Johan Rehnberg

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Johan Rehnberg has a PhD in Public Health.
His research topics include cognitive ability among older adults, mortality patterns and trends, health differences, cohort trends in health, registerdata and more. During his PhD he investigated income inequalities in mortality among older persons in Sweden.
2019 - PhD, Public Health, Stockholm University
Doctoral Thesis: Inequalities in life and death: Income and mortality in an ageing population

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Journal article: ARCHIVES OF GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS. 2024;121:105362

Longitudinal associations between sensory and cognitive functioning in adults 60 years or older in Sweden and Denmark.

Badache A-C; Rehnberg J; Mäki-Torkko E; Widen S; Fors S
Article: GERONTOLOGY. 2024;70(3):318-326

The Association between Education and Cognitive Performance Varies at Different Levels of Cognitive Performance: A Quantile Regression Approach.

Rehnberg J; Huisman M; Fors S; Marseglia A; Kok A
Journal article: JOURNAL OF POPULATION AGEING. 2023;16(3):761-780

Can Sex Differences in Old Age Disabilities be Attributed to Socioeconomic Conditions? Evidence from a Mapping Review of the Literature

Augustsson E; Rehnberg J; Simmons C; Rodrigues R; Kadi S; Ilinca S; Phillips S; Fors S
Article: JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES B-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES. 2023;78(8):1412-1422

Cohort Trajectories by Age and Gender for Informal Caregiving in Europe Adjusted for Sociodemographic Changes, 2004 and 2015.

Rodrigues R; Rehnberg J; Simmons C; Ilinca S; Zólyomi E; Vafaei A; Kadi S; Jull J; Phillips SP; Fors S
Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 2023;33(3):372-377

Disruption and selection: the income gradient in mortality among natives and migrants in Sweden.

Östergren O; Rehnberg J; Lundberg O; Miething A
Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGEING. 2022;19(4):1111-1119

Cohort-specific disability trajectories among older women and men in Europe 2004-2017.

Fors S; Illinca S; Jull J; Kadi S; P Phillips S; Rodrigues R; Vafaei A; Zolyomi E; Rehnberg J
Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGEING. 2022;19(4):1339-1350

Gender differences in access to community-based care: a longitudinal analysis of widowhood and living arrangements.

Ilinca S; Rodrigues R; Fors S; Zólyomi E; Jull J; Rehnberg J; Vafaei A; Phillips S
Article: AGING & MENTAL HEALTH. 2022;26(9):1821-1828

The association between loneliness, social isolation and all-cause mortality in a nationally representative sample of older women and men.

Lennartsson C; Rehnberg J; Dahlberg L
Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGEING. 2022;19(2):175-188

A social exclusion perspective on loneliness in older adults in the Nordic countries.

Dahlberg L; McKee KJ; Lennartsson C; Rehnberg J
Article: JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES B-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES. 2022;77(5):946-955

Excess Mortality by Individual and Spousal Education for Recent and Long-Term Widowed.

Östergren O; Fors S; Rehnberg J
Article: BMJ OPEN. 2022;12(3):e054507

Trends in the shape of the income-mortality association in Sweden between 1995 and 2017: a repeated cross-sectional population register study.

Rehnberg J; Östergren O; Fors S; Fritzell J
Article: SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE. 2021;280:114038

Interdependent pathways between socioeconomic position and health: A Swedish longitudinal register-based study.

Rehnberg J; Östergren O; Esser I; Lundberg O
Article: JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES B-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES. 2020;75(2):426-435

What Levels the Association Between Income and Mortality in Later Life: Age or Health Decline?

Rehnberg J
Article: ADDICTION. 2019;114(5):807-814

Income trajectories prior to alcohol-attributable death in Finland and Sweden.

Tarkiainen L; Rehnberg J; Martikainen P; Fritzell J
Article: GERONTOLOGY. 2019;:1-10

Divergence and Convergence: How Do Income Inequalities in Mortality Change over the Life Course?

Rehnberg J; Fors S; Fritzell J
Journal article: INNOVATION IN AGING. 2017;1(suppl_1):488

DIVERGENCE AND CONVERGENCE: HOW DO INCOME INEQUALITIES IN MORTALITY CHANGE OVER THE LIFE COURSE?

Rehnberg J; Fritzell J; Fors S
Article: BMJ OPEN. 2016;6(12):e010974

Shape of the association between income and mortality: a cohort study of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden in 1995 and 2003.

Mortensen LH; Rehnberg J; Dahl E; Diderichsen F; Elstad JI; Martikainen P; Rehkopf D; Tarkiainen L; Fritzell J
Article: SSM-POPULATION HEALTH. 2016;2:750-756

The shape of the association between income and mortality in old age: A longitudinal Swedish national register study.

Rehnberg J; Fritzell J
Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 2015;60(1):101-110

Absolute or relative? A comparative analysis of the relationship between poverty and mortality.

Fritzell J; Rehnberg J; Bacchus Hertzman J; Blomgren J
Journal article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 2013;23(suppl_1)

The effect of social protection and income maintenance policies on health and health inequalitiesOlle Lundberg

Lundberg O; Yngwe MÅ; Fritzell J; Hertzman JB; Bergqvist K; Ferrarini T; Nelson K; Rehnberg J; Sjöberg O

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Book chapter: HANDBOOK OF HEALTH INEQUALITIES ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE. 2023;p. 307-326

Divergence and convergence: how health inequalities evolve as we age

Fritzell J; Rehnberg J

Grants

Improving population health in the older population: is there a trade-off between efficiency and equity?

Swedish Research Council for Health Working Life and Welfare

1 September 2020 - 31 August 2022

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Affiliated to Research, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, 2023-2024
Lecturer, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, 2023-2023
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, 2019-2023

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