Miriam van den Berg

Biographic Data

ID6159684
NAMEMiriam van den Berg
GIVEN NAMESMiriam van den
FAMILY NAMEBerg
SIGNATUREVAN DEN BERG M
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Adelaide
ORCID0000-0003-0049-4859
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Marxist concepts of alienation in relation to health: A narrative review of the evidence

    Open AccessFranziska Baum, Jaye Litherland-De Lara et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2026

    Public health scholars are increasingly interested in the Marxist concept of alienation to explain the existence of health inequities. Marx’s use of the term stresses the crucial role of political economic structural factors in creating alienation. This article reports on a narrative review of literature that used Marx’s theory of alienation and focuses on the mental and/or physical health effects of alienation. Our search resulted in 34 relevant…

  • Insecure employment and the social determinants of suicide: A narrative synthesis review

    Open AccessMiriam van den Berg, Natalie Aboustate et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2026

    Employment-related suicide is a global public health problem, which is becoming more urgent as the world’s workforce is increasingly employed under insecure conditions. Workers who lack secure employment—including those who are unemployed and in various forms of precarious employment—experience poorer health. Suicide is hidden in the literature on worker health, often subsumed by the focus on mental illness. This article presents a review of rese…

  • Alienation and its relevance to public health: Response to commentaries by Muntaner et al and Dawson

    Franziska Baum, Julia Anaf et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2025References: 6

    FB, CM TF and JA were funded by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council GNT2009323 and additional research assistant support provided by internal grant from the Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics, University of Adelaide

  • Twenty-first century alienation and health: A research agenda

    Franziska Baum, Julia Anaf et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2025Cited by: 1References: 15

    Alienation has been used as a crucial concept to describe the negative psychosocial impacts that stem from the ways production and consumption are organised in Marxist and non-Marxist traditions. The psychosocial impacts it generates are mediated through stress pathways to increase non-communicable physical and mental illnesses. There has been little empirical research on the impact of alienation on health and ways in which the impact might be re…

  • Ghosts in the labour market: Perceived health implications of informal labour in Australia

    Open AccessMiriam van den Berg, H Krainer et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2024

    Employment conditions are important social and commercial determinants of health. Informal employment—also known as ‘cash-in-hand’ and ‘undeclared’ work—is a discrete employment condition that has salience around the world. Fuelled by neoliberal ideology, informal employment has become increasingly common in high-income countries. Public health research concerning the health of informal workers comes largely from low- and middle-income countries,…

  • Social, cultural and political conditions for advancing health equity: Examples from eight country case studies (2011–2021)

    Open AccessMiriam van den Berg, Joanne Flavel et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    Progress in addressing systematic health inequities, both between and within countries, has been slow. However, there are examples of actions taken on social determinants of health and policy changes aimed at shaping the underlying sociopolitical context that drives these inequities. Using case study methodology, this article identifies five countries (Ethiopia, Jordan, Spain, Sri Lanka and Vietnam) that made progress on health equity during 2011…