Publications

• Zazueta-Borboa, J.D., Basellini, U., Zagheni, E., van Wissen, L.J.G., Martikainen, P. & Janssen, F. (forthcoming) The contribution of educational expansion to trends in life expectancy and lifespan variation in England & Wales, Finland, and Italy (Turin) Demography
• Janssen, F., Gonzales Martinez, R., Zengarini, N., Martikainen, P. & Kunst, A.E. (2025) Trends in educational inequalities in obesity-attributable mortality in England & Wales, Finland and Italy. Obesity 33(3): 578-588. Link
• Gómez Ugarte Valerio, A.C., Basellini, U., Camarda, C. G., Janssen, F. & Zagheni, E. (2025) Reassessing socioeconomic inequalities in mortality via distributional similarities. Population Health Metrics 23 (7). Link
• Zazueta-Borboa, J.D., Van Hemelrijck, WMJ, Zengarini, N., Sizer, A., Kunst, A.E., Martikainen, P. & Janssen, F (2024). Long-term trends in educational inequalities in alcohol-attributable mortality, and their impact on trends in educational inequalities in life expectancy. Frontiers in Public Health 2024(12). Link
• Van Hemelrijck, W., Kunst, A.E., Sizer, A., Martikainen, P., Zengarini, N., Costa, G. & Janssen, F. (2024). Trends in educational inequalities in smoking-attributable mortality and their impact on changes in general mortality inequalities: evidence from England & Wales, Finland, and Italy (Turin). Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 78: 561-569. doi: 10.1136/jech-2023-221702. Link
• Janssen, F., Van Hemelrijck, W.M.J., Kagenaar, E. & Sizer, A. (2024). Enabling the examination of long-term mortality trends by educational level for England and Wales in a time-consistent and internationally comparable manner. Population Health Metrics 22(4): 1 – 19. Link.
• Gonzales Martinez, R. & F. Janssen (2024) Comparison of methods to estimate obesity-attributable mortality and high-BMI-attributable mortality by educational level in England & Wales, Finland, and Italy. NIDI Working paper 2024/1. The Hague: Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute. 73 pages. Link
• Van Hemelrijck, W.M.J., Martikainen, P., Zengarini, N., Costa, G. & Janssen, F. (2023). The impact of estimation methods for alcohol-attributable mortality on long-term trends for the general population and by educational level in Finland and Italy (Turin). Plos One 18(12): e0295760. Link
• Zazueta-Borboa, J.D., Martikainen, P., Aburto, J.M., Costa, G., Peltonen, R., Zengarini, N., Sizer, A., Kunst, A.E. & Janssen, F. (2023). Reversals in past long-term trends in educational inequalities in life expectancy for selected European countries. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 77: 421-429. doi:10.1136/jech2023-220385. Link
• Janssen, F (2023). Forecasting future socio-economic longevity inequalities: the impact of lifestyle factors. Health Europa Quarterly 25: 158-159. Link
• Gonzales Martinez, R. & Janssen, F. (2023) The creation of a database on obesity and high BMI prevalence by educational level and sex for adjacent calendar years and uniform ages for England, Finland, and Italy. NIDI Working Paper 2023/1. The Hague: Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute. 40 pages. Link
• Zazueta-Borboa, J. D., Aburto, J. M., Permnayer, I., Zarulli, V. & Janssen, F. (2023). Contributions of age groups and causes of death to the sex gap in lifespan variation in Europe. Population Studies 77(3): 475-496. doi: 10.1080/00324728.2023.2222723. Link
• Janssen, F (2023) Impact of lifestyle-related mortality on trends in life expectancy. Health Europa Quarterly 24: 158-161. Link
• Kagenaar, E., Van Hemelrijck, W. M. J., Kunst, A. E. & Janssen, F. (2022) Long-Term Trends in Obesity Prevalence by Socio-Economic Group in Five European Countries and the USA: The Relevance of the Diffusion of Innovations Theory. Obesity Facts 15(6): 753-761. doi: 10.1159/000527070. Link
• Janssen, F., Barboutsos, A., El Gewily, S., and De Beer, J. (2021b). Future life expectancy in Europe taking into account the impact of smoking, obesity, and alcohol. eLife 10: e66590. doi: 10.7554/eLife.66590. Link
• Janssen, F., Trias-Llimós, S., & Kunst, A. E. (2021). The combined impact of smoking, obesity, and alcohol on life expectancy trends in Europe. International Journal of Epidemiology 50(3): 931-941. doi: 10.1096/ije/dyaa273. Link