19(5), e0300267. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0300267) (PMID:38776279) (PMCID:PMC11111004)
Friel, C. , Walsh, D. , Whyte, B., Dibben, C., Feng, Z., Baker, G., Kelly, P., Demou, E. and Dundas, R. (2024) The health benefits of pedestrian and cyclist commuting: evidence from the Scottish Longitudinal Study. BMJ Public Health, 2(1), e001295. (doi: 10.1136/bmjph-2024-001295)
2023
Douglas, M. J., Teuton, J., Macdonald, A., Whyte, B. and Davis, A. L. (2023) Road space reallocation in Scotland: A health impact assessment. Journal of Transport and Health, 30, 101625. (doi: 10.1016/j.jth.2023.101625)
2022
Davis, A. and Whyte, B. (2022) Making the shift to sustainable transport in Scotland. Cities and Health, 6(2), pp. 267-274. (doi: 10.1080/23748834.2020.1812332)
Whyte, B., Mcarthur, D. , Garnham, L. and Livingston, M. (2022) Cycling trends in Scotland during the early phase of the Covid pandemic. Active Travel Studies, 2(1), pp. 1-19. (doi: 10.16997/ats.1120)
2021
Walsh, D. , McCartney, G. , Minton, J. , Parkinson, J., Shipton, D. and Whyte, B. (2021) Deaths from ‘diseases of despair’ in Britain: comparing suicide, alcohol-related and drug-related mortality for birth cohorts in Scotland, England and Wales, and selected cities. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 75(12), pp. 1195-1201. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2020-216220) (PMID:34045325)
Baker, G., Pillinger, R., Kelly, P. and Whyte, B. (2021) Quantifying the health and economic benefits of active commuting in Scotland. Journal of Transport and Health, 22, 101111. (doi: 10.1016/j.jth.2021.101111)
Whyte, B., Young, M. and Timpson, K. (2021) Health in a changing city: Glasgow 2021. Project Report. Glasgow Centre for Population Health.
2020
Walsh, D. , McCartney, G., Minton, J. , Parkinson, J., Shipton, D. and Whyte, B. (2020) Changing mortality trends in countries and cities of the United Kingdom (UK): a population-based trend analysis. BMJ Open, 10(11), e038135. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-038135) (PMID:33154048) (PMCID:PMC7646340)
Teuton, J., Sloan, P., Whyte, B., Cope, A., Macdonald, A., Cozzolino, N., Davis, A. and Douglas, M. (2020) Transport use, health and health inequalities: The impact of measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Project Report. Public Health Scotland, Edinburgh.
Waite, D. , Whyte, B. and Muirie, J. (2020) From an agreeable policy label to a practical policy framework: Inclusive growth in city-regions. European Planning Studies, 28(9), pp. 1812-1835. (doi: 10.1080/09654313.2019.1691507)
2019
Baruffati, D. , Mackenzie, M. , Walsh, D. and Whyte, B. (2019) A sick city in a sick country. In: Kintrea, K. and Madgin, R. (eds.) Transforming Glasgow: Beyond the Post-Industrial City. Policy Press, pp. 121-138. ISBN 9781447349778 (doi: 10.1332/policypress/9781447349778.003.0007)
Walsh, D., Buchanan, D., Douglas, A., Erdman, J., Fischbacher, C., McCartney, G., Norman, P. and Whyte, B. (2019) Increasingly diverse: the changing ethnic profiles of Scotland and Glasgow and the implications for population health. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 12(4), pp. 983-1009. (doi: 10.1007/s12061-018-9281-7)
Lawder, R., Whyte, B., Wood, R., Fischbacher, C. and Tappin, D. M. (2019) Impact of maternal smoking on early childhood health: a retrospective cohort linked dataset analysis of 697 003 children born in Scotland 1997-2009. BMJ Open, 9(3), e023213. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023213) (PMID:30898797) (PMCID:PMC6475204)
Schofield, L., Walsh, D., Feng, Z., Buchanan, D., Dibben, C., Fischbacher, C., McCartney, G., Munoz-Arroyo, R. and Whyte, B. (2019) Does ethnic diversity explain intra-UK variation in mortality? A longitudinal cohort study. BMJ Open, 9(3), e024563. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024563) (PMID:30928935) (PMCID:PMC6475238)
2016
Bynner, C. and Whyte, B. (2016) What Works in Community Profiling? Initial reflections from the WWS Project in West Dunbartonshire. Project Report. What Works Scotland, Glasgow.
