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Anne McMunn is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily resides at the intersection of social sciences and health professions, with notable contributions across social policy, health disparities, and family dynamics.

Their work spans several main fields of study, including:

  • Social Sciences
  • Health Professions

Within these fields, McMunn has contributed extensively to subfields such as:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • General Health Professions
  • Demography
  • Health
  • Clinical Psychology

McMunn's research delves into a range of interconnected topics, notably:

  • Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Retirement, Disability, and Employment
  • Family Support in Illness
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Work-Family Balance Challenges

Their publication record includes contributions to various scientific gatherings and journals, with frequent publications in venues such as:

  • SSM Annual Scientific Meeting
  • Advances in Life Course Research
  • PLoS ONE
  • The Lancet Public Health
  • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Among recent papers, notable titles include:

  • "Gender differences in unpaid care work and psychological distress in the UK Covid-19 lockdown," 2021, PLoS ONE
  • "More green, less lonely? A longitudinal cohort study," 2021, International Journal of Epidemiology
  • "The mental and physical health of young carers: a systematic review," 2022, The Lancet Public Health
  • "Mental distress among young adults in Great Britain: long-term trends and early changes during the COVID-19 pandemic," 2021, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
  • "Mental and physical health changes around transitions into unpaid caregiving in the UK: a longitudinal, propensity score analysis," 2023, The Lancet Public Health

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Rebecca Lacey
  • Baowen Xue
  • Giorgio Di Gessa
  • Dorina Cadar
  • Amanda Sacker

The scope of McMunn's research covers critical aspects of societal and health-related challenges, focusing on how family dynamics interact with caregiving roles and social policies affecting employment and welfare.

Best Publications

  • Loneliness, Social Isolation, and Behavioral and Biological Health Indicators in Older Adults

    Aparna Shankar;Anne McMunn;James Banks;Andrew Steptoe

  • Social isolation and loneliness: relationships with cognitive function during 4 years of follow-up in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

    Aparna Shankar;Mark Hamer;Anne McMunn;Andrew Steptoe

  • Social isolation and loneliness: Prospective associations with functional status in older adults

    Aparna Shankar;Anne McMunn;Panayotes Demakakos;Mark Hamer

  • Participation in socially-productive activities, reciprocity and wellbeing in later life: baseline results in England

    Anne McMUNN;James Nazroo;Morten Wahrendorf;Elizabeth Breeze

  • Children's emotional and behavioural well-being and the family environment : findings from the Health Survey for England

    Anne M McMunn;James Y Nazroo;Michael G Marmot;Richard Boreham

  • Gender differences in unpaid care work and psychological distress in the UK Covid-19 lockdown.

    Baowen Xue;Anne McMunn

  • Health-related behaviors in older adults relationships with socioeconomic status.

    Aparna Shankar;Anne McMunn;Andrew Steptoe

  • Birthweight and behavioural problems in children: a modifiable effect?

    Yvonne J Kelly;James Y Nazroo;Anne McMunn;Richard Boreham

  • Inequalities in health at older ages: a longitudinal investigation of the onset of illness and survival effects in England

    Anne McMunn;James Nazroo;Elizabeth Breeze

  • More green, less lonely? A longitudinal cohort study.

    Thomas Astell-Burt;Terry Hartig;Simon Eckermann;Mark Nieuwenhuijsen

  • Life course social roles and women’s health in mid-life: causation or selection?

    Anne McMunn;Mel Bartley;Rebecca Hardy;Diana Kuh

  • Proximal predictors of change in quality of life at older ages

    Elizabeth A Webb;David Blane;Anne McMunn;Gopalakrishnan Netuveli

  • De-standardization and gender convergence in work–family life courses in Great Britain: A multi-channel sequence analysis

    Anne McMunn;Rebecca Lacey;Diana Worts;Peggy McDonough

  • Scottish Health Survey 1998

    A Shaw;A McMunn;J Field

  • Positive and Negative Exchanges in Social Relationships as Predictors of Depression: Evidence From the English Longitudinal Study of Aging:

    Mai Stafford;Anne McMunn;Paola Zaninotto;James Nazroo

  • Fathers’ Involvement Correlates and Consequences for Child Socioemotional Behavior in the United Kingdom

    Anne McMunn;Peter Martin;Yvonne Kelly;Amanda Sacker

  • The mental and physical health of young carers: a systematic review.

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  • Parental separation in childhood and adult inflammation: the importance of material and psychosocial pathways

    Rebecca E. Lacey;Meena Kumari;Anne McMunn

  • Effect of retirement on cognitive function: the Whitehall II cohort study.

    Baowen Xue;Dorina Cadar;Maria Fleischmann;Stephen A. Stansfeld

  • Informal caregiving patterns and trajectories of psychological distress in the UK Household Longitudinal Study.

    Rebecca E. Lacey;Anne McMunn;Elizabeth Webb

  • Social determinants of health in older age

    A McMunn;E Breeze;A Goodman;J Nazroo

  • Neighbourhood social environment and depressive symptoms in mid-life and beyond

    Mai Stafford;Anne Mcmunn;Roberto De Vogli

  • Women's health in mid-life: life course social roles and agency as quality.

    Anne McMunn;Mel Bartley;Diana Kuh

  • Maternal employment and child socio-emotional behaviour in the UK: longitudinal evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study

    Anne McMunn;Yvonne Kelly;Noriko Cable;Mel Bartley

  • Life course social roles and women's health in mid-life.

    A McMunn

Frequent Co-Authors

Amanda Sacker
Amanda Sacker University College London
James Nazroo
James Nazroo University of Manchester
Yvonne Kelly
Yvonne Kelly University College London
Mel Bartley
Mel Bartley University College London
Meena Kumari
Meena Kumari University of Essex
Andrew Steptoe
Andrew Steptoe University College London
Diana Kuh
Diana Kuh University College London
Mai Stafford
Mai Stafford University College London
Tarani Chandola
Tarani Chandola University of Hong Kong
David Blane
David Blane University College London

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