Juan Merlo

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Affiliation: Lund University
Country: Sweden

Publications

  1. ncbi Multilevel survival analysis of health inequalities in life expectancy
    Min Yang
    Centre for Psychiatry, Barts and The London, Queen Mary s School of Medicine and Dentistry, William Harvey House, 61 Bartholomew Close, London EC1A 7BE, UK
    Int J Equity Health 8:31. 2009
  2. ncbi Individual characteristics, area social participation, and primary non-concordance with medication: a multilevel analysis
    Kristina Johnell
    Centre for Family Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    BMC Public Health 6:52. 2006
  3. ncbi Validity of registration of ICD codes and prescriptions in a research database in Swedish primary care: a cross-sectional study in Skaraborg primary care database
    Per Hjerpe
    R and D Centre, Skaraborg Primary Care, Skovde, Sweden
    BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 10:23. 2010
  4. ncbi Variation in plasma calcium analysis in primary care in Sweden--a multilevel analysis
    Sofia Dalemo
    Dept of Public Health and Community Medicine Primary Health Care, Sahlgrenska academy Gothenburg University, PO Box 454, SE 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
    BMC Fam Pract 11:43. 2010
  5. ncbi Hospital level of care and neonatal mortality in low- and high-risk deliveries: reassessing the question in Sweden by multilevel analysis
    Juan Merlo
    Community Medicine, Department of Clinical Science, Malmo University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden
    Med Care 43:1092-100. 2005
  6. ncbi Individual and collective bodies: using measures of variance and association in contextual epidemiology
    J Merlo
    Unit for Social Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, CRC, UMAS, Entrance 72, SE 20502 Malmo, Sweden
    J Epidemiol Community Health 63:1043-8. 2009
  7. ncbi A brief conceptual tutorial on multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: interpreting neighbourhood differences and the effect of neighbourhood characteristics on individual health
    Juan Merlo
    Department of Community Medicine Section of Preventive Medicine, Malmo University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine Campus Malmö, Lund University, S 205 02 Malmo, Sweden
    J Epidemiol Community Health 59:1022-8. 2005
  8. ncbi Multilevel analysis of systolic blood pressure and ACE gene I/D polymorphism in 438 Swedish families--a public health perspective
    Juan Merlo
    Department of Health and Health Care Management Epidemiology, Region Skåne, Lund, Sweden
    BMC Med Genet 7:14. 2006
  9. ncbi A brief conceptual tutorial of multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: linking the statistical concept of clustering to the idea of contextual phenomenon
    Juan Merlo
    Department of Clinical Sciences Community Medicine, Malmo University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine Campus Malmö, Lund University, S 205 02 Malmo, Sweden
    J Epidemiol Community Health 59:443-9. 2005
  10. ncbi Similar support for three different life course socioeconomic models on predicting premature cardiovascular mortality and all-cause mortality
    Maria Rosvall
    Department of Health Sciences, Lund University, Malmo University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden
    BMC Public Health 6:203. 2006

Detail Information

Publications79

  1. ncbi Multilevel survival analysis of health inequalities in life expectancy
    Min Yang
    Centre for Psychiatry, Barts and The London, Queen Mary s School of Medicine and Dentistry, William Harvey House, 61 Bartholomew Close, London EC1A 7BE, UK
    Int J Equity Health 8:31. 2009
    ..Beta-binomial models were also limited in relation to measuring inequalities of life expectancy (LE) directly...
  2. ncbi Individual characteristics, area social participation, and primary non-concordance with medication: a multilevel analysis
    Kristina Johnell
    Centre for Family Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    BMC Public Health 6:52. 2006
    ..Our second aim is to investigate whether people living in the same area have similar probability of primary non-concordance with medication, that relates to area social participation...
  3. ncbi Validity of registration of ICD codes and prescriptions in a research database in Swedish primary care: a cross-sectional study in Skaraborg primary care database
    Per Hjerpe
    R and D Centre, Skaraborg Primary Care, Skovde, Sweden
    BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 10:23. 2010
    ..In this study we aimed to investigate (i) the frequency and validity of ICD code and drug prescription registration in the new Skaraborg primary care database (SPCD) and (ii) to investigate the sources of variation in this registration...
