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Social and Economic Determinants of Physical and Mental Health Over the Life Course

Mikko Myrskylä, Marcus Ebeling, Pekka Martikainen, Yana Catherine Vierboom, Mine Kühn, Maarten Jacob Bijlsma, Anna Oksuzyan; in Collaboration with Samuel H. Preston (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)

Social and economic inequalities in health are persistently observed across populations. This project investigates the social and economic disparities in hospital use, morbidity, mortality, and mental health over the life course.  Detailed Description

Publications

Hale, J. M.; Schneider, D. C.; Mehta, N. K.; Myrskylä, M.:

Intersectionality and opportunity-weighted cumulative (dis)advantage

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-040. (2023)    

Korhonen, K.; Leinonen, T.; Tarkiainen, L.; Einiö, E.; Martikainen, P.:

Childhood socio-economic circumstances and dementia: prospective register-based cohort study of adulthood socio-economic and cardiovascular health mediators

International Journal of Epidemiology 52:2, 523–535. (2023)    

Kühn, M.; Dudel, C.; Werding, M.:

Maternal health, well-being, and employment transitions: a longitudinal comparison of partnered and single mothers in Germany

Social Science Research 114:102906, 1–14. (2023)    

Kühn, M.; Metsä-Simola, N.; Martikainen, P.:

Pathways into single motherhood, re-partnering, and trajectories of antidepressant medication purchases

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 58:3, 409–420. (2023)    

Lahtinen, H.; Moustgaard, H.; Ripatti, S.; Martikainen, P.:

Association between genetic risk of alcohol consumption and alcohol-related morbidity and mortality under different alcohol policy conditions: evidence from the Finnish alcohol price reduction of 2004

Addiction 118:4, 678–685. (2023)    

Li, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

Disparities in quality of life among European cancer survivors aged 50 and over

European Journal of Public Health 22:Suppl. 2, ii642–ii642. (2023)    

Sariaslan, A.; Fanshawe, T.; Pitkänen, J.; Cipriani, A.; Martikainen, P.; Fazel, S.:

Predicting suicide risk in 137,112 people with severe mental illness in Finland: external validation of the Oxford Mental Illness and Suicide tool (OxMIS)

Translational Psychiatry 13:126, 1–5. (2023)    

Stickley, A.; Baburin, A.; Jasilionis, D.; Krumins, J.; Martikainen, P.; Kondo, N.; Shin, J. I.; Inoue, Y.; Leinsalu, M.:

Sociodemographic inequalities in mortality from drowning in the Baltic countries and Finland in 2000–2015: a register-based study

BMC Public Health 23:1103, 1–9. (2023)    

Tarkiainen, L.; Martikainen, P.:

Long-term trends in urban-neighbourhood inequalities in cause-specific mortality and hospitalisation: multilevel analyses among individuals nested in Finnish post-code areas, 1991–2018

SSM-Population Health 21:101323, 1–8. (2023)    

Yao, H.; Junna, L. M.; Hu, Y.; Sha, X.; Martikainen, P.:

The relationship of income on stroke incidence in Finland and China

European Journal of Public Health 33:3, 360–365. (2023)    

Högnäs, R. S.; Bijlsma, M. J.; Högnäs, U.; Blomqvist, S.; Westerlund, H.; Magnusson Hanson, L.:

It's giving me the blues: a fixed-effects and g-formula approach to understanding job insecurity, sleep disturbances, and major depression

Social Science and Medicine 297:114805, 1–10. (2022)    

Howe, L. J.; Rasheed, H.; Jones, P. R.; Boomsma, D. I.; Evans, D. M.; Giannelis, A.; Hayward, C.; Hopper, J. L.; Hughes, A.; Lahtinen, H.; Li, S.; Lind, P. A.; Martin, N. G.; Martikainen, P.; Medland, S. E.; Morris, T. T.; Nivard, M. G.; Pingault, J.; Silventoinen, K.; Smith, J. A.; Willoughby, E. A.; Wilson, J. F.; Social Science Genetic Association Consortium within Family Consortium; Åsvold, B. O.; Næss, Ø. E.; Smith, G. D.; Kaprio, J.; Brumpton, B.; Davies, N. M.:

Educational attainment, health outcomes and mortality: a within-sibship Mendelian randomization study

medRxiv preprints. unpublished. (2022)    

Junna, L. M.; Moustgaard, H.; Martikainen, P.:

Health-related selection into employment among the unemployed

BMC Public Health 22:657, 1–12. (2022)    

Kühn, M.; Baranowska, A.; Metsä-Simola, N.; Junna, L. M.; Martikainen, P.:

The effects of unemployment among single mothers on adolescent children’s mental health

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-026. (2022)    

Mäki, M.; Hägglund, A. E.; Rotkirch, A.; Kulathinal, S.; Myrskylä, M.:

Stable marital histories predict happiness and health across educational groups

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-035. (2022)    

Metsä-Simola, N.; Remes, H. M.; Hiltunen, E. M.; Martikainen, P.:

Changes in parents' psychotropic medication use following child's cancer diagnosis: a fixed‐effects register‐study in Finland

Cancer Medicine 11:16, 3145–3155. (2022)    

Mikkonen, J.; Savolainen, J.; Aaltonen, M.; Martikainen, P.:

Using age difference and sex similarity to detect evidence of sibling influence on criminal offending

