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Effects of chronic job insecurity and change in job security on self reported health, minor psychiatric morbidity, physiological measures, and health related behaviours in British civil servants: the Whitehall II studyJ E Ferrie
International Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London Medical School, 1 19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 56:450-4. 2002..To determine the effect of chronic job insecurity and changes in job security on self reported health, minor psychiatric morbidity, physiological measures, and health related behaviours...
The impact of moderate and major workplace expansion and downsizing on the psychosocial and physical work environment and income in SwedenJane E Ferrie
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
Scand J Public Health 35:62-9. 2007..To describe the effect of organizational change (moderate and major expansion and downsizing) on psychosocial work characteristics, physical hazards, and income in a representative sample of larger workplaces in Sweden...- An uncertain future: the health effects of threats to employment security in white-collar men and womenJ E Ferrie
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London Medical School, England
Am J Public Health 88:1030-6. 1998..This study examined changes in the health status of civil servants whose employment security was threatened... - Socioeconomic gradients in cardiorespiratory disease and diabetes in the 1960s: baseline findings from the GPO studyJ E Ferrie
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1 19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Public Health 120:685-95. 2006..To describe the socioeconomic distribution of risk factors for cardiorespiratory disease and diabetes in employed women and men in the late 1960s... - Non-response to baseline, non-response to follow-up and mortality in the Whitehall II cohortJane E Ferrie
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Int J Epidemiol 38:831-7. 2009..Little is known about the associations between non-response to follow-up surveys and mortality, or differences in these associations by socioeconomic position in studies with repeat data collections... - Self-reported economic difficulties and coronary events in men: evidence from the Whitehall II studyJ E Ferrie
International Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL Medical School, London, UK
Int J Epidemiol 34:640-8. 2005..Our aim is to assess whether these associations are (i) explained by other measures of socioeconomic status, and (ii) mediated by psychosocial, behavioural and biological factors... - Birth weight, components of height and coronary heart disease: evidence from the Whitehall II studyJane E Ferrie
International Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL, London, UK
Int J Epidemiol 35:1532-42. 2006..This study examines associations of measures of stature and birth weight with CHD risk factors (measures of blood pressure and lipids, 2 h glucose, waist-hip ratio and fibrinogen) and incident non-fatal coronary events in middle age... - BMI, obesity, and sickness absence in the Whitehall II studyJane E Ferrie
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London Medical School, 1 19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Obesity (Silver Spring) 15:1554-64. 2007..To study BMI and change in BMI from age 25 as predictors of sickness absence... - A prospective study of change in sleep duration: associations with mortality in the Whitehall II cohortJane E Ferrie
Internationale Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London Medical School, London, UK
Sleep 30:1659-66. 2007..We investigated associations of sleep duration and change in sleep duration with all-cause, cardiovascular, and non-cardiovascular mortality... - Change in health inequalities among British civil servants: the Whitehall II studyJ E Ferrie
International Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London Medical School, London, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 56:922-6. 2002..The objective of this study was to investigate morbidity and cardiovascular risk factor trends in white collar British civil servants... - A comparison of self-reported sickness absence with absences recorded in employers' registers: evidence from the Whitehall II studyJ E Ferrie
International Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London Medical School, UK
Occup Environ Med 62:74-9. 2005..To compare self-reported sickness absence days in the last 12 months with recorded absences from the employers' registers for the same period... - Job insecurity in white-collar workers: toward an explanation of associations with healthJ E Ferrie
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London Medical School, England
J Occup Health Psychol 6:26-42. 2001..Apart from a minor role for social support at work in both sexes and a modest role for job demands in women, adverse changes in these factors explain little of the job insecurity-health relationship... - Future uncertainty and socioeconomic inequalities in health: the Whitehall II studyJane E Ferrie
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London Medical School, London, UK
Soc Sci Med 57:637-46. 2003..These findings imply that the specific effects of job insecurity in this cohort may be less important than the more general effects of financial insecurity in determining inequalities in health... - Self-reported job insecurity and health in the Whitehall II study: potential explanations of the relationshipJane E Ferrie
International Centre for Health and Society and Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London Medical School, 1 19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Soc Sci Med 60:1593-602. 2005..With the addition of job control, these factors explained 60% of the association between job insecurity and minor psychiatric morbidity, and just over 80% of the association with depression in both sexes... 
