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Bevölkerung und Gesundheit
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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 Zusammenarbeit mit Samuel H. Preston (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Vereinigte Staaten)
Ausführliche Beschreibung
Social and economic characteristics and conditions are key determinants of physical and mental health and of mortality. One of the most consistent findings in the social sciences is that socially disadvantaged groups have worse health and higher rates of mortality than socially advantaged groups. This pattern holds true across countries, among men and women, across practically all age groups, and almost no matter what measure of social status is used.
We address questions such as how social and economic factors influence older adults’ morbidity, mortality, and mental health. In studying morbidity, we extensively focus on hospital use, which is particularly important as older adults are disproportionately heavy users of health care services because of health vulnerabilities related to the aging process. We also seek to gain new and deeper insights into how social disparities in hospital usage change across later life, i.e., whether social disparities continue to grow, start to diminish, or remain stable with increasing age. Other key questions are whether certain living arrangements, such as living alone, are more closely related to higher levels of hospital use than living with a spouse or partner and how the relationship between living arrangements and hospital use differs with increasing age, net of individual heterogeneity. We also examine the effects of socioeconomic status on health, and health itself, on socioeconomic attainment.
In studying mental health, we focus on depression, which is a leading contributor to the global burden of disease, with a lifetime prevalence of 10 to 15% worldwide. The effects of depression extend far beyond its direct symptoms to a greatly increased risk of suicide and, possibly, of cardiac death. We focus on major social and economic determinants of depression, such as employment, income, family history, adverse events such as separation and divorce, and single parenthood.
To address these issues, we use data from a wide range of countries, including Austria, Belgium, China, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. Our data sources are nationally representative longitudinal datasets, such as the Survey of Healthy Aging and Retirement in Europe, the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, the US National Health Interview Survey, and Finnish population register data. By using such a wide range of countries, which differ in population health metrics as well as the levels of social and economic developments and national welfare systems, we are able to build a broad understanding of the extent to which social and economic determinants of hospital use, morbidity, depression, and mortality vary across institutional settings.
Alterung, Sterblichkeit und Langlebigkeit, Gesundheitsversorgung, Public Health, Medizin und Epidemiologie, Lebensverlauf, Psychologie
Publikationen
Hale, J. M.; Schneider, D. C.; Mehta, N. K.; Myrskylä, M.:
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-040. (2023)
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Korhonen, K.; Leinonen, T.; Tarkiainen, L.; Einiö, E.; Martikainen, P.:
International Journal of Epidemiology 52:2, 523–535. (2023)
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Kühn, M.; Dudel, C.; Werding, M.:
Social Science Research 114:102906, 1–14. (2023)
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Kühn, M.; Metsä-Simola, N.; Martikainen, P.:
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 58:3, 409–420. (2023)
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Lahtinen, H.; Moustgaard, H.; Ripatti, S.; Martikainen, P.:
Addiction 118:4, 678–685. (2023)
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Li, P.; Myrskylä, M.:
European Journal of Public Health 22:Suppl. 2, ii642–ii642. (2023)
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Sariaslan, A.; Fanshawe, T.; Pitkänen, J.; Cipriani, A.; Martikainen, P.; Fazel, S.:
Translational Psychiatry 13:126, 1–5. (2023)
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Silventoinen, K.; Lahtinen, H.; Smith, G. D.; Morris, T. T.; Martikainen, P.:
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 77:6, 384–390. (2023)
Stickley, A.; Baburin, A.; Jasilionis, D.; Krumins, J.; Martikainen, P.; Kondo, N.; Shin, J. I.; Inoue, Y.; Leinsalu, M.:
BMC Public Health 23:1103, 1–9. (2023)
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Tarkiainen, L.; Martikainen, P.:
SSM-Population Health 21:101323, 1–8. (2023)
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Yao, H.; Junna, L. M.; Hu, Y.; Sha, X.; Martikainen, P.:
European Journal of Public Health 33:3, 360–365. (2023)
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Högnäs, R. S.; Bijlsma, M. J.; Högnäs, U.; Blomqvist, S.; Westerlund, H.; Magnusson Hanson, L.:
Social Science and Medicine 297:114805, 1–10. (2022)
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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.:
medRxiv preprints. unpublished. (2022)
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Junna, L. M.; Moustgaard, H.; Martikainen, P.:
BMC Public Health 22:657, 1–12. (2022)
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Korhonen, K.; Tarkiainen, L.; Leinonen, T.; Einiö, E.; Martikainen, P.:
