Blar i NTNU Open på forfatter "Balaj, Mirza"
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Components and effectiveness of patient navigation programmes to increase participation to breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening: A systematic review
Mosquera, Isabel; Todd, Adam; Zhang, Li; Benitez Majano, Sara; Mensah, Keitly; Eikemo, Terje Andreas; Basu, Partha; Balaj, Mirza (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Background Inequalities in cancer incidence and mortality can be partly explained by unequal access to high-quality health services, including cancer screening. Several interventions have been described to increase access ... -
COVID-19 and the Nordic Paradox: a call to measure the inequality reducing benefits of welfare systems in the wake of the pandemic
Friedman, Joseph; Calderon-Villarreal, Alhelí; Heggebø, Kristian; Balaj, Mirza; Bambra, Clare; Eikemo, Terje Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011)The Nordic Paradox of inequality describes how the Nordic countries have puzzlingly high levels of relative health inequalities compared to other nations, despite extensive universal welfare systems and progressive tax ... -
COVID-19 and the Nordic Paradox: a call to measure the inequality reducing benefits of welfare systems in the wake of the pandemic
Friedman, Joseph; Calderon-Villarreal, Alhelí; Heggebø, Kristian; Balaj, Mirza; Bambra, Clare; Eikemo, Terje Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The Nordic Paradox of inequality describes how the Nordic countries have puzzlingly high levels of relative health inequalities compared to other nations, despite extensive universal welfare systems and progressive tax ... -
Does educational mobility in mid-life affect mortality? A cohort study covering 1.3 million individuals in Sweden
Balaj, Mirza; Sjöqvist, Hugo; van der Velde, Lode; Allebeck, Peter; Shaaban, Ahmed Nabil; Swartling Peterson, Stefan; Eikemo, Terje Andreas; Agardh, Emilie E. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Education has been identified as a key marker of social position by several observers, and its major impact on mortality has been examined through various pathways. Generally, these pathways originate from initial life ... -
Educational Inequalities in Adult Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Asia Pacific Region
Beck, Kathryn Christine (Master thesis, 2021)Background: Low educational attainment is frequently associated with poorer health and increased mortality, but evidence in this field has been dominated by research conducted in Europe and North America. For this reason, ... -
Educational inequalities in adult mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the Asia Pacific region
Beck, Kathryn Christine; Balaj, Mirza; Donadello, Lorena; Mohammad, Talal; Dahl Vonen, Hanne; Degail, Clare; Eikemo, Kristoffer; Giouleka, Anna; Gradeci, Indrit; Westby, Cèline Lossius; Sripada, Kam; Jensen, Magnus Rom; Solhaug, Solvor; Gakidou, Emmanuela; Eikemo, Terje Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Objectives In this study, we aim to analyse the relationship between educational attainment and all-cause mortality of adults in the high-income Asia Pacific region. Design This study is a comprehensive systematic review ... -
Educational inequalities in cervical cancer mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Machado, Monica (Master thesis, 2023)Background: Evidence continues to affirm the educational inequalities in mortality, with individuals that have low educational attainment being most at risk. Education has been found to be a key determinant of adherence ... -
Effects of education on adult mortality: a global systematic review and meta-analysis
Balaj, Mirza; Henson, Claire A.; Aronsson, Amanda; Aravkin, Aleksandr Y.; Beck, Kathryn Christine; Degail, Claire Josette Edith; Donadello, Lorena; Eikemo, Kristoffer; Friedman, Joseph; Giouleka, Anna; Gradeci, Indrit; Hay, Simon, I.; Rom Jensen, Magnus; Mclaughlin, Susan A.; Mullany, Erin C.; O'connell, Erin M.; Sripada, Kam; Stonkute, Donata; Sorensen, Reed J.D.; Solhaug, Solvor; Vonen, Hanne Dahl; Westby, Cèline Lossius; Zheng, Peng; Mohammad, Talal; Eikemo, Terje Andreas; Gakidou, Emmanuela (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Background The positive effect of education on reducing all-cause adult mortality is known; however, the relative magnitude of this effect has not been systematically quantified. The aim of our study was to estimate the ... -
Exploring the differences in general practitioner and health care specialist utilization according to education, occupation, income and social networks across Europe: findings from the European social survey (2014) special module on the social determinants of health.
