Frank J Van Lenthe
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 243202 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Frank J Van Lenthe |
| NOMBRES | Frank J |
| APELLIDO | Van Lenthe |
| FIRMA | VAN LENTHE F J |
| AFILIACIONES | Erasmus MC |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6402-7075 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 107 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 337 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 107 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Policy Standards for Healthy Built Environments
The use of policy standards for the built environment is increasingly explored, yet evidence on their health impact is limited. This systematic review assesses the impact and projected effects of built environment policy standards on health, alongside factors influencing observed changes and lessons learned. We conducted a comprehensive search across 11 databases for studies published between 1990 and 2024 evaluating policy standards targeting th…
Agenda-setting in local food environment policy
A comparative MSF study of food policy agenda-setting shaped in a policy network. • Framing food environment issues beyond health increased their agenda status. • Food strategies were more likely with consistent views on the role of municipality. • Perceived paternalism fueled political caution in zoning policy agenda-setting. • Being in a policy network helped place and keep food policies on the agenda. Little is known about the processes throug…
Exploring How the Interplay Between Neighborhood Perceptions and Social Cohesion Relates to Self-Assessed Health
The present study investigated the extent to which the relationship between perceptions of neighborhood unsafety and disorder and self-assessed health (SAH) is explained by mediation, interaction, or a combination of both through perceived neighborhood social cohesion. We analyzed data on 5650 respondents over a 10-year follow-up using the GLOBE study, a prospective cohort study in the Netherlands. Log-linear regression analyses were used to esti…
Context matters
This longitudinal study investigated whether classroom norm salience toward aggression moderated the association between parental education and children’s overt aggressive behavior development from third to sixth grade of elementary school. Children ( N = 1,205, 51% girls) from 46 Dutch elementary schools were annually followed from third to sixth grade. Norm salience was operationalized by within-classroom correlations between individual childre…
The role of financial scarcity in the relationship between income and health behaviors
Financial scarcity is an increasing problem and health behaviors may be impaired by subjective experience of stress due to financial scarcity. Financial scarcity is a stress-response to having insufficient financial means and may affect cognitive functioning. This study aimed to assess whether financial scarcity mediates the association between income and health behaviors. We used self-reported cross-sectional data of 2379 adults from the 2021 wa…
Personalised incentives for supporting tobacco cessation (Persist) among healthcare employees
The effectiveness of financial incentives for smoking cessation can be further enhanced by personalising incentives. We aimed to investigate the effect of personalised incentives on abstinence among health care employees who participated in a group-based smoking cessation training, but prematurely terminated the trial due to recruitment issues. All participants (n = 31; 14% of n = 220 required) underwent group-based smoking cessation training. Ba…
Social network characteristics and levels of fluctuations in momentary depressive symptomatology among older adults
BACKGROUND: Social networks are known to protect against depressive symptoms in older adults. However, most research relies on retrospective self-reported depression measures and cross-sectional data, which may introduce bias. Ecological momentary assessment with longitudinal data overcomes these limitations by repeatedly measuring the subject's experience in the present moment. This study examined how social network characteristics relate to mom…
Living arrangements and chronic disease accumulation among native-born and immigrant older adults in Europe
Older immigrants, particularly men from highly developed countries and women from less developed countries, may experience fewer health benefits from living with a partner or with family. Our findings indicate that these immigrant households may have excessive caregiving burdens, which could contribute to unhealthy aging among immigrants in later life
Understanding the systems dynamics of neighborhood socioeconomic inequities in health in European cities
Urban neighborhood inequities in health remain a persistent public health issue, despite many efforts to promote health equity. Given the complex nature of these inequities, a complex systems science approach is essential to identify and understand their underlying causes. In this study, a causal loop diagram (CLD) was developed to visualize the underlying mechanisms contributing to urban neighborhood inequities in self-assessed health. The CLD w…
Local descriptive norms, smoking and body mass index in the Netherlands
Would intervening on financial strain reduce inequalities in mental health between renters and homeowners
Addressing financial strain may reduce the disparities in mental health outcomes associated with housing tenure
Exploring Dutch municipal advertising restrictions on unhealthy and unsustainable products
This study is the first to examine municipal advertisement restrictions in the Netherlands. • Municipal advertising restrictions were often initiated by a left-wing council member. • Existing momentum and favourable political climate facilitated policy development. • Lack of political support formed a barrier for policy development. • Policy consistency facilitated the implementation of advertisement restrictions. This study examined the perspect…
