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| Mai StaffordSummaryAffiliation: University College London Country: UK Publications
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Gender differences in the associations between health and neighbourhood environmentM Stafford
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, International Centre for Health and Society, University College London Medical School, 1 19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Soc Sci Med 60:1681-92. 2005..These findings add to the literature indicating greater effects of non-work-based stressors for women and highlight the influence of the residential environment on women's health...
Small area inequalities in health: are we underestimating them?Mai Stafford
UCL Medical School, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, London, United Kingdom
Soc Sci Med 67:891-9. 2008..Based on these findings, we can have greater confidence in the results of numerous studies which have used administrative boundaries to define the neighbourhood...
Neighbourhood characteristics and trajectories of health functioning: a multilevel prospective analysisMai Stafford
International Institute for Society and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
Eur J Public Health 18:604-10. 2008..Prospective data from over 10 years of follow-up were used to examine neighbourhood deprivation, social fragmentation and trajectories of health...- Objective and perceived ethnic density and health: findings from a United Kingdom general population surveyM Stafford
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, United Kingdom
Am J Epidemiol 170:484-93. 2009..Perceived ethnic density may reflect individual experiences of frequency and intensity of contact with co-ethnics, which may explain why it was more consistently related to lower morbidity risk... - Psychological distress among immigrants and visible minorities in Canada: a contextual analysisMai Stafford
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL, London, UK
Int J Soc Psychiatry 57:428-41. 2011..Immigrants to Canada are less likely to report depression compared with the non-immigrant population. This healthy migrant effect has not so far been explained by demographic and socioeconomic determinants of health... - Tackling inequalities in health: evaluating the New Deal for Communities initiativeM Stafford
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 62:298-304. 2008..To assess health improvement and differential changes in health across various sociodemographic groups in neighbourhood renewal areas... - Neighbourhood social capital and common mental disorder: testing the link in a general population sampleMai Stafford
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, International Institute of Society and Health, UCL, 1 19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Health Place 14:394-405. 2008.... - Association between fear of crime and mental health and physical functioningMai Stafford
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, London, UK
Am J Public Health 97:2076-81. 2007..Studies have reported an inverse association between fear of crime and subjective mental and physical health. We investigated the direction of causality and the curtailment of physical and social activities as a possible mediating pathway... - Pathways to obesity: identifying local, modifiable determinants of physical activity and dietMai Stafford
UCL Medical School, London, UK
Soc Sci Med 65:1882-97. 2007..Public health professionals should seek to work alongside or within these organisations to capitalise on opportunities to improve health... - Deprivation and the development of obesity a multilevel, longitudinal study in EnglandMai Stafford
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, United Kingdom
Am J Prev Med 39:130-9. 2010..Evidence indicates that the rising trend in overweight and obesity may be stronger for people from more socioeconomically advantaged backgrounds... - Positive and negative exchanges in social relationships as predictors of depression: evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of AgingMai Stafford
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
J Aging Health 23:607-28. 2011..To investigate whether the impact of negative and positive social exchanges on depression depends on relationship type among late middle age and older adults... - Association of diurnal patterns in salivary cortisol with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality: findings from the Whitehall II studyMeena Kumari
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 96:1478-85. 2011..Evidence for the association of cortisol with mortality or disease events is mixed, possibly due to a failure to consider diurnal cortisol patterns... - Fear of racism, employment and expected organizational racism: their association with healthLaia Becares
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1 19 Torrington Place, London, UK
Eur J Public Health 19:504-10. 2009.... - The ethnic density effect on alcohol use among ethnic minority people in the UKLaia Becares
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 65:20-5. 2011.... - Socio-economic differences in the health-related quality of life impact of cardiovascular conditionsMai Stafford
MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, London, UK
Eur J Public Health 22:301-5. 2012.... - Neighbourhoods and self rated health: a comparison of public sector employees in London and HelsinkiMai Stafford
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 58:772-8. 2004..Neighbourhood variations in health and the contribution of residents' characteristics and neighbourhood indicators were compared in London and Helsinki, two settings where inequality and welfare policies differ... - The menopausal transition was associated in a prospective study with decreased health functioning in women who report menopausal symptomsMeena Kumari
International Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Royal Free and University College London Medical School, 1 19 Torrington Place, London WC1 6BT, UK
