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Giuseppe Costa

Giuseppe Costa

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Social Sciences and Humanities
Italy
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
62
Citations
14702
World Ranking
1271
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Giuseppe Costa is affiliated with the University of Turin in Italy and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of Medicine and Health Professions. Their body of work spans several subfields including General Health Professions, Health, Epidemiology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Oncology.

The scientist's research topics focus primarily on areas such as Health disparities and outcomes, Employment and Welfare Studies, Global Health Care Issues, Climate Change and Health Impacts, COVID-19 and healthcare impacts, Chronic Disease Management Strategies, and Retirement, Disability, and Employment.

Among recent publications are several papers with notable citation counts:

  • "Temporal dynamics in total excess mortality and COVID-19 deaths in Italian cities" (2020, BMC Public Health)
  • "Predictive Modeling for Frailty Conditions in Elderly People: Machine Learning Approaches" (2020, JMIR Medical Informatics)
  • "Special Report: The Biology of Inequalities in Health: The Lifepath Consortium" (2020, Frontiers in Public Health)
  • "Update and review of the 2011 Italian deprivation index calculated at the census section level" (2020, Epidemiologia e prevenzione)
  • "COVID-19 infection and diffusion among the healthcare workforce in a large university-hospital in northwest Italy" (2020, La Medicina del lavoro)

Giuseppe Costa frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Fulvio Ricceri
  • Roberto Gnavi
  • Nicolàs Zengarini
  • Angelo d'Errico
  • Teresa Spadea

Their research is published mostly in journals such as:

  • PubMed
  • European Journal of Public Health
  • BMC Public Health
  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health

Best Publications

  • Socioeconomic status and the 25 × 25 risk factors as determinants of premature mortality: a multicohort study and meta-analysis of 1·7 million men and women

    Silvia Stringhini;Cristian Carmeli;Markus Jokela;Mauricio Avendaño;Mauricio Avendaño

  • Widening socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in six Western European countries

    Johan P Mackenbach;Vivian Bos;Otto Andersen;Mario Cardano

  • 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

  • Postprandial Blood Glucose Is a Stronger Predictor of Cardiovascular Events Than Fasting Blood Glucose in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Particularly in Women: Lessons from the San Luigi Gonzaga Diabetes Study

    F Cavalot;A Petrelli;M Traversa;K Bonomo

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

    Martijn Huisman;Anton Kunst;Otto Andersen;Matthias Bopp

  • Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality among women and among men: an international study.

    Johan P. Mackenbach;Anton E. Kunst;Feikje Groenhof;Jens-Kristian Borgan

  • 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 suicide: a European comparative study.

    Vincent Lorant;Vincent Lorant;Anton E Kunst;Martijn Huisman;Giuseppe Costa

  • 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

  • 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

  • Inequalities in lung cancer mortality by the educational level in 10 European populations.

    Johan P. Mackenbach;Martijn Huisman;Otto Andersen;Matthias Bopp

  • The impact of the summer 2003 heat waves on mortality in four Italian cities

    P Michelozzi;F de Donato;L Bisanti;A Russo

  • 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

  • The Effects of the Urban Built Environment on Mental Health: A Cohort Study in a Large Northern Italian City

    Giulia Melis;Elena Gelormino;Giulia Marra;Elisa Ferracin

  • The impact of interventions to improve attendance in female cancer screening among lower socioeconomic groups: a review.

    Teresa Spadea;Silvia Bellini;Anton Kunst;Irina Stirbu

  • Health inequalities between lone and couple mothers and policy under different welfare regimes – The example of Italy, Sweden and Britain☆

    Bo Burstrom;Margaret Whitehead;Stephen Clayton;Sara Fritzell

  • Socioeconomic status, non-communicable disease risk factors, and walking speed in older adults: multi-cohort population based study

    Silvia Stringhini;Cristian Carmeli;Markus Jokela;Mauricio Avendaño;Mauricio Avendaño

  • Social mobility and health in the Turin longitudinal study

    Mario Cardano;Giuseppe Costa;Moreno Demaria

  • Educational inequalities in avoidable mortality in Europe

    Irina Stirbu;Anton E Kunst;Matthias Bopp;Mall Leinsalu

  • Monitoring of trends in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality: Experiences from a European project

    Anton E. Kunst;Vivian Bos;Otto Andersen;Mario Cardano

  • Educational level and stroke mortality: a comparison of 10 European populations during the 1990s

    Mauricio Avendano;Anton E. Kunst;Martijn Huisman;Frank J. van Lenthe

Frequent Co-Authors

Pekka Martikainen
Pekka Martikainen University of Helsinki
Anton E. Kunst
Anton E. Kunst University of Amsterdam
Carme Borrell
Carme Borrell Pompeu Fabra University
Paola Michelozzi
Paola Michelozzi University of Hong Kong
Mall Leinsalu
Mall Leinsalu National Institutes of Health
Matthias Bopp
Matthias Bopp University of Zurich
Enrique Regidor
Enrique Regidor Complutense University of Madrid
Tapani Valkonen
Tapani Valkonen University of Helsinki
Maica Rodríguez-Sanz
Maica Rodríguez-Sanz Pompeu Fabra University
Wilma J. Nusselder
Wilma J. Nusselder Erasmus University Rotterdam

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