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Social Sciences and Humanities
Spain
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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91
Citations
29808
World Ranking
182
National Ranking
3

Medicine

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87
Citations
26521
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National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Carme Borrell is affiliated with Pompeu Fabra University in Spain and has a substantial body of work in social sciences and health professions. Their research spans various aspects within these domains, with a focus on public health, epidemiology, and social determinants of health.

They have contributed significantly to topics such as:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Employment and welfare studies
  • Global health care issues
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Climate change and health impacts
  • Urban transport and accessibility
  • Migration, aging, and tourism studies

The main fields of study in their research portfolio include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Health Professions

With subfields that detail their focus more precisely, their work covers:

  • General Health Professions
  • Health
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Demography
  • Modeling and Simulation

Carme Borrell has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Lucía Artazcoz
  • Marc Marí-Dell'Olmo
  • Laia Palència
  • Katherine Pérez
  • Maica Rodríguez-Sanz

Their work has been published repeatedly in a variety of academic venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in:

  • Gaceta Sanitaria
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • BMC Public Health
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Environmental Research

Highlighted recent papers include the following:

  • Socioeconomic Inequalities in COVID-19 in a European Urban Area: Two Waves, Two Patterns (2021), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Energy poverty and health: Trends in the European Union before and during the economic crisis, 2007-2016 (2020), Health & Place
  • The evaluation of the 3-30-300 green space rule and mental health (2022), Environmental Research
  • The need for an independent evaluation of the COVID-19 response in Spain (2020), The Lancet
  • Quality of urban green spaces influences residents' use of these spaces, physical activity, and overweight/obesity (2020), Environmental Pollution

Best Publications

  • Unemployment and Mental Health: Understanding the Interactions Among Gender, Family Roles, and Social Class

    Lucía Artazcoz;Joan Benach;Carme Borrell;Immaculada Cortès

  • Socioeconomic differences in the prevalence of common chronic diseases: an overview of eight European countries

    J. A. A. Dalstra;A. E. Kunst;C. Borrell;E. Breeze

  • Politics and health outcomes

    Vicente Navarro;Vicente Navarro;Carles Muntaner;Carles Muntaner;Carme Borrell;Joan Benach

  • Educational inequalities in cause-specific mortality in middle-aged and older men and women in eight western European populations

    Martijn Huisman;Anton Kunst;Matthias Bopp;Jens Kristian Borgan

  • Green spaces and General Health: Roles of mental health status, social support, and physical activity.

    Payam Dadvand;Xavier Bartoll;Xavier Basagaña;Albert Dalmau-Bueno

  • Trends in Smoking Behaviour Between 1985 and 2000 in Nine European countries by Education

    Katrina M. Giskes;Anton E. Kunst;Joan Benach;Carme Borrell

  • Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality among elderly people in 11 European populations

    Martijn Huisman;Anton Kunst;Otto Andersen;Matthias Bopp

  • Migration-related health inequalities: Showing the complex interactions between gender, social class and place of origin

    Davide Malmusi;Carme Borrell;Joan Benach

  • Social class and self-reported health status among men and women: what is the role of work organisation, household material standards and household labour?

    Carme Borrell;Carles Muntaner;Joan Benach;Lucı́a Artazcoz

  • Changes in mortality inequalities over two decades: register based study of European countries.

    Johan P Mackenbach;Ivana Kulhánová;Barbara Artnik;Matthias Bopp

  • Socio-economic inequalities in breast and cervical cancer screening practices in Europe: influence of the type of screening program

    Laia Palència;Albert Espelt;Maica Rodríguez-Sanz;Rosa Puigpinós

  • Construcción de un índice de privación a partir de datos censales en grandes ciudades españolas (Proyecto MEDEA)

    M. Felícitas Domínguez-Berjón;Carme Borrell;Gemma Cano-Serral;Santiago Esnaola

  • Gender inequalities in health among workers: the relation with family demands

    L Artazcoz;C Borrell;J Benach

  • Educational inequalities in cause-specific mortality in middle-aged and older men and women in eight western European populations

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  • Trends in inequalities in premature mortality: a study of 3.2 million deaths in 13 European countries

    Johan P Mackenbach;Ivana Kulhánová;Gwenn Menvielle;Matthias Bopp

  • Propuestas de clase social neoweberiana y neomarxista a partir de la Clasificación Nacional de Ocupaciones 2011

    Antònia Domingo-Salvany;Amaia Bacigalupe;José Miguel Carrasco;Albert Espelt

  • Women, family demands and health: the importance of employment status and socio-economic position.

    Lucía Artazcoz;Carme Borrell;Joan Benach;Imma Cortès

  • Socioeconomic inequalities in diabetes mellitus across Europe at the beginning of the 21st century

    Albert Espelt;Carme Borrell;Albert-Jan Roskam;Maica Rodriguez-Sanz

  • Politics, welfare regimes, and population health: controversies and evidence

    Carles Muntaner;Carme Borrell;Edwin Ng;Haejoo Chung

  • Socioeconomic status and ischaemic heart disease mortality in 10 western European populations during the 1990s

    Mauricio Avendano;Anton E Kunst;Martijn Huisman;Frank V Lenthe

  • Social inequalities in the impact of flexible employment on different domains of psychosocial health

    Lucía Artazcoz;Joan Benach;Carme Borrell;Imma Cortès

Frequent Co-Authors

Maica Rodríguez-Sanz
Maica Rodríguez-Sanz Pompeu Fabra University
Lucía Artazcoz
Lucía Artazcoz Pompeu Fabra University
Joan Benach
Joan Benach Pompeu Fabra University
Carles Muntaner
Carles Muntaner University of Toronto
Anton E. Kunst
Anton E. Kunst University of Amsterdam
Johan P. Mackenbach
Johan P. Mackenbach Erasmus University Rotterdam
Enrique Regidor
Enrique Regidor Complutense University of Madrid
Mall Leinsalu
Mall Leinsalu National Institutes of Health
Matthias Bopp
Matthias Bopp University of Zurich
Pekka Martikainen
Pekka Martikainen University of Helsinki

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