Social inequalities in population health: integrating evidence from longitudinal, family-based and genetically informed data

Project Information

HEALTHINEQ

Grant agreement ID: 101019329

DOI 10.3030/101019329

EC signature date 26 August 2021

Start date 1 October 2021

End date 30 September 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 2 499 422,50

EU contribution € 2 499 422,00

Coordinated by

HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO
Finland

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (46)

Income differences in COVID-19 incidence and severity in Finland among people with foreign and native background: A population-based cohort study of individuals nested within households

Author(s): Sanni Saarinen, Heta Moustgaard, Hanna Remes, Riikka Sallinen, Pekka Martikainen
Published in: PLoS Medicine, Issue 19(8), 2022, Page(s) e1004038, ISSN 1549-1277
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004038

Pathways into single motherhood, re-partnering, and trajectories of antidepressant medication purchases

Author(s): Mine Kühn, Niina Metsä-Simola, Pekka Martikainen
Published in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Issue 58(3), 2023, Page(s) 409-420, ISSN 0933-7954
Publisher: Dr. Dietrich Steinkopff Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-022-02371-2

A dynamic analysis of young adulthood

Author(s): Nisen, Jessica; Bijlsma, Maarten J.; Martikainen, Pekka; Wilson, Ben; Myrskyla, Mikko
Published in: Advances in Life Course Research, Issue Vol 53, 2022, ISSN 1569-4909
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2022.100496

Association between genetic risk of alcohol consumption and alcohol‐related morbidity and mortality under different alcohol policy conditions: Evidence from the Finnish alcohol price reduction of 2004

Author(s): Hannu Lahtinen; Heta Moustgaard; Samuli Ripatti; Pekka Martikainen
Published in: Addiction, Issue 118(4), 2023, Page(s) 678-685, ISSN 0965-2140
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/add.16118

Physical injuries as triggers for self-harm: a within-individual study of nearly 250 000 injured people with a major psychiatric disorder

Author(s): Amir Sariaslan; Henrik Larsson; Keith Hawton; Joonas Pitkänen; Paul Lichtenstein; Pekka Martikainen; Seena Fazel
Published in: BMJ Mental Health, Issue Vol 26 (1), 2023, ISSN 2755-9734
Publisher: BMJ
DOI: 10.1136/bmjment-2023-300758

Medically assisted reproduction and mental health: a 24-year longitudinal analysis using Finnish register data

Author(s): Alice Goisis, Maria Palma, Niina Metsä-Simola, Reija Klemetti, Pekka Martikainen, Mikko Myrskylä, Alina Pelikh, Marco Tosi, Hanna Remes
Published in: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Issue 228(3), 2023, Page(s) 311.e1-311.e24, ISSN 0002-9378
Publisher: Mosby Inc.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2022.10.041

Life Course Socioeconomic Position and Cognitive Aging Trajectories: A Cross-National Cohort Study in China and England

Author(s): Milagros Ruiz; Yaoyue Hu; Pekka Martikainen; Martin Bobak
Published in: Innovation in Aging, Issue Vol 7 (6), 2023, ISSN 2399-5300
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igad064

Height, social position and coronary heart disease incidence: the contribution of genetic and environmental factors

Author(s): Karri Silventoinen; Hannu Lahtinen; George Davey Smith; Tim T Morris; Pekka Martikainen
Published in: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Issue 77(6), 2023, Page(s) 384-390, ISSN 1403-4948
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2022-219907

Maternal psychiatric and somatic illness, and the risk of unintentional injuries in children: variation by type of maternal illness, type of injury and child age

Author(s): Antti O Tanskanen; Niina Metsä-Simola; Lotta Volotinen; Mirkka Danielsbacka; Pekka Martikainen; Hanna Remes
Published in: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Issue Vol 78, 2023, ISSN 0143-005X
Publisher: British Medical Association
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2023-220960

Additional file 2 of Health-related selection into employment among the unemployed

Author(s): Junna, Liina; Moustgaard, Heta; Martikainen, Pekka
Published in: BMC Public Health, Issue Vol 22, 2022, ISSN 1471-2458
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19522694.v1

Socioeconomic differences in psychiatric treatment before and after self-harm: an observational study of 4,280 adolescents and young adults

Author(s): Joonas Pitkänen, Hanna Remes, Mikko Aaltonen, Pekka Martikainen
Published in: BMC Psychiatry, Issue 22(1), 2022, Page(s) 14, ISSN 1471-244X
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12888-021-03654-9

Heavy metal toxicity and mortality—association between density of heavy metal bands and cause specific hospital admissions and mortality: population based cohort study

