Publications

2026

  1. Aktner, I., Forsman, H., & Straatmann, V. S. (2026). The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on psychotropic medication prescriptions for children and adolescents: a scoping review of quantitative longitudinal studies. Annals of General Psychiatry, 25(1), 70. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12991-026-00692-z
  2. Bennett, D., Melis, G., Lee, P., Maudsley, G., Maden, M., Donegan, S., … & Taylor-Robinson, D. (2026). Socioeconomic conditions and children’s out-of-home care in high-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Epidemiol Community Health. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2025-225253
  3. Boderie, N. W., Van Raalte, A., Been, J. V., Bopp, M., Brønnum-Hansen, H., Deboosere, P., … & Nusselder, W. J. (2026). Educational inequalities in smoking-attributable mortality in Europe: Understanding trends between 2000 and 2020. Public Health, 250, 106058. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2025.106058
  4. Cederström, A., Korhonen, K., Martikainen, P., & Östergren, O. M. (2026). Using pension payments abroad to examine post-retirement migration and health among Finnish migrants in Sweden. Journal of Migration and Health, 100411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmh.2026.100411
  5. Cisotto, E., Moretti, M., Silan, M., Damiens, J., Belloni, P., Korhonen, K., & Martikainen, P. (2026). Mapping social health and dementia risk: A register-based study of older adults in Finland. Social Science & Medicine, 119154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119154
  6. Damiens, J., Berger, M., Junna, L., & Martikainen, P. (2026). Mortgage affordability and mental healthcare use: Evidence from Finnish population registers. Social Science & Medicine, 118924. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118924
  7. Figueiredo, J. A., Straatmann, V. S., Celeste, R. K., Berg, L., & Rostila, M. (2025). Perceived ethnic discrimination and leisure-time physical activity in Sweden: The impact of place of birth on the association. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 14034948261444129. https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948261444129
  8. Forsman, H., Hossein, G., Almquist, Y. B., Bäckman, O., & Brännström, L. (2026). Childhood Out-of-Home Care and Later Crime, Mental Health, and Mortality up to Retirement Age: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study. Child Protection and Practice, 100349. https://doi.org/10.1017/s095457942510062x
  9. Goldschmidt, M. I., Mkoma, G. F., Petersen, J. H., Agyemang, C., Rostila, M., Thaning, P., … & Norredam, M. (2026). Ethnic Differences in Symptom Burden, Work and Daily Life: A Study of Long COVID Patients in Denmark: Goldschmidt et al. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 1-9.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-026-10214-y
  10. Goldschmidt, M. I., Torensma, M., Beune, E., Agyemang, C., Rostila, M., Benfield, T., … & Moseholm, E. (2026). Experiences of access to care, diagnosis and rehabilitation among a multiethnic patient population with long COVID in Denmark: A qualitative study. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 14034948251400105. https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948251400105
  11. Goldschmidt, M. I., Mkoma, G. F., Petersen, J. H., Cederström, A., Agyemang, C., Rostila, M., … & Benfield, T. (2026). Ethnic disparities, clinical severity and their relation to COVID-19 outcomes. Infectious Diseases, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/23744235.2026.2684566
  12. Granvik Saminathen, M., Låftman, S. B., & Östberg, V. (2026). Upper secondary school diploma and mental health in emerging adulthood: examining the severity and co-occurrence of depression and anxiety symptoms. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 14034948261447060. https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948261447060
  13. Grigorian, K., Östberg, V., Raninen, J., & Låftman, S. B. (2025). Loneliness and subsequent depression and anxiety in emerging adults: Findings from a Swedish cohort study. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 14034948251403064. https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948251403064
  14. Grotta, A., Montgomery, S., Rostila, M., Fall, K., & Hiyoshi, A. (2026). Severity of post-stroke functional disability and risk for depression and anxiety among patients´ partners and adult children: a Swedish national register-based study. SSM-Mental Health, 100662. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2026.100662
  15. Gurzo, K. (2026). Perspectives on income and health: Cohort change, intergenerational social mobility, and the role of personal attributes and childhood friends (Doctoral dissertation, Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University). https://su.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:2032217/FULLTEXT03.pdf
  16. Gurzo, K., Oksuzyan, A., & Modin, B. (2026). Intergenerational income mobility and psychotropic drug dispensation: A diagonal reference model approach. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-6802522/v1
  17. Heshmati, A., Honkaniemi, H., & Juárez, S. P. (2026). The Swedish welfare state under threat: new rules and new inequalities. The Lancet Regional Health–Europe, 65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2026.101692
  18. Hiilamo, A., Metsä-Simola, N., Dierker, P., Martikainen, P., & Myrskyla, M. (2026). Heterogenous long-term health and social outcomes of type 1 diabetes: a full population 30-year observational cohort study. American Journal of Epidemiology, 195(1), 117-125. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwaf028