The British Journal of Psychiatry 221:1, 410–416. (2022)
Kühn, M.; Baranowska, A.; Metsä-Simola, N.; Junna, L. M.; Martikainen, P.:
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-026. (2022)
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Mäki, M.; Hägglund, A. E.; Rotkirch, A.; Kulathinal, S.; Myrskylä, M.:
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-035. (2022)
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Metsä-Simola, N.; Remes, H. M.; Hiltunen, E. M.; Martikainen, P.:
Cancer Medicine 11:16, 3145–3155. (2022)
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Mikkonen, J.; Savolainen, J.; Aaltonen, M.; Martikainen, P.:
Psychological Medicine 52:10, 1892–1900. (2022)
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Pitkänen, J.; Remes, H. M.; Aaltonen, M.; Martikainen, P.:
BMC Psychiatry 22:14, 1–13. (2022)
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Preston, S. H.; Vierboom, Y. C.:
Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC) Series 2022-93, Philadelphia, PA. (2022)
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Silventoinen, K.; Korhonen, K.; Lahtinen, H.; Jelenkovic, A.; Havulinna, A. S.; Ripatti, S.; Salomaa, V.; Smith, G. D.; Martikainen, P.:
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 76:3, 281–284. (2022)
Silventoinen, K.; Korhonen, K.; Martikainen, P.:
SSM-Population Health 18:101080, 1–8. (2022)
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Silventoinen, K.; Lahtinen, H.; Korhonen, K.; Smith, G. D.; Ripatti, S.; Morris, T. T.; Martikainen, P.:
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 1–4. (2022)
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Hendi, A. S.; Elo, I. T.; Martikainen, P.:
Social Science and Medicine 272:113712, 1–11. (2021)
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Hoffmann, R.; Kröger, H.:
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies 12:4, 591–607. (2021)
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Höhn, A.; Oksuzyan, A.; Lindahl-Jacobsen, R.; Christensen, K.; Seaman, R. J.:
European Journal of Ageing 18:4, 443–451. (2021)
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Hu, Y.; Ruiz, M.; Bobak, M.; Martikainen, P.:
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 75:9, 881–889. (2021)
Junna, L. M.; Tarkiainen, L.; Östergren, O.; Jasilionis, D.; Martikainen, P.:
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 49:4, 419–422. (2021)
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Korhonen, K.; Moustgaard, H.; Tarkiainen, L.; Östergren, O.; Costa. G.; Urhoj, S. . K.; Martikainen, P.:
Journal of Affective Disorders 295, 831–838. (2021)
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Martikainen, P.; Korhonen, K.; Jelenkovic, A.; Lahtinen, H.; Havulinna, A. S.; Ripatti, S.; Borodulin, K.; Salomaa, V.; Smith, G. D.; Silventoinen, K.:
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 75:7, 651–657. (2021)
Martikainen, P.; Korhonen, K.; Tarkiainen, L.:
BMJ 375:8319, e067633–e067633. (2021)
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Metsä-Simola, N.; Baranowska-Rataj, A.; Remes, H. M.; Kühn, M.; Martikainen, P.:
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-020. (2021)
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Metsä-Simola, N.; Einiö, E.; Peltonen, R.; Martikainen, P.:
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 75:7, 674–680. (2021)
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Mikkonen, J.; Remes, H. M.; Moustgaard, H.; Martikainen, P.:
Social Forces 99:3, 1146–1175. (2021)
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Pitkänen, J.; Bijlsma, M. J.; Remes, H. M.; Aaltonen, M.; Martikainen, P.:
SSM-Population Health 13:100756, 1–9. (2021)
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Preston, S. H.; Vierboom, Y. C.:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118:16, e2024850118–e2024850118. (2021)
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Tarkiainen, L.; Moustgaard, H.; Korhonen, K.; Noordzij, J. M.; Beenackers, M. A.; van Lenthe, F. J.; Burstrom, B.; Martikainen, P.:
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 75:5, 426–432. (2021)
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van Hedel, K.; Moustgaard, H.; Myrskylä, M.; Martikainen, P.:
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-015. (2021)
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Yang, L.; Hu, Y.; Silventoinen, K.; Martikainen, P.:
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 75:6, 593–600. (2021)
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Hoffmann, R.; Kröger, H.; Tarkiainen, L.; Martikainen, P.:
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies 11:4, 551–585. (2020)
Hu, Y.; Leinonen, T.; Myrskylä, M.; Martikainen, P.:
Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 75:6, 1336–1347. (2020)
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Hu, Y.; Ruiz, M.; Bobak, M.; Martikainen, P.:
Journal of Affective Disorders 277, 584–591. (2020)
Martikainen, P.; Elo, I. T.; Tarkiainen, L.; Mikkonen, J.; Myrskylä, M.; Moustgaard, H.:
International Journal of Epidemiology 49:3, 896–907. (2020)
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Metsä-Simola, N.; Moustgaard, H.; Martikainen, P.:
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 74:6, 510–518. (2020)
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Mikkonen, J.; Remes, H. M.; Moustgaard, H.; Martikainen, P.:
Demography 57:6, 2245–2267. (2020)
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