2015
Ajetunmobi, O. M., Whyte, B., Chalmers, J., Tappin, D. M. , Wolfson, L., Fleming, M. , MacDonald, A., Wood, R. and Stockton, D. L. (2015) Breastfeeding is associated with reduced childhood hospitalization: evidence from a Scottish birth cohort (1997-2009). Journal of Pediatrics, 166(3), 620-625.e4. (doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2014.11.013) (PMID:25556021) (PMCID:PMC4344374)
Robinson, M., Shipton, D., Walsh, D. , Whyte, B. and McCartney, G. (2015) Regional alcohol consumption and alcohol-related mortality in Great Britain: novel insights using retail sales data. BMC Public Health, 15, 1. (doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-15-1) (PMID:25563658) (PMCID:PMC4324675)
2014
Ajetunmobi, O., Whyte, B., Chalmers, J., Fleming, M. , Stockton, D. and Wood, R. (2014) Informing the ‘early years’ agenda in Scotland: understanding infant feeding patterns using linked datasets. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 68(1), pp. 83-92. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2013-202718) (PMID:24129609) (PMCID:PMC3888626)
Shipton, D., McCartney, G. , Whyte, B., Walsh, D. , Craig, N. and Beeston, C. (2014) Alcohol-Related Deaths In Scotland: Do Country-Specific Factors Affecting Cohorts Born in the 1940s and Before Help Explain the Current Trends in Alcohol-Related Trends? 7th European Public Health Conference, Glasgow, UK, 19-22 Nov 2014. (doi: 10.1093/eurpub/cku163.055)
2013
Robinson, M., Shipton, D., Walsh, D. and Whyte, B. (2013) Monitoring and evaluating Scotland’s alcohol strategy: A comparison of alcohol sales and alcohol-related mortality in Scotland and Northern England. Project Report. NHS Health Scotland.
Shipton, D., Whyte, B. and Walsh, D. (2013) Alcohol-related mortality in deprived UK cities: worrying trends in young women challenge recent national downward trends. Veterinary Record Case Reports, 67(10), pp. 805-812. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2013-202574) (PMID:23868526) (PMCID:PMC3786659)
Whyte, B. and Lyon, A. (2013) Understanding Glasgow: developing a new set of health and wellbeing indicators for use within a city. In: Sirgy, M. J., Phillips, R. and Rahtz, D. (eds.) Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases VI. Series: Community Quality-of-Life Indicators. Springer: Dordrecht, pp. 45-76. ISBN 9789400765009 (doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-6501-6_3)
2012
McCartney, G., Walsh, D., Whyte, B. and Collins, C. (2012) Has Scotland always been the ‘sick man’ of Europe? An observational study from 1855 to 2006. European Journal of Public Health, 22(6), pp. 756-760. (doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckr136) (PMID:22021374) (PMCID:PMC3505444)
Whyte, B. and Ajetunmobi, T. (2012) Still the "sick man of Europe"?: Scottish Mortality in a European Context 1950 – 2010: An analysis of comparative mortality trends. Project Report. Glasgow Centre for Population Health.
Ajetunmobi, O. and Whyte, B. (2012) Deprivation and infant feeding at birth. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 97(S1), A183-A186.
McCartney, G., Whyte, B., Livingston, M. and Crawford, F. (2012) Building a bridge, transport infrastructure and population characteristics: explaining active travel into Glasgow. Transport Policy, 20, pp. 119-125. (doi: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2012.03.003)
2011
Lawder, R., Grant, I., Storey, C., Walsh, D. , Whyte, B. and Hanlon, P. (2011) Epidemiology of hospitalization due to alcohol-related harm: Evidence from a Scottish cohort study. Public Health, 125(8), pp. 533-539. (doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2011.05.007) (PMID:21794884)
Tannahill, C. and Whyte, B. (2011) Inequalities in health. In: McKendrick, J., Mooney, G., Dickie, J. and Kelly, P. (eds.) Poverty in Scotland 2011: Towards a More Equal Scotland. Child Poverty Action Group: London. ISBN 9781901698597
2010
Gray, L. , Batty, G.D., Craig, P., Stewart, C., Whyte, B., Findlayson, A. and Leyland, A.H. (2010) Cohort profile: the Scottish health surveys cohort: linkage of study participants to routinely collected records for mortality, hospital discharge, cancer and offspring birth characteristics in three nationwide studies. International Journal of Epidemiology, 39(2), pp. 345-350. (doi: 10.1093/ije/dyp155)
2007
Walsh, D., Whyte, B. and Gordon, D. S. (2007) Changing places? A comparative analysis of area-based health trends in Scotland through the 1980s and 1990s. Public Health, 121(12), pp. 889-897. (doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2007.03.018) (PMID:17568639)
2006
Hanlon, P., Walsh, D. and Whyte, B. (2006) Let Glasgow Flourish. Project Report. Glasgow Centre for Population Health, Glasgow.
