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Eric Emerson is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research within the social sciences and medicine fields, with a focus on health-related issues. Their work spans multiple subfields including health, general health professions, clinical psychology, epidemiology, and education.

The research conducted by Eric Emerson often centers on topics such as health disparities and outcomes, employment and welfare studies, family and disability support research, chronic disease management strategies, retirement, disability, and employment, child nutrition and water access, as well as adolescent and pediatric healthcare.

Among recent publications attributed to Eric Emerson are:

  • Loneliness, social support, social isolation and wellbeing among working age adults with and without disability: Cross-sectional study (2020, Disability and health journal)
  • The impact of disability on employment and financial security following the outbreak of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in the UK (2020, Journal of Public Health)

Eric Emerson frequently collaborates with other researchers including Gwynnyth Llewellyn, Anne Kavanagh, Zoe Aitken, Roger J. Stancliffe, and Chris Hatton.

They publish regularly in journals such as Disability and health journal, Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, BMC Public Health, Journal of Public Health, and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Best Publications

  • Mothers supporting children with autistic spectrum disorders Social support, mental health status and satisfaction with services

    Jo Bromley;Dougal Julian Hare;Kerry Davison;Eric Emerson

  • The prevalence of challenging behaviors: a total population study.

    Eric Emerson;Chris Kiernan;Alison Alborz;David Reeves

  • Prevalence of psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents with and without intellectual disability

    E Emerson

  • Mental health of children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities in Britain

    Eric Emerson;Chris Hatton

  • Mothers of children and adolescents with intellectual disability: social and economic situation, mental health status, and the self-assessed social and psychological impact of the child's difficulties.

    Eric Emerson

  • Comorbidity of intellectual disability and mental disorder in children and adolescents: A systematic review

    Stewart L. Einfeld;Louise A. Ellis;Eric Emerson;Eric Emerson

  • A population-based investigation of behavioural and emotional problems and maternal mental health : associations with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability

    Vasiliki Totsika;Richard P. Hastings;Eric Emerson;Gillian A. Lancaster

  • Lifestyle related risk factors for poor health in residential settings for people with intellectual disabilities.

    Janet Robertson;Eric Emerson;Nicky Gregory;Chris Hatton

  • Health inequalities and people with learning disabilities in the UK

    Eric Emerson;Susie Baines;Lindsay Allerton;Victoria Welch

  • Poverty and people with intellectual disabilities.

    Eric Emerson

  • Underweight, obesity and exercise among adults with intellectual disabilities in supported accommodation in Northern England

    E. Emerson

  • Moving out : the impact of relocation from hospital to community on the quality of life of people with learning disabilities

    Eric Emerson;Chris Hatton

  • Loneliness, social support, social isolation and wellbeing among working age adults with and without disability: Cross sectional study.

    Eric Emerson;Eric Emerson;Nicola Fortune;Gwynnyth Llewellyn;Roger Stancliffe

  • Prevalence of epilepsy among people with intellectual disabilities: A systematic review

    Janet Robertson;Chris Hatton;Eric Emerson;Susannah Baines

  • Health inequalities and people with learning disabilities in the UK

    Eric Emerson;Susannah Baines

  • Social networks of people with mental retardation in residential settings.

    Janet Robertson;Eric Emerson;Nicky Gregory;Chris Hatton

  • Estimating Future Need for Adult Social Care for People with Learning Disabilities in England.

    Eric Emerson;Chris Hatton

  • Socio‐economic position, household composition, health status and indicators of the well‐being of mothers of children with and without intellectual disabilities

    E. Emerson;C. Hatton;G. Llewellyn;J. Blacker

  • Beliefs and emotional reactions of care staff working with people with challenging behaviour

    J. Bromley;Eric Emerson

  • Challenging Behaviour: Analysis and Intervention in People with Severe Intellectual Disabilities

    Eric Emerson

  • Challenging behaviour: Index

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  • People with Learning Disabilities in England

    Eric Emerson;Chris Hatton

  • The world report on disability.

    Eric Emerson;Eric Emerson

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris Hatton
Chris Hatton Manchester Metropolitan University
Janet Robertson
Janet Robertson Lancaster University
Gwynnyth Llewellyn
Gwynnyth Llewellyn University of Sydney
Stewart L. Einfeld
Stewart L. Einfeld University of Sydney
David John Felce
David John Felce Cardiff University
Roger J. Stancliffe
Roger J. Stancliffe University of Sydney
Richard P. Hastings
Richard P. Hastings University of Birmingham
Vasiliki Totsika
Vasiliki Totsika University College London
Bruce J Tonge
Bruce J Tonge Monash University
Kylie Megan Gray
Kylie Megan Gray University of Birmingham

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