  4. ncbi Variation in plasma calcium analysis in primary care in Sweden--a multilevel analysis
    Sofia Dalemo
    Dept of Public Health and Community Medicine Primary Health Care, Sahlgrenska academy Gothenburg University, PO Box 454, SE 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
    BMC Fam Pract 11:43. 2010
    ..In this study we aimed to investigate variation of P-Ca analysis between physicians and health care centres (HCCs) in primary care in county of Skaraborg, Sweden...
  5. ncbi Hospital level of care and neonatal mortality in low- and high-risk deliveries: reassessing the question in Sweden by multilevel analysis
    Juan Merlo
    Community Medicine, Department of Clinical Science, Malmo University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden
    Med Care 43:1092-100. 2005
    ..The aim of the present study was to investigate both the relevance of regionalization and the concentration of neonatal resources as determinants of mortality in low- and high-risk deliveries in Sweden...
  6. ncbi Individual and collective bodies: using measures of variance and association in contextual epidemiology
    J Merlo
    Unit for Social Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, CRC, UMAS, Entrance 72, SE 20502 Malmo, Sweden
    J Epidemiol Community Health 63:1043-8. 2009
    ....
  7. ncbi A brief conceptual tutorial on multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: interpreting neighbourhood differences and the effect of neighbourhood characteristics on individual health
    Juan Merlo
    Department of Community Medicine Section of Preventive Medicine, Malmo University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine Campus Malmö, Lund University, S 205 02 Malmo, Sweden
    J Epidemiol Community Health 59:1022-8. 2005
    ..Design and..
  8. ncbi Multilevel analysis of systolic blood pressure and ACE gene I/D polymorphism in 438 Swedish families--a public health perspective
    Juan Merlo
    Department of Health and Health Care Management Epidemiology, Region Skåne, Lund, Sweden
    BMC Med Genet 7:14. 2006
    ..We aimed to combine genetic epidemiology with public health ideas concerning life-course and multilevel epidemiology in order to understand the role of familial factors regarding individual SBP...
  9. ncbi A brief conceptual tutorial of multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: linking the statistical concept of clustering to the idea of contextual phenomenon
    Juan Merlo
    Department of Clinical Sciences Community Medicine, Malmo University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine Campus Malmö, Lund University, S 205 02 Malmo, Sweden
    J Epidemiol Community Health 59:443-9. 2005
    ..A link is provided, which will be comprehensible to epidemiologists, between MLRA and social epidemiological concepts, particularly between the statistical idea of clustering and the concept of contextual phenomenon...
  10. ncbi Similar support for three different life course socioeconomic models on predicting premature cardiovascular mortality and all-cause mortality
    Maria Rosvall
    Department of Health Sciences, Lund University, Malmo University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden
    BMC Public Health 6:203. 2006
    ..The purpose of the present study was to study the relation between socioeconomic position (SEP) and mortality using different conceptual models in the whole population of Scania...
  11. ncbi The role country of birth plays in receiving disability pensions in relation to patterns of health care utilisation and socioeconomic differences: a multilevel analysis of Malmo, Sweden
    Anders Beckman
    Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, University Hospital, S 205 02 Malmo, Sweden
    BMC Public Health 6:71. 2006
    ..However, few studies have investigated the influence of a patient's country of birth in this context...
  12. ncbi A brief conceptual tutorial on multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: investigating contextual phenomena in different groups of people
    Juan Merlo
    Department of Community Medicine, Lund University Hospital, S 205 02 Malmo, Sweden
    J Epidemiol Community Health 59:729-36. 2005
    ..Design and..
  13. ncbi Neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation and residential instability: effects on incidence of ischemic heart disease and survival after myocardial infarction
    Basile Chaix
    Community Medicine and Public Health, the Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmo University Hospital, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden
    Epidemiology 18:104-11. 2007
    ..Moreover, we investigated whether dissimilar contextual influences operate at different stages of the disease process, ie, on incidence, 1-day case-fatality, and long-term survival after acute myocardial infarction (MI)...