2005
Hanlon, P.W., Walsh, D. and Whyte, B.W. (2005) Meeting the information needs of the 'Health for all' challenge - lessons from Scotland. Public Health, 119(12), pp. 1088-1096. (doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2005.06.002) (PMID:16212995)
2004
Walsh, D., Whyte, B. and Kelso, L. (2004) Community health and wellbeing profiles. Project Report. NHS Health Scotland, Glasgow.
Walsh, D., Whyte, B. and Kelso, L. (2004) Constituency health and wellbeing profiles. Project Report. NHS Health Scotland, Glasgow.
2003
Hanlon, P., Walsh, D. and Whyte, B. (2003) The health of Scotland. In: Woods, K. and Carter, D. (eds.) Scotland’s Health and Health Services. The Nuffield Trust, pp. 31-61. ISBN 9780117032415
2000
Hanlon, P., Walsh, D. , Whyte, B.W., Scott, S.N., Lightfoot, P. and Gilhooly, M.L.M. (2000) The link between major risk factors and important categories of admission in an ageing cohort. Journal of Public Health, 22(1), pp. 81-89. (doi: 10.1093/pubmed/22.1.81) (PMID:10774909)
1998
Hanlon, P., Walsh, D. , Whyte, B. W., Scott, S. N., Lightbody, P. and Gilhooly, M. L.M. (1998) Hospital use by an ageing cohort: an investigation into the association between biological, behavioural and social risk markers and subsequent hospital utilization. Journal of Public Health, 20(4), pp. 467-476. (doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubmed.a024804) (PMID:9923956)
Articles
Ajetunmobi, O., McIntosh, E. , Stockton, D., Tappin, D. and Whyte, B. (2024) Levelling up health in the early years: a cost-analysis of infant feeding and healthcare. PLoS ONE, 19(5), e0300267. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0300267) (PMID:38776279) (PMCID:PMC11111004)
Friel, C. , Walsh, D. , Whyte, B., Dibben, C., Feng, Z., Baker, G., Kelly, P., Demou, E. and Dundas, R. (2024) The health benefits of pedestrian and cyclist commuting: evidence from the Scottish Longitudinal Study. BMJ Public Health, 2(1), e001295. (doi: 10.1136/bmjph-2024-001295)
Douglas, M. J., Teuton, J., Macdonald, A., Whyte, B. and Davis, A. L. (2023) Road space reallocation in Scotland: A health impact assessment. Journal of Transport and Health, 30, 101625. (doi: 10.1016/j.jth.2023.101625)
Davis, A. and Whyte, B. (2022) Making the shift to sustainable transport in Scotland. Cities and Health, 6(2), pp. 267-274. (doi: 10.1080/23748834.2020.1812332)
Whyte, B., Mcarthur, D. , Garnham, L. and Livingston, M. (2022) Cycling trends in Scotland during the early phase of the Covid pandemic. Active Travel Studies, 2(1), pp. 1-19. (doi: 10.16997/ats.1120)
Walsh, D. , McCartney, G. , Minton, J. , Parkinson, J., Shipton, D. and Whyte, B. (2021) Deaths from ‘diseases of despair’ in Britain: comparing suicide, alcohol-related and drug-related mortality for birth cohorts in Scotland, England and Wales, and selected cities. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 75(12), pp. 1195-1201. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2020-216220) (PMID:34045325)
Baker, G., Pillinger, R., Kelly, P. and Whyte, B. (2021) Quantifying the health and economic benefits of active commuting in Scotland. Journal of Transport and Health, 22, 101111. (doi: 10.1016/j.jth.2021.101111)