Best-practice interventions to reduce socioeconomic inequalities of coronary heart disease mortality in UK: a prospective occupational cohort studyMika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Lancet 372:1648-54. 2008..We assessed this issue in an occupational cohort study comparing low with high socioeconomic groups...- Organizational justice and sleeping problems: The Whitehall II studyMarko Elovainio
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL Medical School, London, England, UK
Psychosom Med 71:334-40. 2009..To test the hypothesis that organizational injustice contributes to sleeping problems. Poor sleep quality can be a marker of prolonged emotional stress and has been shown to have serious effects on the immune system and metabolism... - Socioeconomic position, psychosocial work environment and cerebrovascular disease among women: the Finnish public sector studyMika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Int J Epidemiol 38:1265-71. 2009..This has led to the suggestion that poor psychosocial work environments provide important additional explanatory power. However, little evidence is available for women... - Optimal form of operationalizing BMI in relation to all-cause and cause-specific mortality: the original Whitehall studyMika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Obesity (Silver Spring) 16:1926-32. 2008..We examined various BMI operationalizations in relation to mortality from all causes and specific causes... - Effects on blood pressure do not explain the association between organizational justice and coronary heart disease in the Whitehall II studyMika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Psychosom Med 70:1-6. 2008..Previous studies suggest lower blood pressure (BP) and reduced risk of CHD among employees with high organizational justice (the perception of being treated fairly by supervisors)... - Diagnosis-specific sickness absence as a predictor of mortality: the Whitehall II prospective cohort studyJenny Head
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London
BMJ 337:a1469. 2008..To investigate whether knowing the diagnosis for sickness absence improves prediction of mortality... - Association between metabolic syndrome and depressive symptoms in middle-aged adults: results from the Whitehall II studyTasnime N Akbaraly
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Diabetes Care 32:499-504. 2009..We examined whether the metabolic syndrome is associated with the onset of depressive symptoms in a cohort of middle-aged British civil servants... - Validating the Framingham Hypertension Risk Score: results from the Whitehall II studyMika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1 19 Torrington Place, London, United Kingdom
Hypertension 54:496-501. 2009..5%; 95% CI: -2.5% to 1.5%). These data suggest that the Framingham hypertension risk score provides a valid tool with which to estimate near-term risk of developing hypertension... - Common mental disorder and obesity: insight from four repeat measures over 19 years: prospective Whitehall II cohort studyMika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT
BMJ 339:b3765. 2009..To examine potential reciprocal associations between common mental disorders and obesity, and to assess whether dose-response relations exist... - Justice at work and metabolic syndrome: the Whitehall II studyDavid Gimeno
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1 19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Occup Environ Med 67:256-62. 2010..We aim to test whether high justice at work protects against metabolic syndrome... - Incremental predictive value of adding past blood pressure measurements to the Framingham hypertension risk equation: the Whitehall II StudyMika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, WC1E 6BT London, UK
Hypertension 55:1058-62. 2010..These data suggest that, despite the net reclassification improvement, the clinical use of adding repeat measures of blood pressure to the Framingham hypertension risk score may be limited... - Psychosocial work environment as a risk factor for absence with a psychiatric diagnosis: an instrumental-variables analysisMika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, United Kingdom
Am J Epidemiol 172:167-72. 2010..Findings from this instrumental-variables analysis support the status of high self-reported job demands as a risk factor for absence with a psychiatric diagnosis... - The effect of short sleep duration on coronary heart disease risk is greatest among those with sleep disturbance: a prospective study from the Whitehall II cohortTarani Chandola
International Center for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London Medical School, London, UK
Sleep 33:739-44. 2010..We investigated whether a combination of short sleep duration and sleep disturbance is associated with a higher risk of CHD than their additive effects... - Height loss and future coronary heart disease in London: the Whitehall II studyG David Batty
