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Objectives
Objective of the research theme Population, Mortality and Health is the study of mortality, health, nutrition and health care use at the population level, using demographic techniques. I
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(a) the description of the trends at different scale levels and global, national and regional differences therein,
(b) its explanation using both contextual and individual-level factors, and
(c) projections for the future based on the previous.
The research is very interdisciplinary in nature, using next to demographic techniques the concepts and approaches from epidemiology, biology and pharmaco-epidemiology.
Ongoing Projects
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Projecting mortality in NL and Europe through the separate projection of smoking- and non-smoking-related mortality
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Fanny Janssen |
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| Long term trends in causes of death in the Netherlands |
Fanny Janssen |
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| Regional mortality differences |
Fanny Janssen, Eva Kibele |
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| Early life nutrition in relation to body composition later in life |
Hinke Haisma |
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Crucial transitions: A life course perspective on reproductive career of women with HIV in Maharashtra, India
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Shirish Darak |
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| Inequalities in healthy ageing: the impact of contextual factors |
Eva Kibele |
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The epidemiological transition in India
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Ganesh Sharnngadharan |
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| Child nutrition and mortality in Pakistan |
Nazia Parveen Gill
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Development and evaluation of a framework integrating cohort effects to predict long-term effects of interventions at the population-level
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Maarten Bijlsma |
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Key publications
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Kunst, A., Amiri, M. and F. Janssen (2011), The decline in stroke mortality. Exploration of future trends in seven Western European countries. Stroke 42(8): 2126-2130.
doi:10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.599712
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Van der stegen, R., Janssen, F. Harteloh, P., Kardaun, J. and W. Koren (2010),
Using econometric time series analysis for detection and correction of coding changes in cause-specific mortality trends – application to the Netherlands. Paper presented at the third Human Mortality Database Symposium, Paris, June 2010.
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Kibele, E. (2011):
Regionale Demografie in Deutschland: Der Süden erwartet mehr vom Leben
[Regional demography in Germany: The South expects more from life]. In: Max Planck Society: Yearbook 2011.
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Kibele, E. (2011): Regional mortality differences in Germany. Spatial patterns, temporal trends, contextual- and individual-level determinants. Rostock: University of Rostock, PhD Thesis.
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Bijlsma, M.J., Bos, H.J., De Jong-van den Berg, L.T.W. & F. Janssen (2011),
Periodepatronen, leeftijdpatronen en cohortpatronen in de prevalentie van benzodiazepinegebruik en statinegebruik: de invloed van veranderde richtlijnen. Pharmaceutisch Weekblad 5: a1140.
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Darak S, Janssen F, Hutter I. (2011), Fertility among HIV-infected Indian women: the biological effect and its implications. Journal of Biosocial Science 43(1), pp. 19-29. Epub 2010 Oct 12.
- Romulus-Nieuwelink JJC, Doak C, Albernaz E, Victora CG, Haisma H.
Breast milk and complementary food intake in Brazilian infants according to socio-economic position. Int J Ped Obesity 2011, Jun 6(2-2), e508-14. Posted online 6 September 2010.
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