Mai Stafford

Public health and fear of crime: a prospective cohort study (2009)

Jackson, Jonathan, Stafford, Mai

Public insecurities about crime are widely assumed to erode individual well-being and community cohesion. Yet, robust evidence on the link between worry about crime and health is surprisingly scarce....

Fear of racism, employment and expected organizational racism: their association with health (2009)

Bécares, Laia, Stafford, Mai, Nazroo, James

Background: Racism has been argued to be a focal element of larger societal inequalities which generate ethnic health disparities. Despite suggestions that socio-demographic characteristics of the...

Public Health and Fear of Crime: A Prospective Cohort Study (2009)

Jackson, Jonathan, Stafford, Mai

Public insecurities about crime are widely assumed to erode individual well-being and community cohesion. Yet, robust evidence on the link between worry about crime and health is surprisingly scarce....

Neighbourhood characteristics and trajectories of health functioning: a multilevel prospective analysis (2008)

Stafford, Mai, Gimeno, David, Marmot, Michael G.

Background: Prospective data from over 10 years of follow-up were used to examine neighbourhood deprivation, social fragmentation and trajectories of health. Methods: From the third phase...

Low Workplace Social Capital as a Predictor of Depression: The Finnish Public Sector Study (2008)

Kouvonen, Anne, Oksanen, Tuula, Vahtera, Jussi, Stafford, Mai, Wilkinson, Richard, Schneider, Justine, ...

In a prospective cohort study of Finnish public sector employees, the authors examined the association between workplace social capital and depression. Data were obtained from 33,577 employees, who...

Neighbourhood deprivation and health: does it affect us all equally? (2003)

Stafford, Mai, Marmot, Michael

Background Neighbourhood socioeconomic status (SES) may affect rich and poor residents differentially. Two models are proposed. Model 1: living in a non-deprived neighbourhood is better for health...

does it affect us all equally? (2002)

Mai Stafford, Michael Marmot

Background Neighbourhood socioeconomic status (SES) may affect rich and poor residents differentially. Two models are proposed. Model 1: living in a non-deprived neighbourhood is better for health...

Measuring the social environment: social cohesion and material deprivation in English and Scottish neighbourhoods

Mai Stafford, Mel Bartley, Amanda Sacker, Michael Marmot, Richard Wilkinson, Richard Boreham, ...

Despite increasing interest in macrosocial determinants of health, progress has been hampered by a lack of information on contextual factors and a lack of clarity in defining aspects of the social...

Neighbourhood Effects on Health: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach

Mai Stafford, Amanda Sacker, Anne Ellaway, Steven Cummins, Dick Wiggins, Sally Macintyre

Many studies document associations between area deprivation and health but the explanatory pathways linking deprivation to health are not clear. Potential neighbourhood determinants of health include...

Association Between Fear of Crime and Mental Health and Physical Functioning

Stafford, Mai, Chandola, Tarani, Marmot, Michael

Objectives. Studies have reported an inverse association between fear of crime and subjective mental and physical health. We investigated the direction of causality and the curtailment of physical...