Publications

Supervised Doctoral Theses

Kristina Johnell
Contextual and individual aspects of use of medication. Multilevel studies on anxiolytic-hypnotic drug use, social context, adherence to medication, and disability pension [Doctoral Thesis]. Karolinska Institutet, 2005.

Anders Beckman
Country of birth and socioeconomic disparities in utilisation of health care and disability pension – a multilevel approach. [Doctoral Thesis]. Lunds University, 2005.

Henrik Ohlsson
Understanding therapeutic traditions in a multilevel framework - new methodological approaches Thesis doctoral. Medical School. [Doctoral Thesis].  Lund University 2009.

Kristian Lynch
Perinatal determinants of type 1 diabetes - A social epidemiological perspective. Thesis doctoral. Medical School. [Doctoral Thesis]. Lund University 2009.

Per Hjerpe
Investigating practice variation in a changing primary care. A multilevel perspective on The Skaraborg Primary Care Database.
Thesis doctoral. Medical School. [Doctoral Thesis]. Lund University 2011.

Supervised Masters Theses

Kristina Johnell. The impact of neighbourhood social participation on women's use of anxiolytic-hypnotic drugs: a multilevel analysis. [Master]. Uppsala, Uppsala University:[2001]. Available from: Lund University database LUP

Anna Wahlgren. Consumption and availability of medicines in Cuba (1989-1999); the impact of the economic crisis and the USA embargo. Elective studies, 200/2001. Abstracts from scientific projects by 10th semester medical students. Page 65. Lund, Lund University. [2001]

Clara Ossaiasson. Jämförelse av folksjukdomar i Spanien och Sverige med fokus på hypertoni. Lund, Lund University: [2001]

Marianne Bjerva and Cecilia Muñoz. Barn med neuropsykiatriska besvär. [2002]

Charlotte Larsson. Female advantage in AMI risk is reversed in patients with type 2 diabetes: a population-based cohort study within the Skaraborg Project. [Master]. Malmö, Malmö University: [2003]. Available from: Lund University database LUP

Karin Welander. Acute stroke risk among patients with type-2 diabetes and hypertension compared with a general population. [Master]. Malmö, Malmö University: [2003].

Yan Borné. The relevance of the municipal administrative boundaries for understanding individual differences in health and health care utilisation in the county of Skåne- a multilevel analysis. [Master]. Lund, Lund University: [2004].

Jennifer Ericsson. Matrismodellen vs Two-part regressionsmodeller -effekter på Region Skånes resursfördelning [Bachelor]. Lund, Lund University: [2007 September]. Available from: Lund University database LUP Student Papers

Martin Lövefalk and Tommy Saari. Jämförelser av statistiska metoder för rangordning inom sjukvården [Bachelor]. Lund, Lund University: [2008]. 
Available from: Lund University database LUP Student Papers

Carl Johan Wingren. Perinatal socioeconomic and geographical factors and risk of Celiac disease in children: a multilevel analysis on the whole Swedish population. Lund, Lund University: [2009].

Selected peer reviewed articles

Merlo J. Contextual Influences on the Individual Life Course: Building a Research Framework for Social Epidemiology. Psychosocial Intervention. Vol. 20, No. 1, 2011 -pp.109-118

• Research Framework for Social Epidemiology (pdf 842,4 kB)

Merlo J, Ohlsson H, Lynch KF, Chaix B, Subramanian SV. Individual and collective bodies: using measures of variance and association in contextual epidemiology. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2009;63(12):1043-1048.

Merlo J, Chaix B, Yang M, Lynch J, Rastam L. A brief conceptual tutorial of multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: linking the statistical concept of clustering to the idea of contextual phenomenon. J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59(6):443-9.

Merlo J, Chaix B, Yang M, Lynch J, Rastam L. A brief conceptual tutorial on multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: interpreting neighbourhood differences and the effect of neighbourhood characteristics on individual health. J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59(12):1022-8.

Merlo J, Yang M, Chaix B, Lynch J, Rastam L. A brief conceptual tutorial on multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: investigating contextual phenomena in different groups of people. J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59(9):729-36.

