Zoe Aitken

The impact of disability on employment and financial security following the outbreak of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in the UK

Eric Emerson, Roger Stancliffe, Chris Hatton, Gwynnyth Llewellyn, Tania King, Vaso Totsika, Zoe Aitken, Anne Kavanagh

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Public Health

BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic may have a greater impact on people with disabilities than non-disabl..

Social and Environmental Determinants of the Health of People with Disabilities

Eric Emerson, Zoe Aitken, Hannah Badland, Nicola Fortune, Celia Green, Jerome Rachele

Book Chapter  |  2021

Torturing inadequate data to generate 'results'?

Eric Emerson, Zoe Aitken, Lauren Krnjacki, Cathy Vaughan, Gwynnyth Llewellyn, Anne Kavanagh

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Public Health

Exposure to discrimination and subsequent changes in self-rated health: prospective evidence from the UK's Life Opportunities Survey

E Emerson, A Milner, Z Aitken, C Vaughan, G Llewellyn, AM Kavanagh

Journal article  |  2020  |  Public Health

OBJECTIVES: We sought to estimate risk of poor self-rated health (SRH) following exposure to disability-related and other forms of..

The impact of the disability support pension on mental health: evidence from 14 years of an Australian cohort

Allison Milner, Anne Kavanagh, Ashley McAllister, Zoe Aitken

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

OBJECTIVE: To assess the effect of the Australian Disability Support Pension (DSP) on the symptomology of depression and anxiety o..

The wellbeing of working-age adults with and without disability in the UK: Associations with age, gender, ethnicity, partnership status, educational attainment and employment status

Eric Emerson, Nicola Fortune, Zoe Aitken, Chris Hatton, Roger Stancliffe, Gwynnyth Llewellyn

Journal article  |  2020  |  Disability and Health Journal

BACKGROUND: Few population-based studies have examined the association between disability and personal wellbeing (PWB) among worki..

Do financial hardship and social support mediate the effect of unaffordable housing on mental health?

Ankur Singh, Zoe Aitken, Emma Baker, Rebecca Bentley

Journal article  |  2020  |  Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

PURPOSE: Unaffordable housing has a negative impact on mental health; however, little is known about the causal pathways through w..

The relationship between an electronic mental health stigma campaign and suicidal thoughts and behaviours: a two-arm randomized controlled trial in the Australian construction industry

A Milner, Z Aitken, PCF Law, AD LaMontagne, C Mann, T Cooper, K Witt

Journal article  |  2020  |  Health Promotion International

Males employed in the construction industry are at greater risk of suicide than other employed males. It is plausible that a high ..

Predictors of Change in Employment Status and Associations with Quality of Life: A Prospective International Study of People with Multiple Sclerosis

Claudia H Marck, Zoe Aitken, Steve Simpson, Tracey J Weiland, Anne Kavanagh, George A Jelinek

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation

Purpose This prospective international study aimed to assess the changes in employment, and predictors thereof, and associated cha..

Hierarchical Models for International Comparisons Smoking, Disability, and Social Inequality in 21 European Countries

George Disney, Lyle Gurrin, Zoe Aitken, Eric Emerson, Allison Milner, Anne Kavanagh, Dennis Petrie

Journal article  |  2020  |  Epidemiology

BACKGROUND: International comparisons of social inequalities in health outcomes and behaviors are challenging. Due to the level of..