Publications

2019

• Mental Health Before and After Retirement-Assessing the Relevance of Psychosocial Working Conditions: The Whitehall II Prospective Study of British Civil Servants. Fleischmann M, Xue B, Head J. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2020; 75(2):403-413. [Epub: Apr 2019]
• Linking local labour market conditions across the life course to retirement age: Pathways of health, employment status, occupational class and educational achievement, using 60 years of the 1946 British Birth Cohort. Murray ET, Zaninotto P, Fleischmann M, Stafford M, Carr E, Shelton N, Stansfeld S, Kuh D, Head J. Soc Sci Med 2019; 226: 113-122.
• Inequalities in time from stopping paid work to death: findings from the ONS Longitudinal Study, 2001-2011. Murray ET, Carr E, Zaninotto P, Head J, Xue B, Stansfeld S, Beach B, Shelton N. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2019 Dec;73(12):1101-1107.

2018

• The relationship between workplace psychosocial environment and retirement intentions and actual retirement: a systematic review. Browne P, Carr E, Fleischmann M, Xue B, Stansfeld SA. Eur J Ageing 2018; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-018-0473-4. 
• Occupational and educational inequalities in exit from employment at older ages: evidence from seven prospective cohorts. Carr E, Fleischmann M, Goldberg M, Kuh D, Murray ET, Stafford M, Stansfeld S, Vahtera J, Xue B, Zaninotto P, Zins M, Head J. Occup Environ Med 2018;75:369-377.
• Sickness absence diagnoses among abstainers, low-risk drinkers and at-risk drinkers: Consideration of the U-shaped association between alcohol use and sickness absence in four cohort studies. Ervasti J, Kivimäki M, Head  J, Goldberg M, Airagnes G, Pentti J, Oksanen T, Salo P, Suominen S,  Jokela M, Vahtera J, Zins M, Virtanen M. Addiction 2018; 113:1633–1642.
• Changes in autonomy, job demands and working hours after diagnosis of chronic disease. A comparison of employed and self-employed older persons using the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). Fleischmann M, Carr E, Xue B, Zaninotto P, Stansfeld SA, Stafford M, Head J. J Epidemiol Community Health 2018;72:951-957.
• Socioeconomic differences in healthy and disease-free life expectancy between ages 50 and 75 in Europe: Evidence from four prospective cohort studies. Head J, Chungkham HS, Hyde M, Zaninotto P, Alexanderson K, Stenholm S, Salo P, Kivimäki M, Goldberg M, Zins M, Vahtera J, Westerlund H. European Journal of Public Health 2018 Oct 10. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/cky215.
• Recurrent back pain during working life and exit from paid employment: a 28-year follow-up of the Whitehall II study. Lallukka T, Mänty M, Cooper C, Fleischmann M, Kouvonen A, Walker-Bone KE, Head JA, Halonen JI. Occup Environ Med 2018;75:786-791.
• Informal caregiving and diurnal patterns of salivary cortisol: Results from the Whitehall II cohort study. Mortensen J, Dich N, Clark AJ, Ramlau-Hansen CH, Head J, Kivimäki M, Kumari M, Rod NH. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2019; 100:41-47. [Epub: Sep 2018]
• Gender differences and individual, household, and workplace characteristics: Regional geographies of extended working lives. Shelton N, Head J, Carr E, Zaninotto P, Hagger-Johnson G, Murray E. Population, Space and Place 2018; doi:10.1002/psp.2213
• Work–family life course patterns and work participation in later life. Stafford M, Lacey R, Murray E, Ewan Carr E, Fleischmann M, Stansfeld S, Xue B, Zaninotto P, Head J, Kuh D, McMunn A. Eur J Ageing 2018; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-018-0470-7.
• Mid-life psychosocial work environment as a predictor of work exit by age 50. Stansfeld SA, Carr E, Smuk M, Clark C, Murray E, Shelton N, Head J. PLoS ONE 2018; 13(4):e0195495. 
• Sleep Duration and Sleep Disturbances as Predictors of Healthy and Chronic Disease-Free Life Expectancy between Ages 50 and 75: A Pooled Analysis of Three Cohorts. Stenholm S, Head J, Kivimäki M, Magnusson Hanson LL, Pentti J, Rod NH, Clark AJ, Oksanen T, Westerlund H, Vahtera J. The Journals of Gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2019;74:204-210. [Epub: Feb 2018].
• Lifestyle factors and risk of sickness absence from work: a multicohort study. Virtanen M, Ervasti J, Head J, Oksanen T, Salo P, Pentti J, Kouvonen A, Väänänen A, Suominen S, Koskenvuo M, Vahtera J, Elovainio M, Zins M, Goldberg M, Kivimäki M. Lancet Public Health 2018; 3:e545-e554.
• Work and family conflict in relation to work exit in later career stage: a 20 years follow-up of Whitehall II study. Xue B, Fleischmann M, Head J, McMunn A, Stafford M.  J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 2018; doi:10.1093/geronb/gby146.

