Laboratory

Population Health

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

Assessment of Methods in Population Health

Kieron Barclay, Maarten Jacob Bijlsma, Christina Bohk-Ewald (MPIDR / University of Helsinki, Finland), Roland Rau, Pekka Martikainen (MPIDR / University of Helsinki, Finland); in Collaboration with Nikkil Sudharsanan (Heidelberg University, Germany)

The aim of this project is to assess methods commonly used in the quantitative analysis of population health data to determine the conditions under which their application is most suitable.  Detailed Description

Publications

Bijlsma, M. J.; Wilson, B.; Tarkiainen, L.; Myrskylä, M.; Martikainen, P.:

The impact of unemployment on antidepressant purchasing: adjusting for unobserved time-constant confounding in the g-formula

Epidemiology 30:3, 388–395. (2019)    

Sudharsanan, N.; Bijlsma, M. J.:

A generalized counterfactual approach to decomposing differences between populations

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-004. (2019)    

Vidra, N.; Bijlsma, M. J.; Janssen, F.:

Impact of different estimation methods on obesity-attributable mortality levels and trends: the case of the Netherlands

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 15:10, 1–11. (2018)    

Bijlsma, M. J.; Daniel, R. M.; Janssen, F.; De Stavola, B. L.:

An assessment and extension of the mechanism-based approach to the identification of age-period-cohort models

Demography 54:2, 721–743. (2017)    

Bohk-Ewald, C.; Ebeling, M.; Rau, R.:

Lifespan disparity as an additional indicator for evaluating mortality forecasts

Demography 54:4, 1559–1577. (2017)    

Hu, Y.; van Lenthe, F. J.; Hoffmann, R.; van Hedel, K.; Mackenbach, J. P.:

Assessing the impact of natural policy experiments on socioeconomic inequalities in health: how to apply commonly used quantitative analytical methods?

BMC Medical Research Methodology 17:68, 1–17. (2017)