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Urban Janlert

Urban Janlert

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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44
Citations
6856
World Ranking
4202
National Ranking
48

Overview

Urban Janlert is affiliated with Umeå University in Sweden and focuses their research primarily in the fields of Health Professions and Social Sciences. Their subfields of expertise include General Health Professions, Health, Social Psychology, Education, and Demography.

Their work covers a range of main topics, particularly in Employment and Welfare Studies, Health disparities and outcomes, Workplace Health and Well-being, Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research, Retirement, Disability, and Employment, Social and Educational Sciences, and Global Health Care Issues.

Janlert's recent publications include:

  • How do labour market conditions explain the development of mental health over the life-course? A conceptual integration of the ecological model with life-course epidemiology in an integrative review of results from the Northern Swedish Cohort, 2024, BMC Public Health
  • Psychosocial conditions during school-age as determinants of long-term labour market attachment: a study of the Northern Swedish Cohort from the 1980s to the 2020s, 2024, BMC Public Health
  • Why does youth unemployment lead to scarring of depressive symptoms in adulthood? The importance of early adulthood drinking, 2023, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
  • Locked in Permanent Employment-Longitudinal Associations With Depressive and Functional Somatic Symptoms, 2021, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  • Fifty years of Nordic social medicine and public health: snapshots of a journal, 2022, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Urban Janlert frequently collaborates with a stable group of coauthors. Notable frequent coauthors include:

  • Anne Hammarström
  • Pekka Virtanen
  • Hugo Westerlund
  • Tapio Nummi
  • Finn Diderichsen

Their research contributions have appeared in several key academic journals and venues, with repeated publications in:

  • Socialmedicinsk tidskrift
  • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
  • BMC Public Health
  • Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  • Frontiers in Public Health

Best Publications

  • Overweight, obesity and fat distribution in 50- to 64 year old participants in the European prospective investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)

    M Haftenberger;PH Lahmann;S Panico;CA Gonzalez

  • Burnout, working conditions and gender--results from the northern Sweden MONICA Study.

    Sofia Norlund;Christina Reuterwall;Jonas Höög;Bernt Lindahl

  • Early unemployment can contribute to adult health problems: results from a longitudinal study of school leavers

    A Hammarström;U Janlert

  • How does unemployment affect self-assessed health? A systematic review focusing on subgroup effects

    Fredrik Norström;Pekka Virtanen;Pekka Virtanen;Anne Hammarström;Per E Gustafsson

  • Reduction of selection bias in primary prevention of cardiovascular disease through involvement of primary health care.

    Lars Weinehall;Carl-Gunnar Hallgren;Göran Westman;Urban Janlert

  • Large improvements in major cardiovascular risk factors in the population of northern Sweden: the MONICA study 1986-2009.

    Marie Eriksson;L. Holmgren;Urban Janlert;Jan-Håkan Jansson

  • Unemployment as a disease and diseases of the unemployed

    U. Janlert

  • Nervous and depressive symptoms in a longitudinal study of youth unemployment—selection or exposure?

    Anne Hammarström;Urban Janlert

  • Smokeless tobacco as a possible risk factor for myocardial infarction: a population-based study in middle-aged men.

    Fritz Huhtasaari;Vivan Lundberg;Mats Eliasson;Urban Janlert

  • Determinants of self-reported neck-shoulder and low back symptoms in a general population.

    Margareta Barnekow-Bergkvist;Gudrun E. Hedberg;Urban Janlert;Eva Jansson

  • Exposure to temporary employment and job insecurity: a longitudinal study of the health effects.

    Pekka Virtanen;Urban Janlert;Anne Hammarström

  • Physical activity pattern in men and women at the ages of 16 and 34 and development of physical activity from adolescence to adulthood

    M. Barnekow-Bergkvist;G. Hedberg;U. Janlert;E. Jansson

  • Which theory is best? Explanatory models of the relationship between unemployment and health

    Urban Janlert;Anne Hammarström

  • Alcohol consumption among unemployed youths: results from a prospective study.

    Urban Janlert;Anne Hammarström

  • Health status and health behaviour as predictors of the occurrence of unemployment and prolonged unemployment

    Pekka Virtanen;Urban Janlert;Anne Hammarström

  • Life-course accumulation of neighborhood disadvantage and allostatic load : empirical integration of three social determinants of health frameworks

    Per E. Gustafsson;Miguel San Sebastian;Urban Janlert;Töres Theorell

  • Youth unemployment and ill health: results from a 2-year follow-up study.

    Anne Hammarström;Urban Janlert;Töres Theorell

  • Socioeconomic status over the life course and allostatic load in adulthood: results from the Northern Swedish Cohort

    Per E Gustafsson;Urban Janlert;Töres Theorell;Hugo Westerlund

  • Job strain and depressive symptoms in men and women: a prospective study of the working population in Sweden

    Töres Theorell;Anne Hammarström;Per E Gustafsson;Linda Magnusson Hanson

  • Do high levels of unemployment influence the health of those who are not unemployed? A gendered comparison of young men and women during boom and recession

    Mehmed Novo;Anne Hammarström;Urban Janlert

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne Hammarström
Anne Hammarström Karolinska Institute
Töres Theorell
Töres Theorell Karolinska Institute
Pekka Virtanen
Pekka Virtanen University of Jyväskylä
Miguel San Sebastian
Miguel San Sebastian Umeå University
Anthony H. Winefield
Anthony H. Winefield University of South Australia
Hoang Van Minh
Hoang Van Minh Hanoi University of Public Health
Olli Kiviruusu
Olli Kiviruusu Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Nadia Slimani
Nadia Slimani International Agency For Research On Cancer
Françoise Clavel-Chapelon
Françoise Clavel-Chapelon Institut Gustave Roussy
Kay-Tee Khaw
Kay-Tee Khaw University of Cambridge

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