Blar i Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care på emneord "Socioeconomic status"

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    • Cumulative incidence of sickness absence and disease burden among the newly sick-listed, a cross-sectional population-based study 

      Ármannsdóttir, Brynja; Mårdby, Ann-Charlotte; Haukenes, Inger; Hensing, Gunnel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-04-10)
      Background: Sickness absence is a public health problem with economic consequences for individuals and society. Although sickness absence and chronic diseases are correlated, few studies exist concerning the role of chronic ...

    • Hospitalised patients with unexplained chest pain: incidence and prognosis 

      Egeland, Grace M.; Akerkar, Rupali Rajendra; Kvåle, Rune; Sulo, Gerhard; Tell, Grethe S.; Bakken, Inger Johanne Landsjøåsen; Ebbing, Marta (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-07-19)
      Background: The prognosis of unexplained chest pain patients provides valuable information for evaluation of health services. Objective: To examine prognosis of unexplained chest pain. Methods: Using data from in‐ and ...

    • Level of education and multiple sclerosis risk after adjustment for known risk factors: The EnvIMS study 

      Bjørnevik, Kjetil Lauvland; Riise, Trond; Cortese, Marianna; Holmøy, Trygve; Kampman, Margitta Theodora; Magalhaes, Sandra; Myhr, Kjell-Morten; Wolfson, Christina; Pugliatti, Maura (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-05-26)
      Background: Several recent studies have found a higher risk of multiple sclerosis (MS) among people with a low level of education. This has been suggested to reflect an effect of smoking and lower vitamin D status in the ...

    • Level of education and multiple sclerosis risk over a 50-year period: Registry-based sibling study 

      Bjørnevik, Kjetil; Riise, Trond; Benjaminsen, Espen; Celius, Elisabeth Gulowsen; Dahl, Ole-Petter; Kampman, Margitta Theodora; Løken-Amsrud, Kristin Ingeleiv; Midgard, Rune; Myhr, Kjell-Morten; Torkildsen, Øivind; Vatne, Anita; Grytten, Nina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)
      Background: The conflicting results from studies on socioeconomic status (SES) and multiple sclerosis (MS) risk might be due to a change in the distribution of environmental exposures over time or to methodological limitations ...

    • Measuring socioeconomic status in multicountry studies: Results from the eight-country MAL-ED study 

      Psaki, Stephanie R.; Seidman, Jessica C.; Miller, Mark; Gottlieb, Michael; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A.; Ahmed, Tahmeed; Ahmed, A.M. Shamsir; Bessong, Pascal; John, Sushil M.; Kang, Gagandeep; Kosek, Margaret; Lima, Aldo; Shrestha, Prakash; Svensen, Erling; Checkley, William (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-03-21)
      Background: There is no standardized approach to comparing socioeconomic status (SES) across multiple sites in epidemiological studies. This is particularly problematic when cross-country comparisons are of interest. We ...

    • Measuring socioeconomic status in multicountry studies: results from the eight-country MAL-ED study 

      Psaki, Stephanie; Seidman, Jessica; Miller, Mark; Gottlieb, Michael; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A.; Ahmed, Tahmeed; Ahmed, A. M. Shamsir; Bessong, Pascal; John, Sushil M.; Kang, Gagandeep; Kosek, Margaret; Lima, Aldo; Shrestha, Prakash S.; Svensen, Erling; Checkley, William; MAL-ED Network Investigators (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-03-21)
      Background: There is no standardized approach to comparing socioeconomic status (SES) across multiple sites in epidemiological studies. This is particularly problematic when cross-country comparisons are of interest. We ...

    • Parental socioeconomic status and risk of cerebral palsy in the child: evidence from two Nordic population-based cohorts 

      Forthun, Ingeborg; Strandberg-Larsen, Katrine; Wilcox, Allen J; Moster, Dag; Petersen, Tanja Gram; Vik, Torstein; Lie, Rolv T.; Uldall, Peter; Tollånes, Mette Christophersen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-06-26)
      Background We investigated whether the risk of cerebral palsy (CP) in the child varies by parents’ socioeconomic status, in Denmark and Norway. Methods We included almost 1.3 million children born in Demark during 1981–2007 ...