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Rikke Lund is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and has contributed extensively to the fields of health professions and social sciences. Their research output includes 43 publications in health professions and 40 in social sciences, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to health and well-being.

Their main subfields of study include general health professions, health, sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, and health toxicology and mutagenesis. Within these areas, Lund's work addresses topics such as health disparities and outcomes, health psychology and well-being, community health and development, employment and welfare studies, food security and health in diverse populations, air quality and health impacts, and urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies.

Lund has published multiple articles in a variety of journals, with a notable presence in the European Journal of Public Health, contributing ten publications. Other frequent venues include the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health (3 publications), Scientific Reports (2 publications), Scandinavian Journal of Public Health (2 publications), and PLoS ONE (2 publications).

Selected recent papers by Lund include:

  • Associations of loneliness and social isolation with physical and mental health among adolescents and young adults (2021, Perspectives in Public Health)
  • Loneliness, Social Isolation, and Chronic Disease Outcomes (2020, Annals of Behavioral Medicine)
  • Self-rated health in individuals with and without disease is associated with multiple biomarkers representing multiple biological domains (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • Social Relations, Community Engagement and Potentials: A Qualitative Study Exploring Resident Engagement in a Community-Based Health Promotion Intervention in a Deprived Social Housing Area (2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)
  • Smartphone interactions and mental well-being in young adults: A longitudinal study based on objective high-resolution smartphone data (2020, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health)

Lund's frequent coauthors include Abirami Srivarathan (13 collaborations), Maria Kristiansen (12 collaborations), Siv Steffen Nygaard (10 collaborations), Terese Sara Høj Jørgensen (9 collaborations), and Helle Brüünsgaard (8 collaborations).

Best Publications

  • Social relations: network, support and relational strain.

    Pernille Due;Bjørn Holstein;Rikke Lund;Jens Modvig

  • Social relations as determinant of onset of disability in aging

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

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

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

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

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

  • Loneliness, Social Isolation, and Chronic Disease Outcomes

    Julie Christiansen;Rikke Lund;Pamela Qualter;Christina Maar Andersen

  • Socioeconomic position in early life, birth weight, childhood cognitive function, and adult mortality. A longitudinal study of Danish men born in 1953

    M. Osler;Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen;P. Due;R. Lund

  • Associations of loneliness and social isolation with physical and mental health among adolescents and young adults

    J Christiansen;P Qualter;K Friis;SS Pedersen

  • Exposure to bullying at school and depression in adulthood: a study of Danish men born in 1953.

    Rikke Lund;Karoline Kragelund Nielsen;Ditte Hjorth Hansen;Margit Kriegbaum

  • Can the higher risk of disability onset among older people who live alone be alleviated by strong social relations? A longitudinal study of non-disabled men and women

    Rikke Lund;Charlotte Juul Nilsson;Kirsten Avlund

  • Is bullying equally harmful for rich and poor children?: a study of bullying and depression from age 15 to 27.

    Pernille Due;Mogens Trab Damsgaard;Rikke Lund;Bjørn E Holstein

  • Cardiovascular and lung function in relation to outdoor and indoor exposure to fine and ultrafine particulate matter in middle-aged subjects

    Dorina Gabriela Karottki;Gabriel Bekö;Geo Clausen;Anne Mette Madsen

  • Addressing Social Inequality in Aging by the Danish Occupational Social Class Measurement

    Ulla Christensen;Rikke Krølner;Charlotte Juul Nilsson;Pernille W Lyngbye

  • Copenhagen Aging and Midlife Biobank (CAMB): An Introduction

    Kirsten Avlund;Kirsten Avlund;Merete Osler;Erik Lykke Mortensen;Erik Lykke Mortensen;Ulla Christensen

  • Cohort Profile: The Metropolit 1953 Danish Male Birth Cohort

    Merete Osler;Rikke Lund;Margit Kriegbaum;Ulla Christensen

  • Cardiorespiratory fitness and the metabolic syndrome: Roles of inflammation and abdominal obesity.

    Anne-Sophie Wedell-Neergaard;Rikke Krogh-Madsen;Gitte Lindved Petersen;Åse Marie Hansen

  • Tracking of body mass index from 7 to 69 years of age

    J Aarestrup;L G Bjerregaard;M Gamborg;L Ängquist

  • Cynical hostility, socioeconomic position, health behaviors, and symptom load: a cross-sectional analysis in a Danish population-based study.

    Ulla Christensen;Rikke Lund;Mogens Trab Damsgaard;Bjørn Evald Holstein

  • Self-rated health in individuals with and without disease is associated with multiple biomarkers representing multiple biological domains

    L Kananen;L Enroth;J Raitanen;J Jylhävä

  • The impact of social relations on the incidence of severe depressive symptoms among infertile women and men

    R. Lund;C.S. Sejbaek;U. Christensen;L. Schmidt

  • Successful ageing: A study of the literature using citation network analysis

    Sasmita Kusumastuti;Marloes G.M. Derks;Marloes G.M. Derks;Siri Tellier;Ezio Di Nucci

  • Marital status and twins' health and behavior: an analysis of middle-aged Danish twins.

    Merete Osler;Matt McGue;Rikke Lund;Kaare Christensen

Frequent Co-Authors

Erik Lykke Mortensen
Erik Lykke Mortensen University of Copenhagen
Åse Marie Hansen
Åse Marie Hansen University of Copenhagen
Bjørn Evald Holstein
Bjørn Evald Holstein University of Southern Denmark
Pernille Due
Pernille Due University of Southern Denmark
Susanne S. Pedersen
Susanne S. Pedersen University of Southern Denmark
Pamela Qualter
Pamela Qualter University of Manchester
Anne Tjønneland
Anne Tjønneland University of Copenhagen
Tilman Grune
Tilman Grune University of Potsdam
Efstathios S. Gonos
Efstathios S. Gonos National Hellenic Research Foundation
Marco Malavolta
Marco Malavolta Advanced Technology Center

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