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Wilma J. Nusselder is affiliated with Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of Health Professions, Social Sciences, and Medicine, focusing extensively on areas such as Health disparities and outcomes, Global Health Care Issues, and Employment and Welfare Studies.

Their investigations cover a range of subfields including General Health Professions, Health, Economics and Econometrics, Oncology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Through these domains, Nusselder has contributed to understanding the complexity of health inequalities and population health dynamics in Europe and beyond.

Nusselder's recent scholarly publications include:

  • "A System Dynamics and Participatory Action Research Approach to Promote Healthy Living and a Healthy Weight among 10-14-Year-Old Adolescents in Amsterdam: The LIKE Programme," 2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "Socioeconomic inequalities in cancer mortality between and within countries in Europe: a population-based study," 2022, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
  • "Special Report: The Biology of Inequalities in Health: The Lifepath Consortium," 2020, Frontiers in Public Health
  • "Trends in inequalities in disability in Europe between 2002 and 2017," 2021, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
  • "Determinants of educational inequalities in disability-free life expectancy between ages 35 and 80 in Europe," 2021, SSM - Population Health

Across multiple studies, Nusselder has published in frequent venues including:

  • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
  • European Journal of Public Health
  • BMC Public Health
  • Public Health
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Collaborations have been an integral part of Nusselder's research activities. Frequent co-authors include Johan P. Mackenbach, Henrik Brønnum-Hansen, Matthias Bopp, Mall Leinsalu, and Pekka Martikainen. These partnerships reflect a sustained engagement with experts in epidemiology, public health, and social determinants of health.

The topics most central to Nusselder's work include:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer

Wilma J. Nusselder's research is positioned within the broader context of public health and social epidemiology, addressing multiple dimensions of health inequality and policy-related impacts on population health across Europe.

Best Publications

  • Socioeconomic status and the 25 × 25 risk factors as determinants of premature mortality: a multicohort study and meta-analysis of 1·7 million men and women

    Silvia Stringhini;Cristian Carmeli;Markus Jokela;Mauricio Avendaño;Mauricio Avendaño

  • Effects of physical activity on life expectancy with cardiovascular disease

    Oscar H. Franco;Chris de Laet;Anna Peeters;Jacqueline Jonker

  • Associations of diabetes mellitus with total life expectancy and life expectancy with and without cardiovascular disease.

    Oscar H. Franco;Ewout W. Steyerberg;Frank B. Hu;Johan Mackenbach

  • Inequalities in healthy life years in the 25 countries of the European Union in 2005: a cross-national meta-regression analysis.

    Carol Jagger;Clare Gillies;Francesco Moscone;Emmanuelle Cambois

  • Trends in health inequalities in 27 European countries.

    Johan P Mackenbach;José Rubio Valverde;Barbara Artnik;Matthias Bopp

  • The Global Activity Limitation Index measured function and disability similarly across European countries.

    Carol Jagger;Clare Gillies;Emmanuelle Cambois;Herman Van Oyen

  • Assessing the validity of the Global Activity Limitation Indicator in fourteen European countries

    Nicolas Berger;Herman Van Oyen;Emmanuelle Cambois;Tony Fouweather

  • A System Dynamics and Participatory Action Research Approach to Promote Healthy Living and a Healthy Weight among 10-14-Year-Old Adolescents in Amsterdam : The LIKE Programme

    Wilma E. Waterlander;Angie Luna Pinzon;Arnoud Verhoeff;Karen den Hertog

  • Gender differences in healthy life years within the EU: an exploration of the "health-survival" paradox.

    Herman Van Oyen;Wilma Nusselder;Carol Jagger;Petra Kolip

  • Decomposition of differences in health expectancy by cause.

    Wilma J. Nusselder;Casper W. N. Looman

  • Determinants of inequalities in life expectancy : an international comparative study of eight risk factors

    Johan P Mackenbach;José Rubio Valverde;Matthias Bopp;Henrik Brønnum-Hansen

  • Physical activity and life expectancy with and without diabetes: life table analysis of the Framingham Heart Study.

    Jacqueline T. Jonker;Chris De Laet;Oscar H. Franco;Anna Peeters

  • Adult obesity and the burden of disability throughout life.

    Anna Peeters;Luc Bonneux;Wilma J. Nusselder;Chris De Laet

  • The elimination of selected chronic diseases in a population: the compression and expansion of morbidity.

    W.J. Nusselder;K. van der Velden;J.L.A. van Sonsbeek;M.E. Lenior

  • Socioeconomic inequalities in cancer mortality between and within countries in Europe: a population-based study

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  • Contribution of Chronic Disease to the Burden of Disability

    Bart Klijs;Wilma J. Nusselder;Caspar W. N. Looman;Johan P. Mackenbach

  • Lifetime risk and projected population prevalence of diabetes

    Dianna Josephine Magliano;J Shaw;Susan Marlene Shortreed;Wilma J Nusselder

  • Smoking and the compression of morbidity

    Wilma Nusselder;Caspar Looman;P.J. Marang-van de Mheen;Dike van de Mheen

  • Socioeconomic inequalities in life and health expectancies around official retirement age in 10 Western-European countries

    Istvan Majer;Wilma Nusselder;Johan Mackenbach;Anton Kunst

  • Mortality Risk Associated With Disability: A Population-Based Record Linkage Study

    Istvan M. Majer;Wilma J. Nusselder;Johan P. Mackenbach;Bart Klijs

  • Changes in the prevalence of chronic disease and the association with disability in the older Dutch population between 1987 and 2001

    M.T.E. Puts;Dorly Deeg;N. Hoeymans;Wilma Nusselder

  • Global burden of disease

    Jan J Barendregt;Wilma J Nusselder;Luc Bonneux

Frequent Co-Authors

Herman Van Oyen
Herman Van Oyen Ghent University
Mall Leinsalu
Mall Leinsalu National Institutes of Health
Matthias Bopp
Matthias Bopp University of Zurich
Pekka Martikainen
Pekka Martikainen University of Helsinki
Giuseppe Costa
Giuseppe Costa University of Turin
Enrique Regidor
Enrique Regidor Complutense University of Madrid
Anton E. Kunst
Anton E. Kunst University of Amsterdam
Dorly J. H. Deeg
Dorly J. H. Deeg University of Amsterdam
Henriette A. Smit
Henriette A. Smit Utrecht University

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