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Jenny Head is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and specializes in research at the intersection of health professions and social sciences. Their work spans key subfields such as general health professions, demography, health, public health, environmental and occupational health, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The researcher's contributions focus on several main topics, including:

  • Retirement, Disability, and Employment
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Workplace Health and Well-being
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue

Jenny Head's publication record includes studies addressing critical issues in public and occupational health, ageing, and social determinants of health. Some of their recent papers include:

  • Socioeconomic Inequalities in Disability-free Life Expectancy in Older People from England and the United States: A Cross-national Population-Based Study, 2020, The Journals of Gerontology Series A
  • Behavioural risk factors and healthy life expectancy: evidence from two longitudinal studies of ageing in England and the US, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Association between ultra-processed foods and recurrence of depressive symptoms: the Whitehall II cohort study, 2023, Nutritional Neuroscience
  • Work Exposures and Development of Cardiovascular Diseases: A Systematic Review, 2022, Annals of Work Exposures and Health
  • A meta-analysis of the association of aircraft noise at school on children's reading comprehension and psychological health for use in health impact assessment, 2021, Journal of Environmental Psychology

The venues where their work frequently appears include:

  • European Journal of Public Health
  • Health & Place
  • BMJ Open
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series A
  • Scientific Reports

Jenny Head collaborates regularly with several researchers, with frequent coauthors being:

  • Paul Norman
  • Nicola Shelton
  • Emily Murray
  • Paola Zaninotto
  • Sari Stenholm

Best Publications

  • Health inequalities among British civil servants: the Whitehall II study

    M.G. Marmot;S. Stansfeld;C. Patel;F. North

  • Aircraft and road traffic noise and children's cognition and health: a cross-national study

    S A Stansfeld;Birgitta Berglund;C Clark;I Lopez-Barrio

  • Sickness absence as a global measure of health: evidence from mortality in the Whitehall II prospective cohort study

    Mika Kivimäki;Jenny Head;Jane E Ferrie;Martin J Shipley

  • Chronic aircraft noise exposure, stress responses, mental health and cognitive performance in school children.

    Mary M. Haines;S. A. Stansfeld;R. F. S. Job;B. Berglund

  • Explaining socioeconomic differences in sickness absence: the Whitehall II Study.

    F North;S L Syme;A Feeney;J Head

  • Prospective Study of Social and Other Risk Factors for Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes in the Whitehall II Study

    Meena Kumari;Jenny Head;Michael Marmot

  • Justice at work and reduced risk of coronary heart disease among employees: the Whitehall II Study.

    Mika Kivimäki;Jane E Ferrie;Eric Brunner;Jenny Head

  • Work stress, weight gain and weight loss: evidence for bidirectional effects of job strain on body mass index in the Whitehall II study.

    M Kivimäki;J Head;J E Ferrie;M J Shipley

  • Working While Ill as a Risk Factor for Serious Coronary Events: The Whitehall II Study

    Mika Kivimäki;Jenny Head;Jane E. Ferrie;Harry Hemingway

  • Explaining social class differences in depression and well-being.

    S. A. Stansfeld;J. Head;M. G. Marmot

  • Can social support protect bullied adolescents from adverse outcomes? A prospective study on the effects of bullying on the educational achievement and mental health of adolescents at secondary schools in East London

    Catherine Rothon;Jenny Head;Emily Klineberg;Stephen Stansfeld

  • Work and psychiatric disorder in the Whitehall II Study.

    Stephen A. Stansfeld;Rebecca Fuhrer;Jenny Head;Jane Ferrie

  • A comparison of self-reported sickness absence with absences recorded in employers' registers: evidence from the Whitehall II study

    J E Ferrie;M Kivimäki;J Head;M J Shipley

  • Body mass, weight control behaviours, weight perception and emotional well being in a multiethnic sample of early adolescents

    R M Viner;M M Haines;S J C Taylor;J Head

  • Socioeconomic and sex differentials in reason for sickness absence from the Whitehall II Study.

    A Feeney;F North;J Head;R Canner

  • Socio-demographic predictors of quitting smoking: How important are household factors?

    Tarani Chandola;Jenny Head;Mel Bartley

  • Sickness absence for psychiatric illness: The Whitehall II study

    Stephen Stansfeld;Amanda Feeney;Jenny Head;Robert Canner

  • Impact of smoking on cognitive decline in early old age: the Whitehall II cohort study

    Séverine Sabia;Alexis Elbaz;Aline Dugravot;Jenny Head

  • The psychosocial work environment and alcohol dependence: a prospective study

    J Head;S A Stansfeld;J Siegrist

  • Work stress, weight gain and weight loss: evidence for bidirectional effects of job strain on body mass index in the Whitehall II study

    M Kivimaki;J Head;JE Ferrie;E Brunner

Frequent Co-Authors

Mika Kivimäki
Mika Kivimäki University College London
Jussi Vahtera
Jussi Vahtera Turku University Hospital
Stephen Stansfeld
Stephen Stansfeld Queen Mary University of London
Michael Marmot
Michael Marmot University College London
Jane E. Ferrie
Jane E. Ferrie University College London
Marianna Virtanen
Marianna Virtanen University of Eastern Finland
Hugo Westerlund
Hugo Westerlund Stockholm University
Martin J. Shipley
Martin J. Shipley University College London

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