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Hugo Westerlund

Hugo Westerlund

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83
Citations
22238
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National Ranking
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Overview

Hugo Westerlund is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden, where their research primarily focuses on health professions and social sciences. Their body of work encompasses a range of subfields including general health professions, demography, health, social psychology, and sociology and political science.

The main topics of their research include workplace health and well-being, employment and welfare studies, retirement, disability, and employment, health disparities and outcomes, urban transport and accessibility, global health care issues, and physical activity and health.

Westerlund has published extensively in several academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Innovation in Aging
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • BMC Public Health
  • Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health
  • European Journal of Public Health

Their recent papers include:

  • "Association of Healthy Lifestyle With Years Lived Without Major Chronic Diseases," 2020, JAMA Internal Medicine
  • "Validation of the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire Version III and Establishment of Benchmarks for Psychosocial Risk Management in Sweden," 2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "Socioeconomic Inequalities in Disability-free Life Expectancy in Older People from England and the United States: A Cross-national Population-Based Study," 2020, The Journals of Gerontology Series A
  • "Long working hours and risk of 50 health conditions and mortality outcomes: a multicohort study in four European countries," 2021, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
  • "Benchmarks for Evidence-Based Risk Assessment with the Swedish Version of the 4-Item Psychosocial Safety Climate Scale," 2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Westerlund frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Linda L. Magnusson Hanson
  • Jussi Vahtera
  • Loretta G. Platts
  • Marianna Virtanen
  • Mika Kivimäki

Their work addresses a variety of public health concerns, with a particular focus on workplace factors influencing health, social determinants of health, and policy-related issues in welfare and employment. Their research contributes to understanding how lifestyle, socioeconomic status, and psychosocial environments impact health outcomes and disability-free life expectancy.

Best Publications

  • Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of individual participant data.

    Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Solja T. Nyberg;G. David Batty;G. David Batty;Eleonor I. Fransson;Eleonor I. Fransson;Eleonor I. Fransson

  • Long working hours and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke : a systematic review and meta-analysis of published and unpublished data for 603 838 individuals

    Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Markus Jokela;Solja T. Nyberg;Archana Singh-Manoux;Archana Singh-Manoux

  • Overweight, obesity, and risk of cardiometabolic multimorbidity: pooled analysis of individual-level data for 120 813 adults from 16 cohort studies from the USA and Europe

    Mika Kivimaki;Mika Kivimaki;Mika Kivimaki;Eeva Kuosma;Jane E. Ferrie;Jane E. Ferrie;Ritva Luukkonen

  • Job strain as a risk factor for clinical depression: systematic review and meta-analysis with additional individual participant data

    Ida E. H. Madsen;S. T. Nyberg;L. L. Magnusson Hanson;J. E. Ferrie

  • Body mass index and risk of dementia: Analysis of individual-level data from 1.3 million individuals

    Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Ritva Luukkonen;G. David Batty;G. David Batty;Jane E. Ferrie

  • Self-rated health before and after retirement in France (GAZEL): a cohort study

    Hugo Westerlund;Hugo Westerlund;Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Archana Singh-Manoux;Archana Singh-Manoux;Maria Melchior

  • Obesity and loss of disease-free years owing to major non-communicable diseases: a multicohort study.

    Solja T Nyberg;G David Batty;Jaana Pentti;Jaana Pentti;Marianna Virtanen

  • Effort-Reward Imbalance at Work and Incident Coronary Heart Disease: A Multicohort Study of 90,164 Individuals.

    Nico Dragano;Johannes Siegrist;Solja T. Nyberg;Thorsten Lunau

  • Job Strain as a Risk Factor for Leisure-Time Physical Inactivity: An Individual-Participant Meta-Analysis of Up to 170,000 Men and Women: The IPD-Work Consortium

    Eleonor I Fransson;Katriina Heikkila;Solja T Nyberg;Marie Zins

  • Long working hours, socioeconomic status, and the risk of incident type 2 diabetes: a meta-analysis of published and unpublished data from 222 120 individuals

    Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Marianna Virtanen;Ichiro Kawachi;Solja T Nyberg

  • Perceived job insecurity as a risk factor for incident coronary heart disease: systematic review and meta-analysis

    Marianna Virtanen;Solja T Nyberg;G David Batty;G David Batty;Markus Jokela

  • Physical inactivity, cardiometabolic disease, and risk of dementia: an individual-participant meta-analysis

    Mika Kivimaki;Mika Kivimaki;Archana Singh-Manoux;Archana Singh-Manoux;Jaana Pentti;Jaana Pentti;Severine Sabia;Severine Sabia

  • Job Strain as a Risk Factor for Type 2 Diabetes: A Pooled Analysis of 124,808 Men and Women

    Solja T Nyberg;Eleonor I Fransson;Katriina Heikkilä;Kirsi Ahola

  • Long Working Hours and Alcohol Use: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Published Studies and Unpublished Individual Participant Data

    Marianna Virtanen;Markus Jokela;Solja T Nyberg;Ida E H Madsen

  • Effect of retirement on major chronic conditions and fatigue: French GAZEL occupational cohort study

    Hugo Westerlund;Jussi Vahtera;Jane E Ferrie;Archana Singh-Manoux

  • Job Strain and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors : Meta-Analysis of Individual-Participant Data from 47,000 Men and Women

    Solja T. Nyberg;Eleonor I. Fransson;Eleonor I. Fransson;Eleonor I. Fransson;Katriina Heikkilä;Lars Alfredsson;Lars Alfredsson

  • Flexible labor markets and employee health

    Jane E Ferrie;Hugo Westerlund;Marianna Virtanen;Jussi Vahtera

  • Demand, control and social climate as predictors of emotional exhaustion symptoms in working Swedish men and women.

    Linda L. Magnusson Hanson;Töres Theorell;Gabriel Oxenstierna;Martin Hyde

  • Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease

    Mika Kivimäki;Solja T Nyberg;G David Batty;Eleonor I Fransson

  • Perceived job insecurity as a risk factor for incident coronary heart disease: systematic review and meta-analysis

    Marianna Virtanen;Solja T. Nyberg;G. David Batty;Markus Jokela

Frequent Co-Authors

Mika Kivimäki
Mika Kivimäki University College London
Jussi Vahtera
Jussi Vahtera Turku University Hospital
Jane E. Ferrie
Jane E. Ferrie University College London
Töres Theorell
Töres Theorell Karolinska Institute
Lars Alfredsson
Lars Alfredsson Karolinska Institute
Jaana Pentti
Jaana Pentti University of Turku
Marianna Virtanen
Marianna Virtanen University of Eastern Finland
G. David Batty
G. David Batty University College London

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