2017

• Impact of childhood and adulthood psychological health on labour force participation and exit in later life.  Clark C, Smuk M, Lain D, Stansfeld SA, Carr E, Head J, Vickerstaff S. Psychological Medicine 2017; 47: 1597-1608.
• Sociodemographic Differences Between Alcohol Use and Sickness Absence: Pooled Analysis of Four Cohort Studies. Ervasti J, Kivimäki M, Head J, Goldberg M, Airagnes G, Pentti J, Oksanen T, Salo P, Suominen S,Jokela M, Vahtera J, Zins M, Virtanen M.  Alcohol and Alcoholism 2018; 53(1):95–103.[Epub: Oct 2017].
•  Longitudinal associations of experiences of adversity and socioeconomic disadvantage during childhood with labour force participation and exit in later adulthood. Fahy AE, Stansfeld SA, Smuk M, Lain D, van der Horst M, Vickerstaff S, Clark C. Soc Sci Med 2017;183:80-87.
• Sick leave before and after the age of 65 years among those in paid work in Sweden in 2000 or 2005: a register-based cohort study. Farrants K, Kjeldgård L, Marklund S, Head J, Alexanderson K. The Journal of International Medical Research 2018; 46:564-577.  [Epub: Nov 2017].
• Sick leave among people in paid work after age 65: A Swedish population-based study covering 1995, 2000, 2005 and 2010. Farrants K, Marklund S, Kjeldgård L, Head J, Alexanderson K. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 2017;  46: 297-305.
• Can favourable psychosocial working conditions in midlife moderate the risk of work exit for chronically ill workers? A 20-year follow-up of the Whitehall II study. Fleischmann M, Carr E, Stansfeld SA, Xue B, Head J. Occup Environ Med 2018;75:183-190. [Epub: Oct 2017].
• Association between midlife health behaviours and transitions out of employment from midlife to early old age: Whitehall II Cohort Study.  Hagger-Johnson G, Carr E, Murray ET, Stansfeld S, Shelton N, Stafford M, Head J. BMC Public Health 2017;17:82.
• Occupational class and working beyond the retirement age: a cohort study. Virtanen M, Oksanen T, Pentti J, Ervasti J, Head J, Stenholm S, Vahtera J, Kivimäki M. Scand J Work Environ Health 2017; 43(5):426-435
• Late life employment histories and Their Association With Work and Family Formation During Adulthood: A Sequence Analysis Based on ELSA. Wahrendorf M, Zaninotto P, Hoven H, Head J, Carr E. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 2018; 73: 1263–1277. [Epub: May 2017].
• Effect of retirement on cognitive function: the Whitehall II cohort study. Xue B, Cadar D, Fleischmann M, Stansfeld S, Carr E, Kivimaki M, McMunn A, Head J. Eur J Epidemiol 2018; 33: 989. [Epub: Dec 2017].
• The Associations Between Retirement and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in China: A 20-Year Prospective Study Xue B, Head J, McMunn A.  American Journal of Epidemiology 2017; 185:688-696.

2016

• The Association between informal caregiving and exit from employment among older workers: prospective findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study. Carr E, Murray ET, Zaninotto P, Cadar D, Head J, Stansfeld S, Stafford M. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci [Epub 2016 Dec 7].
• Physical and cognitive capability in mid-adulthood as determinants of retirement and extended working life in a British cohort study. Stafford M, Cooper R, Cadar D, Carr E, Murray E, Richards M, Stansfeld S, Zaninotto P, Head J, Kuh D Scand. J Work Environ Health 2017 Jan 1;43(1):15-23 [Epub Aug 2016].
• Role of psychosocial work factors in the relation between becoming a caregiver and changes in health behaviour: results from the Whitehall II cohort study. Dich N, Head J, Hulvej Rod N. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2016; 70(12):1200-06.
• Socioeconomic gradient in work disability in diabetes: evidence from three occupational cohorts. Ervasti J, Kivimaki M, Dray-Spira R, Head J, Goldberg M, Pentti J, Jokela M, Vahtera J, Zins M, Virtanen M. Journal Of Epidemiology And Community Health 2017; 70(2):125-131.
• Local area unemployment, individual health and workforce exit: ONS Longitudinal Study. Murray ET, Jenny H, Shelton N, Hagger-Johnson G, Stansfeld S, Zaninotto P, Stafford M.  European Journal of Public Health 2016 Jun;26(3):463-9. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckw005. Epub 2016 Feb 27.
• Psychosocial factors associated with work disability in men and women with diabetes: a pooled analysis of three occupational cohort studies. Ervasti J, Kivimaki M, Dray-Spira R, Head J, Goldberg M, Pentti J, Jokela M, Vahtera J, Zins M, Virtanen M.  Diabetic Medicine 2016; 33(2):208-217.
• Comorbidity and work disability among employees with diabetes: Associations with risk factors in a pooled analysis of three cohort studies. Ervasti J, Kivimaki M, Dray-Spira R, Head J, Goldberg M, Pentti J, Jokela M, Vahtera J, Zins M, Virtanen M. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 2016; 44(1):84-90.

2015

• Working conditions as predictors of retirement intentions and exit from paid employment: a 10-year follow-up of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing Carr E, Hagger-Johnson G, Head J, Shelton N, Stafford M, Stansfeld S, Zaninotto P. European Journal of Ageing 2016;13:39-48 [Epub Nov 2015].
• Lifestyle-related risk factors and trajectories of work disability over 5 years in employees with diabetes: findings from two prospective cohort studies. Virtanen M, Kivimaki M, Zins M, Dray-Spira R, Oksanen T, Ferrie JE, Okuloff A, Pentti J, Head J, Goldberg M, Vahtera J.  Diabetic Medicine 2015; 32(10): 1335-1341.
• Work Disability among Employees with Diabetes: Latent Class Analysis of Risk Factors in Three Prospective Cohort Studies. Virtanen M, Vahtera J, Head J, Dray-Spira R, Okuloff A, Tabak AG, Goldberg M, Ervasti J, Jokela M, Singh-Manoux A, Pentti J, Zins M.  PLOS ONE 2015; 10(11): 14 pages.