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1 19 Torrington Place, London, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 65:461-4. 2011..To explore this issue, studies with repeat measurements of height are required, but, to date, such data have been lacking... - Hypertension is not the link between job strain and coronary heart disease in the Whitehall II studyMika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London Medical School, London, United Kingdom
Am J Hypertens 20:1146-53. 2007..Hypertension is assumed to be one of the mechanisms through which job strain (a combination of high work demands and low job control) increases coronary heart-disease risk. However, direct tests of this hypothesis are lacking... - Effort-reward imbalance and relational injustice at work predict sickness absence: the Whitehall II studyJenny Head
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
J Psychosom Res 63:433-40. 2007..We studied the impact of relational justice and effort-reward imbalance on subsequent rates of sickness absence... - Unfairness and health: evidence from the Whitehall II StudyRoberto De Vogli
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, International Institute for Society and Health, University College London, 1 19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 61:513-8. 2007..To examine the effects of unfairness on incident coronary events and health functioning... - Adult socioeconomic position, C-reactive protein and interleukin-6 in the Whitehall II prospective studyDavid Gimeno
International Institute for Society and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1 19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
Eur J Epidemiol 22:675-83. 2007..Thus, the question of whether socioeconomic differences in CRP and IL-6 change over time remains unanswered. We examined the relationship between SEP and changes over 12 years in CRP and IL-6... - Decline in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentration: lipid-lowering drugs, diet, or physical activity? Evidence from the Whitehall II studyKim Bouillon
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Heart 97:923-30. 2011..To examine the association of lipid-lowering drugs, change in diet and physical activity with a decline in low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol in middle age... - Socioeconomic trajectories across the life course and health outcomes in midlife: evidence for the accumulation hypothesis?Archana Singh-Manoux
International Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1 19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Int J Epidemiol 33:1072-9. 2004..This paper examines (1) accumulation across trichotomous categories of socioeconomic position (SEP), and (2) accumulation in analysis stratified by adult SEP... - Diagnosis-specific sick leave as a risk marker for disability pension in a Swedish populationMika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1 19 Torrington Place, London, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 61:915-20. 2007..To investigate diagnosis-specific sick leave as a risk marker for subsequent disability pension... - Influence of change in psychosocial work characteristics on sickness absence: The Whitehall II StudyJenny Head
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 60:55-61. 2006..To study the influence of change in self perceived psychosocial work characteristics on subsequent rates of sickness absence... - From midlife to early old age: health trajectories associated with retirementMarkus Jokela
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Epidemiology 21:284-90. 2010..Previous studies report contradictory findings regarding health effects of retirement. This study examines longitudinally the associations of retirement with mental health and physical functioning... - Metabolic syndrome over 10 years and cognitive functioning in late midlife: the Whitehall II studyTasnime N Akbaraly
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Diabetes Care 33:84-9. 2010..We examined this association in late midlife, with particular focus on cumulative effects and the role of socioeconomic circumstances... - Dietary pattern and depressive symptoms in middle ageTasnime N Akbaraly
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Br J Psychiatry 195:408-13. 2009..Studies of diet and depression have focused primarily on individual nutrients... - Why is evidence on job strain and coronary heart disease mixed? An illustration of measurement challenges in the Whitehall II studyMika Kivimaki
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Psychosom Med 68:398-401. 2006..However, previous studies have typically assessed job strain at one point in time only. We examined whether the failure of such measurement to reflect long-term job strain could contribute to false null findings... - Sickness absence as a global measure of health: evidence from mortality in the Whitehall II prospective cohort studyMika Kivimaki
