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Social relations: network, support and relational strainP Due
Department of Social Medicine and Psychosocial Health, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Soc Sci Med 48:661-73. 1999..The weakening of the social network with age does not seem to affect the level of emotional support and in turn seems to be partly compensated for by a simultaneous decline in relational strain...- Bullying and symptoms among school-aged children: international comparative cross sectional study in 28 countriesPernille Due
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Eur J Public Health 15:128-32. 2005..There have been no large-scale international comparisons on bullying and health among adolescents. This study examined the association between bullying and physical and psychological symptoms among adolescents in 28 countries... - Cynical hostility, socioeconomic position, health behaviors, and symptom load: a cross-sectional analysis in a Danish population-based studyUlla Christensen
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Panum Institute, Blegdamsvej 3, DK 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
Psychosom Med 66:572-7. 2004..To analyze the cross-sectional association between cynical hostility and high symptom load in a Danish population-based study. Furthermore, the aim was to investigate to what extent health risk behaviors mediated this association... 
Socioeconomic inequality in exposure to bullying during adolescence: a comparative, cross-sectional, multilevel study in 35 countriesPernille Due
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Am J Public Health 99:907-14. 2009..We examined the socioeconomic distribution of adolescent exposure to bullying internationally and documented the contribution of the macroeconomic environment...- School-related risk factors for drunkenness among adolescents: risk factors differ between socio-economic groupsAnette Andersen
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Eur J Public Health 17:27-32. 2007.... - Self-rated health as predictor of medicine use in adolescenceBjørn E Holstein
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 17:186-92. 2008..To examine the association between self-rated health (SRH) and medicine use for four common complaints: headache, stomach-ache, difficulties in getting to sleep and nervousness, in a nationally representative sample of adolescents... 
Young adolescents' use of medicine for headache: sources of supply, availability and accessibility at homeBjørn E Holstein
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 17:406-10. 2008..The purpose was to describe sources of supply, availability and accessibility at home and to examine if supply, availability and accessibility were associated with medicine use...- Development in self-rated health among older people as determinant of social relationsRikke Lund
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Scand J Public Health 32:419-25. 2004.... - Medicine use for headache in adolescence predicts medicine use for headache in young adulthoodAnette Andersen
University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Section for Social Pharmacy, Universitetsparken 2, Copenhagen, Denmark
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 18:619-23. 2009..Medicine use is associated with smoking and binge drinking among adolescents. Whether medicine-use behaviour tracks from adolescence to adulthood is unknown... - Social inequality in adolescent daily smoking: has it changed over time?Mette Rasmussen
Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Scand J Public Health 37:287-94. 2009.... - Influence of marital history over two and three generations on early death. A longitudinal study of Danish men born in 1953Rikke Lund
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, DK 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
J Epidemiol Community Health 60:496-501. 2006.... - Determinants of fruit and vegetable consumption among children and adolescents: a review of the literature. Part II: qualitative studiesRikke Krølner
National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 8:112. 2011..Earlier reviews have analysed evidence from quantitative studies. The aim of this paper is to present a systematic review of qualitative studies of determinants of children's FV intake... - Does school environment affect 11-year-olds' fruit and vegetable intake in Denmark?Rikke Krølner
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Soc Sci Med 68:1416-24. 2009..The small school-level effects on 11-year-olds' fruit and vegetable intake imply that family level interventions may be more important and that the success of school interventions will rely on the degree of parental involvement... - Is victimization from bullying associated with medicine use among adolescents? A nationally representative cross-sectional survey in DenmarkPernille Due
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, PO Box 2099, DK 1014 Copenhagen, Denmark
Pediatrics 120:110-7. 2007..The goal was to examine whether being a victim of bullying was associated with medicine use, taking into account the increased prevalence of physical and psychological symptoms... - Medicine use among 11- and 13-year-olds: agreement between parents' reports and children's self-reportsAnette Andersen
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ann Pharmacother 41:581-6. 2007..The validity of children's self-reports on medicine use has not been reported... - Revitalising the Metropolit 1953 Danish male birth cohort: background, aims and designMerete Osler
