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Social Sciences and Humanities
Denmark
2023

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
56
Citations
16470
World Ranking
1861
National Ranking
14

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Pernille Due is affiliated with the University of Southern Denmark in Denmark. Their research primarily focuses on public health, with significant contributions to the fields of medicine, health professions, and social sciences. Within these domains, Pernille Due has concentrated on subfields such as public health, environmental and occupational health, speech and hearing, clinical psychology, general health professions, and health more broadly.

Their work encompasses several main research topics, including school health and nursing education, obesity, physical activity, and diet, health disparities and outcomes, health psychology and well-being, as well as family support in illness and disability research. They have also investigated issues related to childhood cancer survivors' quality of life.

Pernille Due has published in various peer-reviewed journals, with recurring appearances in the following venues:

  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
  • International Journal of Public Health
  • Preventive Medicine Reports
  • BMC Public Health

Notable papers include:

  • "Trends in social inequality in overweight and obesity among adolescents in Denmark 1998-2018," 2020, International Journal of Public Health
  • "Study protocol of the Healthy High School study: a school-based intervention to improve well-being among high school students in Denmark," 2020, BMC Public Health
  • "What characterizes schools and students participating in health promoting school-based intervention studies? Findings from the healthy high school study," 2021, Preventive Medicine Reports
  • "Intake of sugar sweetened soft drinks among adolescents: Trends and social inequality in Denmark 2002-2018," 2020, Nutrition and Health
  • "Preventing Stress among High School Students in Denmark through the Multicomponent Healthy High School Intervention-The Effectiveness at First Follow-Up," 2023, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Their research collaborations include frequent co-authorship with:

  • Rikke Fredenslund Krølner
  • Lau Caspar Thygesen
  • Anette Andersen
  • Susan Ishøy Michelsen
  • Mogens Trab Damsgaard

Best Publications

  • A cross-national profile of bullying and victimization among adolescents in 40 countries

    Wendy Craig;Yossi Harel-Fisch;Haya Fogel-Grinvald;Suzanne Dostaler

  • Determinants of fruit and vegetable consumption among children and adolescents: a review of the literature. Part I: quantitative studies

    Rikke Krølner;Mette Rasmussen;Johannes Brug;Knut-Inge Klepp

  • Bullying and symptoms among school-aged children: international comparative cross sectional study in 28 countries

    Pernille Due;Bjørn E. Holstein;John Lynch;Finn Diderichsen

  • Body mass index and overweight in adolescents in 13 European countries, Israel, and the United States.

    Inge Lissau;Mary D. Overpeck;W. June Ruan;Pernille Due

  • Social relations: network, support and relational strain.

    Pernille Due;Bjørn Holstein;Rikke Lund;Jens Modvig

  • Socioeconomic Inequality in Exposure to Bullying During Adolescence: A Comparative, Cross-Sectional, Multilevel Study in 35 Countries

    Pernille Due;Juan Merlo;Yossi Harel-Fisch;Mogens Trab Damsgaard

  • Social relations as determinant of onset of disability in aging

    Kirsten Avlund;Rikke Lund;Bjørn E Holstein;Pernille Due

  • Social capital—Is it a good investment strategy for public health?

    J Lynch;P Due;C Muntaner;G Davey Smith

  • Overweight in school-aged children and its relationship with demographic and lifestyle factors: Results from the WHO-Collaborative Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Study

    Ellen Haug;Mette Rasmussen;Oddrun Samdal;Ron Iannotti

  • Cross-national time trends in bullying behaviour 1994–2006: findings from Europe and North America

    Michal Molcho;Wendy M. Craig;Pernille Due;William Pickett

  • The contribution of childhood and adult socioeconomic position to adult obesity and smoking behaviour: an international comparison

    Christopher Power;Hilary Graham;Pernille Due;Johan Hallqvist

  • Negative school perceptions and involvement in school bullying: A universal relationship across 40 countries

    Yossi Harel-Fisch;Sophie D. Walsh;Haya Fogel-Grinvald;Gabriel Amitai

  • Pathways and mechanisms in adolescence contribute to adult health inequalities.

    Pernille Due;Rikke Krølner;Mette Rasmussen;Anette Andersen

  • Reliability and validity of a questionnaire to measure personal, social and environmental correlates of fruit and vegetable intake in 10-11-year-old children in five European countries.

    I De Bourdeaudhuij;K-I Klepp;P Due;C Perez Rodrigo

  • Cohabitation and marital status as predictors of mortality--an eight year follow-up study.

    Rikke Lund;Pernille Due;Jens Modvig;Bjørn Evald Holstein

  • Overweight, body image and bullying—An epidemiological study of 11- to 15-years olds.

    Carina S. Brixval;Signe L. B. Rayce;Mette Rasmussen;Bjørn E. Holstein

  • Bullying victimization among 13 to 15 year old school children: Results from two comparative studies in 66 countries and regions

    Pernille Due;Bjørn Evald Holstein;Mag Scient Soc

  • The Impact of Structural and Functional Characteristics of Social Relations as Determinants of Functional Decline

    Kirsten Avlund;Rikke Lund;Bjørn E. Holstein;Pernille Due

  • Exposure to teachers smoking and adolescent smoking behaviour: analysis of cross sectional data from Denmark

    Lis Hentze Poulsen;M Osler;C Roberts;P Due

  • Personal, social and environmental predictors of daily fruit and vegetable intake in 11-year-old children in nine European countries.

    I De Bourdeaudhuij;S Te Velde;J Brug;Pernille Due

  • Income inequality, individual income, and mortality in Danish adults: analysis of pooled data from two cohort studies

    Merete Osler;Eva Prescott;Morten Grønbaek;Ulla Christensen

Frequent Co-Authors

Bjørn Evald Holstein
Bjørn Evald Holstein University of Southern Denmark
Candace Currie
Candace Currie Glasgow Caledonian University
Torbjørn Torsheim
Torbjørn Torsheim University of Bergen
Rikke Lund
Rikke Lund University of Copenhagen
Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij
Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij Ghent University
Saoirse Nic Gabhainn
Saoirse Nic Gabhainn University of Galway
Lisa M. Powell
Lisa M. Powell University of Illinois at Chicago
Sakari Suominen
Sakari Suominen University of Turku
Jasper Schipperijn
Jasper Schipperijn University of Southern Denmark
Finn Diderichsen
Finn Diderichsen University of Copenhagen

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