  19. Hiyoshi, A., Fall, K., Montgomery, S., Rostila, M., & Grotta, A. (2026). Risk of Accidental Falls Among Informal Caregivers. Health Science Reports, 9(3), e71819. https://doi.org/10.1002/hsr2.71819
  20. Honkaniemi, H., & Juárez, S. P. (2026). Intersectional inequalities in COVID-19 morbidity and mortality in Sweden: a retrospective population-based cohort study. BMJ Public Health, 4(2). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjph-2025-004719
  21. Jang, S. Y., van Lenthe, F. J., Myrskylä, M., Oksuzyan, A., Loi, S., Bopp, M., … & Nusselder, W. J. (2026). Socioeconomic inequalities in life expectancy within and between native-born and foreign-born populations: a comparative study of 10 European countries. International Journal of Epidemiology, 55(3), dyag045. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyag045
  22. Janssen, F., Martikainen, P., Zengarini, N., Sizer, A., & Kunst, A. E. (2026). The combined impact of smoking, alcohol, and obesity on past trends in educational inequalities in life expectancy in England and Wales, Finland, and Italy, 1990–2017. European Journal of Public Health, 36(1), 12-19. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaf181
  23. Jdanov, D., Jasilionis, D., Tarkiainen, L., & Martikainen, P. (2026). Inequality in life expectancy losses by education in Finland during COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal for Equity in Health, 25(1), 90. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-026-02827-w
  24. Khin, Y. P., Fujiwara, T., Rostila, M., Tollosa, D. N., & Miething, A. (2026). Neighbourhood migrant density and outcomes in hospitalised patients with cancer before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden: a register-based retrospective cohort study. BMJ Open, 16(5), e113681. https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/5/e113681
  25. Korhonen, K., Einiö, E., & Martikainen, P. (2026). The association of number and geographic proximity of children with care home use before all-cause and dementia deaths: a register-based study of Finnish older adults. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 81(2), gbaf250. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaf250
  26. Lahtinen, H., Yang, I., Tarkiainen, L., & Martikainen, P. (2026). Voting is a stronger determinant of mortality than education: a full-electorate survival analysis with 21-year follow-up. J Epidemiol Community Health, 80(2), 69-72. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2025-224663
  27. Lahtinen, H., Kaprio, J., Ganna, A., Korhonen, K., Lombardi, S., Silventoinen, K., & Martikainen, P. (2026). Heterogeneous associations of polygenic indices of 35 traits with mortality: a register-linked population-based follow-up study. Elife, 14, RP107496. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.107496
  28. Ledberg, A., & Liu, C. (2026). Treatment uptake and post-discharge mortality after a policy change enabling opioid agonist therapy during compulsory care. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 113278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2026.113278
  29. Li, B., Liu, C., Almquist, Y. B., & Berg, L. (2025). Psychiatric disorders following the clustering of family disadvantages in previous generations: a multigenerational cohort study. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-025-02918-z
  30. Li, S., Barker, M. M., Li, H., László, K. D., Yang, F., Rostila, M., … & Fang, F. (2026). Mental illness after bereavement before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden: A matched cohort study. PLOS Mental Health, 3(5), e0000565. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmen.0000565
  31. Lindberg, Y., Grönqvist, E., Andersén, Å., Rajaleid, K., Kecklund, G., & Nyberg, A. (2026). Subjective social status and common mental disorders in the Swedish working population: gender and age differences in longitudinal associations. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 14034948251380490. https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948251380490
  32. Luukkonen, J., Pitkänen, J., Junna, L., Bister, L., Martikainen, P., Laakso, S. P., & Remes, H. (2026). Number of siblings and psychotropic medication purchases surrounding parental death in adulthood: a population-wide cohort study in Finland. J Epidemiol Community Health. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2025-224775
  33. Ma, Y., Ledberg, A., Aradhya, S., & Juárez, S. P. (2026). The role of social determinants in COVID-19 hospitalization disparities by migration status in Stockholm, Sweden. A population-based cohort study. Communications Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-025-01357-w
  34. Metsä-Simola, N., Volotinen, L., & Martikainen, P. (2026). Physical illness and changes in spousal mental health: a register-based study on Finnish couples aged 30–70. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 80(3), 158-166. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2025-223966
  35. Moretti, M., Fabrizi, E., Lorenti, A., Junna, L., & Martikainen, P. (2026). Educational and gender disparities in work, retirement, and disability-pension expectancies: a cross-country analysis of Italy and Finland. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 81(6), gbag064. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbag064
  36. Mullally, D., Berg, L., Rostila, M., & Dunlavy, A. (2026). Midlife migration, employment status, and mental health: A Swedish register-based study. Public Health, 256, 106328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2026.106328