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41 aA, FIN 00250 Helsinki, Finland
BMJ 327:364. 2003..To examine the association between sickness absence and mortality compared with associations between established health indicators and mortality... - Organisational downsizing, sickness absence, and mortality: 10-town prospective cohort studyJussi Vahtera
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41 aA, FIN 00250 Helsinki, Finland
BMJ 328:555. 2004..To examine whether downsizing, the reduction of personnel in organisations, is a predictor of increased sickness absence and mortality among employees... - Cross-sectional versus prospective associations of sleep duration with changes in relative weight and body fat distribution: the Whitehall II StudySaverio Stranges
Cardiovascular Medicine and Epidemiology Group, Clinical Sciences Research Institute, University of Warwick Medical School, Coventry, England
Am J Epidemiol 167:321-9. 2008..23, 1.12), nor with the incidence of obesity (odds ratio(adjusted) = 1.05, 95% CI: 0.60, 1.82). There is no temporal relation between short duration of sleep and future changes in measures of body weight and central adiposity... - The association between self-rated health and mortality in different socioeconomic groups in the GAZEL cohort studyArchana Singh-Manoux
INSERM, U687 IFR69, HNSM, 14 rue du Val d Osne, 94415 Saint Maurice Cedex, France
Int J Epidemiol 36:1222-8. 2007..Self-rated health (SRH) is considered a valid measure of health status as it has been shown to predict mortality in several studies. We examine whether SRH predicts mortality equally well in different socioeconomic groups... - Organisational justice and change in justice as predictors of employee health: the Whitehall II studyMika Kivimaki
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
J Epidemiol Community Health 58:931-7. 2004..This article studied the justice of interpersonal treatment by supervisors (the relational component of organisational justice) as a predictor of health... - Gender-specific associations of short sleep duration with prevalent and incident hypertension: the Whitehall II StudyFrancesco P Cappuccio
Clinical Sciences Research Institute, Warwick Medical School, Coventry, United Kingdom
Hypertension 50:693-700. 2007..42 [95% CI: 0.94 to 2.16]; odds ratio: 1.31 [95% CI: 0.65 to 2.63], respectively). Sleep deprivation may produce detrimental cardiovascular effects among women... - Overcrowding in hospital wards as a predictor of antidepressant treatment among hospital staffMarianna Virtanen
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland
Am J Psychiatry 165:1482-6. 2008..This report assessed whether hospital ward overcrowding predicts antidepressant use among hospital staff... - Working while ill as a risk factor for serious coronary events: the Whitehall II studyMika Kivimaki
Department of Psychology, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41 aA, FIN 00250 Helsinki, Finland
Am J Public Health 95:98-102. 2005..Although sick, some people take no time off work, a phenomenon called "sickness presenteeism." This study examined the association between sickness presenteeism and incidence of serious coronary events... - Temporary employment and risk of overall and cause-specific mortalityMika Kivimaki
Department of Psychology, Division of Applied Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Am J Epidemiol 158:663-8. 2003..7, 95% CI: 0.5, 0.9 for men and women combined). These findings suggest that the conventional research practice of treating the employed as a single group may attenuate the associations between employment status and mortality... - The role of cognitive ability (intelligence) in explaining the association between socioeconomic position and health: evidence from the Whitehall II prospective cohort studyArchana Singh-Manoux
INSERM U687, National Hospital of Saint Maurice, 94415 Saint Maurice, France
Am J Epidemiol 161:831-9. 2005..These results suggest that, although cognitive ability is related to health, it does not explain social inequalities in health... - Injustice at work and health: causation, correlation or cause for action?Jane E Ferrie
Occup Environ Med 64:428. 2007 - Temporary employment and antidepressant medication: a register linkage studyMarianna Virtanen
Finnish Institute of Occupational, Health, Helsinki, Finland
J Psychiatr Res 42:221-9. 2008..Among men, the association between temporary employment and antidepressant use was stronger within lower grade occupations. The results suggest that using antidepressants is more pronounced when temporary employment is unstable... - Justice at work and reduced risk of coronary heart disease among employees: the Whitehall II StudyMika Kivimaki
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Arch Intern Med 165:2245-51. 2005..Justice is a fundamental value in human societies, but its effect on health is poorly described. We examined justice at work as a predictor of coronary heart disease (CHD)...