Carola T M Schrijvers

Biographic Data

ID3927113
NAMECarola T M Schrijvers
GIVEN NAMESCarola T M
FAMILY NAMESchrijvers
SIGNATURESCHRIJVERS C T M
AFFILIATIONSErasmus University Rotterdam
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS107
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX5

  • School food policy at Dutch primary schools

    Open AccessWilke JC van Ansem, Carola T M Schrijvers et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2013

    Dutch primary schools could play a more important role in fostering healthy eating habits among children. The school food policy could be improved by clearly formulating food rules, simplifying supervision of the food rules, and defining how to enforce the food rules. In addition, the school food policy will only influence children's dietary behaviour if both the school and the parents support the policy

  • Is there an association between the home food environment, the local food shopping environment and children's fruit and vegetable intake? Results from the Dutch Inpact study

    Open AccessWilke JC van Ansem, Carola T M Schrijvers et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2013

    Objective To examine: (i) the association between home availability of fruit and vegetables and children's fruit and vegetable intake; (ii) the association between parental perception of the local food shopping environment and the home availability of fruit and vegetables; and (iii) whether the home availability of fruit and vegetables mediates the association between parental perception of the local food environment and children's fruit and vege…

  • Father’s Occupational Group and Daily Smoking During Adolescence

    Mariël Droomers, Carola T M Schrijvers et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2005Cited by: 5References: 51

    Objectives. We investigated the relationship among father’s occupational group, daily smoking, and smoking determinants in a cohort of New Zealand adolescents. Methods. The longitudinal Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study provided information on adolescents’ self-reported smoking behavior and potential predictors of smoking, such as social and material factors, personality characteristics, educational achievement, and individual attitu…

  • Educational differences in starting excessive alcohol consumption

    Open AccessMariël Droomers, Carola T M Schrijvers et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2004Cited by: 6References: 31

  • Explaining educational differences in mortality

    Carola T M Schrijvers, C T Schrijvers et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health1999Cited by: 40References: 18

    OBJECTIVES: This study examined the role of behavioral and material factors in explaining educational differences in all-cause mortality, taking into account the overlap between both types of factors. METHODS: Prospective data were used on 15,451 participants in a Dutch longitudinal study. Relative hazards of all-cause mortality by educational level were calculated before and after adjustment for behavioral factors (alcohol intake, smoking, body …

  • The influence of adult ill health on occupational class mobility and mobility out of and into employment in The Netherlands

    Open AccessH Van De Mheen, Karien Stronks et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine1999Cited by: 32References: 26

  • Socioeconomic inequalities in health in the working population

    Carola T M Schrijvers, C SchrijversARTICLEInternational Journal of…1998

    BACKGROUND: The aim was to study the impact of different categories of working conditions on the association between occupational class and self-reported health in the working population. METHODS: Data were collected through a postal survey conducted in 1991 among inhabitants of 18 municipalities in the southeastern Netherlands. Data concerned 4521 working men and 2411 working women and included current occupational class (seven classes), working…

  • Educational differences in leisure-time physical inactivity

    Open AccessMariël Droomers, Carola T M Schrijvers et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine1998Cited by: 24References: 41

  • Cancer patient survival by socioeconomic status in seven countries

    Carola T M Schrijvers, C T Schrijvers et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…1994

    STUDY OBJECTIVE--To study the size and consistency of socioeconomic differences in cancer patient survival as reported in published studies. METHODS--A systematic review was conducted. Several criteria were developed to select the study material, which resulted in 14 reports on socioeconomic differences in survival for cancers of the colon, rectum, lung, prostate, breast, and cervix. These present results on patients from the United States, Japan…