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Jennifer Roberts is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research spans primarily the fields of social sciences and medicine, with a focus on general health professions, surgery, and demography. Within these areas, their work frequently addresses topics related to employment and welfare studies, retirement, disability, and employment, as well as health disparities and outcomes.

Roberts has published extensively across several subfields that include emergency medicine and health, with notable contributions to research on appendicitis diagnosis and management as well as diverticular disease and its complications. Urban transport and accessibility and workplace health and well-being also figure among the main topics covered in their publications.

Their recent scholarly papers include:

  • Does commuting mode choice impact health? (2020, Health Economics)
  • The effect of mental and physical health problems on sickness absence (2021, The European Journal of Health Economics)
  • Mental Health and Employment: A Bounding Approach Using Panel Data (2022, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics)
  • The Effect of Energy Consumption and Human Capital on Economic Growth: An Exploration of Oil Exporting and Developed Countries (2024, White Rose Research Online)
  • Increased risk of malignancy for patients older than 40 years with appendicitis and an appendix wider than 10 mm on computed tomography scan: A post hoc analysis of an EAST multicenter study (2020, Surgery)

Frequent co-authors contributing to Roberts' research include:

  • Mark L. Bryan
  • Andrew Bryce
  • Cristina Sechel
  • Steven D. Eyer
  • Daniel C. Cullinane

Roberts has published in venues such as Surgical Infections, SSRN Electronic Journal, The American Surgeon, Health Economics, and The European Journal of Health Economics. Surgical Infections is among the most frequent publication venues with three papers, followed by SSRN Electronic Journal and The American Surgeon with two publications each.

The body of Roberts' work represents an interdisciplinary approach merging social science perspectives with medical research, situating their contributions within the broader themes of public health, economics, and clinical outcomes related to various health conditions and workforce participation.

Best Publications

  • The estimation of a preference-based measure of health from the SF-36

    John Brazier;Jennifer Roberts;Mark Deverill

  • The estimation of a preference-based measure of health from the SF-12.

    John E Brazier;Jennifer Roberts

  • A comparison of the EQ-5D and SF-6D across seven patient groups.

    John Brazier;Jennifer Roberts;Aki Tsuchiya;Jan Busschbach

  • "It's driving her mad": Gender differences in the effects of commuting on psychological health.

    Jennifer Roberts;Robert Hodgson;Paul Dolan

  • The impact of HIV and AIDS on Africa's economic development

    Simon Dixon;Scott McDonald;Jennifer Roberts

  • Growth and multiple forms of human capital in an augmented Solow model: a panel data investigation

    Scott McDonald;Jennifer Roberts

  • Modelling SF-6D health state preference data using a nonparametric Bayesian method.

    Samer A. Kharroubi;John E. Brazier;Jennifer Roberts;Anthony O’Hagan

  • Mapping SF-36 onto the EQ-5D index: how reliable is the relationship?

    Donna Rowen;John A. Brazier;Jennifer Roberts

  • The End of the Professions?: The Restructuring of Professional Work

    Jane Broadbent;Michael Dietrich;Jennifer Roberts

  • AIDS and economic growth: A human capital approach

    Scott McDonald;Jennifer Roberts

  • What is the Value of Routinely Testing Full Blood Count, Electrolytes and Urea, and Pulmonary Function Tests Before Elective Surgery in Patients with No Apparent Clinical Indication and in Subgroups of Patients with Common Comorbidities: A Systematic Review of the Clinical and Cost-Effective Literature

    C Czoski-Murray;M Lloyd Jones;C McCabe;K Claxton

  • Modelling valuations for Eq-5d health states: an alternative model using differences in valuations.

    Paul Dolan;Jennifer Roberts

  • Sensitivity of elasticity estimates for OECD health care spending: analysis of a dynamic heterogeneous data field.

    Jennifer Roberts

  • Feminization and professionalization: A review of an emerging literature on the development of accounting in the United Kingdom

    Jennifer Roberts;J.Andrew Coutts

  • Sick of work or too sick to work? Evidence on self-reported health shocks and early retirement from the BHPS

    Andrew M. Jones;Nigel Rice;Jennifer Roberts

  • Using rank data to estimate health state utility models

    Christopher McCabe;John Brazier;Peter Gilks;Aki Tsuchiya

  • AIDS and economic growth in Africa: a panel data analysis

    Simon Dixon;Scott McDonald;Jennifer Roberts

  • The internet and children's psychological wellbeing.

    Emily McDool;Philip Powell;Jennifer Roberts;Karl Taylor

  • Efficacy of behavioural interventions for transport behaviour change: systematic review, meta-analysis and intervention coding

    Bronia Arnott;Lucia Rehackova;Linda Errington;Falko F. Sniehotta

  • Estimation of a Preference-Based Index from a Condition-Specific Measure: The King's Health Questionnaire

    John Brazier;Carolyn Czoski-Murray;Jennifer Roberts;Martin Brown

  • The impact of HIV and AIDS on Africas economic development.

    Dixon S;McDonald S;Roberts J

Frequent Co-Authors

John Brazier
John Brazier University of Sheffield
Donna Rowen
Donna Rowen University of Sheffield
Falko F. Sniehotta
Falko F. Sniehotta Newcastle University
Karl Claxton
Karl Claxton University of York
Alan Brennan
Alan Brennan University of Sheffield
Michael Drummond
Michael Drummond University of York
Peter Weatherburn
Peter Weatherburn London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Stephen Pilling
Stephen Pilling University College London
Nathan S. Consedine
Nathan S. Consedine University of Auckland
Ford Hickson
Ford Hickson University of London

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