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Denny Vågerö

Denny Vågerö

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
49
Citations
10247
World Ranking
2938
National Ranking
35

Overview

Denny Vågerö is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and has contributed to various fields primarily related to psychology and health professions. Their research addresses topics intersecting birth, development, health, and intergenerational influences. Vågerö's work explores themes such as migration, trauma, and the long-term health effects of social and environmental factors.

Their scholarly output includes publications in notable venues such as Nature Communications, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, and the European Journal of Public Health.

Key topics covered in their research include:

  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Health and Conflict Studies
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation

Vågerö's main fields of study span Psychology and Health Professions, with subfields encompassing General Health Professions, Clinical Psychology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Molecular Biology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their recent papers reflect an interdisciplinary approach to public health and social determinants of health, including the following:

  • The Russian invasion of Ukraine and its public health consequences, 2022, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
  • Parental and family determinants of the Flynn effect, 2023, Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
  • Food abundance in men before puberty predicts a range of cancers in grandsons, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Author Correction: Paternal grandfather's access to food predicts all-cause and cancer mortality in grandsons, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Erratum to: Does unemployment cause long-term mortality? Selection and causation after the 1992-96 deep Swedish recession, 2021, European Journal of Public Health

Vågerö has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Gérard J. van den Berg, David A. Leon, Dmitri A. Jdanov, Christopher J. Gerry, and P. D. Grigoriev.

Best Publications

  • Socioeconomic inequalities in morbidity and mortality in western Europe

    Denny Vågerö;Robert Erikson

  • Reduced fetal growth rate and increased risk of death from ischaemic heart disease: cohort study of 15 000 Swedish men and women born 1915-29

    David A Leon;Hans O Lithell;Denny Vågerö;Ilona Koupilová

  • Education, income, and occupational class cannot be used interchangeably in social epidemiology. Empirical evidence against a common practice

    Siegfried Geyer;Örjan Hemström;Richard Peter;Denny Vågerö

  • Failure to realise growth potential in utero and adult obesity in relation to blood pressure in 50 year old Swedish men.

    David A Leon;Ilona Koupilova;Hans O Lithell;Lars Berglund

  • Health inequalities in Britain and Sweden.

    Denny Vagerö;Denny Vagerö;Olle Lundberg;Olle Lundberg

  • Estonia 1989–2000: enormous increase in mortality differences by education

    Mall Leinsalu;Denny Vågerö;Anton E Kunst

  • Global health equity and climate stabilisation: a common agenda

    Sharon Friel;Sharon Friel;Michael Marmot;Anthony J McMichael;Tord Kjellstrom

  • Alcohol poisoning in Russia and the countries in the European part of the former Soviet Union, 1970 2002.

    Andrew Stickley;Mall Leinsalu;Evgueni Andreev;Yury Razvodovsky

  • Ischaemic heart disease and low birth weight: a test of the fetal-origins hypothesis from the Swedish Twin Registry

    D. Vågerö;D. Leon

  • Educational inequalities in mortality in four Eastern European countries: divergence in trends during the post-communist transition from 1990 to 2000

    Mall Leinsalu;Irina Stirbu;Denny Vågerö;Denny Vågerö;Ramune Kalediene

  • Occupational class and ischemic heart disease mortality in the United States and 11 European countries.

    A E Kunst;F Groenhof;O Andersen;J K Borgan

  • Long term mortality after severe starvation during the siege of Leningrad : prospective cohort study

    Pär Sparén;Denny Vågerö;Dmitri B Shestov;Svetlana Plavinskaja

  • Cohort Profile: The Stockholm Public Health Cohort

    Anna C Svensson;Peeter Fredlund;Lucie Laflamme;Johan Hallqvist

  • Increasing absolute mortality disparities by education in Finland, Norway and Sweden, 1971–2000

    Vladimir M Shkolnikov;Evgueni M Andreev;Dmitri A Jdanov;Domantas Jasilionis

  • Explaining Health Inequalities: Beyond Black and Barker A Discussion of some Issues Emerging in the Decade Following the Black Report

    Denny Vågerö;Raymond Illsley

  • The length of unemployment predicts mortality, differently in men and women, and by cause of death: a six year mortality follow-up of the Swedish 1992-1996 recession.

    Anthony M. Garcy;Denny Vågerö

  • Occupation and malignant melanoma: a study based on cancer registration data in England and Wales and in Sweden.

    D Vågerö;A J Swerdlow;V Beral

  • Social class differences in infant mortality in Sweden: comparison with England and Wales.

    D. A. Leon;D. Vågerö;P. O. Olausson

  • Incidence of cancer in the electronics industry: using the new Swedish Cancer Environment Registry as a screening instrument.

    D Vågerö;R Olin

  • Effect of social class in childhood and adulthood on adult mortality.

    Denny Vågerö;David Leon

  • Paternal grandfather's access to food predicts all-cause and cancer mortality in grandsons

    Denny Vågerö;Pia R. Pinger;Vanda Aronsson;Gerard J. van den Berg

Frequent Co-Authors

Mall Leinsalu
Mall Leinsalu National Institutes of Health
Johan Fritzell
Johan Fritzell Karolinska Institute
Anton E. Kunst
Anton E. Kunst University of Amsterdam
Sharon Friel
Sharon Friel Australian National University
Olle Lundberg
Olle Lundberg Stockholm University
Vladimir M. Shkolnikov
Vladimir M. Shkolnikov Max Planck Society
Ulf Lundberg
Ulf Lundberg Stockholm University
Tapani Valkonen
Tapani Valkonen University of Helsinki
Paul Moran
Paul Moran University of Bristol
Valerie Beral
Valerie Beral University of Oxford

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