Mall Leinsalu

Research interests

Publications

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

  The Lancet Regional Health - Europe · 2022 · 10.1016/j.lanepe.2022.100551

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

  The Lancet Public Health · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s2468-2667(19)30147-1

• Trends in health inequalities in 27 European countries

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1800028115

• Determinants of the magnitude of socioeconomic inequalities in mortality: A study of 17 European countries

  Health & Place · 2017 · 10.1016/j.healthplace.2017.07.005

• Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in self-assessed health in 17 European countries between 1990 and 2010

  Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health · 2016 · 10.1136/jech-2015-206780

• Inequalities in Alcohol-Related Mortality in 17 European Countries: A Retrospective Analysis of Mortality Registers

  PLoS Medicine · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001909

• 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

  Social Science & Medicine · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.05.021

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

  Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2014-204319

• Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

  The Lancet · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(14)60460-8

• Socioeconomic inequalities in diabetes mellitus across Europe at the beginning of the 21st century

  Diabetologia · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-008-1146-1

• Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health in 22 European Countries

  New England Journal of Medicine · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsa0707519

• Effect of nationwide tobacco control policies on smoking cessation in high and low educated groups in 18 European countries

  Tobacco Control · 2008 · 10.1136/tc.2007.024265

• Alcohol poisoning in Russia and the countries in the European part of the former Soviet Union, 1970 2002

  European Journal of Public Health · 2007 · 10.1093/eurpub/ckl275

• The changing relation between education and life expectancy in central and eastern Europe in the 1990s

  Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health · 2006 · 10.1136/jech.2005.044719

• Estonia 1989–2000: enormous increase in mortality differences by education

  International Journal of Epidemiology · 2003 · 10.1093/ije/dyg192

• Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality among women and among men: an international study.

  American Journal of Public Health · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.89.12.1800

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