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Martin Lindström

Martin Lindström

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Social Sciences and Humanities
Sweden
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
63
Citations
12521
World Ranking
1198
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Martin Lindström is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and social sciences. The scientist's primary research fields include general health professions, health, sociology and political science, nephrology, and clinical psychology. Their work broadly covers health disparities and outcomes, health psychology and well-being, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, dialysis and renal disease management, aging and gerontology research, chronic kidney disease and diabetes, and renal diseases and glomerulopathies.

Martin Lindström has published numerous papers, with a notable focus on public health and epidemiology. Selected recent publications include:

  • The COVID-19 pandemic and the Swedish strategy: Epidemiology and postmodernism (2020, SSM - Population Health)
  • The New Totalitarians: The Swedish COVID-19 strategy and the implications of consensus culture and media policy for public health (2021, SSM - Population Health)

Other frequent publication venues for Lindström's work include the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Preventive Medicine Reports, Public Health, and BMJ Open.

The scientist frequently collaborates with colleagues such as Mirnabi Pirouzifard, Maria Fridh, Maria Rosvall, Raquel Pérez-Vicente, and Juan Merlo, with collaboration counts ranging up to thirteen joint publications with some co-authors.

Lindström's work is substantially grounded in epidemiological and sociological approaches to health, with a considerable number of contributions focusing on health disparities and outcomes. Research topics often intersect with public health policy and the societal implications of health strategies, as reflected in the studies related to the COVID-19 pandemic response in Sweden.

Among the main topics covered in the scientist's publications are:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Health, psychology, and well-being
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Dialysis and Renal Disease Management
  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes
  • Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies

Lindström's contributions have a multidisciplinary impact, spanning clinical, psychological, and sociopolitical dimensions of health research. This range of topics and fields showcases engagement across several levels of public health concerns and medical specialties, reflecting a comprehensive research profile.

Best Publications

  • Social capital and health : does egalitarianism matter? A literature review

    M Kamrul Islam;Juan Merlo;Ichiro Kawachi;Martin Lindström

  • Socioeconomic differences in leisure-time physical activity: the role of social participation and social capital in shaping health related behaviour

    Martin Lindström;Bertil S. Hanson;Per Olof Östergren

  • The Malmö Diet and Cancer Study: representativity, cancer incidence and mortality in participants and non-participants.

    Jonas Manjer;S Carlsson;Sölve Elmståhl;Bo Gullberg

  • Investments in social capital—implications of social interactions for the production of health

    Kristian Bolin;Björn Lindgren;Martin Lindström;Paul Nystedt

  • Social capital, trust in the health-care system and self-rated health: the role of access to health care in a population-based study.

    Mohabbat Mohseni;Martin Lindstrom

  • The impact of changes in different aspects of social capital and material conditions on self-rated health over time: A longitudinal cohort study.

    Giuseppe Nicola Giordano;Martin Lindström

  • Social capital, the miniaturisation of community and self-reported global and psychological health

    Martin Lindström

  • Airborne infectious diseases during infancy and mortality in later life in southern Sweden, 1766–1894

    Tommy Bengtsson;Martin Lindström

  • Childhood misery and disease in later life: the effects on mortality in old age of hazards experienced in early life, southern Sweden, 1760-1894.

    Tommy Bengtsson;Martin Lindström

  • Social determinants of health - A question of social or economic capital? Interaction effects of socioeconomic factors on health outcomes

    Johanna Ahnquist;Sarah P. Wamala;Martin L Lindström;Martin L Lindström

  • Means of transportation to work and overweight and obesity: A population-based study in southern Sweden.

    Martin Martin Lindström

  • Socioeconomic, psychosocial, behavioural, and psychological determinants of BMI among young women: differing patterns for underweight and overweight/obesity

    Sadiq Mohammad Ali;Martin Lindström

  • Ethnic differences in self reported health in Malmö in southern Sweden

    Martin Lindström;J Sundquist;Per-Olof Östergren

  • Social capital and leisure time physical activity: a population based multilevel analysis in Malmö, Sweden

    Martin Lindström;Mahnaz Moghaddassi;Juan Merlo

  • Representativity of a postal public health questionnaire survey in Sweden, with special reference to ethnic differences in participation

    Frida Carlsson;Juan Merlo;Martin Lindström;Per-Olof Östergren

  • Social capital and the miniaturization of community among daily and intermittent smokers: a population-based study.

    Martin Lindström

  • Social capital and self-rated health – A study of temporal (causal) relationships

    Giuseppe Nicola Giordano;Jonas Björk;Martin Lindström;Martin Lindström

  • Increasing prevalence of overweight, obesity and physical inactivity: two population-based studies 1986 and 1994.

    Martin Lindström;Sven-Olof Isacsson;Juan Merlo

  • Marital status, social capital, material conditions and self-rated health: A population-based study

    Martin Lindström

  • Individual and neighbourhood determinants of social participation and social capital: a multilevel analysis of the city of Malmö, Sweden.

    Martin Lindström;Juan Merlo;Per-Olof Östergren

  • Airborne Infectious Diseases during Infancy, and Mortality in Later Life, Southern Sweden 1766-1894

    Martin Lindström;Tommy Bengtsson

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria Rosvall
Maria Rosvall University of Gothenburg
Juan Merlo
Juan Merlo Lund University
Per-Olof Östergren
Per-Olof Östergren Lund University
Basile Chaix
Basile Chaix Sorbonne University
Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault
Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault University of Paris-Saclay
María José Sánchez
María José Sánchez University of Granada
Elisabete Weiderpass
Elisabete Weiderpass International Agency For Research On Cancer
Antonia Trichopoulou
Antonia Trichopoulou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Anne Tjønneland
Anne Tjønneland University of Copenhagen
Kay-Tee Khaw
Kay-Tee Khaw University of Cambridge

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