  14. ncbi Socioeconomic position and secondary preventive therapy after an AMI
    Henrik Ohlsson
    Faculty of Medicine, Social Epidemiology, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden
    Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 19:358-66. 2010
    ....
  15. ncbi Income change at retirement, neighbourhood-based social support, and ischaemic heart disease: results from the prospective cohort study "Men born in 1914"
    Basile Chaix
    Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmo University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden
    Soc Sci Med 64:818-29. 2007
    ..This socioeconomic gradient was partly mediated by the protective effect of neighbourhood-based social support, which may be particularly important among the elderly in compensating for social disruptions related to retirement...
  16. ncbi Social capital externalities and mortality in Sweden
    M Kamrul Islam
    Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmo, Lund University, Sweden
    Econ Hum Biol 6:19-42. 2008
    ..186) or "other external causes" (p=0.055). Similar associations were observed for the crime rate variable. The findings were robust to alternative specifications examined in the sensitivity analysis...
  17. ncbi Gender differences in daily smoking prevalence in different age strata: a population-based study in southern Sweden
    Sadiq M Ali
    Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmo University Hospital, Lund University, 205 02 Malmo, Sweden
    Scand J Public Health 37:146-52. 2009
    ..To investigate gender differences in daily smoking prevalence in different age groups in southern Sweden...
  18. ncbi Contribution of main causes of death to social inequalities in mortality in the whole population of Scania, Sweden
    Maria Rosvall
    Department of Health Sciences, Lund University, Malmo University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden
    BMC Public Health 6:79. 2006
    ..The aim of the present study was to determine which causes of death contribute the most to social inequalities in mortality in each age group in the whole population of Scania, Sweden...
  19. ncbi Antibiotic use among 8-month-old children in Malmö, Sweden--in relation to child characteristics and parental sociodemographic, psychosocial and lifestyle factors
    Elisabeth Mangrio
    Department of Clinical Sciences, Social Epidemiology, Malmo University Hospital, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden
    BMC Pediatr 9:31. 2009
    ....
  20. ncbi The association between socioeconomic position, use of revascularization procedures and five-year survival after recovery from acute myocardial infarction
    Maria Rosvall
    Social Epidemiology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmo University Hospital, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden
    BMC Public Health 8:44. 2008
    ..In this Swedish nation-wide longitudinal study we wanted to evaluate long-term survival after AMI in relation to socioeconomic position (SEP) and use of revascularization...
  21. ncbi Social capital, the miniaturisation of community, traditionalism and first time acute myocardial infarction: a prospective cohort study in southern Sweden
    Sadiq M Ali
    Department of Health Sciences, Lund University, Sweden
    Soc Sci Med 63:2204-17. 2006
    ..6 (1.0-2.6)...
  22. ncbi Effect of neighborhood social participation on individual use of hormone replacement therapy and antihypertensive medication: a multilevel analysis
    Juan Merlo
    Department of Community Medicine, Malmo University Hospital, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden
    Am J Epidemiol 157:774-83. 2003
    ..68). The Malmö neighborhoods were homogeneous with regard to HRT and especially AHM use. However, differences in neighborhood social participation affected HRT use independently of individual characteristics...
  23. ncbi Does it really matter where you live? A panel data multilevel analysis of Swedish municipality-level social capital on individual health-related quality of life
    M Kamrul Islam
    Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmo, Lund University, Sweden
    Health Econ Policy Law 1:209-35. 2006
    ....
  24. ncbi Auditing patient registration in the Swedish quality register for acute coronary syndrome
    Maria Rosvall
    Department of Clinical Sciences, Social Epidemiology, Lund University, Malmo University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden
    Scand J Public Health 38:533-40. 2010
    ....
