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Ola Ekholm is affiliated with the University of Southern Denmark in Denmark. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with a notable focus on subfields such as General Health Professions, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Health, Epidemiology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The main topics addressed in Ekholm's work include:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Cardiac Health and Mental Health
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Workplace Health and Well-being
  • Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Health, psychology, and well-being

Ola Ekholm has published numerous papers in the following venues:

  • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
  • European Journal of Public Health
  • BMJ Open
  • European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
  • Alcohol and Alcoholism

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ekholm include:

  • Britt Borregaard
  • Selina Kikkenborg Berg
  • Trine Bernholdt Rasmussen
  • Lau Caspar Thygesen
  • Anne Vinggaard Christensen

Key recent publications by Ekholm or involving their collaboration include:

  • Social isolation, loneliness, socioeconomic status, and health-risk behaviour in deprived neighbourhoods in Denmark: A cross-sectional study, 2020, SSM - Population Health
  • Psychometric properties of the Danish Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in patients with cardiac disease: results from the DenHeart survey, 2020, Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
  • Why Is Per Capita Consumption Underestimated in Alcohol Surveys? Results from 39 Surveys in 23 European Countries, 2020, Alcohol and Alcoholism
  • Decreasing mental well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study among Danes before and during the pandemic, 2021, Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • The impact of non-response weighting in health surveys for estimates on primary health care utilization, 2022, European Journal of Public Health

Best Publications

  • Critical issues on opioids in chronic non-cancer pain: an epidemiological study.

    Jørgen Eriksen;Per Sjøgren;Eduardo Bruera;Ola Ekholm

  • Factors influencing the use of green space: Results from a Danish national representative survey

    Jasper Schipperijn;Ola Ekholm;Ulrika K. Stigsdotter;Mette Toftager

  • Health promoting outdoor environments - associations between green space, and health, health-related quality of life and stress based on a Danish national representative survey.

    Ulrika K Stigsdotter;Ola Ekholm;Jasper Schipperijn;Mette Toftager

  • Epidemiology of chronic non-malignant pain in Denmark.

    Jørgen Eriksen;Marianne K. Jensen;Per Sjøgren;Ola Ekholm

  • Chronic pain and other sequelae in long-term breast cancer survivors: nationwide survey in Denmark.

    Vera Peuckmann;Ola Ekholm;Niels K. Rasmussen;Mogens Groenvold

  • Epidemiology of chronic pain in Denmark: an update.

    Per Sjøgren;Ola Ekholm;Vera Peuckmann;Morten Grønbaek

  • The Danish National Health Survey 2010.: Study design and respondent characteristics.

    Anne Illemann Christensen;Ola Ekholm;Charlotte Glümer;Anne Helms Andreasen

  • Effect of nationwide tobacco control policies on smoking cessation in high and low educated groups in 18 European countries

    Maartje M. Schaap;Anton E. Kunst;Mall Leinsalu;Enrique Regidor

  • Distance to Green Space and Physical Activity: A Danish National Representative Survey

    Mette Toftager;Ola Ekholm;Jasper Schipperijn;Ulrika Stigsdotter

  • The study design and characteristics of the Danish national health interview surveys.

    Ola Ekholm;Ulrik Hesse;Michael Davidsen;Mette Kjøller

  • Influence of the recall period on self-reported alcohol intake.

    Ola Ekholm

  • Associations between perceived stress, socioeconomic status, and health-risk behaviour in deprived neighbourhoods in Denmark: a cross-sectional study

    Maria Holst Algren;Ola Ekholm;Line Nielsen;Annette Kjær Ersbøll

  • Chronic pain, opioid prescriptions, and mortality in Denmark: A population-based cohort study

    Ola Ekholm;Geana Paula Kurita;Jette Højsted;Knud Juel

  • Effect of survey mode on response patterns: comparison of face-to-face and self-administered modes in health surveys.

    Anne Illemann Christensen;Ola Ekholm;Charlotte Glümer;Knud Juel

  • Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in self-assessed health in 17 European countries between 1990 and 2010

    Yannan Hu;Frank J van Lenthe;Gerard J Borsboom;Caspar W N Looman

  • Influence of health, lifestyle, working conditions, and sociodemography on early retirement among nurses: the Danish Nurse Cohort Study.

    Karina Friis;Ola Ekholm;Yrsa A Hundrup;Erik B Obel

  • Health-related quality of life in long-term breast cancer survivors: nationwide survey in Denmark.

    Vera Peuckmann;Ola Ekholm;Niels Kristian Rasmussen;Susanne Møller

  • Disease-Specific as Well as Generic Quality of Life Is Widely Impacted in Autoimmune Hypothyroidism and Improves during the First Six Months of Levothyroxine Therapy.

    Kristian Hillert Winther;Kristian Hillert Winther;Per Cramon;Torquil Watt;Torquil Watt;Jakob Bue Bjorner

  • The burden of chronic pain: a cross-sectional survey focussing on diseases, immigration, and opioid use.

    Geana Paula Kurita;Per Sjøgren;Knud Juel;Jette Højsted

  • A population-based cohort study on chronic pain: the role of opioids.

    Per Sjøgren;Morten Grønbæk;Vera Peuckmann;Ola Ekholm

  • Social isolation, loneliness, socioeconomic status, and health-risk behaviour in deprived neighbourhoods in Denmark: A cross-sectional study.

    Maria Holst Algren;Ola Ekholm;Line Nielsen;Annette Kjær Ersbøll

Frequent Co-Authors

Jakob B. Bjorner
Jakob B. Bjorner University of Copenhagen
Enrique Regidor
Enrique Regidor Complutense University of Madrid
Kim Bloomfield
Kim Bloomfield Aarhus University
Mall Leinsalu
Mall Leinsalu National Institutes of Health
Anton E. Kunst
Anton E. Kunst University of Amsterdam
Bjørn Evald Holstein
Bjørn Evald Holstein University of Southern Denmark
Frank J. van Lenthe
Frank J. van Lenthe Erasmus University Rotterdam
Jasper Schipperijn
Jasper Schipperijn University of Southern Denmark
Eero Lahelma
Eero Lahelma University of Helsinki
Susanne S. Pedersen
Susanne S. Pedersen University of Southern Denmark

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