Arbeitsbereich

Bevölkerung und Gesundheit

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Projekt

Verhaltensbedingte Determinanten der Gesundheit und Mortalität

Geleitet von Mikko Myrskylä; Kieron Barclay, Maarten Jacob Bijlsma, Alyson van Raalte, Christian Dudel, Yaoyue Hu, Enrique Acosta, Christina Bohk-Ewald (University of Helsinki, Finnland), Pekka Martikainen (MPIDR / University of Helsinki, Finnland)

Risky health behaviors, such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, and poor diet, are holding back achievements in population health. This project analyzes the individual and cumulative impact of key health behaviors on trends and differentials in health and mortality.  Ausführliche Beschreibung

Publikationen

Acosta, E.; Gagnon, A.; Ouellette, N.; Bourbeau, R. R.; Nepomuceno, M. R.; van Raalte, A. A.:

The boomer penalty: excess mortality among baby boomers in Canada and the United States

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-003. (2020)    

Mehta, N. K.; Abrams, L. R.; Myrskylä, M.:

US life expectancy stalls due to cardiovascular disease, not drug deaths

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117:13, 6998–7000. (2020)    

Bijwaard, G. E.; Tynelius, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

Education, cognitive ability, and cause-specific mortality: a structural approach

Population Studies 73:2, 217–232. (2019)    

Martikainen, P.; Jasilionis, D.; Junna, L. M.; Tarkiainen, L.:

Life expectancy among Finnish men and women with doctorate degrees over the period 1971-2015

Epidemiology 30:6, e32–e33. (2019)    

Stefler, D.; Hu, Y.; Malyutina, S.; Pajak, A.; Kubinova, R.; Peasey, A.; Pikhart, H.; Rodriguez-Artalejo, F.; Bobak, M.:

Mediterranean diet and physical functioning trajectories in Eastern Europe: findings from the HAPIEE study

PLoS One 13:7, e0200460–e0200460. (2018)    

Vidra, N.; Bijlsma, M. J.; Trias Llimós, S.; Janssen, F.:

Past trends in obesity-attributable mortality in eight European countries: an application of age-period-cohort analysis

International Journal of Public Health 63:6, 683–692. (2018)    

Bijwaard, G. E.; Myrskylä, M.; Tynelius, P.; Rasmussen, F.:

Educational gain in cause-specific mortality: accounting for confounders

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2017-003. (2017)    

Herttua, K.; Östergren, O.; Lundberg, O.; Martikainen, P.:

Influence of affordability of alcohol on educational disparities in alcohol-related mortality in Finland and Sweden: a time series analysis

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 71:12, 1168–1176. (2017)    

Vogt, T. C.; van Raalte, A. A.; Grigoriev, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

The German East-West mortality difference: two crossovers driven by smoking

Demography 54:3, 1051–1071. (2017)