Author(s): Pekka Martikainen, Kaarina Korhonen, Lasse Tarkiainen
Published in: BMJ, Issue 375, 2021, Page(s) e067633, ISSN 0959-8138
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2021-067633

Educational inequalities in epilepsy mortality in the Baltic countries and Finland in 2000-2015

Author(s): Andrew Stickley, Aidan Neligan, Aleksei Baburin, Domantas Jasilionis, Juris Krumins, Pekka Martikainen, Naoki Kondo, Tomiki Sumiyoshi, Jae Il Shin, Hans Oh, Kyle Waldman, Mall Leinsalu
Published in: Scientific reports, Issue 12(1), 2022, Page(s) 4597, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-08456-x

Minimum legal drinking age and alcohol-attributable morbidity and mortality by age 63 years: a register-based cohort study based on alcohol reform

Author(s): Juha Luukkonen, Lasse Tarkiainen, Pekka Martikainen, Hanna Remes
Published in: Lancet Public Health, Issue 8(5), 2023, Page(s) e339-e346, ISSN 2468-2667
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/s2468-2667(23)00049-x

sj-docx-1-sjp-10.1177_14034948221119634 – Supplemental material for Marital status and genetic liability independently predict coronary heart disease incidence

Author(s): Silventoinen, Karri; Lahtinen, Hannu; Korhonen, Kaarina; Smith, George Davey; Ripatti, Samuli; Morris, Tim; Martikainen, Pekka
Published in: Scandinavian journal of public health, Issue Vol 52 (1), 2024, ISSN 1403-4948
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.25384/sage.21064394

The Impact of Privileged Classroom Friends on Adult Income and Income Mobility: A Study of a Swedish Cohort Born in 1953

Author(s): Gurzo, Klara; Östergren, Olof; Martikainen, Pekka; Modin, Bitte
Published in: Social Forces, Issue Vol 102, 2023, ISSN 0037-7732
Publisher: University of North Carolina
DOI: 10.1093/sf/soad079

Parental death and initiation of antidepressant treatment in surviving children and youth: a national register-based matched cohort study

Author(s): Can Liu; Alessandra Grotta; Ayako Hiyoshi; Lisa Berg; Elizabeth Wall-Wieler; Pekka Martikainen; Ichiro Kawachi; Mikael Rostila
Published in: EClinicalMedicine, Issue Vol 60, 2023, ISSN 2589-5370
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2023.102032

Migrant mortality by duration of residence and co-ethnic density – A register-based study on Finnish migrants in Sweden with matched controls in the origin and the destination

Author(s): Olof Östergren; Agneta Cederström; Kaarina Korhonen; Pekka Martikainen
Published in: Health & Place, Issue Vol 83, 2023, ISSN 1353-8292
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103064

Sociodemographic inequalities in mortality from drowning in the Baltic countries and Finland in 2000–2015: a register-based study

Author(s): Andrew, Stickley; Aleksei, Baburin; Domantas, Jasilionis; Juris, Krumins; Pekka, Martikainen; Naoki, Kondo; Jae Il, Shin; Yosuke, Inoue; Mall, Leinsalu
Published in: BMC Public Health, Vol 23, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2023), Issue Vol 23, 2023, ISSN 1471-2458
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-023-15999-9

Marital status and genetic liability independently predict coronary heart disease incidence

Author(s): Karri Silventoinen; Hannu Lahtinen; Kaarina Korhonen; George Davey Smith; Samuli Ripatti; Tim Morris; Pekka Martikainen
Published in: Scandinavian journal of public health, 2023, ISSN 1403-4948
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/14034948221119634

Educational inequalities in hypothermia mortality in the Baltic countries and Finland in 2000-1

Author(s): Andrew Stickley, Aleksei Baburin, Domantas Jasilionis, Juris Krumins, Pekka Martikainen, Naoki Kondo, Jae Il Shin, Hans Oh, Kyle Waldman, Mall Leinsalu
Published in: European journal of public health, 2023, ISSN 1101-1262
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckad062

Predicting suicide risk in 137,112 people with severe mental illness in Finland: external validation of the Oxford Mental Illness and Suicide tool (OxMIS)

Author(s): Amir Sariaslan, Thomas Fanshawe, Joonas Pitkänen, Andrea Cipriani, Pekka Martikainen, Seena Fazel
Published in: Translational psychiatry, Issue 13(1), 2023, Page(s) 126, ISSN 2158-3188
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41398-023-02422-5

Socioeconomic differences in psychiatric treatment before and after self-harm: an observational study of 4,280 adolescents and young adults.