Understanding educational inequalities in sports participation through structurally based resources and individual agency – a sequential mediation analysis
Educational inequalities in sports participation remain a public health issue in the Netherlands. Combining structurally based resources from Pierre Bourdieu's theory of capital with Amartya Sen's conceptualization of individual agency may offer new insights into the complex mechanisms that drive these inequalities. Specifically, we posited that the way individuals are able to exercise their agency within the structurally based economic, social, …
Health effects of holistic housing renovation in a disadvantaged neighbourhood in the Netherlands
Renovation stress, aggravated by lack of information and poor accessibility of housing corporation and construction company, negatively affects mental health and sense of control. Potential stress relievers are practical help with packing and moving furniture, and increased predictability by good and targeted communication. Social interventions can best be offered after renovation, when residents live in their renovated apartment and the nuisance…
A preventive integrated eHealth approach for individuals with a low socioeconomic position
Our mixed-methods realist evaluation on the effect and implementation of a personal and active blended care approach will elucidate what elements trigger the mechanisms and responses of how individuals with a low socioeconomic position experience the preventive integrated eHealth approach. This will inform the way a preventative health check incorporating eHealth can be used to its full potential for low socioeconomic positioned groups to help cl…
Do financial constraint and perceived stress modify the effects of food tax schemes on food purchases
Objective: To investigate whether financial constraint and perceived stress modify the effects of food-related taxes on the healthiness of food purchases. Design: Moderation analyses were conducted with data from a trial where participants were randomly exposed to: a control condition with regular food prices, an sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) tax condition with a two-tiered levy on the sugar content in SSB (5–8 g/100 ml: €0·21 per l and ≥ 8 g/10…
Applying a systems perspective to understand the health effects of holistic housing renovation in a deprived neighbourhood in the Netherlands
Healthy immigrants, unhealthy ageing? Analysis of health decline among older migrants and natives across European countries
The probability of having multiple chronic conditions simultaneously, or multimorbidity, tends to increase with age. Immigrants face a particularly high risk of unhealthy ageing. This study investigates the immigrant-native disparities in the speed of age-related chronic disease accumulation, focusing on the number of chronic health conditions; and considers the heterogeneity of this trajectory within immigrant populations by origin and receiving…
Testing conditionality with Bourdieu's capital theory
Although Bourdieu's capital theory emphasized that economic, social, and embodied cultural capital interact to shape health behavior, existing empirical research mainly considered separate associations of the three forms of capital. Our aim was to investigate if and how economic, social, and embodied cultural capital are conditional on each other in their associations with adults' diet and physical activity. Cross-sectional, self-reported data fr…
Social inequalities in child development
BACKGROUND: Stressful family conditions may contribute to inequalities in child development because they are more common among disadvantaged groups (ie, differential exposure) and/or because their negative effects are stronger among disadvantaged groups (ie, differential impact/susceptibility). We used counterfactual mediation analysis to investigate to what extent stressful family conditions contribute to inequalities in child development via di…
The role of labor market inequalities in explaining the gender gap in depression risk among older US adults
We aim to investigate to what extent gender inequality at the labor market explains higher depression risk for older US women compared to men. We analyze data from 35,699 US adults aged 50-80 years that participated in the Health and Retirement Study. The gender gap is calculated as the difference in prevalence in elevated depressive symptoms (score ≥ 3 on the 8-item Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale) between women and men. We e…
Children's behavioral and emotional problems and peer relationships across elementary school
This study examined (a) whether growing up with lower-educated parents and attending lower parental education schools associated with children's problem development within the behavioral, emotional, and peer relationship domains; and (b) whether the association of lower individual-level parental education with children's development within these three domains depended upon school-level parental education. To this end, 698 children (Mage = 7.08 in…
Trajectories of socioeconomic inequality in early child development
Trajectories of socioeconomic inequality in ECD differ by developmental domain: whereas inequalities in socioemotional development decreased over time, inequalities increased for language development. Children of less educated mothers are at a language disadvantage even before entering primary education, providing further evidence that early interventions are needed
A wake-up call for social epidemiologists studying health inequalities
Socioeconomic inequalities in health behaviors
