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Open AccessHow do labour market conditions explain the development of mental health over the life-course? A conceptual integration of the ecological model with life-course epidemiology in an integrative review of results from the Northern Swedish Cohort
The aim of this study was to contribute to the theoretical development within the field of labour market effects on mental health during life by integrating Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model with mainly earlie...
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Open AccessPsychosocial conditions during school-age as determinants of long-term labour market attachment: a study of the Northern Swedish Cohort from the 1980s to the 2020s
This study, conducted on a Swedish population cohort, explores how internalized (depressive and functional somatic) and externalized (smoking, drinking, truancy, vandalism, delinquency) mental health symptoms,...
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Open AccessIs unemployment in young adulthood related to self-rated health later in life? Results from the Northern Swedish cohort
Many studies have reported that unemployment has a negative effect on health. However, little is known about the long-term effect for those who become unemployed when they are young adults. Our aim was to exam...
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Open AccessChildren of boom and recession and the scars to the mental health – a comparative study on the long term effects of youth unemployment
Earlier research shows that there is an association between unemployment and poor mental health, and that recovery from the damages to mental health obtained during unemployment remains incomplete over a long ...
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Open AccessWork situation and self-perceived economic situation as predictors of change in burnout – a prospective general population-based cohort study
Sick leave rates due to mental and behavioural disorders have increased in Sweden during the last decades. The aim of this prospective study was to investigate changes in the level of burnout in a working subs...
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Open AccessHow does unemployment affect self-assessed health? A systematic review focusing on subgroup effects
Almost all studies on the effect on health from unemployment have concluded that unemployment is bad for your health. However, only a few review articles have dealt with this relation in recent years, and none...
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Suboptimal health as a predictor of non-permanent employment in middle age: a 12-year follow-up study of the Northern Swedish Cohort
Earlier research on health-related selection in the labour market has concentrated on selection of those with poor health into unemployment. The purpose of the present study was to investigate if suboptimal he...
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Open AccessA cross-sectional and semantic investigation of self-rated health in the northern Sweden MONICA-study
Self-Rated Health (SRH) correlates with risk of illness and death. But how are different questions of SRH to be interpreted? Does it matter whether one asks: “How would you assess your general state of health?...
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Open AccessFetal and life course origins of serum lipids in mid-adulthood: results from a prospective cohort study
During the past two decades, the hypothesis of fetal origins of adult disease has received considerable attention. However, critique has also been raised regarding the failure to take the explanatory role of a...
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Open AccessIs body size at birth related to circadian salivary cortisol levels in adulthood? Results from a longitudinal cohort study
The hypothesis of fetal origins of adult disease has during the last decades received interest as an explanation of chronic, e.g. cardiovascular, disease in adulthood stemming from fetal environmental conditio...
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Open AccessBurnout, working conditions and gender - results from the northern Sweden MONICA Study
Sick-leave because of mental and behavioural disorders has increased considerably in Sweden since the late nineties, and especially in women. The aim of this study was to assess the level of burnout in the gen...
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Open AccessWhich theory is best? Explanatory models of the relationship between unemployment and health
A number of different models have been used in order to explain the links between unemployment and ill-health. The objective of this study was to test different proposed models in an empirical setting.
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Open AccessAdolescent's perceptions and expectations of parental action on children's smoking and snus use; national cross sectional data from three decades
Parents play a vital role as children develop tobacco behaviours. Many parents feel unsure about their possibility to influence their teenager's lifestyle. Knowledge about young people's acceptance for parenta...
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Open AccessHousehold out-of-pocket payments for illness: Evidence from Vietnam
In Vietnam, illnesses create high out-of-pocket health care expenditures for households. In this study, the burden of illness in the Bavi district, Vietnam is measured based upon individual household health ex...
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Open AccessBurden of premature mortality in rural Vietnam from 1999 – 2003: analyses from a Demographic Surveillance Site
Assessing the burden of disease contributes towards evidence-based allocation of limited health resources. However, such measures are not yet commonly available in Vietnam. Taking advantage of the FilaBavi Dem...
