Laboratory

Population Health

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Project

Social and Economic Determinants of Mental and Cognitive Health

Maarten Jacob Bijlsma, Karen van Hedel, Kieron Barclay, Peng Li, Yaoyue Hu, Pekka Martikainen (MPIDR / University of Helsinki, Finland)

We observe persistent social and economic inequalities in health across populations. This project exploits longitudinal Finnish and international registry data to investigate the social and economic disparities in hospital use, morbidity, and mortality over the life course.  Detailed Description

Publications

Pitkänen, J.; Bijlsma, M. J.; Remes, H.; 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

Social Science and Medicine - Population Health 13:100756, 1–9. (2021)    

Hu, Y.; Li, P.; Martikainen, P.:

Rural-urban disparities in age trajectories of depression caseness in later life: the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study

PLoS One 14:4, e0215907–e0215907. (2019)    

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

Parental unemployment and offspring psychotropic medication purchases: a longitudinal fixed-effects analysis of 138,644 adolescents

American Journal of Epidemiology 187:9, 1880–1888. (2018)    

Rostila, M.; Mäki, N.; Martikainen, P.:

Does the death of a child influence parental use of psychotropic medication?: a follow-up register study from Finland

PLoS One 13:5, e0195500–e0195500. (2018)    

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

Cohabitation and mental health: is psychotropic medication use more common in cohabitation than marriage?

SSM-Population Health 4, 244–253. (2018)    

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

Unemployment and subsequent depression: a mediation analysis using the parametric G-formula

Social Science and Medicine 194, 142–150. (2017)