Psychological Medicine 52:10, 1892–1900. (2022)    

Pitkänen, J.; Remes, H. M.; Aaltonen, M.; Martikainen, P.:

Socioeconomic differences in psychiatric treatment before and after self-harm: an observational study of 4,280 adolescents and young adults

BMC Psychiatry 22:14, 1–13. (2022)    

Preston, S. H.; Vierboom, Y. C.:

How major risk factors influence mortality trends in the National Health Interview Survey

Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC) Series 2022-93, Philadelphia, PA. (2022)    

Silventoinen, K.; Korhonen, K.; Martikainen, P.:

Changing associations of coronary heart disease incidence with current partnership status and marital history over three decades

SSM-Population Health 18:101080, 1–8. (2022)    

Silventoinen, K.; Lahtinen, H.; Korhonen, K.; Smith, G. D.; Ripatti, S.; Morris, T. T.; Martikainen, P.:

Marital status and genetic liability independently predict coronary heart disease incidence

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 1–4. (2022)    

Hendi, A. S.; Elo, I. T.; Martikainen, P.:

The implications of changing education distributions for life expectancy gradients

Social Science and Medicine 272:113712, 1–11. (2021)    

Hoffmann, R.; Kröger, H.:

Comparing the educational gradients in three cardiovascular disease-specific health measures

Longitudinal and Life Course Studies 12:4, 591–607. (2021)    

Höhn, A.; Oksuzyan, A.; Lindahl-Jacobsen, R.; Christensen, K.; Seaman, R. J.:

Gender differences in time to first hospital admission at age 60 in Denmark, 1995-2014

European Journal of Ageing 18:4, 443–451. (2021)    

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

Exploring the longevity advantage of doctorates in Finland and Sweden: the role of smoking- and alcohol-related causes of death

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 49:4, 419–422. (2021)    

Korhonen, K.; Moustgaard, H.; Tarkiainen, L.; Östergren, O.; Costa. G.; Urhoj, S. . K.; Martikainen, P.:

Contributions of specific causes of death by age to the shorter life expectancy in depression: a register-based observational study from Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Italy

Journal of Affective Disorders 295, 831–838. (2021)    

Martikainen, P.; Korhonen, K.; Tarkiainen, L.:

Heavy metal toxicity and mortality-association between density of heavy metal bands and cause specific hospital admissions and mortality: population based cohort study

BMJ 375:8319, e067633–e067633. (2021)    

Metsä-Simola, N.; Baranowska-Rataj, A.; Remes, H. M.; Kühn, M.; Martikainen, P.:

Support from grandparents and mothers’ depression around the time of separation

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-020. (2021)    

Metsä-Simola, N.; Einiö, E.; Peltonen, R.; Martikainen, P.:

Physical health conditions and subsequent union separation: a couple-level register study on neurological conditions, heart and lung disease, and cancer

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 75:7, 674–680. (2021)    

Mikkonen, J.; Remes, H. M.; Moustgaard, H.; Martikainen, P.:

Early adolescent health problems, school performance, and upper secondary educational pathways: a counterfactual-based mediation analysis

Social Forces 99:3, 1146–1175. (2021)    

Pitkänen, J.; Bijlsma, M. J.; Remes, H. M.; Aaltonen, M.; Martikainen, P.:

The effect of low childhood income on self-harm in young adulthood: mediation by adolescent mental health, behavioural factors and school performance

SSM-Population Health 13:100756, 1–9. (2021)    

Preston, S. H.; Vierboom, Y. C.:

Excess mortality in the United States in the 21st century

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118:16, e2024850118–e2024850118. (2021)    

Tarkiainen, L.; Moustgaard, H.; Korhonen, K.; Noordzij, J. M.; Beenackers, M. A.; van Lenthe, F. J.; Burstrom, B.; Martikainen, P.:

Association between neighbourhood characteristics and antidepressant use at older ages: a register-based study of urban areas in three European countries

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 75:5, 426–432. (2021)    

van Hedel, K.; Moustgaard, H.; Myrskylä, M.; Martikainen, P.:

Work-family typologies and mental health among women in early working ages

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-015. (2021)    

Yang, L.; Hu, Y.; Silventoinen, K.; Martikainen, P.:

Childhood adversity and trajectories of multimorbidity in mid-late life: China health and longitudinal retirement study

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 75:6, 593–600. (2021)    

Hu, Y.; Leinonen, T.; Myrskylä, M.; Martikainen, P.:

Changes in socioeconomic differences in hospital days with age: cumulative disadvantage, age-as-leveler, or both?

Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 75:6, 1336–1347. (2020)    

Martikainen, P.; Elo, I. T.; Tarkiainen, L.; Mikkonen, J.; Myrskylä, M.; Moustgaard, H.:

The changing contribution of childhood social characteristics to mortality: a comparison of Finnish cohorts born in 1936–50 and 1961–75

International Journal of Epidemiology 49:3, 896–907. (2020)    

Metsä-Simola, N.; Moustgaard, H.; Martikainen, P.:

Time patterns of external and alcohol-related mortality after marital and non-marital separation: the contribution of psychiatric morbidity

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 74:6, 510–518. (2020)    

Mikkonen, J.; Remes, H. M.; Moustgaard, H.; Martikainen, P.:

Evaluating the role of parental education and adolescent health problems in educational attainment

Demography 57:6, 2245–2267. (2020)