Author(s): Pitkänen, Joonas; Remes, Hanna; Aaltonen, Mikko; Martikainen, Pekka
Published in: BMC Psychiatry, Vol 22, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2022), Issue Vol 22, 2022, ISSN 1471-244X
Publisher: BioMed Central

Changes in parents' psychotropic medication use following child's cancer diagnosis: A fixed‐effects register‐study in Finland

Author(s): Niina S. Metsä‐Simola; Hanna M. Remes; Elina M. Hiltunen; Pekka T. Martikainen
Published in: Cancer Medicine, Issue 11(16), 2022, Page(s) 3145-3155, ISSN 2045-7634
Publisher: United States
DOI: 10.1002/cam4.4662

Partner violence surrounding divorce: A record‐linkage study of wives and their husbands

Author(s): Elina Einiö; Niina Metsä‐Simola; Mikko Aaltonen; Elina Hiltunen; Pekka Martikainen
Published in: Journal of Marriage and Family, Issue 85(1), 2023, Page(s) 33-54, ISSN 0022-2445
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12881

Changes in sibling similarity in education among Finnish cohorts born in 1950–89: the contribution of paternal and maternal education

Author(s): Hannu Lahtinen, Pekka Martikainen, Lasse Tarkiainen
Published in: Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, Issue 13(4), 2022, Page(s) 496-526, ISSN 1757-9597
Publisher: Bristol University Press
DOI: 10.1332/175795921x16600597647058

Current Unemployment, Unemployment History, and Mental Health: A Fixed-Effects Model Approach

Author(s): Liina Junna, Heta Moustgaard, Pekka Martikainen
Published in: American Journal of Epidemiology, Issue 191(8), 2022, Page(s) 1459-1469, ISSN 0002-9262
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwac077

Income differences in partial life expectancy between ages 35 and 64 from 1988 to 2017: the contribution of living arrangements.

Author(s): Jade Knop; Pekka Martikainen; Hanna Remes; Lasse Tarkiainen
Published in: European journal of public health, Issue 33(1), 2023, Page(s) 13-19, ISSN 1464-360X
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckac159

Offspring hospitalization for substance use and changes in parental mental health: A Finnish register-based study

Author(s): Lauren Bishop; Ylva B. Almquist; Joonas Pitkänen; Pekka Martikainen
Published in: Advances in Life Course Research, Issue Vol 57, 2023, ISSN 1040-2608
Publisher: JAI Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2023.100561

Time to death explains the chronological decline of voter turnout among the older population

Author(s): Lahtinen, Hannu ; Martikainen, Pekka
Published in: Electoral studies, Issue Vol 88, 2024, ISSN 0261-3794
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2024.102775

Health-related selection into employment among the unemployed

Author(s): Liina Junna, Heta Moustgaard, Pekka Martikainen
Published in: BMC public health, Issue 22(1), 2022, Page(s) 657, ISSN 1471-2458
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-13023-0

Birth Outcomes Following Assisted Reproductive Technology Conception among Same-Sex Lesbian Couples vs Natural Conception and Assisted Reproductive Technology Conception among Heterosexual Couples

Author(s): Alice Goisis; Agneta Cederström; Pekka Martikainen
Published in: JAMA, Issue 329(13), 2023, Page(s) 1117-1119, ISSN 0098-7484
Publisher: American Medical Association
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2023.1345

Educational tracking and the polygenic prediction of education

Author(s): Hannu Lahtinen; Pekka Martikainen; Kaarina Korhonen; Tim T. Morris; Mikko Myrskylä
Published in: Sociological Science, Issue Vol 11, 2024, ISSN 2330-6696
Publisher: Society for Sociological Science
DOI: 10.4054/mpidr-wp-2023-015

Childhood socio-economic circumstances and dementia: prospective register-based cohort study of adulthood socio-economic and cardiovascular health mediators

Author(s): Kaarina Korhonen, Taina Leinonen, Lasse Tarkiainen, Elina Einiö, Pekka Martikainen
Published in: International journal of epidemiology, Issue 52(2), 2023, Page(s) 523–535, ISSN 0300-5771
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyac205

Reversals in past long-term trends in educational inequalities in life expectancy for selected European countrie

Author(s): Jesus Daniel Zazueta-Borboa, Pekka Martikainen, Jose Manuel Aburto, Giuseppe Costa, Riina Peltonen, Nicolas Zengarini, Alison Sizer, Anton E Kunst, Fanny Janssen
Published in: Journal of epidemiology and community health, 2023, ISSN 0143-005X
Publisher: British Medical Association
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2023-220385

