Mr Bruce Whyte
- Honorary Senior Lecturer, 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) (PMID:40018109) (PMCID:PMC11812918)
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. [Research Reports or Papers]
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. [Research Reports or Papers]
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, Keith and Madgin, Rebecca (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. [Research Reports or Papers]
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. [Research Reports or Papers]
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. Joseph, Phillips, Rhonda and Rahtz, Don (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. [Research Reports or Papers]
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, John, Mooney, Gerry, Dickie, John and Kelly, Peter (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. [Research Reports or Papers]
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. [Research Reports or Papers]
Walsh, D. , Whyte, B. and Kelso, L. (2004) Constituency health and wellbeing profiles. [Research Reports or Papers]
2003
Hanlon, P., Walsh, D. and Whyte, B. (2003) The health of Scotland. In: Woods, Kevin and Carter, David (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) (PMID:40018109) (PMCID:PMC11812918)
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, Keith and Madgin, Rebecca (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. Joseph, Phillips, Rhonda and Rahtz, Don (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, John, Mooney, Gerry, Dickie, John and Kelly, Peter (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, Kevin and Carter, David (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. [Research Reports or Papers]
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. [Research Reports or Papers]
Bynner, C. and Whyte, B. (2016) What Works in Community Profiling? Initial reflections from the WWS Project in West Dunbartonshire. [Research Reports or Papers]
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. [Research Reports or Papers]
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. [Research Reports or Papers]
Hanlon, P., Walsh, D. and Whyte, B. (2006) Let Glasgow Flourish. [Research Reports or Papers]
Walsh, D. , Whyte, B. and Kelso, L. (2004) Community health and wellbeing profiles. [Research Reports or Papers]
Walsh, D. , Whyte, B. and Kelso, L. (2004) Constituency health and wellbeing profiles. [Research Reports or Papers]
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