Fjær, Erlend Løvø; Balaj, Mirza; Stornes, Per Gunnar; Todd, Adam; McNamara, Courtney L.; Eikemo, Terje Andreas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background: Low socioeconomic position (SEP) tends to be linked to higher use of general practitioners (GPs), while the use of health care specialists is more common in higher SEPs. Despite extensive literature in this ... -
Financial difficulties in childhood and adult depression in Europe
Bøe, Tormod; Balaj, Mirza; Eikemo, Terje Andreas; McNamara, Courtney L.; Solheim, Erling (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background: Financial difficulties in childhood may be associated with immediate and long-term consequences for mental health. The aim of the current paper is to investigate the association between childhood financial ... -
The Gender Pain Gap: gender inequalities in pain across 19 European countries
Bimpong, Kweku; Thomson, Katie; McNamara, Courtney L.; Balaj, Mirza; Akhter, Nasima; Bambra, Clare; Todd, Adam (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Aims: Chronic pain is increasingly considered to be an international public health issue, yet gender differences in chronic pain in Europe are under-examined. This work aimed to examine gender inequalities in pain across ... -
Inequalities in COVID-19 mortality: defining a global research agenda
Friedman, Joseph; Balaj, Mirza; Islam, Nazrul; Gu, Youyang; Nahmia, Petra; Santamaría-Ulloa, Carolina; Gutierrez Rojas, Andres; Rasanathan, Kumanan; Hosseinpoor, Ahmad Reza; Emina, Jacques BO; Eikemo, Terje Andreas; Castillo-Salgado, Carlos (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022) -
Inequalities in the burden of non-communicable diseases across European countries: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study
Andrade, Carlos Alexandre Soares; Mahrouseh, Nour; Gabrani, Jonila; Charalampous, Periklis; Cuschieri, Sarah; Grad, Diana Alecsandra; Unim, Brigid; Mechili, Enkeleint A.; Chen-Xu, José; Devleesschauwer, Brecht; Isola, Gaetano; von der Lippe, Elena; Baravelli, Carl; Fischer, Florian; Weye, Nanna Ørslev; Balaj, Mirza; Haneef, Romana; Economou, Mary; Haagsma, Juanita A.; Varga, Orsolya (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Background Although overall health status in the last decades improved, health inequalities due to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) persist between and within European countries. There is a lack of studies giving insights ... -
Microsimulation as a flexible tool to evaluate policies and their impact on socioeconomic inequalities in health
Kopasker, Daniel; Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal; Vasco Santos, João; Richiardi, Matteo; Bronka, Patryk; Rostila, Mikael; Cecchini, Michele; Ali, Shehzad; Emmert-Fees, Karl M. F.; Bambra, Clare; Hoven, Hanno; Backhaus, Insa; Balaj, Mirza; Eikemo, Terje Andreas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023) -
Non-communicable diseases and the social determinants of health in the Nordic countries: Findings from the European Social Survey (2014) special module on the social determinants of health
Balaj, Mirza; Huijts, Tim; McNamara, Courtney L.; Stornes, Per Gunnar; Bambra, Clare; Eikemo, Terje Andreas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Comparative studies examining non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and determinants of health in the Nordic countries are scarce, outdated and focus only on a limited range of NCDs and health determinants. This study is the ... -
Occupational inequalities in self-rated health and non-communicable diseases in different regions of Europe: findings from the European Social Survey (2014) special module on the social determinants of health.
McNamara, Courtney L.; Toch-Marquardt, Marlen; Balaj, Mirza; Reibling, Nadine; Eikemo, Terje Andreas; Bambra, Clare (Journal article, 2017)Background: Socioeconomic inequalities in the prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are evident across European populations. Several previous studies have addressed the question of whether occupational inequalities ... -
Parental education and inequalities in child mortality: a global systematic review and meta-analysis
Balaj, Mirza; York, Hunter Wade; Sripada, Kam; Besnier, Elodie; Dahl Vonen, Hanne; Aravkin, Aleksandr Y; Friedman, Joseph; Griswold, Max; Jensen, Magnus Rom; Mohammad, Talal; Mullany, Erin C; Solhaug, Solvor; Sorensen, Reed; Stonkute, Donata; Tallaksen, Andreas; Whisnant, Joanna; Zheng, Peng; Gakidou, Emmanuela; Eikemo, Terje Andreas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021) -
Sick of social status: A Bourdieusian perspective on morbidity and health inequalities
Balaj, Mirza; Eikemo, Terje Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Self-reported health (SRH) is one of the most frequently used measures for examining socioeconomic inequalities in health. Studies find that when faced with ‘identical objective health’, individuals in lower socioeconomic ... -
Social inequalities in health and disease: The Nordic paradox from a Bourdieusian perspective
Balaj, Mirza (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2019:144, Doctoral thesis, 2019) -
Social Inequalities in Health and their Determinants: Topline Findings from Round 7 of the European Social Survey
Eikemo, Terje Andreas; Huijts, Timothy Hubertus Maria; Bambra, Clare; McNamara, Courtney L.; Stornes, Per Gunnar; Balaj, Mirza (Research report, 2016)