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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, Pekka Martikainen, Mikko Myrskylä, Rasmus Hoffmann

Social and economic inequalities in health are persistently observed across populations. This project exploits longitudinal Finnish and international registry data, as well as 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

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. (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)    

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. (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)    

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, 1–12. (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, 1105–1105. (2018)