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 18:385-94. 2004..A questionnaire-based postal follow-up survey is planned. Thus, the Metropolit study provides an important opportunity to examine the processes by which factors that operate over the life course influence adult health... - Pathways and mechanisms in adolescence contribute to adult health inequalitiesPernille Due
National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
Scand J Public Health 39:62-78. 2011..We review evidence on the four mechanisms: socially differential exposure, tracking, socially differential tracking, and socially differential vulnerability... - Large-scale alcohol use and socioeconomic position of origin: longitudinal study from ages 15 to 19 yearsAnette Andersen
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Scand J Public Health 36:326-9. 2008..To examine socioeconomic position (SEP) of origin as predictor of large-scale alcohol use in adolescence... - The impact of structural and functional characteristics of social relations as determinants of functional declineKirsten Avlund
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 59:S44-51. 2004..This study examines whether aspects of social relations at baseline are related to functional decline at 5-year follow-up among nondisabled old men and women... - School connectedness and daily smoking among boys and girls: the influence of parental smoking normsMette Rasmussen
University of Copenhagen, Institute of Public Health, Department of Social Medicine, Copenhagen, Denmark
Eur J Public Health 15:607-12. 2005.... - Socio-economic inequality in multiple health complaints among adolescents: international comparative study in 37 countriesBjørn E Holstein
Department of Public Health, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Int J Public Health 54:260-70. 2009.... - Social relations as determinant of onset of disability in agingKirsten Avlund
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
Arch Gerontol Geriatr 38:85-99. 2004..The present study suggests that being "embedded" in a strong network of social relations provides protection against disability by reducing risk of developing disability... - Bullying victimization among 13 to 15-year-old school children: results from two comparative studies in 66 countries and regionsPernille Due
National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
Int J Adolesc Med Health 20:209-21. 2008..The surveys provide nationally representative, cross-sectional information on 13-15-year-old school children (N = 218,104)... - The role of national policies intended to regulate adolescent smoking in explaining the prevalence of daily smoking: a study of adolescents from 27 European countriesChristina W Schnohr
Section of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Addiction 103:824-31. 2008..A focus was placed on three modifiable policies operating at a national level, non-smoking policy at educational facilities, price and minimum age for buying tobacco... - Exposure to bullying at school and depression in adulthood: a study of Danish men born in 1953Rikke Lund
Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen K, Denmark
Eur J Public Health 19:111-6. 2009..The aim of the present study is to examine the association between recall of bullying at school and depression in midlife controlling for adult social class and parents' mental health... - Income inequality and ischaemic heart disease in Danish men and womenMerete Osler
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, 2200 N, Denmark
Int J Epidemiol 32:375-80. 2003..8 years. Information on median income share at parish and municipality levels was obtained from population registers... - Eight-year change in functional ability among 70- to 95-year-oldsBjørn E Holstein
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Scand J Public Health 35:243-9. 2007..The study describes stability and change in total functional ability as well as in specific daily activities... - Parental socioeconomic position and development of overweight in adolescence: longitudinal study of Danish adolescentsCamilla Schmidt Morgen
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
BMC Public Health 10:520. 2010..The objective was to identify the possible association between parental socioeconomic position, weight change and the risk of developing overweight among adolescents between the ages 15 to 21... - Socioeconomic health inequalities among a nationally representative sample of Danish adolescents: the role of different types of social relationsP Due
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
J Epidemiol Community Health 57:692-8. 2003..To investigate the role of different types of social relations in adolescent health inequalities... - Tracking drinking behaviour from age 15-19 yearsAnette Andersen
Department of Social Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Institute of Public Health, Copenhagen, Denmark
Addiction 98:1505-11. 2003.... - The measurement of change in functional ability: dealing with attrition and the floor/ceiling effectBjørn E Holstein
University of Copenhagen, Institute of Public Health, Department of Social Medicine, Blegdamsvej 3, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
Arch Gerontol Geriatr 43:337-50. 2006..A logistic model for paired observations of functional ability at two points in time reduced the problem related to the floor/ceiling problem... - Self-reported medicine use among 11- to 15-year-old girls and boys in Denmark 1988-1998Bjørn E Holstein
University of Copenhagen, Institute of Public Health, Blegdamsvej 3 DK 2200, Copenhagen N, Denmark
Scand J Public Health 31:334-41. 2003..The paper focuses on medicine for headache, stomach ache, cough, cold, nervousness, and difficulties in getting to sleep... - School-related mediators in social inequalities in smoking: a comparative cross-sectional study of 20,399 adolescentsChristina W Schnohr
