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Mikael Rostila

Mikael Rostila

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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35
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4429
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Overview

Mikael Rostila is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden. Their research spans multiple disciplines primarily within medicine, social sciences, and psychology. The scientist's publications reflect a focus on health disparities and outcomes as well as migration, health, and trauma.

The main fields of study for Mikael Rostila include:

  • Medicine
  • Social Sciences
  • Psychology

Within these fields, their subfields of study cover areas such as:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Health
  • General Health Professions
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Neurology

The scientist's research topics are diverse and include:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Thermal Regulation in Medicine

Recent publications by Mikael Rostila include:

  • "Residential context and COVID-19 mortality among adults aged 70 years and older in Stockholm: a population-based, observational study using individual-level data" (2020) published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity
  • "Disparities in Coronavirus Disease 2019 Mortality by Country of Birth in Stockholm, Sweden: A Total-Population-Based Cohort Study" (2021) published in American Journal of Epidemiology
  • "Mobility restrictions were associated with reductions in COVID-19 incidence early in the pandemic: evidence from a real-time evaluation in 34 countries" (2021) published in Scientific Reports
  • "Institutional and behaviour-change interventions to support COVID-19 public health measures: a review by the Lancet Commission Task Force on public health measures to suppress the pandemic" (2021) published in International Health
  • "Psychological distress by age at migration and duration of residence in Sweden" (2020) published in Social Science & Medicine

Mikael Rostila frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Agneta Cederström
  • Sol Juárez
  • Lisa Berg
  • Marie Nørredam
  • Ayako Hiyoshi

The scientist's work is often published in journals such as:

  • European Journal of Public Health
  • BMJ Open
  • American Journal of Epidemiology
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • JAMA Network Open

Best Publications

  • Parental death during childhood and depression in young adults - a national cohort study

    Lisa Berg;Mikael Rostila;Anders Hjern

  • The Facets of Social Capital

    Mikael Rostila

  • Time Does Not Heal All Wounds: Mortality Following the Death of a Parent

    Mikael Rostila;Jan M. Saarela

  • Effects of non-health-targeted policies on migrant health: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Sol Pía Juárez;Sol Pía Juárez;Helena Honkaniemi;Helena Honkaniemi;Andrea C. Dunlavy;Andrea C. Dunlavy;Robert W. Aldridge

  • Residential context and COVID-19 mortality among adults aged 70 years and older in Stockholm: a population-based, observational study using individual-level data

    Maria Brandén;Maria Brandén;Siddartha Aradhya;Martin Kolk;Juho Härkönen;Juho Härkönen

  • Mortality in parents following the death of a child: a nationwide follow-up study from Sweden

    Mikael Rostila;Jan Saarela;Ichiro Kawachi

  • Social capital and health in European welfare regimes: a multilevel approach

    Mikael Rostila

  • Parental Death During Childhood and Subsequent School Performance

    Lisa Berg;Mikael Rostila;Jan Saarela;Jan Saarela;Anders Hjern

  • The Forgotten Griever: A Nationwide Follow-up Study of Mortality Subsequent to the Death of a Sibling

    Mikael Rostila;Jan Saarela;Ichiro Kawachi

  • The role of social capital in explaining mental health inequalities between immigrants and Swedish-born: a population-based cross-sectional study

    Charisse M. Johnson;Mikael Rostila;Anna C. Svensson;Karin Engström

  • Social Capital and Health Inequality in European Welfare States

    Mikael Rostila

  • Disparities in Coronavirus Disease 2019 Mortality by Country of Birth in Stockholm, Sweden: A Total-Population-Based Cohort Study.

    Mikael Rostila;Agneta Cederström;Matthew Wallace;Maria Brandén

  • Parental death in childhood and self-inflicted injuries in young adults-a national cohort study from Sweden

    Mikael Rostila;Lisa Berg;Arzu Arat;Bo Vinnerljung

  • Suicide following the death of a sibling: a nationwide follow-up study from Sweden.

    Mikael Rostila;Jan Saarela;Ichiro Kawachi

  • Birds of a feather flock together--and fall ill? Migrant homophily and health in Sweden.

    Mikael Rostila

  • Mobility restrictions were associated with reductions in COVID-19 incidence early in the pandemic: evidence from a real-time evaluation in 34 countries.

    Juhwan Oh;Hwa Young Lee;Quynh Long Khuong;Jeffrey F. Markuns

  • Social support and leisure-time physical activity : longitudinal evidence from the Brazilian Pro-Saude cohort study

    Aldair J Oliveira;Claudia S Lopes;Antônio C Ponce de Leon;Mikael Rostila

  • Mortality From Myocardial Infarction After the Death of a Sibling: A Nationwide Follow-up Study From Sweden

    Mikael Rostila;Jan Saarela;Ichiro Kawachi

  • Institutional and behaviour-change interventions to support COVID-19 public health measures: a review by the Lancet Commission Task Force on public health measures to suppress the pandemic.

    Jong-Koo Lee;Jong-Koo Lee;Chris Bullen;Yanis Ben Amor;Simon R Bush

  • Den orättvisa hälsan : Om socioekonomiska skillnader i hälsa och livslängd

    Mikael Rostila;Susanna Toivanen

  • Social integration and mental health - a decomposition approach to mental health inequalities between the foreign-born and native-born in Sweden

    Anna Brydsten;Mikael Rostila;Andrea Dunlavy

Frequent Co-Authors

Claudia S. Lopes
Claudia S. Lopes Rio de Janeiro State University
Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi
Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi University of Glasgow
Yvonne Forsell
Yvonne Forsell Karolinska Institute
Ole Frithjof Norheim
Ole Frithjof Norheim University of Bergen
Bo Vinnerljung
Bo Vinnerljung Stockholm University
Johan Fritzell
Johan Fritzell Karolinska Institute
S. V. Subramanian
S. V. Subramanian Harvard University
Martin McKee
Martin McKee London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Tomas Hemmingsson
Tomas Hemmingsson Stockholm University
Chang-Chuan Chan
Chang-Chuan Chan National Taiwan University

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