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Denmark
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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World Ranking
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7

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Finn Diderichsen is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research primarily focuses on public health, medicine, and social sciences, with a notable emphasis on health disparities, epidemiology, and chronic disease management.

Their recent publications include several papers that address critical issues in health inequalities and pandemic responses. These papers are:

  • "Unequal impact of the COVID-19 crisis on minority ethnic groups: a framework for understanding and addressing inequalities," 2021, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
  • "How did Sweden Fail the Pandemic?", 2021, International Journal of Health Services
  • "Roles of allostatic load, lifestyle and clinical risk factors in mediating the association between education and coronary heart disease risk in Europe," 2021, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
  • "Beyond 'commercial determinants': shining a light on privatization and political drivers of health inequalities," 2021, European Journal of Public Health
  • "Inequalities in extending working lives beyond age 60 in Canada, Denmark, Sweden and England-By gender, level of education and health," 2020, PLoS ONE

Finn Diderichsen has published extensively across several prominent journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
  • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
  • European Journal of Public Health
  • PLoS ONE
  • International Journal of Health Services

Their collaborations reflect a network of frequent co-authors who have contributed to shared areas in public and global health research:

  • Ingelise Andersen
  • Margaret Whitehead
  • Anne Mette Bender
  • Ben Barr
  • Henrik Brønnum-Hansen

Their work spans various fields and subfields within health-related disciplines. The main fields of study are:

  • Medicine
  • Social Sciences
  • Health Professions

Within these, the scientist has contributed to subfields such as:

  • General Health Professions
  • Health
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

The central topics addressed in their publications include:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies
  • Global Health Care Issues

Best Publications

  • Bullying and symptoms among school-aged children: international comparative cross sectional study in 28 countries

    Pernille Due;Bjørn E. Holstein;John Lynch;Finn Diderichsen

  • Swedish population health-related quality of life results using the EQ-5D.

    Kristina Burström;Magnus Johannesson;Finn Diderichsen

  • The Social Basis of Disparities in Health

    Finn Diderichsen;Timothy Evans;Margaret Whitehead

  • Challenging inequities in health: from ethics to action.

    T. Evans;M. Whitehead;F. Diderichsen;A. Bhuiya

  • Physical, psychosocial, and organisational factors relative to sickness absence: a study based on Sweden Post

    M Voss;B Floderus;F Diderichsen

  • Health-related quality of life by disease and socio-economic group in the general population in Sweden

    Kristina Burström;Magnus Johannesson;Finn Diderichsen

  • Socioeconomic differentials in misclassification of height, weight and body mass index based on questionnaire data.

    G Boström;F Diderichsen

  • Social policies and the pathways to inequalities in health: a comparative analysis of lone mothers in Britain and Sweden

    Margaret Whitehead;Bo Burström;Finn Diderichsen

  • Social differences in traffic injury risks in childhood and youth--a literature review and a research agenda.

    Lucie Laflamme;F. Diderichsen

  • Health Inequality - determinants and policies

    Finn Diderichsen;Ingelise Andersen;Celie Manuel

  • Unemployment and early cause-specific mortality: a study based on the Swedish twin registry.

    Margaretha Voss;Lotta Nylén;Birgitta Floderus;Finn Diderichsen

  • Differential vulnerability and susceptibility: how to make use of recent development in our understanding of mediation and interaction to tackle health inequalities

    Finn Diderichsen;Finn Diderichsen;Johan Hallqvist;Margaret Whitehead

  • Higher relative, but lower absolute risks of myocardial infarction in women than in men: analysis of some major risk factors in the SHEEP study. The SHEEP Study Group.

    C Reuterwall;Johan Hallqvist;A Ahlbom;U De Faire

  • Do episodes of anger trigger myocardial infarction? A case-crossover analysis in the Stockholm Heart Epidemiology Program (SHEEP).

    Jette Möller;Johan Hallqvist;Finn Diderichsen;Töres Theorell

  • Is the effect of job strain on myocardial infarction risk due to interaction between high psychological demands and low decision latitude? Results from Stockholm Heart Epidemiology Program (SHEEP).

    Johan Hallqvist;Finn Diderichsen;Töres Theorell;Christina Reuterwall

  • Understanding the natural progression in %FEV1 decline in patients with cystic fibrosis: a longitudinal study.

    David Taylor-Robinson;Margaret Whitehead;Finn Diderichsen;Hanne Vebert Olesen

  • How to evaluate interaction between causes: a review of practices in cardiovascular epidemiology.

    Johan Hallqvist;A Ahlbom;F Diderichsen;C Reuterwall

  • Exploring relative deprivation: is social comparison a mechanism in the relation between income and health?

    Monica Åberg Yngwe;Johan Fritzell;Olle Lundberg;Finn Diderichsen;Finn Diderichsen

  • Unequal impact of the COVID-19 crisis on minority ethnic groups: a framework for understanding and addressing inequalities.

    Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi;Sham Lal;Enitan D Carrol;Claire L Niedzwiedz

  • Short-term and long-term sick-leave in Sweden: relationships with social circumstances, working conditions and gender.

    Nelson Blank;Finn Diderichsen

  • Physical, psychosocial, and organisational factors relative to sickness absence: a study based on

    Sweden Post;M Voss;B Floderus;F Diderichsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Bo Burström
Bo Burström Karolinska Institute
Margaret Whitehead
Margaret Whitehead University of Liverpool
Reiner Rugulies
Reiner Rugulies University of Copenhagen
Anne Tjønneland
Anne Tjønneland University of Copenhagen
Lucie Laflamme
Lucie Laflamme Karolinska Institute
Olle Lundberg
Olle Lundberg Stockholm University
Anders Romelsjö
Anders Romelsjö Karolinska Institute
Pekka Martikainen
Pekka Martikainen University of Helsinki
Giulia Cesaroni
Giulia Cesaroni Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Eero Lahelma
Eero Lahelma University of Helsinki

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