  25. ncbi Recent increase of neighborhood socioeconomic effects on ischemic heart disease mortality: a multilevel survival analysis of two large Swedish cohorts
    Basile Chaix
    Community Medicine and Public Health, Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmo University Hospital, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden
    Am J Epidemiol 165:22-6. 2007
    ..This increase in the contribution of neighborhood factors to the socioeconomic gradient in ischemic heart disease urges investigation into the exact mechanisms between the residential context and coronary health...
  26. ncbi Therapeutic traditions, patient socioeconomic characteristics and physicians' early new drug prescribing--a multilevel analysis of rosuvastatin prescription in south Sweden
    Henrik Ohlsson
    Social Epidemiology, Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmo, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden
    Eur J Clin Pharmacol 65:141-50. 2009
    ..To investigate the role that both patient and outpatient factors related to health care practice (HCP) play in physicians' early adoption of rosuvastatin...
  27. ncbi Representativity of a postal public health questionnaire survey in Sweden, with special reference to ethnic differences in participation
    Frida Carlsson
    Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
    Scand J Public Health 34:132-9. 2006
    ..The survey, which was based on an 18- to 80-year-old population sample, had a 58% response rate (n = 13 604)...
  28. ncbi Individual self-reported health, social participation and neighbourhood: a multilevel analysis in Malmö, Sweden
    Martin Lindstrom
    Department of Community Medicine, University Hospital MAS, Lund University, S 205 02 Malmo, Sweden
    Prev Med 39:135-41. 2004
    ..The influence of neighbourhood and individual factors on self-reported health was investigated...
  29. ncbi Spatial clustering of mental disorders and associated characteristics of the neighbourhood context in Malmö, Sweden, in 2001
    Basile Chaix
    Community Medicine and Public Health, Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmo University Hospital, S 205 02 Malmo, Sweden
    J Epidemiol Community Health 60:427-35. 2006
    ....
  30. ncbi Social capital and administrative contextual determinants of lack of access to a regular doctor: a multilevel analysis in southern Sweden
    Martin Lindstrom
    Department of Health Sciences, Malmo University Hospital, Lund University, S 205 02 Malmo, Sweden
    Health Policy 79:153-64. 2006
    ..The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of contextual (social capital and administrative/neo-materialist) and individual factors on lack of access to a regular doctor...
  31. ncbi Health care utilisation and attitudes towards health care in subjects reporting environmental annoyance from electricity and chemicals
    Frida Eek
    Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University, SE 221 85 Lund, Sweden
    J Environ Public Health 2009:106389. 2009
    ..This may partly depend on negative attitudes towards the health care in this group...
  32. ncbi Survival in patients with hypertension treated in primary care. A population-based follow-up study in the Skaraborg Hypertension and Diabetes Project
    Erik Bøg-Hansen
    Department of Community Medicine, Malmo University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden
    Scand J Prim Health Care 22:222-7. 2004
    ..To explore risk factors for all-cause mortality in patients with hypertension...
  33. ncbi Individual and contextual determinants of self-reported poor psychological health: a population-based multilevel analysis in southern Sweden
    Martin Lindstrom
    Department of Community Medicine, Malmo University Hospital, Sweden
    Scand J Public Health 34:397-405. 2006
    ..The effect (intra-class correlation, cross-level modification, and odds ratios) of individual and municipality/city quarter factors on self-reported psychological health was analysed...
  34. ncbi A brief conceptual tutorial of multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: using measures of clustering in multilevel logistic regression to investigate contextual phenomena
    Juan Merlo
    Department of Clinical Sciences Community Medicine, Malmo University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, S 205 02 Malmo, Sweden
    J Epidemiol Community Health 60:290-7. 2006
    ..The aim of this study was to present measures of variation appropriate for the logistic case in a didactic rather than a mathematical way. Design and..
  35. ncbi Female advantage in AMI mortality is reversed in patients with type 2 diabetes in the Skaraborg Project
    Charlotte A Larsson
    Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malm, Sweden
    Diabetes Care 28:2246-8. 2005
  36. ncbi Is physician adherence to prescription guidelines a general trait of health care practices or dependent on drug type?--a multilevel logistic regression analysis in South Sweden
    Henrik Ohlsson
    Social Epidemiology, Department of Clinical Science, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Sweden
    Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 18:682-90. 2009
    ..Our goal was to determine whether adherence to prescription guidelines is a common trait of HCPs or dependent on drug type...