Walsh, D. , McCartney, G., Minton, J. , Parkinson, J., Shipton, D. and Whyte, B. (2020) Changing mortality trends in countries and cities of the United Kingdom (UK): a population-based trend analysis. BMJ Open, 10(11), e038135. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-038135) (PMID:33154048) (PMCID:PMC7646340)
Waite, D. , Whyte, B. and Muirie, J. (2020) From an agreeable policy label to a practical policy framework: Inclusive growth in city-regions. European Planning Studies, 28(9), pp. 1812-1835. (doi: 10.1080/09654313.2019.1691507)
Walsh, D., Buchanan, D., Douglas, A., Erdman, J., Fischbacher, C., McCartney, G., Norman, P. and Whyte, B. (2019) Increasingly diverse: the changing ethnic profiles of Scotland and Glasgow and the implications for population health. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 12(4), pp. 983-1009. (doi: 10.1007/s12061-018-9281-7)
Lawder, R., Whyte, B., Wood, R., Fischbacher, C. and Tappin, D. M. (2019) Impact of maternal smoking on early childhood health: a retrospective cohort linked dataset analysis of 697 003 children born in Scotland 1997-2009. BMJ Open, 9(3), e023213. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023213) (PMID:30898797) (PMCID:PMC6475204)
Schofield, L., Walsh, D., Feng, Z., Buchanan, D., Dibben, C., Fischbacher, C., McCartney, G., Munoz-Arroyo, R. and Whyte, B. (2019) Does ethnic diversity explain intra-UK variation in mortality? A longitudinal cohort study. BMJ Open, 9(3), e024563. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024563) (PMID:30928935) (PMCID:PMC6475238)
Ajetunmobi, O. M., Whyte, B., Chalmers, J., Tappin, D. M. , Wolfson, L., Fleming, M. , MacDonald, A., Wood, R. and Stockton, D. L. (2015) Breastfeeding is associated with reduced childhood hospitalization: evidence from a Scottish birth cohort (1997-2009). Journal of Pediatrics, 166(3), 620-625.e4. (doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2014.11.013) (PMID:25556021) (PMCID:PMC4344374)
Robinson, M., Shipton, D., Walsh, D. , Whyte, B. and McCartney, G. (2015) Regional alcohol consumption and alcohol-related mortality in Great Britain: novel insights using retail sales data. BMC Public Health, 15, 1. (doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-15-1) (PMID:25563658) (PMCID:PMC4324675)
Ajetunmobi, O., Whyte, B., Chalmers, J., Fleming, M. , Stockton, D. and Wood, R. (2014) Informing the ‘early years’ agenda in Scotland: understanding infant feeding patterns using linked datasets. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 68(1), pp. 83-92. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2013-202718) (PMID:24129609) (PMCID:PMC3888626)
Shipton, D., Whyte, B. and Walsh, D. (2013) Alcohol-related mortality in deprived UK cities: worrying trends in young women challenge recent national downward trends. Veterinary Record Case Reports, 67(10), pp. 805-812. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2013-202574) (PMID:23868526) (PMCID:PMC3786659)
McCartney, G., Walsh, D., Whyte, B. and Collins, C. (2012) Has Scotland always been the ‘sick man’ of Europe? An observational study from 1855 to 2006. European Journal of Public Health, 22(6), pp. 756-760. (doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckr136) (PMID:22021374) (PMCID:PMC3505444)
Ajetunmobi, O. and Whyte, B. (2012) Deprivation and infant feeding at birth. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 97(S1), A183-A186.