Time orientation followed by material conditions may play a role in determining socioeconomic inequalities in certain health behavior-related outcomes, providing empirical support for the interplay between structural and individual factors in socioeconomic inequalities in health behavior. Smoking may be determined by prior smoking behavior regardless of SEP, potentially due to its addictive nature. While intervening on time orientation in adultho…
Neighbourhood inequalities in physical inactivity
Neighbourhood inequalities in health and health-related behaviour
Material, psychosocial, and behavioural factors in the explanation of educational inequalities in mortality in the Netherlands
Study objectives: To assess the direct and indirect contributions of material, behavioural, and psychosocial factors to the explanation of educational inequalities in mortality simultaneously. Design: Prospective observational study (1991–1998). Setting: General population from south east Netherlands. Participants: 3979 men and women aged 15–74 years without severe chronic disease at baseline (1991). Main results: Material factors (type of health…
Perceived environmental determinants of physical activity and fruit and vegetable consumption among high and low socioeconomic groups in the Netherlands
How many walking and cycling trips made by elderly are beyond commonly used buffer sizes
Neighbourhood unemployment and all cause mortality
Study objective: Studies have shown that living in more deprived neighbourhoods is related to higher mortality rates, independent of individual socioeconomic characteristics. One approach that contributes to understanding the processes underlying this association is to examine whether the relation is modified by the country context. In this study, the size of the association between neighbourhood unemployment rates and all cause mortality was com…
Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in self-assessed health in 17 European countries between 1990 and 2010
BACKGROUND: Between the 1990s and 2000s, relative inequalities in all-cause mortality increased, whereas absolute inequalities decreased in many European countries. Whether similar trends can be observed for inequalities in other health outcomes is unknown. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive overview of trends in socioeconomic inequalities in self-assessed health (SAH) in Europe between 1990 and 2010. METHODS: Data were obtained from nati…
Neighbourhood and individual socioeconomic inequalities in smoking
Objective: To explore the association between physical neighbourhood stressors and smoking, and the contribution of these stressors to neighbourhood and individual socioeconomic inequalities in smoking. Methods: Data were analysed of participants of the baseline measurement of the Dutch GLOBE study (1991), aged 20 years and older, who lived in 79 neighbourhoods of the city of Eindhoven (n = 9062). The neighbourhood socioeconomic environment was a…
Why do poor people perceive poor neighbourhoods? The role of objective neighbourhood features and psychosocial factors
A simultaneous analysis of neighbourhood and childhood socio-economic environment with self-assessed health and health-related behaviours
I Need to Do This on My Own' Resilience and Self-Reliance in Urban At-Risk Youths
This qualitative study investigates urban at-risk youths’ perspectives on their multiproblem situations and explores their needs for support. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 23 at-risk youths with varied (externalizing) problems and risk factors. The data analysis was carried out using an inductive thematic approach. Four main themes emerged: desistance from delinquent behavior, need for self-reliance, negative experiences in socia…
Public transport policy, social engagement and mental health in older age
BACKGROUND: Social engagement and social isolation are key determinants of mental health in older age, yet there is limited evidence on how public policies may contribute to reducing isolation, promoting social engagement and improving mental health among older people. This study examines the impact of the introduction of an age-friendly transportation policy, free bus passes, on the mental health of older people in England. METHODS: We use an in…
Work–Family Trajectories and the Higher Cardiovascular Risk of American Women Relative to Women in 13 European Countries
Objectives. To investigate whether less-healthy work–family life histories contribute to the higher cardiovascular disease prevalence in older American compared with European women. Methods. We used sequence analysis to identify distinct work–family typologies for women born between 1935 and 1956 in the United States and 13 European countries. Data came from the US Health and Retirement Study (1992–2006) and the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retir…
The impact of nursing homes on small-area life expectancies
Socio-demographic determinants of worsening in frailty among community-dwelling older people in 11 European countries
BACKGROUND: The rapid increase of frail older people worldwide will have a substantial impact on healthcare systems. The frailty process may be delayed or even reversed, which makes it attractive for early interventions. However, little is known about the determinants of frailty state changes. The aim of this study is to compare socio-demographic determinants of worsening in frailty state in 11 European countries. METHODS: Data of 14,424 communit…
Explaining socioeconomic differences in adolescent self-rated health
The findings show that the main explanatory approaches for adults also apply to adolescents. The direct and indirect contribution of material factors for inequalities in self-rated health was stronger than that of behavioural and psychosocial factors. Strategies for reducing health inequalities should primarily focus on improving material circumstances in lower affluent groups