J Clin Epidemiol 58:719-27. 2005..To examine change in health functioning as women progress through the menopausal transition... - Childhood socio-economic position and adult smoking: are childhood psychosocial factors important? Evidence from a British birth cohortRebecca E Lacey
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Eur J Public Health 21:725-31. 2011.... - Neighbourhood deprivation and health: does it affect us all equally?Mai Stafford
International Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London Medical School, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Int J Epidemiol 32:357-66. 2003..Model 2: being poor (rich) relative to the neighbourhood average is associated with worse (better) health because of the discrepancy between an individual's situation and those around them... - How do objective and subjective assessments of neighbourhood influence social and physical functioning in older age? Findings from a British survey of ageingAnn Bowling
University College London, London, London, UK
Soc Sci Med 64:2533-49. 2007..The unique value of this paper is its inclusion of the influence of perceived neighbourhood on the social and physical functioning of an older population, which are key components of active ageing... - Monitoring inequalities in the National Chlamydia Screening Programme in England: added value of ACORN, a commercial geodemographic classification toolJessica Sheringham
Health Care Evaluation Group, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1 19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
Sex Health 6:57-62. 2009..The present study examined the validity and added value of combining ACORN, a commercial tool, with an established deprivation index to improve monitoring of inequalities in the National Chlamydia Screening Programme (NCSP) in England... - It matters what you measure: a systematic literature review examining whether young people in poorer socioeconomic circumstances are more at risk of chlamydiaJessica Sheringham
Department of Applied Health Research, University College London, London, UK
Sex Transm Infect 89:175-80. 2013..England has invested in chlamydia screening interventions for young people. It is not known whether young people in poorer socioeconomic circumstances (SEC) are at greater risk of chlamydia and therefore in greater need of screening... - The buffering effects of ethnic density on experienced racism and healthLaia Becares
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Health Place 15:670-8. 2009..Findings confirm that the experience of racism is lower in places of higher ethnic density and indicate a tendency for a weaker association between racism and health as ethnic density increases... - Dietary patterns and 15-y risks of major coronary events, diabetes, and mortalityEric J Brunner
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Am J Clin Nutr 87:1414-21. 2008..Few studies have examined the long-term effect of habitual diet on risks of incident diabetes, coronary heart disease, and mortality... - Characteristics of individuals and characteristics of areas: investigating their influence on health in the Whitehall II studyM Stafford
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
Health Place 7:117-29. 2001..Although there was considerable residential polarisation, area deprivation did not explain why lower status participants had poorer health... - Is the SF-36 a valid measure of change in population health? Results from the Whitehall II StudyH Hemingway
Department of Public Health, Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster Health Authority, London
BMJ 315:1273-9. 1997..To measure within-person change in scores on the short form general health survey (SF-36) by age, sex, employment grade, and disease status... - Cortisol secretion and fatigue: associations in a community based cohortMeena Kumari
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL, 1 19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
Psychoneuroendocrinology 34:1476-85. 2009..Cortisol is also associated with future onset of fatigue suggesting that changes in cortisol secretion are etiologic or occur early in the genesis of fatigue... - Characterising socio-economic inequalities in exposure to air pollution: a comparison of socio-economic markers and scales of measurementAnna Goodman
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, UK
Health Place 17:767-74. 2011.... - Building health: an epidemiological study of "sick building syndrome" in the Whitehall II studyA F Marmot
AMA, Linton House, London, UK
Occup Environ Med 63:283-9. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: The physical environment of office buildings appears to be less important than features of the psychosocial work environment in explaining differences in the prevalence of symptoms... - Neighbourhood environment and its association with self rated health: evidence from Scotland and EnglandSteven Cummins
MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 59:207-13. 2005..To investigate associations between measures of neighbourhood social and material environment and self rated health... - Low workplace social capital as a predictor of depression: the Finnish Public Sector StudyAnne Kouvonen
Institute of Work, Health, and Organisations, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Am J Epidemiol 167:1143-51. 2008..Aggregate-level social capital was not associated with subsequent depression... - Rates and correlates of employment in people with schizophrenia in the UK, France and GermanySteven Marwaha
Department of Mental Health Sciences, Royal Free and University College London Medical School, 48 Riding House Street, London W1W 7EY, UK, and Psychiatrie Adultes, Hospital Sainte Marguerite, Marseille, France
Br J Psychiatry 191:30-7. 2007..Little is known about international variations in employment rates among people with schizophrenia or about the factors associated with employment in this disorder...