  37. Nõmm, O., Innos, K., Jasilionis, D., Krumins, J., Martikainen, P., Pärna, K., … & Leinsalu, M. (2026). Educational inequalities in cervical cancer mortality in the Baltic countries and Finland in the context of organized screening: A register‐based study 2000–2015. International Journal of Cancer. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.70339
  38. Orellana, D., Liu, C., Avendano, S., Tafflet, M., Heude, B., & van der Waerden, J. (2026). Lifetime adversities and patterns of maternal prenatal HPA function from hair glucocorticoids. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 107978. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2026.107978
  39. Pitkänen, J., Sariaslan, A., Bishop, L., Aaltonen, M., Mielityinen, L., Laajasalo, T., … & Martikainen, P. (2026). Violent and sexual victimisation and incident anxiety, mood and substance use disorders in childhood and adolescence: a co‐sibling study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.70144
  40. Rogne, S., Grotta, A., Liu, C., Berg, L., Saarela, J., Kawachi, I., … & Rostila, M. (2026). All-cause mortality around the anniversary of a sibling’s death: findings from Swedish National Register Data. American Journal of Epidemiology, 195(3), 824-831. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwaf213
  41. Russell Jonsson, K., Taylor-Robinson, D. C., Schultz Straatmann, V., Melis, G., & Adjei, N. K. (2023). Health behaviors and subsequent mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal analysis of adults in the UK. Frontiers in Public Health, 10, 1064677. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1064677
  42. Saminathen, M. G., Lundin, A., Raninen, J., & Låftman, S. B. (2026). Prospective associations between parental warmth and knowledge in late adolescence and depression and anxiety symptoms in young adulthood: a Swedish cohort study. BMC Public Health, 26(1), 1560. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-026-27712-7
  43. Seker, S., Brännström, L., Forsman, H., & Rogne, S. (2026). Parental Death and Psychiatric Disorders Among Individuals with and Without Experience of Out-of-Home Care: A Swedish Nationwide Cohort Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 23(6), 732. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph23060732
  44. Sipilä, P. N., Korhonen, K., Lindbohm, J. V., Kivimäki, M., & Martikainen, P. (2026). The role of noninfectious comorbidities in the association between severe infections and risk of dementia in Finland: A nationwide registry study. PLoS medicine, 23(3), e1004688. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004688
  45. Spitzer, S., Lemoine, A., Song, Z., Reiter, C., Greulich, A., Herlitz, A., … & Wrohlich, K. (2026). The European Parenting Leave Policies (EPLP) dataset. Demographic Research, 54, 987-1008. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48886202
  46. Straatmann, V. S., Rajesh, T., Almquist, Y. B., & Manhica, H. A. (2026). Family Reunification and Labour Market Attachment of Parents With Children in Out‐of‐Home Care in Sweden: Findings From the SWIFT90 Cohort Study. Child & Family Social Work. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.70262
  47. Tarkiainen, L., M Östergren, O., Dei Bardi, L., & Martikainen, P. (2026). Coevolution of education and income inequalities in mortality: is the double burden of basic education and low income becoming more lethal in Finland and Sweden over time? Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 80(5), 320-326. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2025-224182
  48. Tollosa, D. N., Cederstrom, A., Sonnewald, D., Morawski, L., Brzezinski, M., Rostila, M., … & Kopasker, D. (2026). Multidimensional Well-Being in Europe: Trends and Cross-Country Comparisons in Sweden, Germany, Spain and Poland (2004-2024). https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/files/working-papers/cempa/cempa7-26.pdf
  49. Tollosa, D. N., Juarez, S. P., Grotta, A., & Rostila, M. (2026). A 15-year registry based follow up study of site specific cancer mortality among immigrants with type 2 diabetes in Sweden. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-39293-x
  50. Urquia, M. L., Detillieux, G. R., Debbarman, S., Katz, A., & Juárez, S. P. (2026). Health selection at out-and return migration in Manitoba, Canada. A retrospective matched cohort register study. Social Science & Medicine, 403, 119459. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119459
  51. Volotinen, L., Remes, H., Martikainen, P., & Metsä-Simola, N. (2026). Age at First Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Diagnosis and Educational Outcomes. JAMA Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2026.0181
  52. Volotinen, L., Remes, H., Martikainen, P., & Metsä-Simola, N. (2026). Parental education level and ADHD diagnosis in childhood and adolescence: the moderating roles of gender, age, and family history of ADHD. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 35(2), 513-522. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-025-02852-0
  53. Wahlström, J., Östberg, V., & Låftman, S. B. (2026). Psychosomatic complaints and school failure: A prospective Swedish national cohort study. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-7999037/v1
  54. Yang, F., Li, S., Barker, M. M., Li, H., László, K. D., Rostila, M., … & Fang, F. (2026). Bereavement and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Network Open, 9(4), e269102. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.9102
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