Objective Immense changes in work and family lives of men and women are well-documented, but their relationship with health and wellbeing remains unclear. The aim of this study is to use data from four longitudinal British birth cohort studies to assess the health impact of social change in women's and men's work-family life courses, for both the women and the men themselves, but also for their children and partner's. Generational changes in these relationships will also be investigated as biographies diversify over time.The objectives of the study are:1. To characterise cohort differences in women's and men's participation in paid work, unpaid domestic work and family forms in Britain using longitudinal typologies.2. To examine gender differences in relationships between work-family typologies and health and whether these relationships differ by cohort.3. To investigate whether relationships between work-family typologies and health vary by socioeconomic position for men and women in different cohorts.4. To examine the effects of changing work and family patterns on children's emotional and physical development.5. To investigate the extent to which changing relationships between work-family typologies and health are mediated by changes in the social relations of gender.State-of-the-art contributions will be four-fold:1. The inclusion of biological measures of health, in addition to measures of perceived health, to examine the interface between the social (gender) and biological (sex) in national, longitudinal population studies.2. The use of life course data across cohorts to examine generation and gender differences in the health effects of increasing individualization.3. Investigating the health effects of social change within families, focusing on health effects among men and children in addition to women.4. The application of sociological theory to quanitative social epidemiology. Fields of science medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic healthepidemiology Programme(s) FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Topic(s) ERC-SG-SH2 - ERC Starting Grant - Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour Call for proposal ERC-2011-StG_20101124 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme ERC-SG - ERC Starting Grant Coordinator UCL Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Institute for Women’s Health Address Gower street WC1E 6BT London United Kingdom See on map Region London Inner London — West Camden and City of London Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Giles Machell (Mr.) Principal investigator Anne Marie Mcmunn (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution No data Beneficiaries (2) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UCL Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Institute for Women’s Health United Kingdom EU contribution € 657 289,80 Address Gower street WC1E 6BT London See on map Region London Inner London — West Camden and City of London Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Giles Machell (Mr.) Principal investigator Anne Marie Mcmunn (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX United Kingdom EU contribution € 24 292,20 Address Wivenhoe park CO4 3SQ Colchester See on map Region East of England Essex Essex Haven Gateway Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Shereen Anderson (Mrs.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data