  37. ncbi Increasing prevalence of overweight, obesity and physical inactivity: two population-based studies 1986 and 1994
    Martin Lindstrom
    Department of Community Medicine, University Hospital MAS, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden
    Eur J Public Health 13:306-12. 2003
    ..The aim of this study was to investigate the 1986-1994 trend in obesity, overweight and sedentary leisure-time physical activity status, and the educational gradient in overweight and obesity in the city of Malmö, Sweden...
  38. ncbi Disentangling contextual effects on cause-specific mortality in a longitudinal 23-year follow-up study: impact of population density or socioeconomic environment?
    Basile Chaix
    Community Medicine and Public Health, Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmo, Malmo University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden
    Int J Epidemiol 35:633-43. 2006
    ..Almost no studies have attempted to disentangle effects of population density and socioeconomic environment on mortality, beyond the effects of individual characteristics...
  39. ncbi Social capital and neo-materialist contextual determinants of sense of insecurity in the neighbourhood: a multilevel analysis in Southern Sweden
    Martin Lindstrom
    Department of Community Medicine, Malmo University Hospital, Lund University, S 205 02 Malmo, Sweden
    Health Place 12:479-89. 2006
    ..The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of contextual (social capital and neo-materialist) and individual factors on sense of insecurity in the neighbourhood...
  40. ncbi Population effects on individual systolic blood pressure: a multilevel analysis of the World Health Organization MONICA Project
    Juan Merlo
    Department of Community Medicine, Section of Preventive Medicine, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden
    Am J Epidemiol 159:1168-79. 2004
    ..This empirical evidence of a population effect on individual SBP emphasizes the importance of developing population-wide strategies to reduce individual risk of hypertension...
  41. ncbi Place effects for areas defined by administrative boundaries: a life course analysis of mortality and cause specific morbidity in Scania, Sweden
    Henrik Ohlsson
    Social Epidemiology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, SUS, CRC, Ing 72, 20502 Malmo, Sweden
    Soc Sci Med 73:1145-51. 2011
    ..Valuable information for planning public health interventions might be obtained by considering measures of variance and clustering from specific contexts before implementing strategic programs...
  42. ncbi Use of calcium channel blockers as antihypertensives in relation to mortality and cancer incidence: a population-based observational study
    Gunnar Lindberg
    NEPI Foundation, Medical Research Centre, Malmo University Hospital, SE 205 02 Malmo, Sweden
    Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 11:493-7. 2002
    ..The current investigation aimed to compare mortality and cancer incidence in hypertensive patients treated with calcium channel blockers (CCB) or with other antihypertensive drugs (AHD)...
  43. ncbi Is there an interaction between self-rated health and medication with analgesics and hypnotics in the prediction of disability pension?
    Nils Ove Månsson
    Department of Community Medicine, Lund University, Malmo University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden
    Scand J Public Health 30:267-73. 2002
    ..The aim of this study was to investigate the possible interaction between SRH and use of analgesics and hypnotics and its ability to predict disability pension...
  44. ncbi Social capital and sense of insecurity in the neighbourhood: a population-based multilevel analysis in Malmö, Sweden
    Martin Lindstrom
    Department of Community Medicine, University Hospital MAS, Lund University, S 205 02, Malmo, Sweden
    Soc Sci Med 56:1111-20. 2003
    ..This study suggests that social capital, measured as electoral participation, may partly explain the individual's sense of insecurity in the neighbourhood...
  45. ncbi Children's exposure to nitrogen dioxide in Sweden: investigating environmental injustice in an egalitarian country
    Basile Chaix
    Community Medicine and Public Health, Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmo University Hospital, S 205 02 Malmo, Sweden
    J Epidemiol Community Health 60:234-41. 2006
    ....