Merlo J, Chaix B, Ohlsson H, Beckman A, Johnell K, Hjerpe P, Larsen K. A brief conceptual tutorial of multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: using measures of clustering in multilevel logistic regression to investigate contextual phenomena. J Epidemiol Community Health 2006;60(4):290-7.

Merlo J, Ostergren PO, Broms K, Bjorck-Linne A, Liedholm H. Survival after initial hospitalisation for heart failure: a multilevel analysis of patients in Swedish acute care hospitals. J Epidemiol Community Health 2001;55(5):323-9.

Merlo J, Liedholm H, Lindblad U, Bjorck-Linne A, Falt J, Lindberg G, et al. Prescriptions with potential drug interactions dispensed at Swedish pharmacies in January 1999: cross sectional study. BMJ 2001;323(7310):427-8.

Merlo J, Lynch JW, Yang M, Lindström M, Östergren PO, Rasmussen NK, Råstam L. Effect of neighborhood social participation on individual use of hormone replacement therapy and antihypertensive medication: a multilevel analysis. Am J Epidemiol 2003;157:774–783.

Beckman A, Merlo J, Lynch JW, Gerdtham UG, Lindstrom M, Lithman T. Country of birth, socioeconomic position, and healthcare expenditure: a multilevel analysis of Malmö, Sweden. J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58(2):145-9.

Merlo J, Asplund K, Lynch J, Råstam L, Dobson A; for the WHO MONICA project. Population effects on individual systolic blood pressure: a multilevel analysis of the World Health Organization MONICA Project. Am J Epidemiol, 2004; 159:1168-79.

Chaix B, Merlo J, Subramanian SV, Lynch J, Chauvin P. Comparison of a spatial perspective with the multilevel analytical approach in neighborhood studies: the case of mental and behavioral disorders due to psychoactive substance use in Malmo, Sweden, 2001. Am J Epidemiol 2005;162(2):171-82.

Rosvall M, Chaix B, Lynch J, Lindstrom M, Merlo J. Similar support for three different life course socioeconomic models on predicting premature cardiovascular mortality and all-cause mortality. BMC Public Health 2006;6:203.

Larsen K, Merlo J. Appropriate assessment of neighborhood effects on individual health: integrating random and fixed effects in multilevel logistic regression. Am J Epidemiol 2005;161(1):81-8.

Chaix B, Rosvall M, Lynch J, Merlo J. Disentangling contextual effects on cause-specific mortality in a longitudinal 23-year follow-up study: impact of population density or socioeconomic environment? Int J Epidemiol. 2006;35(3):633-43

Merlo J, Bengtsson-Bostrom K, Lindblad U, Rastam L, Melander O. Multilevel analysis of systolic blood pressure and ACE gene I/D polymorphism in 438 Swedish families - a public health perspective. BMC Med Genet 2006;7(1):14.

Ohlsson H, Merlo J. Understanding the effects of a decentralized budget on physicians' compliance with guidelines for statin prescription - a multilevel methodological approach. Bmc Health Services Research 2007;7.

Hjerpe P, Ohlsson H, Lindblad U, Bostrom KB, Merlo J. Understanding adherence to therapeutic guidelines: a multilevel analysis of statin prescription in the Skaraborg Primary Care Database. Eur J Clin Pharmacol 2011

Lynch KF, Subramanian SV, Ohlsson H, Chaix B, Lernmark A, Merlo J. Context and disease when disease risk is low: the case of type 1 diabetes in Sweden. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2010 Sep;64(9):789-95. Epub 2009 Oct 14. PubMed PMID: 19833608.

Ohlsson H, Merlo J. Place effects for areas defined by administrative boundaries: A life-course analysis of mortality and cause-specific morbidity in Scania, Sweden. Social Science and Medicine (in press)

Wingren CJ, Björck S,  Lynch KF, Ohlsson K, Agardh D, Merlo J. Perinatal socioeconomic characteristics and celiac disease in children: a multilevel analysis of the Swedish population. Am J Epidemiol 2011 (under revision)

Contributions to congresses