Household and food shopping environments
BACKGROUND: Fruit and vegetables are protective of a number of chronic diseases; however, their intakes have been shown to vary by socioeconomic position (SEP). Household and food shopping environmental factors are thought to contribute to these differences. To determine whether household and food shopping environmental factors are associated with fruit and vegetable (FV) intakes, and contribute to socioeconomic inequalities in FV consumption. ME…
The effects of migration on the relationship between area socioeconomic structure and mortality
Neighbourhood social capital as a moderator between individual cognitions and sports behaviour among Dutch adolescents
Socioeconomic inequalities in mobility decline in chronic disease groups (asthma/COPD, heart disease, diabetes mellitus, low back pain)
Objective: This study examined the association between socioeconomic status and mobility decline and whether this could be explained by disease severity and comorbidity in four different chronic disease groups (asthma/COPD, heart disease, diabetes mellitus, and low back pain). It is not clear, whether the adverse course of physical functioning in persons with a low socioeconomic status can be explained by a higher prevalence of more severe diseas…
Effect of changes in green spaces on mental health in older adults
BACKGROUND: Urban green spaces have been linked to different health benefits, but longitudinal studies on the effect of green spaces on mental health are sparse and evidence often inconclusive. Our objective was to study the effect of changes in green spaces in the residential environment on changes in mental health using data with 10 years of follow-up (2004-2014). METHODS: Data from 3175 Dutch adults were linked to accessibility and availabilit…
Urban population density and mortality in a compact Dutch city
We investigated the association and underlying pathways between urban population density and mortality in a compact mid-sized university city in the Netherlands. Baseline data from the GLOBE cohort study (N = 10,120 residents of Eindhoven) were linked to mortality after 23 years of follow up and analyzed in multilevel models. Higher population density was modestly related to increased mortality, independently of baseline socioeconomic position an…
The role of psychosocial factors in explaining socio-economic differences in mobility decline in a chronically ill population
The role of labor market inequalities in explaining the gender gap in depression risk among older US adults
We aim to investigate to what extent gender inequality at the labor market explains higher depression risk for older US women compared to men. We analyze data from 35,699 US adults aged 50-80 years that participated in the Health and Retirement Study. The gender gap is calculated as the difference in prevalence in elevated depressive symptoms (score ≥ 3 on the 8-item Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale) between women and men. We e…
How does cultural capital keep you thin? Exploring unique aspects of cultural class that link social advantage to lower body mass index
A widely used indicator for cultural class is strongly related to a lower body mass index (BMI): cultural capital measured as ‘highbrow' taste. This study’s objective was to theorise and measure aspects of cultural class that are more plausibly linked to low BMI, and subsequently explore their relevance. Building on Bourdieusian theory we derive four of those aspects: ‘refinement’ (valuing form and appearance over function and substance), ‘asceti…
Tracking of blood pressure in children and youth
Part of a preventive pediatric strategy against cardiovascular diseases is the early identification of hypertension in childhood. There is a clearly established relationship between blood pressure measured during childhood and at later periods for the same individual. This relationship was investigated in studies of blood pressure tracking in children over the past two decades. This report reviews longitudinal studies that analysed tracking of bl…
What determines drop out in prospective studies of coronary heart disease risk factors between youth and young adulthood
The growing recognition of the importance of early life factors in the development of coronary heart disease (CHD) may increase prospective research in this period of life. From a methodological point of view, drop out of subjects, particularly when this is selective, is a major threat to the validity of the results. Specific information about determinants of drop out in current studies may therefore yield important information for future studies…
Stability of somatotypes in 4 to 10 year-old rural South African girls
In 1996, a mixed Ellisras longitudinal study (ELS) was initiated to assess the stability of somatotypes in 408 girls who comprised 99 pre-school and 309 primary school children in Ellisras rural area in the Northern Province of South Africa. The children's somatotype was assessed using the Heath-Carter anthropometric method. Anthropometric dimensions were taken according to the protocol of the International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthr…
Socioeconomic inequalities in mobility decline in chronic disease groups (asthma/COPD, heart disease, diabetes mellitus, low back pain)
Objective: This study examined the association between socioeconomic status and mobility decline and whether this could be explained by disease severity and comorbidity in four different chronic disease groups (asthma/COPD, heart disease, diabetes mellitus, and low back pain). It is not clear, whether the adverse course of physical functioning in persons with a low socioeconomic status can be explained by a higher prevalence of more severe diseas…