  46. ncbi The Danish effect on Swedish alcohol costs. An analysis based on hospitalization data from southern Sweden
    Johan Jarl
    Department of Clinical Science, Malmo, Lund University, Sweden
    Eur J Health Econ 7:46-54. 2006
    ..We also found indications that the increase in import quotas lead to a higher cost increase for heavy consumers than for low consumers...
  47. ncbi Overweight and all-cause mortality in a Swedish rural population: Skaraborg Hypertension and Diabetes Project
    Maria Nyholm
    Department of Community Medicine, , Malm, Sweden
    Scand J Public Health 33:478-86. 2005
    ..No indication of overweight being negative for longevity was found in this population. Higher age and a history of previous CVD contribute to the excess mortality seen in subjects with low BMI...
  48. ncbi Understanding the effects of a decentralized budget on physicians' compliance with guidelines for statin prescription--a multilevel methodological approach
    Henrik Ohlsson
    Social Epidemiology and HE, Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmo, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Sweden
    BMC Health Serv Res 7:68. 2007
    ..Focusing on lipid-lowering drugs (i.e., statins), we evaluated the effect of this intervention across a 25-month period. We expected that increased local economic responsibility would promote prescribing of recommended statins...
  49. ncbi Social participation, social capital and daily tobacco smoking: a population-based multilevel analysis in Malmö, Sweden
    Martin Lindstrom
    Department of Community Medicine, University Hospital MAS, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden
    Scand J Public Health 31:444-50. 2003
    ..The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of contextual and individual factors on daily tobacco smoking...
  50. ncbi Action control and situational risks in the prevention of HIV and STIs: individual, dyadic, and social influences on consistent condom use in a university population
    Gary R Svenson
    Department of Community Hospital, Lund University, Sweden
    AIDS Educ Prev 14:515-31. 2002
    ..The results contribute new knowledge on action control in predicting sexual risk behaviors and lends support to the conceptualization and analysis of HIV/sexually transmitted infection prevention at multiple levels of influence...
  51. ncbi Research methods courses as a means of developing academic general practice. Fifteen years' experience from Sweden and Denmark
    Anders Hakansson
    Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö General Practice Family Medicine, Lund University, Sweden
    Scand J Prim Health Care 23:132-6. 2005
    ..The authors have thus succeeded in their goal of giving basic scientific schooling to many physicians and recruiting some for further research...
  52. ncbi [Is Denmark a Swedish health risk? Analysis of alcohol-related hospitalization in Scania]
    Johan Jarl
    , Malm, Lunds universitet
    Lakartidningen 104:1783-6. 2007
  53. ncbi Area-aggregated assessments of perceived environmental attributes may overcome single-source bias in studies of green environments and health: results from a cross-sectional survey in southern Sweden
    Kim de Jong
    Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
    Environ Health 10:4. 2011
    ..In this study we demonstrate how self-assessments of green neighborhood environments aggregated to narrow area units may serve as an appealing compromise between objective measures and individual self-assessments...
  54. ncbi Validity of self-reported information on cancer: determinants of under- and over-reporting
    Jonas Manjer
    Department of Community Medicine, Lund University, Malmo University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden
    Eur J Epidemiol 19:239-47. 2004
    ..We conclude that there was a considerable disagreement between self-reported information and cancer registry data...
  55. ncbi Utilisation of antibiotics in young children: opposite relationships to adult educational levels in Danish and Swedish counties
    Eva Melander
    Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Lund University Hospital, 221 85, Lund, Sweden
    Eur J Clin Pharmacol 59:331-5. 2003
    ....
  56. ncbi Incidence of cardiovascular disease, cancer and death in postmenopausal women affirming use of hormone replacement therapy
    Bo Hedblad
    Department of Community Medicine, Lund University, Malmo University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden
    Scand J Public Health 30:12-9. 2002
    ..The goal of this study was to evaluate the incidence of myocardial infarction, cancer and death in relation to use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT)...
  57. ncbi Individual and neighbourhood determinants of social participation and social capital: a multilevel analysis of the city of Malmö, Sweden
    Martin Lindstrom
    Department of Community Health, University Hospital MAS, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden
    Soc Sci Med 54:1779-91. 2002
    ..Our study supports Putnam's notion that social capital, which is suggested to be an important factor for population health and possibly for health equity, is an aspect that is partly contextual in its nature...