Socioeconomic inequalities in cancer mortality between and within countries in Europe: a population-based study

Author(s): Vaccarella S, Georges D, Bray F, Ginsburg O, Charvat H, Martikainen P, Brønnum-Hansen H, Deboosere P, Bopp M, Leinsalu M, Artnik B, Lorenzoni V, De Vries E, Marmot M, Vineis P, Mackenbach J, Nusselder W
Published in: The Lancet regional health Europe, Issue 25, 2022, Page(s) 100551, ISSN 2666-7762
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2022.100551

Association between alcohol use disorders and dementia in 262,703 dementia-free Finnish adults: Is cardiovascular disease a mediator?

Author(s): Yaoyue Hu, Kaarina Korhonen, Peng Li, Martin Bobak, Pekka Martikainen, Maarten J Bijlsma
Published in: The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 2023, ISSN 1758-535X
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glac252

Projections of future burden of pharmacologically treated type 2 diabetes and associated life expectancies by income in Finland: a multi-state modeling study

Author(s): Guzman-Castillo, Maria; Korhonen, Kaarina; Murphy, Michael; Martikainen, Pekka
Published in: Frontiers in public health, Issue Vol 11, 2023, ISSN 2296-2565
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1141452

The association of lowered alcohol prices with birth outcomes and abortions: A population‐based natural experiment

Author(s): Juha Luukkonen; Liina Junna; Hanna Remes; Pekka Martikainen
Published in: Addiction, Issue 118(5), 2023, Page(s) 836-844, ISSN 0965-2140
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/add.16119

Changing associations of coronary heart disease incidence with current partnership status and marital history over three decades

Author(s): Silventoinen Karri, Korhonen Kaarina, Martikainen Pekka
Published in: SSM - Population Health, Issue 18, 2022, Page(s) 101080, ISSN 2352-8273
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101080

Long-term trends in urban-neighbourhood inequalities in cause-specific mortality and hospitalisation - multilevel analyses among individuals nested in Finnish post-code areas, 1991-2018

Author(s): Lasse Tarkiainen, Pekka Martikainen
Published in: SSM - population health, Issue 21, 2022, Page(s) 101323, ISSN 2352-8273
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101323

Maternal age and the risk of low birthweight and pre-term delivery: a pan-Nordic comparison

Author(s): Siddartha Aradhya, Anna Tegunimataka, Øystein Kravdal, Pekka Martikainen, Mikko Myrskylä, Kieron Barclay, Alice Goisis
Published in: International Journal of Epidemiology, Issue 52(1), 2023, Page(s) 156-164, ISSN 0300-5771
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyac211

Association between perinatal mortality and morbidity and customised and non-customised birthweight centiles in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Wales, and England: comparative, population based, record linkage study

Author(s): F. Kilpi, H. Jones, M. Magnus, G. Santorelli, L. Højsgaard Schmidt, S. Urhoj, S. Nelson, D. Tuffnell, R. French, P. Magnus, A. Nybo Andersen, P. Martikainen, K. Tilling, D. Lawlor
Published in: BMJ medicine, Issue Vol 2 (1), 2023, ISSN 2754-0413
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1136/bmjmed-2023-000521

Perinatal health among migrant women: A longitudinal register study in Finland 2000-17

Author(s): Heini Väisänen; Hanna Remes; Pekka Martikainen
Published in: SSM - Population Health, Issue 20, 2022, Page(s) 101298, ISSN 2352-8273
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101298

Labor epidural analgesia and subsequent risk of offspring autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a cross-national cohort study of 4.5 million individuals and their siblings

Author(s): Tor-Arne Hegvik, Kari Klungsøyr, Ralf Kuja-Halkola, Hanna Remes, Jan Haavik, Brian M D'Onofrio, Niina Metsä-Simola, Anders Engeland, Seena Fazel, Paul Lichtenstein, Pekka Martikainen, Henrik Larsson, Amir Sariaslan
Published in: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Issue 228(2), 2023, Page(s) 233.e1-233.e12, ISSN 0002-9378
Publisher: Mosby Inc.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2022.08.016

Moderating role of sociodemographic factors in parental psychiatric treatment before and after offspring severe self-harm

Author(s): Joonas Pitkänen; Hanna Remes; Mikko Aaltonen; Pekka Martikainen
Published in: Journal of Affective Disorders, Issue 327, 2023, Page(s) 145-154, ISSN 0165-0327
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2023.02.015