Impact evaluation of a Dutch community intervention to improve health-related behaviour in deprived neighbourhoods
A simultaneous analysis of neighbourhood and childhood socio-economic environment with self-assessed health and health-related behaviours
Material, psychosocial, and behavioural factors in the explanation of educational inequalities in mortality in the Netherlands
Study objectives: To assess the direct and indirect contributions of material, behavioural, and psychosocial factors to the explanation of educational inequalities in mortality simultaneously. Design: Prospective observational study (1991–1998). Setting: General population from south east Netherlands. Participants: 3979 men and women aged 15–74 years without severe chronic disease at baseline (1991). Main results: Material factors (type of health…
Neighbourhood unemployment and all cause mortality
Study objective: Studies have shown that living in more deprived neighbourhoods is related to higher mortality rates, independent of individual socioeconomic characteristics. One approach that contributes to understanding the processes underlying this association is to examine whether the relation is modified by the country context. In this study, the size of the association between neighbourhood unemployment rates and all cause mortality was com…
Neighbourhood inequalities in physical inactivity
The role of psychosocial factors in explaining socio-economic differences in mobility decline in a chronically ill population
Smokers living in deprived areas are less likely to quit
Living in a deprived area seems to reduce the likelihood of quitting smoking; hence individual-level tobacco control efforts should be complemented with area-based interventions. However, we need to identify and understand the underlying factors associated with living in a deprived area that contributes to lower quitting rates
A multilevel study of socio-economic inequalities in food choice behaviour and dietary intake among the Dutch population
Objective To examine the influence of individual- and area-level socio-economic characteristics on food choice behaviour and dietary intake. Setting The city of Eindhoven in the south-east Netherlands. Design A total of 1339 men and women aged 25–79 years were sampled from 85 areas (mean number of participants per area = 18.4, range 2–49). Information on socio-economic position (SEP) and diet was collected by structured face-to-face interviews (r…
Perceived environmental determinants of physical activity and fruit and vegetable consumption among high and low socioeconomic groups in the Netherlands
Neighbourhood inequalities in health and health-related behaviour
Neighbourhood and individual socioeconomic inequalities in smoking
Objective: To explore the association between physical neighbourhood stressors and smoking, and the contribution of these stressors to neighbourhood and individual socioeconomic inequalities in smoking. Methods: Data were analysed of participants of the baseline measurement of the Dutch GLOBE study (1991), aged 20 years and older, who lived in 79 neighbourhoods of the city of Eindhoven (n = 9062). The neighbourhood socioeconomic environment was a…
Environmental correlates of physical activity in youth – a review and update
Obesogenic environments are thought to underlie the increased obesity prevalence observed in youth during the past decades. Understanding the environmental factors that are associated with physical activity (PA) in youth is needed to better inform the development of effective intervention strategies attempting to halt the obesity epidemic. We conducted a systematic semi‐quantitative review of 150 studies on environmental correlates of youth PA pu…
Socioeconomic inequalities in food purchasing
A systematic review of associations between environmental factors, energy and fat intakes among adults
Objective To review the literature examining associations between environmental factors, energy and fat intakes among adults, and to identify issues for future research. Methods Literature searches of studies published between 1980 and 2004 were conducted in major databases (i.e. PubMed, Human Nutrition, Web of Science, PsychInfo, Sociofile). Additional articles were located by citation tracking. Results Twenty-one articles met the inclusion crit…
The effects of migration on the relationship between area socioeconomic structure and mortality
Area variation in recreational cycling in Melbourne
OBJECTIVE: To examine whether compositional and/or contextual area characteristics are associated with area socioeconomic inequalities and between-area differences in recreational cycling. SETTING: The city of Melbourne, Australia. PARTICIPANTS: 2349 men and women residing in 50 areas (58.7% response rate). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Cycling for recreational purposes (at least once a month vs never). DESIGN: In a cross-sectional survey participants re…
Social epidemiology—strategies for public health activism
Edited by Julie G Cwikel. Published by Colombia University Press, New York, 2006, pp 613. ISBN 0-231-10048-5
Childhood social class and cancer incidence
Determinants of participation in worksite health promotion programmes
Household and food shopping environments
BACKGROUND: Fruit and vegetables are protective of a number of chronic diseases; however, their intakes have been shown to vary by socioeconomic position (SEP). Household and food shopping environmental factors are thought to contribute to these differences. To determine whether household and food shopping environmental factors are associated with fruit and vegetable (FV) intakes, and contribute to socioeconomic inequalities in FV consumption. ME…
The relative contributions of hostility and depressive symptoms to the income gradient in hospital-based incidence of ischaemic heart disease
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