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Mall Leinsalu is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine, Social Sciences, and Health Professions, with notable contributions in subfields including General Health Professions, Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The focus of their scholarly work centers on health disparities and outcomes, global health care issues, employment and welfare studies, global cancer incidence and screening, health systems, economic evaluations and quality of life, as well as obesity, physical activity, diet, and birth, development, and health.

Leinsalu has authored publications in several scientific journals, frequently contributing to the European Journal of Public Health and Scientific Reports with four publications each. Other common venues include PLoS ONE and the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, each with two articles, as well as the International Journal of Public Health.

Some of their recent research articles include:

  • Socioeconomic inequalities in cancer mortality between and within countries in Europe: a population-based study, 2022, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
  • Educational inequalities in mortality amenable to healthcare. A comparison of European healthcare systems, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Determinants of educational inequalities in disability-free life expectancy between ages 35 and 80 in Europe, 2021, SSM - Population Health
  • Widening educational inequalities in mortality in more recent birth cohorts: a study of 14 European countries, 2023, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
  • Changing social inequalities in smoking, obesity and cause-specific mortality: Cross-national comparisons using compass typology, 2020, PLoS ONE

Frequent collaborators in Leinsalu's research include Pekka Martikainen, Aleksei Baburin, Andrew Stickley, Naoki Kondo, and Domantas Jasilionis. These partnerships have supported their exploration of public health concerns across various populations and health systems.

Best Publications

  • Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Marie Ng;Tom P Fleming;Margaret W. Robinson;Blake Thomson

  • Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity in 195 Countries over 25 Years.

    Ashkan Afshin;Mohammad Forouzanfar;Marissa Reitsma;Patrick Sur

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohsen Naghavi;Haidong Wang;Rafael Lozano;Adrian Davis

  • Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health in 22 European Countries

    Johan P. Mackenbach;Irina Stirbu;Albert-Jan R. Roskam;Maartje M. Schaap

  • Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Max G Griswold;Nancy Fullman;Caitlin Hawley;Nicholas Arian

  • Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Nicholas J. Kassebaum;Amelia Bertozzi-Villa;Megan S. Coggeshall;Katya A. Shackelford

  • Smoking prevalence and attributable disease burden in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Marissa B Reitsma;Nancy Fullman;Marie Ng;Joseph S Salama

  • Global, regional, and national incidence and mortality for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria during 1990???2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Katrina F. Ortblad;Caterina Guinovart;Stephen S. Lim

  • Drinking to death: the changing face of liver disease

    MG Griswold;N Fullman;C Hawley;N Arian

  • Global, regional, and national levels of neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Haidong Wang;Chelsea A. Liddell;Matthew M. Coates;Meghan D. Mooney

  • Measuring the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries: a baseline analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Stephen S Lim;Kate Allen;Zulfiqar A Bhutta;Zulfiqar A Bhutta;Lalit Dandona;Lalit Dandona

  • Healthcare Access and Quality Index based on mortality from causes amenable to personal health care in 195 countries and territories, 1990-2015: a novel analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Ryan M Barber;Nancy Fullman;Reed J D Sorensen;Thomas Bollyky

  • Measuring progress from 1990 to 2017 and projecting attainment to 2030 of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals for 195 countries and territories: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Rafael Lozano;Nancy Fullman;Degu Abate;Solomon M. Abay

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

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

  • Trends in health inequalities in 27 European countries.

    Johan P Mackenbach;José Rubio Valverde;Barbara Artnik;Matthias Bopp

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

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

  • Variations in the relation between education and cause-specific mortality in 19 European populations: a test of the "fundamental causes" theory of social inequalities in health.

    Johan P. Mackenbach;Ivana Kulhánová;Matthias Bopp;Patrick Deboosere

  • The changing relation between education and life expectancy in central and eastern Europe in the 1990s

    Vladimir M Shkolnikov;Evgueni M Andreev;Domantas Jasilionis;Mall Leinsalu

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

    Mall Leinsalu;Denny Vågerö;Anton E Kunst

  • Determinants of inequalities in life expectancy : an international comparative study of eight risk factors

    Johan P Mackenbach;José Rubio Valverde;Matthias Bopp;Henrik Brønnum-Hansen

Frequent Co-Authors

Pekka Martikainen
Pekka Martikainen University of Helsinki
Matthias Bopp
Matthias Bopp University of Zurich
Anton E. Kunst
Anton E. Kunst University of Amsterdam
Enrique Regidor
Enrique Regidor Complutense University of Madrid
Terje Andreas Eikemo
Terje Andreas Eikemo Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Carme Borrell
Carme Borrell Pompeu Fabra University
Olle Lundberg
Olle Lundberg Stockholm University
Elisabete Weiderpass
Elisabete Weiderpass International Agency For Research On Cancer
Rakhi Dandona
Rakhi Dandona Public Health Foundation of India
Martin McKee
Martin McKee London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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