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Terje Andreas Eikemo is affiliated with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway. Their research primarily focuses on health professions and social sciences, contributing extensively to topics such as health disparities and outcomes, employment and welfare studies, and global health care issues.

Their work also addresses climate change and health impacts, migration, health and trauma, COVID-19 and mental health, as well as global maternal and child health. These topics illustrate a broad engagement with public health challenges across different populations and contexts.

Recent publications by Terje Andreas Eikemo include:

  • Effects of education on adult mortality: a global systematic review and meta-analysis, 2024, The Lancet Public Health
  • Parental education and inequalities in child mortality: a global systematic review and meta-analysis, 2021, The Lancet
  • The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in Europe, 2020, BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
  • Fruit and vegetable consumption in Europe according to gender, educational attainment and regional affiliation-A cross-sectional study in 21 European countries, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • The radically unequal distribution of Covid-19 vaccinations: a predictable yet avoidable symptom of the fundamental causes of inequality, 2022, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Eikemo include Mirza Balaj, Clare Bambra, Emmanuela Gakidou, Joseph Friedman, and Ann Kristin Knudsen, reflecting ongoing teamwork in advancing research in public health and social determinants of health.

The scientist's work is regularly published in established academic journals, notably:

  • European Journal of Public Health
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
  • The Lancet Public Health
  • The Lancet

Their main fields of study cover health professions-with a particular emphasis on general health professions-and social sciences. These fields are complemented by work in subfields such as clinical psychology, health, toxicology, mutagenesis, and public health related to environmental and occupational health.

Best Publications

  • Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

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  • Burden of disease scenarios for 204 countries and territories, 2022–2050: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

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  • Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

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  • Welfare state regimes, unemployment and health: A comparative study of the relationship between unemployment and self-reported health in 23 European countries.

    Clare Bambra;Terje Eikemo

  • Global fertility in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2021, with forecasts to 2100: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

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  • Health inequalities according to educational level in different welfare regimes: A comparison of 23 European countries

    Terje A. Eikemo;Terje A. Eikemo;Terje A. Eikemo;Martijn Huisman;Clare Bambra;Anton E. Kunst

  • Welfare state regimes and differences in self-perceived health in Europe: a multilevel analysis.

    Terje Andreas Eikemo;Clare Bambra;Ken Judge;Kristen Ringdal

  • Welfare state regimes and income-related health inequalities: a comparison of 23 European countries

    Terje Eikemo;Clare Bambra;K. Joyce;E. Dahl

  • A balancing act? Work-life balance, health and well-being in European welfare states.

    Thorsten Lunau;Clare Bambra;Terje Andreas Eikemo;Kjetil A. van Der Wel

  • Trends in inequalities in premature mortality: a study of 3.2 million deaths in 13 European countries

    Johan P Mackenbach;Ivana Kulhánová;Gwenn Menvielle;Matthias Bopp

  • Variations in the relation between education and cause-specific mortality in 19 European populations: a test of the "fundamental causes" theory of social inequalities in health.

    Johan P. Mackenbach;Ivana Kulhánová;Matthias Bopp;Patrick Deboosere

  • The welfare state: a glossary for public health

    Terje Eikemo;Clare Bambra

  • Informal care in Europe: findings from the European Social Survey (2014) special module on the social determinants of health.

    Ellen Verbakel;Stian Tamlagsrønning;Lizzy Winstone;Erlend L. Fjær

  • An institutional theory of welfare state effects on the distribution of population health

    Jason Beckfield;Clare Bambra;Terje A Eikemo;Tim Huijts

  • Parental education and inequalities in child mortality: a global systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Mirza Balaj;Hunter Wade York;Hunter Wade York;Kam Sripada;Elodie Besnier

  • The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in Europe

    Erlend Løvø Fjær;Erling Ravnanger Landet;Courtney L. McNamara;Terje Andreas Eikemo

  • Aspects of student housing satisfaction: a quantitative study

    Judith Thomsen;Terje Andreas Eikemo;Terje Andreas Eikemo

  • Effects of education on adult mortality: a global systematic review and meta-analysis

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  • Fruit and vegetable consumption in Europe according to gender, educational attainment and regional affiliation-A cross-sectional study in 21 European countries.

    Tonje Holte Stea;Oda Nordheim;Elling Tufte Bere;Elling Tufte Bere;Per Gunnar Stornes

  • Educational differences in disability-free life expectancy: a comparative study of long-standing activity limitation in eight European countries.

    Netta Mäki;Pekka Martikainen;Terje Eikemo;Gwenn Menvielle

  • Welfare state regimes and population health: Integrating the East Asian welfare states

    Syahirah Abdul Karim;Terje A. Eikemo;Clare Bambra

  • Welfare State Regime Life Courses: The Development of Western European Welfare State Regimes and Age-Related Patterns of Educational Inequalities in Self-Reported Health:

    Clare Bambra;Gopalakrishnan Netuveli;Terje A. Eikemo

  • Causality, social selectivity or artefacts? Why socioeconomic inequalities in health are not smallest in the Nordic countries.

    Tim Huijts;Terje Andreas Eikemo;Terje Andreas Eikemo

  • The First Pan-European Sociological Health Inequalities Survey of the General Population: The European Social Survey Rotating Module on the Social Determinants of Health

    Terje A. Eikemo;Clare Bambra;Timothy Hubertus Maria Huijts;Rory Fitzgerald

  • Income-related health inequalities in the Nordic countries: Examining the role of education, occupational class, and age

    Tim Huijts;Terje Andreas Eikemo;Terje Andreas Eikemo;Vera Skalická

Frequent Co-Authors

Clare Bambra
Clare Bambra Newcastle University
Mall Leinsalu
Mall Leinsalu National Institutes of Health
Pekka Martikainen
Pekka Martikainen University of Helsinki
Matthias Bopp
Matthias Bopp University of Zurich
Enrique Regidor
Enrique Regidor Complutense University of Madrid
Olle Lundberg
Olle Lundberg Stockholm University
Carme Borrell
Carme Borrell Pompeu Fabra University
Elling Bere
Elling Bere University of Agder
Giuseppe Costa
Giuseppe Costa University of Turin
Maica Rodríguez-Sanz
Maica Rodríguez-Sanz Pompeu Fabra University

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