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MS Zoe Aitken

Positions

Academic, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

Publications

Selected publications

2019
- Journal Articles
  - Mental health of adolescents: variations by borderline intellectual functioning and disability. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 2019
  - The ‘double precarity’ of employment insecurity and unaffordable housing and its impact on mental health. Social Science & Medicine. 225. 2019
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Effectiveness of Exercise Interventions for Pain Reduction in People With Multiple Sclerosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 100. 2019
2018
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - A Longitudinal Study Examining Changes in Street Connectivity, Land Use, and Density of Dwellings and Walking for Transport in Brisbane, Australia. Environmental Health Perspectives. 126. 2018
  - Combining fixed effects and instrumental variable approaches for estimating the effect of psychosocial job quality on mental health: evidence from 13 waves of a nationally representative cohort study. Journal of Public Health. 40. 2018
  - Disability-based discrimination and health: findings from an Australian-based population study. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. 42. 2018
  - Do employment factors reduce the effect of low education on mental health? A causal mediation analysis using a national panel study. International Journal of Epidemiology. 47. 2018
  - Do material, psychosocial and behavioural factors mediate the relationship between disability acquisition and mental health? A sequential causal mediation analysis. International Journal of Epidemiology. 47. 2018
  - Employment predictors of exit from work among workers with disabilities: A survival analysis from the household income labour dynamics in Australia survey. PLoS One. 13. 2018
  - Health Outcomes and Lifestyle in a Sample of People With Multiple Sclerosis (HOLISM): Longitudinal and Validation Cohorts. Frontiers in Neurology. 9. 2018
  - Precariously placed: housing affordability, quality and satisfaction of Australians with disabilities 2018
  - To what extent is the association between disability and mental health in adolescents mediated by bullying? A causal mediation analysis. International Journal of Epidemiology. 47. 2018
2017
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Disability acquisition and mental health: effect modification by demographic and socioeconomic characteristics using data from an Australian longitudinal study. BMJ Open. 7. 2017
  - Does social support modify the effect of disability acquisition on mental health? A longitudinal study of Australian adults. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 52. 2017
  - Status inconsistency and mental health: A random effects and instrumental variables analysis using 14 annual waves of cohort data. Social Science & Medicine. 189. 2017
  - Underemployment and its impacts on mental health among those with disabilities: evidence from the HILDA cohort. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 71. 2017
- Conference Proceedings
  - Change in employment status and associations with quality of life: a longitudinal international study of people with multiple sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis. 2017
2016
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Housing tenure and affordability and mental health following disability acquisition in adulthood. Social Science & Medicine. 151. 2016
  - Inequalities in socio-economic characteristics and health and wellbeing of men with and without disabilities: a cross-sectional analysis of the baseline wave of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Male Health. BMC Public Health. 16. 2016
  - Persistent and contemporaneous effects of job stressors on mental health: a study testing multiple analytic approaches across 13 waves of annually collected cohort data. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 73. 2016
  - Young maternal age at first birth and mental health later in life: Does the association vary by birth cohort?. Social Science & Medicine. 157. 2016
2015
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Fine-mapping identifies two additional breast cancer susceptibility loci at 9q31.2. Human Molecular Genetics. 24. 2015
  - Inequalities in social capital and health between people with and without disabilities. Social Science & Medicine. 126. 2015
  - Intersections between disability, type of impairment, gender and socio-economic disadvantage in a nationally representative sample of 33,101 working-aged Australians. Disability and Health Journal. 8. 2015
  - Mental Health Following Acquisition of Disability in Adulthood-The Impact of Wealth. PLoS One. 10. 2015
  - Perceived fairness of pay among people with and without disabilities: a propensity score matched analysis of working Australians 2015
  - The maternal health outcomes of paid maternity leave: A systematic review. Social Science & Medicine. 130. 2015
2014
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Comparison of fully and semi-automated area-based methods for measuring mammographic density and predicting breast cancer risk. British Journal of Cancer. 110. 2014
  - Employment status and mental health among persons with and without a disability: evidence from an Australian cohort study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 68. 2014
  - Introduction to causal diagrams for confounder selection. Respirology. 19. 2014
  - MicroRNA Related Polymorphisms and Breast Cancer Risk. PLoS One. 9. 2014
2013
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - AutoDensity: an automated method to measure mammographic breast density that predicts breast cancer risk and screening outcomes. Breast Cancer Research. 15. 2013
  - Functional Variants at the 11q13 Risk Locus for Breast Cancer Regulate Cyclin D1 Expression through Long-Range Enhancers. American Journal of Human Genetics. 92. 2013
  - Large-scale genotyping identifies 41 new loci associated with breast cancer risk. Nature Genetics. 45. 2013
2010
- Journal Articles
  - Mammographic density and markers of socioeconomic status: a cross-sectional study. BMC Cancer. 10. 2010
  - Neighbourhood deprivation and the price and availability of fruit and vegetables in Scotland. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. 23. 2010
  - Screen-Film Mammographic Density and Breast Cancer Risk: A Comparison of the Volumetric Standard Mammogram Form and the Interactive Threshold Measurement Methods. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. 19. 2010
2009
- Journal Articles
  - The effect of ethnicity on the prevalence of diabetes and associated chronic kidney disease. QJM: an international journal of medicine. 102. 2009

Research

Investigator on

Contract
- EVALUATION OF THE ROLE OF DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS (DBT) IN BREASTSCREEN ASSESSMENT awarded by EASTERN HEALTH 2013 - 2018
Grant
- Disability, social mobility and the wellbeing of people with disabilities (Discovery Projects) awarded by AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL 2017 - 2020
- THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN DISABILITY ACQUISITION, SOCIO-ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE AND HEALTH: A LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF TRAJECTORIES OF DISABILITY (Scholarships) awarded by NHMRC 2015 - 2020

Awards

Education and training

MSc Epidemiology, University of London - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 2006
BSc Biology, Durham University 2005

Contact Details
- zoe.aitken@unimelb.edu.au
- +61 3 8344 0698
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