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Population Health

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Project

Social and Economic Determinants of Hospital Use, Morbidity, and Mortality over the Life Course

Kieron Barclay, Yaoyue Hu, Karen van Hedel, Mikko Myrskylä, Rasmus Hoffmann, Pekka Martikainen (MPIDR / University of Helsinki, Finland)

Social and economic inequalities in health are persistently observed across populations. This project exploits longitudinal Finnish and international registry data, and data from longitudinal cohort studies, to investigate the social and economic disparities in hospital use, morbidity, and mortality over the life course.  Detailed Description

Publications

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)    

Kühn, M.; Dudel, C.; Werding, M.:

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

OSF preprints. unpublished. (2020)    

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

Childhood adversity and depressive symptoms among middle-aged and older Chinese: results from China health and retirement longitudinal study

Aging and Mental Health 24:6, 923–931. (2020)    

Hoffmann, R.; Kröger, H.; Geyer, S.:

Social causation versus health selection in the life course: does their relative importance differ by dimension of SES?

Social Indicators Research 141:3, 1341–1367. (2019)    

Hoffmann, R.; Kröger, H.; Tarkiainen, L.; Martikainen, P.:

Dimensions of social stratification and their relation to mortality: a comparison across gender and life course periods in Finland

Social Indicators Research 145:1, 349–365. (2019)    

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

The relationship between living arrangements and higher use of hospital care at middle and older ages: to what extent do observed and unobserved individual characteristics explain this association?

BMC Public Health 19:1011, 1–13. (2019)    

Hoffmann, R.; Kröger, H.; Pakpahan, E.:

The reciprocal relationship between material factors and health in the life course: evidence from SHARE and ELSA

European Journal of Ageing 15:4, 379–391. (2018)    

Hoffmann, R.; Kröger, H.; Pakpahan, E.:

Pathways between socioeconomic status and health: does health selection or social causation dominate in Europe?

Advances in Life Course Research 36, 23–36. (2018)    

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

Time-varying effects of socio-demographic and economic factors on the use of institutional long-term care before dementia-related death: a Finnish register-based study

PLoS One 13:6, e0199551–e0199551. (2018)    

van Hedel, K.; van Lenthe, F. J.; Oude Groeniger, J.; Mackenbach, J. P.:

What’s the difference? A gender perspective on understanding educational inequalities in all-cause and cause-specific mortality

BMC Public Health 18:1105, 1–14. (2018)    

Avendano , M.; Moustgaard, H.; Martikainen, P.:

Are some populations resilient to recessions? Economic fluctuations and mortality during a period of economic decline and recovery in Finland

European Journal of Epidemiology 32:1, 77–85. (2017)    

Kilpi, F.; Silventoinen, K.; Konttinen, H.; Martikainen, P.:

Early-life and adult socioeconomic determinants of myocardial infarction incidence and fatality

Social Science and Medicine 177, 100–109. (2017)