Monica Aberg Yngwe

Summary

Affiliation: Centre for Health Equity Studies
Country: Sweden

Publications

  1. ncbi The family's economic resources and adolescents' health complaints--do adolescents' own economic resources matter?
    Monica Aberg Yngwe
    Centre for Health Equity Studies CHESS, Stockholm University Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    Eur J Public Health 23:24-9. 2013
  2. ncbi Relative deprivation and mortality--a longitudinal study in a Swedish population of 4.7 million, 1990-2006
    Monica Aberg Yngwe
    Centre for Health Equity Studies CHESS, Stockholm University Karolinska Institutet, SE 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
    BMC Public Health 12:664. 2012
  3. ncbi Exploring relative deprivation: is social comparison a mechanism in the relation between income and health?
    Monica Aberg Yngwe
    Centre for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm University, Karolinska Institutet, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
    Soc Sci Med 57:1463-73. 2003
  4. ncbi Comparison or consumption? Distinguishing between different effects of income on health in Nordic welfare states
    Monica Aberg Yngwe
    Centre for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm University Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    Soc Sci Med 61:627-35. 2005
  5. ncbi On the importance of internalized consumption norms for ill health
    Monica Aberg Yngwe
    Centre for Health Equity Studies CHESS, Stockholm University Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
    Scand J Public Health 34:76-82. 2006

Detail Information

Publications5

  1. ncbi The family's economic resources and adolescents' health complaints--do adolescents' own economic resources matter?
    Monica Aberg Yngwe
    Centre for Health Equity Studies CHESS, Stockholm University Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    Eur J Public Health 23:24-9. 2013
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  2. ncbi Relative deprivation and mortality--a longitudinal study in a Swedish population of 4.7 million, 1990-2006
    Monica Aberg Yngwe
    Centre for Health Equity Studies CHESS, Stockholm University Karolinska Institutet, SE 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
    BMC Public Health 12:664. 2012
    ..The Swedish context, characterized by relatively small income inequalities and promoting values as egalitarianism and equality, together with a large data material provide unique possibilities for analyzing the hypothesized mechanism...
  3. ncbi Exploring relative deprivation: is social comparison a mechanism in the relation between income and health?
    Monica Aberg Yngwe
    Centre for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm University, Karolinska Institutet, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
    Soc Sci Med 57:1463-73. 2003
    ..However, for the 40% with the lowest income in the population the effect of relative deprivation on health is considerably reduced, possibly due to the more prominent relation between low absolute income and poor health...
  4. ncbi Comparison or consumption? Distinguishing between different effects of income on health in Nordic welfare states
    Monica Aberg Yngwe
    Centre for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm University Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    Soc Sci Med 61:627-35. 2005
    ..In Nordic welfare states the relative position in the income distribution is related to limiting long-standing illness independently of the ability to consume among individuals with high ability to consume...
  5. ncbi On the importance of internalized consumption norms for ill health
    Monica Aberg Yngwe
    Centre for Health Equity Studies CHESS, Stockholm University Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
    Scand J Public Health 34:76-82. 2006
    ..The authors suggest that using the individual's own preferences, arguing these to be preferences of both society and reference groups internalized by the individual, may partly bridge this problem...