  58. ncbi Socioeconomic position, comorbidity, and mortality in aortic aneurysms: a 13-year prospective cohort study
    Tomas Ohrlander
    Vascular Center Malmö Lund, Malmo University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden
    Ann Vasc Surg 26:312-21. 2012
    ..Identification of AA was based on hospital discharge diagnosis obtained from the Swedish Patient Register or from the information on death certificates from the Cause of Death Register...
  59. ncbi Is the physician's adherence to prescription guidelines associated with the patient's socio-economic position? An analysis of statin prescription in South Sweden
    Henrik Ohlsson
    Malmo University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden
    J Epidemiol Community Health 64:678-83. 2010
    ..We therefore investigated the association between patient and healthcare practice (HCP) characteristics on the one hand, and adherence to guidelines for statin prescription on the other, with a focus on social and economic conditions...
  60. ncbi Coeliac disease in children: a social epidemiological study in Sweden
    Carl Johan Wingren
    Unit for Social Epidemiology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden
    Acta Paediatr 101:185-91. 2012
    ..Little is known on the possible existence of socioeconomic and geographical differences in early coeliac disease (CD) risk. Therefore, we investigated these aspects in children before age two...
  61. ncbi Performance evaluations and league tables: do they capture variation between organizational units? An analysis of 5 Swedish pharmacological performance indicators
    Henrik Ohlsson
    Department of Clinical Sciences, Social Epidemiology, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden
    Med Care 49:327-31. 2011
    ..However, few studies have attempted to assess quality by quantifying the variability across the organizational units or attempted to investigate whether the units are the correct context that really influences the outcome under study...
  62. ncbi Socioeconomic disadvantage and primary non-adherence with medication in Sweden
    Sarah Wamala
    Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    Int J Qual Health Care 19:134-40. 2007
    ..To analyse the association between socioeconomic disadvantage and primary non-adherence with medication, and to explore possible mediating effects of trust in health care and lifestyle profile...
  63. ncbi Comparison of a spatial approach with the multilevel approach for investigating place effects on health: the example of healthcare utilisation in France
    Basile Chaix
    Research Team on Social Determinants of Health and Healthcare INSERM U707, National Institute of Health and Medical Research, Faculte de Medecine Saint Antoine, 27 rue Chaligny, 75571 Paris Cedex 12, France
    J Epidemiol Community Health 59:517-26. 2005
    ..Healthcare utilisation in France was taken as an illustrative example in comparing the spatial approach with the multilevel approach...
  64. ncbi Comparison of a spatial perspective with the multilevel analytical approach in neighborhood studies: the case of mental and behavioral disorders due to psychoactive substance use in Malmo, Sweden, 2001
    Basile Chaix
    Research Unit in Epidemiology, Information Systems, and Modelisation INSERM U707, National Institute of Health and Medical Research, Paris, France
    Am J Epidemiol 162:171-82. 2005
    ..In neighborhood studies, building notions of space into analytical procedures may yield more comprehensive information than heretofore has been gathered on the spatial distribution of outcomes...
  65. ncbi Perceived discrimination, socioeconomic disadvantage and refraining from seeking medical treatment in Sweden
    Sarah Wamala
    Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    J Epidemiol Community Health 61:409-15. 2007
    ..To analyse the association between perceived discrimination and refraining from seeking required medical treatment and the contribution of socioeconomic disadvantage...
  66. ncbi Anxiolytic-hypnotic drug use associated with trust, social participation, and the miniaturization of community: a multilevel analysis
    Kristina Johnell
    Center for Family Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
    Soc Sci Med 62:1205-14. 2006
    ..The concept of miniaturization of community may be an extension of the classic concept of social capital and may increase our understanding of contextual effects on health...
  67. ncbi Changing analytical approaches in European epidemiology -- a short comment on a recent article
    Juan Merlo
    Eur J Epidemiol 20:737; author reply 738. 2005
    ..Multilevel analysis should be applied as the standard methodology for hospital comparisons. A greater awareness of this question in future Journal articles may be in order...