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Int J Equity Health 8:17. 2009..The aim of this study was to examine the associations between social inequalities and daily smoking among 13 and 15 year olds, and to determine the role of students' academic achievement and school satisfaction in these associations... - Changes in household composition as determinant of changes in functional ability among old men and womenKirsten Avlund
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Aging Clin Exp Res 14:65-74. 2002..0 (1.3-12.2/4.4 (0.7-26.9)]. This was not seen among the poor-functioning men. It is concluded that poor-functioning, single-living women are at higher risk of not regaining functional ability compared to cohabiting women... - Income inequality, individual income, and mortality in Danish adults: analysis of pooled data from two cohort studiesMerete Osler
Department of Social Medicine, Copenhagen Center of Prospective Population Studies, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, 2200 N, Denmark, Copenhagen
BMJ 324:13-6. 2002..To analyse the association between area income inequality and mortality after adjustment for individual income and other established risk factors... - [Children's and adolescent's use of medicine for aches and psychological problems: secular trends from 1988 to 2006]Bjørn Holstein
Københavns Universitet, Institut for Folkesundhedsvidenskab, Afdeling for Social Medicin, DK 1014 København K
Ugeskr Laeger 171:24-8. 2009..The objective of this paper is to describe self-reported medicine use for headaches, stomach-aches, difficulties in falling asleep, and nervousness among 11-, 13-, and 15-year-old boys and girls from 1968 to 2006... - [Trends in vigorous physical activity versus physical inactivity among 11-15 year olds from 1988 to 2002]Bjørn E Holstein
Københavns Universitet, Institut for Folkesundhedsvidenskab, Afdeling for Social Medicin, København N
Ugeskr Laeger 169:37-42. 2007..The objective was to describe self-reported vigorous physical activity versus physical inactivity among children and adolescents over a period of 14 years, 1988-2002... - [Smoking trends in 11-15-year-olds from 1988 to 2006]Mette Rasmussen
Københavns Universitet, Insitut for Folkesundhedsvidenskab, Afdeling for Social Medicin
Ugeskr Laeger 170:736-9. 2008..The objective was to describe the proportion of smokers and daily smokers among 11-, 13-, and 15-year-old girls and boys from 1988 to 2006... - Exposure to teachers smoking and adolescent smoking behaviour: analysis of cross sectional data from DenmarkL H Poulsen
Department of Social Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Institute of Public Health, Copenhagen, Denmark
Tob Control 11:246-51. 2002..To determine whether adolescent smoking behaviour is associated with their perceived exposure to teachers or other pupils smoking at school, after adjustment for exposure to smoking at home, in school, and best friends smoking... - Stability and change in structural social relations as predictor of mortality among elderly women and menR Lund
Department of Social Medicine and Psychosocial Health, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Eur J Epidemiol 16:1087-97. 2000..Furthermore, the associations seemed stronger among women than men, which may however mainly be explained by the small number of men in our cohort... - High agreement on family affluence between children's and parents' reports: international study of 11-year-old childrenA Andersen
Institute of Public Health Science, Department of Social Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
J Epidemiol Community Health 62:1092-4. 2008..To examine the agreement between parents' and children's reports on four items of family affluence: number of cars, own bedroom, number of family holidays and number of computers, and to analyse predictors of disagreement... - Overweight, body image and bullying--an epidemiological study of 11- to 15-years oldsCarina S Brixval
National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
Eur J Public Health 22:126-30. 2012..Furthermore, the purpose was to investigate the potentially mediating effect of body image... - Social class variation in medicine use among adolescentsBjørn E Holstein
University of Copenhagen, Institute of Public Health, Copenhagen, Denmark
Eur J Public Health 14:49-52. 2004..The objective was to analyse the association between the family's social class and adolescents' use of medicine for headache, stomachache, difficulties in getting to sleep, and nervousness... - Secular trends in fruit intake among Danish schoolchildren, 1988 to 2006: changing habits or methodological artefacts?Mette Rasmussen
University of Copenhagen, Institute of Public Health, Department of Social Medicine, 5 Øster Farimagsgade, P, O, Box 2099, DK 1014 Copenhagen, Denmark
Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 5:6. 2008..The paper demonstrates and discusses the consequences of measurement changes introduced in long-term trend analyses... - International survey of self-reported medicine use among adolescentsEbba H Hansen
Pharmaceutical University of Denmark, Department of Social Pharmacy, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ann Pharmacother 37:361-6. 2003..To examine gender, age, and country variations in adolescents' self-reported medicine use... - Socioeconomic position, macroeconomic environment and overweight among adolescents in 35 countriesP Due
National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
Int J Obes (Lond) 33:1084-93. 2009..This study examined prevalence and social inequality in adolescent overweight in 35 countries, and associations with macroeconomic factors... - Tracking of overweight from mid-adolescence into adulthood: consistent patterns across socio-economic groupsMette Rasmussen
University of Southern Denmark, National Institute of Public Health, Copenhagen, Denmark
