Jan Carstensen

Biographic Data

ID1262799
NAMEJan Carstensen
GIVEN NAMESJan
FAMILY NAMECarstensen
SIGNATURECARSTENSEN J
AFFILIATIONSLinköping University
ORCID0000-0003-2256-8089
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS13
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX3

  • Environmental Inequalities Beyond Borders

    Jan Carstensen, John CarstensenARTICLEDevelopment in Practice2013

    Julian Agyeman and JoAnn Carmin, eds Environmental Inequalities Beyond Borders: Local Perspectives on Global Injustices Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2011, ISBN 978 0 2625 1587 0, paperback, 320 pp., $

  • Co-morbidity and health care utilisation five years prior to diagnosis for depression. A register-based study in a Swedish population

    Open AccessDavid Andersson, David E Andersson et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2011

    Predictors of a depression diagnosis were a high number of physician visits, female gender, age below 60, age above 80 and a low socioeconomic status. To find early signs of depression in the clinical setting and to use a preventive strategy to handle these patients is important

  • Migration and mortality trajectories

    Open AccessPetter Tinghög, Jan Carstensen et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2011Cited by: 3References: 32

  • The Association of Immigrant- and Non-Immigrant-Specific Factors With Mental Ill Health Among Immigrants in Sweden

    Open AccessPetter Tinghög, Suad Al-Saffar et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Social…2010

    Background: It has often been shown that immigrants are particularly at risk for mental ill health. The aim of the study was to investigate the association of immigrant- and non-immigrant-specific factors with mental ill health within a diverse immigrant population. Method: An extensive questionnaire was sent out to a stratified random sample of three immigrant populations from Finland, Iraq and Iran. The 720 respondents completed a Swedish, Arab…

  • Neue Themen und Konzepte für das Lwl-Freilichtmuseum Detmold - Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Volkskunde

    Jan CarstensenARTICLEActa Ethnographica Hungarica2010

    Das LWL-Freilichtmuseum Detmold ist das zentrale Landesmuseum für Volkskunde in Westfalen. Zugleich ist es von der flächenmäßigen Ausdehnung her das größte Freilichtmuseum in Deutschland. Der gesellschaftliche Wandel bedingt auch hier veränderte Besucherinteressen in Museen, aber auch neue Forschungsansätze in der wissenschaftlichen Volkskunde, die sich seit den 1970er Jahren immer stärker an Gegenwartsfragen orientiert hat. Um das LWL-Freilichtm…

  • Plasma Levels of Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 are Independently Associated With Psychosocial Factors in a Middle-Aged Normal Population

    Peter Garvin, Lennart Nilsson et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2009

    Objective: To test the association between psychosocial factors and circulating levels of matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) in a normal population sample. Psychosocial factors have been associated with inflammatory markers and are of prognostic significance for coronary artery disease (CAD). The degrading enzyme MMP-9 is upregulated in inflammatory processes and hypothesized to play a role in the rupture of atherosclerotic plaques. Methods: A to…

  • Cross-Cultural Equivalence of HSCL-25 and WHO (ten) Wellbeing Index

    Open AccessPetter Tinghög, Jan Carstensen et al.ARTICLECommunity Mental Health Journal2009Cited by: 6References: 50

  • Pregnancy related sickness absence in a Swedish county, 1985-87

    Kristina Alexanderson, Gunnel Hensing et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…1994References: 12

    Sickness absence during pregnancy has increased in Sweden as well as in other countries. STUDY OBJECTIVE--The study aimed to describe pregnancy related sickness absence and its increase from 1985-87; to consider if the increase were parallel to an increase in sickness absence for all diagnoses or could be explained by a higher birth rate; and to compare different ways of presenting sickness absence data. DESIGN--The data from a prospective incide…

  • Mortality in relation to cigarette and pipe smoking

    Jan Carstensen, J M Carstensen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…1987Cited by: 4References: 13

    In a random sample of 25,129 Swedish men who responded to a questionnaire on smoking habits in 1963 the cause specific mortality was followed through 1979. In the cohort, 32% smoked cigarettes, 27% a pipe, and 5% cigars. There were clear covariations (p less than 0.001) between the amount of tobacco smoked and the risk of death due to cancer of the oral cavity and larynx, oesophagus, liver, pancreas, lung, and bladder as well as due to bronchitis…