  68. ncbi Neighborhood social participation, use of anxiolytic-hypnotic drugs, and women's propensity for disability pension: a multilevel analysis
    Kristina Johnell
    Centre for Family Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
    Scand J Public Health 34:41-8. 2006
    ....
  69. ncbi Prostate cancer--prevalence-based healthcare costs
    Anders Norlund
    Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care, PO Box 5650, SE 114 86 Stockholm, Sweden
    Scand J Urol Nephrol 37:371-5. 2003
    ..The cost analysis includes costs incurred during the first year of diagnosis, a longitudinal 3-year analysis and the incremental cost of prostate cancer during the first year of diagnosis...
  70. ncbi Low adherence with antihypertensives in actual practice: the association with social participation--a multilevel analysis
    Kristina Johnell
    Centre for Family Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
    BMC Public Health 5:17. 2005
    ..The purpose of this study is to examine whether low social participation is associated with low adherence with antihypertensive medication, and if this association is modified by the municipality of residence...
  71. ncbi [Geographical differences in mortality after myocardial infarction? Coincidence claims many victims--small hospitals suffer most of all!]
    Juan Merlo
    , Lunds universitet, Universitetssjukhuset MAS, Malm
    Lakartidningen 102:150-1. 2005
  72. ncbi [Equally good care of myocardial infarction in Sweden today. Geographic differences in mortality are without significance for the individual patient]
    Juan Merlo
    Samhällsmedicinska institutionen, Universitetssjukhuset MAS, Malmo
    Lakartidningen 102:20-3. 2005
    ....
  73. ncbi Inequity in access to dental care services explains current socioeconomic disparities in oral health: the Swedish National Surveys of Public Health 2004-2005
    Sarah Wamala
    National Institute of Public Health, Olof Palmes gata 17, 103 52 Stockholm, Sweden
    J Epidemiol Community Health 60:1027-33. 2006
    ..A socioeconomic disadvantage index (SDI) was developed, consisting of social welfare beneficiary, being unemployed, financial crisis and lack of cash reserves...
  74. ncbi Appropriate assessment of neighborhood effects on individual health: integrating random and fixed effects in multilevel logistic regression
    Klaus Larsen
    Clinical Research Unit, Hvidovre University Hospital, University of Copenhagen, DK 2650 Hvidovre, Denmark
    Am J Epidemiol 161:81-8. 2005
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  75. ncbi Assessment of the magnitude of geographical variations and socioeconomic contextual effects on ischaemic heart disease mortality: a multilevel survival analysis of a large Swedish cohort
    Basile Chaix
    UMR S 707 Inserm Université Pierre et Marie Curie Parise Faculté de Médecine Saint Antoine, 27 rue Chaligny, 75012 Paris 6, France
    J Epidemiol Community Health 61:349-55. 2007
    ..In a public health perspective, it is of interest to assess the magnitude of geographical variations in ischaemic heart disease (IHD) mortality and quantify the strength of contextual effects on IHD...
  76. ncbi The validity of obesity based on self-reported weight and height: Implications for population studies
    Maria Nyholm
    Skaraborg Institute, Skovde, Sweden
    Obesity (Silver Spring) 15:197-208. 2007
    ..To validate self-reported information on weight and height in an adult population and to find a useful algorithm to assess the prevalence of obesity based on self-reported information...
  77. ncbi Neighbourhood effects and the real world beyond randomized community trials: a reply to Michael J Oakes
    Juan Merlo
    Int J Epidemiol 35:1361-3. 2006
  78. ncbi Re: "Detecting patterns of occupational illness clustering with alternating logistic regressions applied to longitudinal data"
    Basile Chaix
    Am J Epidemiol 160:505-6; author reply 506-7. 2004
  79. ncbi [Better drug management can improve public health--a study of possible drug interactions by scrutinizing prescriptions dispensing by pharmacies]
    Juan Merlo
    Lunds universitet
    Lakartidningen 99:922-5. 2002