McCartney, G., Whyte, B., Livingston, M. and Crawford, F. (2012) Building a bridge, transport infrastructure and population characteristics: explaining active travel into Glasgow. Transport Policy, 20, pp. 119-125. (doi: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2012.03.003)
Lawder, R., Grant, I., Storey, C., Walsh, D. , Whyte, B. and Hanlon, P. (2011) Epidemiology of hospitalization due to alcohol-related harm: Evidence from a Scottish cohort study. Public Health, 125(8), pp. 533-539. (doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2011.05.007) (PMID:21794884)
Gray, L. , Batty, G.D., Craig, P., Stewart, C., Whyte, B., Findlayson, A. and Leyland, A.H. (2010) Cohort profile: the Scottish health surveys cohort: linkage of study participants to routinely collected records for mortality, hospital discharge, cancer and offspring birth characteristics in three nationwide studies. International Journal of Epidemiology, 39(2), pp. 345-350. (doi: 10.1093/ije/dyp155)
Walsh, D., Whyte, B. and Gordon, D. S. (2007) Changing places? A comparative analysis of area-based health trends in Scotland through the 1980s and 1990s. Public Health, 121(12), pp. 889-897. (doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2007.03.018) (PMID:17568639)
Hanlon, P.W., Walsh, D. and Whyte, B.W. (2005) Meeting the information needs of the 'Health for all' challenge - lessons from Scotland. Public Health, 119(12), pp. 1088-1096. (doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2005.06.002) (PMID:16212995)
Hanlon, P., Walsh, D. , Whyte, B.W., Scott, S.N., Lightfoot, P. and Gilhooly, M.L.M. (2000) The link between major risk factors and important categories of admission in an ageing cohort. Journal of Public Health, 22(1), pp. 81-89. (doi: 10.1093/pubmed/22.1.81) (PMID:10774909)
Hanlon, P., Walsh, D. , Whyte, B. W., Scott, S. N., Lightbody, P. and Gilhooly, M. L.M. (1998) Hospital use by an ageing cohort: an investigation into the association between biological, behavioural and social risk markers and subsequent hospital utilization. Journal of Public Health, 20(4), pp. 467-476. (doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubmed.a024804) (PMID:9923956)
Book Sections
Baruffati, D. , Mackenzie, M. , Walsh, D. and Whyte, B. (2019) A sick city in a sick country. In: Kintrea, K. and Madgin, R. (eds.) Transforming Glasgow: Beyond the Post-Industrial City. Policy Press, pp. 121-138. ISBN 9781447349778 (doi: 10.1332/policypress/9781447349778.003.0007)
Whyte, B. and Lyon, A. (2013) Understanding Glasgow: developing a new set of health and wellbeing indicators for use within a city. In: Sirgy, M. J., Phillips, R. and Rahtz, D. (eds.) Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases VI. Series: Community Quality-of-Life Indicators. Springer: Dordrecht, pp. 45-76. ISBN 9789400765009 (doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-6501-6_3)
Tannahill, C. and Whyte, B. (2011) Inequalities in health. In: McKendrick, J., Mooney, G., Dickie, J. and Kelly, P. (eds.) Poverty in Scotland 2011: Towards a More Equal Scotland. Child Poverty Action Group: London. ISBN 9781901698597
Hanlon, P., Walsh, D. and Whyte, B. (2003) The health of Scotland. In: Woods, K. and Carter, D. (eds.) Scotland’s Health and Health Services. The Nuffield Trust, pp. 31-61. ISBN 9780117032415
Research Reports or Papers
Whyte, B., Young, M. and Timpson, K. (2021) Health in a changing city: Glasgow 2021. Project Report. Glasgow Centre for Population Health.
Teuton, J., Sloan, P., Whyte, B., Cope, A., Macdonald, A., Cozzolino, N., Davis, A. and Douglas, M. (2020) Transport use, health and health inequalities: The impact of measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Project Report. Public Health Scotland, Edinburgh.
Bynner, C. and Whyte, B. (2016) What Works in Community Profiling? Initial reflections from the WWS Project in West Dunbartonshire. Project Report. What Works Scotland, Glasgow.
Robinson, M., Shipton, D., Walsh, D. and Whyte, B. (2013) Monitoring and evaluating Scotland’s alcohol strategy: A comparison of alcohol sales and alcohol-related mortality in Scotland and Northern England. Project Report. NHS Health Scotland.
Whyte, B. and Ajetunmobi, T. (2012) Still the "sick man of Europe"?: Scottish Mortality in a European Context 1950 – 2010: An analysis of comparative mortality trends. Project Report. Glasgow Centre for Population Health.
Hanlon, P., Walsh, D. and Whyte, B. (2006) Let Glasgow Flourish. Project Report. Glasgow Centre for Population Health, Glasgow.
Walsh, D., Whyte, B. and Kelso, L. (2004) Community health and wellbeing profiles. Project Report. NHS Health Scotland, Glasgow.
Walsh, D., Whyte, B. and Kelso, L. (2004) Constituency health and wellbeing profiles. Project Report. NHS Health Scotland, Glasgow.
Conference or Workshop Item
Shipton, D., McCartney, G. , Whyte, B., Walsh, D. , Craig, N. and Beeston, C. (2014) Alcohol-Related Deaths In Scotland: Do Country-Specific Factors Affecting Cohorts Born in the 1940s and Before Help Explain the Current Trends in Alcohol-Related Trends? 7th European Public Health Conference, Glasgow, UK, 19-22 Nov 2014. (doi: 10.1093/eurpub/cku163.055)
Grants
Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.
- Investigating the Impact of the Distribution of Deprived Neighbourhoods on Health Outcomes
Glasgow Centre for Population Health
2010 - 2011