Do diseases have a prestige hierarchy? A survey among physicians and medical students

D Album, S Westin - Social science & medicine, 2008 - Elsevier
Surveys have shown that the prestige of medical specialities is ordered hierarchically. We
investigate whether similar tacit agreement in the medical community also applies to …

Social determinants of disability pension: a 10-year follow-up of 62 000 people in a Norwegian county population

S Krokstad, R Johnsen, S Westin - International journal of …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Background Non-medical factors may be important determinants for granting disability
pension (DP) even though disability is medically defined, as in Norway. The aim of this …

School dropout: a major public health challenge: a 10-year prospective study on medical and non-medical social insurance benefits in young adulthood, the Young …

KAA De Ridder, K Pape, R Johnsen… - J Epidemiol …, 2012 - jech.bmj.com
Background School and work participation in adolescence and young adulthood are
important for future health and socioeconomic status. The authors studied the association …

Adolescents' health-related dietary patterns by parental socio-economic position, The Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT)

SM Nilsen, S Krokstad, TL Holmen… - European journal of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Background: Nutrition is among the important determinants of diseases, and the social
patterning of early eating habits may offer keys to prevention. We studied associations …

Disability in society—medical and non-medical determinants for disability pension in a Norwegian total county population study

S Krokstad, S Westin - Social science & medicine, 2004 - Elsevier
The objective of this study was to describe sociomedical determinants and developments for
the medically based disability pension in Norway by linking individual based data from a …

[HTML][HTML] Adolescent health and high school dropout: a prospective cohort study of 9000 Norwegian adolescents (The Young-HUNT)

KAA De Ridder, K Pape, R Johnsen, TL Holmen… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background High school dropout is of major concern in the western world. Our aims were to
estimate the risk of school dropout in adolescents following chronic somatic disease …

Trends in health inequalities by educational level in a Norwegian total population study

S Krokstad, AE Kunst, S Westin - Journal of Epidemiology & …, 2002 - jech.bmj.com
Objective: To describe levels of inequality and trends in self reported morbidity by
educational level in a total Norwegian county population in the mid-1980s and mid-1990s …

[HTML][HTML] Socioeconomic inequalities in health care utilisation in Norway: the population-based HUNT3 survey

E Vikum, S Krokstad, S Westin - International journal for equity in health, 2012 - Springer
Background In this study we investigated the distribution of self-reported health care
utilisation by education and household income in a county population in Norway, in a …

[HTML][HTML] High school dropout and long-term sickness and disability in young adulthood: a prospective propensity score stratified cohort study (the Young-HUNT study)

KAA De Ridder, K Pape, K Cuypers, R Johnsen… - BMC public health, 2013 - Springer
Background High school dropout and long-term sickness absence/disability pension in
young adulthood are strongly associated. We investigated whether common risk factors in …

Methods for quality assessment in general practice

JJ Rethans, S Westin, R Hays - Family Practice, 1996 - academic.oup.com
Background and objectives There is now a wide variety of methods available to general
practitioners who want to engage in quality assessment, quality assurance, or quality …