Eur J Public Health 22:885-7. 2012..The tracking was studied by prediction analyses conducted by logistic regression analyses. Strong tracking patterns were found to be independent of socio-economic background... - Changes in social relations in old age. Are they influenced by functional ability?Kirsten Avlund
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Aging Clin Exp Res 14:56-64. 2002..2 (0.95-5.3)]. Both men and women in need of help had more sustained little diversity in social relations compared to the well-functioning persons [men: OR=4.4 (1.3-15.0); women: OR=3.0 (0.93-9.6)]... - Socioeconomic position in early life, birth weight, childhood cognitive function, and adult mortality. A longitudinal study of Danish men born in 1953M Osler
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
J Epidemiol Community Health 57:681-6. 2003..To examine the relation between socioeconomic position in early life and mortality in young adulthood, taking birth weight and childhood cognitive function into account... - Does participation in preventive child health care at the general practitioner minimise social differences in the use of specialist care outside the hospital system?Solvej Mårtensson
Danish Institute for Health Services Research, Copenhagen, Denmark
Scand J Public Health 40:316-24. 2012.... - Fruit and vegetable intake in adolescents: association with socioeconomic status and exposure to supermarkets and fast food outletsChalida M Svastisalee
National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Øster Farimagsgade, 5a, 1353 Copenhagen K, Denmark Department of Social Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade, 5, P O Box 2099, 1014 Copenhagen K, Denmark
J Nutr Metab 2012:185484. 2012..School interventions improving fruit and vegetable intake should consider neighborhood surroundings, targetting older children from low social class backgrounds... - Cohabitation and marital status as predictors of mortality--an eight year follow-up studyRikke Lund
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Soc Sci Med 55:673-9. 2002..We suggest that in future studies of social relations and mortality, cohabitation status is considered to replace marital status as this variable may account for more of the variation in mortality... - Boys and girls smoking within the Danish elementary school classes: a group-level analysisMette Rasmussen
Institute of Public Health, Department of Social Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Scand J Public Health 30:62-9. 2002..To quantify the correlation between male and female smoking prevalence in elementary school classes by group-level analysis... - Prevalence of obesity in DenmarkP Due
Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Obes Rev 8:187-9. 2007..A close association with birth cohorts indicates a need for further aetiological research, not only into behavioural factors, but also into early life factors that may explain some of this developmental pattern... - The contribution of childhood and adult socioeconomic position to adult obesity and smoking behaviour: an international comparisonChris Power
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, WC1N 1EH London, UK
Int J Epidemiol 34:335-44. 2005.... - Body mass index and overweight in adolescents in 13 European countries, Israel, and the United StatesInge Lissau
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 158:27-33. 2004..To compare the body mass index (BMI) (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters) and the prevalence of BMI at or above the 85th centile and 95th centile (overweight) in adolescents... - Prevention of public health risks linked to bullying: a need for a whole community approachJorge Srabstein
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Children s National Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States
Int J Adolesc Med Health 20:185-99. 2008..Public health policy should mandate the monitoring, detection, and reporting of bullying incidents; provide guidance for school intervention; and offer guidelines for medical consultation... - Personal, social and environmental factors regarding fruit and vegetable intake among schoolchildren in nine European countriesCamilla Sandvik
Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Ann Nutr Metab 49:255-66. 2005..The aim of the present study was to assess personal, social and environmental factors regarding fruit and vegetable intake among 11- to 12-year-old children in Europe... - Correlates of fruit and vegetable consumption among 11-year-old Belgian-Flemish and Dutch schoolchildrenMarianne Wind
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
J Nutr Educ Behav 38:211-21. 2006..To determine factors associated with the consumption of fruit and vegetables among 11-year-old schoolchildren in Belgium-Flanders and the Netherlands... - Differences in prevalence of overweight and stunting in 11-year olds across Europe: The Pro Children StudyAgneta Yngve
Unit for Preventive Nutrition, Department of Biosciences at Novum, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Eur J Public Health 18:126-30. 2008..To assess country differences in prevalence of overweight, obesity, underweight and stunting in the Pro Children Survey... - [The obesity epidemic in Denmark]Pernille Due
Københavns Universitet, Det Sundhedsvidenskabelige Fakultet, Institut for Folkesundhedsvidenskab, og Københavns Universitetshospital, Center for Sundhed og Samfund, Enheden for Epidemiologisk Kostforskning
Ugeskr Laeger 168:129-32. 2006..This indicates a need for further etiological research, not only into behavioural factors but also into early life factors that may explain some of this pattern... - [Monitoring the prevalence of obesity]Thorkild I A Sørensen
Motions og Ernaeringsrådets sekretariat, Søborg
Ugeskr Laeger 170:317-20. 2008....