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Bjørn Evald Holstein
Researcher at University of Southern Denmark
Publications - 199
Citations - 9895
Bjørn Evald Holstein is an academic researcher from University of Southern Denmark. The author has contributed to research in topics: Socioeconomic status & Population. The author has an hindex of 43, co-authored 197 publications receiving 9092 citations. Previous affiliations of Bjørn Evald Holstein include Medical University of Vienna & Health Science University.
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Researching health inequalities in adolescents: the development of the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) family affluence scale.
Candace Currie,Michal Molcho,William F. Boyce,Bjørn Evald Holstein,Torbjørn Torsheim,Matthias Richter +5 more
TL;DR: An overview of HBSC papers published to date that examine FAS-related socioeconomic inequalities in health and health behaviour suggests consistent inequalities in self-reported health, psychosomatic symptoms, physical activity and aspects of eating habits at both the individual and country level.
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Bullying and symptoms among school-aged children: international comparative cross sectional study in 28 countries
Pernille Due,Bjørn Evald Holstein,John Lynch,Finn Diderichsen,Saoirse Nic Gabhain,Peter C. Scheidt,Candace Currie +6 more
TL;DR: There was a consistent, strong and graded association between bullying and each of 12 physical and psychological symptoms among adolescents in all 28 countries.
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Body mass index and overweight in adolescents in 13 European countries, Israel, and the United States.
TL;DR: The highest prevalences of overweight were found in the United States, Ireland, Greece, and Portugal, and relative rankings among countries were similar for BMI at or above the 85th centile, although there were less dramatic differences at this level.
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Socioeconomic Inequality in Exposure to Bullying During Adolescence: A Comparative, Cross-Sectional, Multilevel Study in 35 Countries
Pernille Due,Juan Merlo,Yossi Harel-Fisch,Mogens Trab Damsgaard,Bjørn Evald Holstein,Jørn Hetland,Candace Currie,Saoirse Nic Gabhainn,Margarida Gaspar de Matos,John Lynch +9 more
TL;DR: There is socioeconomic inequality in exposure to bullying among adolescents, leaving children of greater socioeconomic disadvantage at higher risk of victimization and adolescents who attend schools and live in countries where socioeconomic differences are larger are at higherrisk of being bullied.
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Social relations: network, support and relational strain.
TL;DR: The weakening of the social network with age does not seem to affect the level of emotional support and in turn seems to be partly compensated for by a simultaneous decline in relational strain, which declines with age for all kinds of social relations.