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  1. Statin Treatment Is Associated With a Higher Risk of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, But not of Ulnar Nerve Entrapment, in Type 2 Diabetes—A Nationwide Register Study

    Article • Clinical Therapeutics, December 2025, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  2. Socio-geographical disparities in cardiometabolic multimorbidity in Sweden: an Intersectional Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (I-MAIHDA)

    Article • International Journal for Equity in Health, November 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  3. The Statistical Advantages of Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy for Estimating Intersectional Inequalities

    Article • Sociological Methods & Research, October 2025, SAGE Publications

    Juan Merlo

  4. Determinants of empiric combination antibiotic therapy for hospital associated bloodstream infections in the intensive care unit

    Article • Scientific Reports, October 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  5. The Statistical Advantages of MAIHDA for Estimating Intersectional Inequalities

    Article • October 2025, Center for Open Science

    Juan Merlo

  6. Geographic and socioeconomic differences in potentially inappropriate medication among older adults – applying a simplified analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (AIHDA) for basic comparisons of healthcare quality

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, August 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  7. Social and geographical inequalities in prenatal care coverage in Colombia: a multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA)

    Article • BMJ Global Health, August 2025, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  8. Evaluating healthcare quality and inequities using generative AI: a simulation study of potentially inappropriate medication among older adults analyzed via the framework analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (AIHDA)

    Article • Discover Artificial Intelligence, July 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  9. Complex regional pain syndrome and use of psychotropic drugs as a proxy for psychological health

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  10. Trust in healthcare and perceived discrimination in Sweden: a fixed effects analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy

    Article • Frontiers in Public Health, June 2025, Frontiers

    Juan Merlo

  11. The Statistical Advantages of MAIHDA for Estimating Intersectional Inequalities

    Article • April 2025, Center for Open Science

    Juan Merlo

  12. Perceived discrimination and refraining from seeking physician’s care in Sweden: an intersectional analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (AIHDA)

    Article • International Journal for Equity in Health, October 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  13. Multilevel analyses in drug utilization research

    Article • September 2024, Wiley

    Juan Merlo

  14. Sociodemographic Inequalities in Student Achievement: An Intersectional Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA)

    Article • Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, August 2024, SAGE Publications

    Juan Merlo

  15. A tutorial for conducting intersectional multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA)

    Article • SSM - Population Health, June 2024, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  16. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Trigger Finger May Be an Early Symptom of Preclinic Type 2 Diabetes

    Article • Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Global Open, June 2024, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Juan Merlo

  17. A Tutorial for Conducting Intersectional Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA)

    Article • March 2024, Center for Open Science

    Juan Merlo

  18. Mapping socio-geographical disparities in the occurrence of teenage maternity in Colombia using multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA)

    Article • International Journal for Equity in Health, February 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  19. Socioeconomic disparities in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in Sweden: An intersectional ecological niches analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (IEN-AIHDA)

    Article • PLOS One, November 2023, PLOS

    Juan Merlo

  20. Overuse of the psychoactive analgesics’ opioids and gabapentinoid drugs in patients having surgery for nerve entrapment disorders

    Article • Scientific Reports, September 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  21. Geographical and sociodemographic differences in statin dispensation after acute myocardial infarction in Sweden: a register-based prospective cohort study applying analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (AIHDA) for basic comp...

    Article • BMJ Open, September 2023, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  22. Impact of the Economic Crisis on Body Mass Index in Spain: An Intersectional Multilevel Analysis Using a Socioeconomic and Regional Perspective

    Article • Population Research and Policy Review, July 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  23. Reevaluating the protective effect of smoking on preeclampsia risk through the lens of bias

    Article • April 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  24. Multilevel modelling for measuring interaction of effects between multiple categorical variables: An illustrative application using risk factors for preeclampsia

    Article • Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, November 2022, Wiley

    Juan Merlo

  25. Revisiting socio-economic inequalities in sedentary leisure time in Sweden: An intersectional analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (AIHDA)

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, July 2022, SAGE Publications

    Juan Merlo

  26. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Ulnar Nerve Entrapment Are Associated with Impaired Psychological Health in Adults as Appraised by Their Increased Use of Psychotropic Medication

    Article • Journal of Clinical Medicine, July 2022, MDPI AG

    Juan Merlo

  27. Physical and social environmental factors related to co-occurrence of unhealthy lifestyle behaviors

    Article • Health & Place, May 2022, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  28. Mapping sociodemographic and geographical differences in human papillomavirus non-vaccination among young girls in Sweden

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, February 2022, SAGE Publications

    Juan Merlo

  29. Análisis multinivel del efecto del lugar de nacimiento en la proporción de partos por cesárea en Colombia

    Article • Colombia Medica, November 2021, Universidad del Valle

    Juan Merlo

  30. Nationwide paediatric cohort study of a protective association between allergy and complicated appendicitis

    Article • BJS, October 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Juan Merlo

  31. Population heterogeneity in associations between hormonal contraception and antidepressant use in Sweden: a prospective cohort study applying intersectional multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA)

    Article • BMJ Open, October 2021, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  32. Antidepressant use in Sweden: an intersectional multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA)

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, February 2021, SAGE Publications

    Juan Merlo

  33. An intersectional analysis providing more precise information on inequities in self-rated health

    Article • International Journal for Equity in Health, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  34. Understanding the complexity of socioeconomic disparities in smoking prevalence in Sweden: a cross-sectional study applying intersectionality theory

    Article • BMJ Open, February 2021, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  35. Socio-economic disparities in the dispensation of antibiotics in Sweden 2016–2017: An intersectional analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, January 2021, SAGE Publications

    Juan Merlo

  36. Small area influences on the individual unhealthy lifestyle behaviors: A multilevel analysis of discriminatory accuracy

    Article • Health & Place, January 2021, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  37. Partitioning variation in multilevel models for count data.

    Article • Psychological Methods, December 2020, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Juan Merlo

  38. Intimate Partner Violence against Women in the EU: A Multilevel Analysis of the Contextual and Individual Impact on Public Perceptions

    Article • Women & Criminal Justice, November 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Juan Merlo

  39. Individual and Contextual Factors Associated With Hazardous Drinking in Spain: Evidence From a National Population‐Based Study

    Article • Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research, October 2020, Wiley

    Juan Merlo

  40. Cross-classified Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA) to evaluate hospital performance: the case of hospital differences in patient survival after acute myocardial infarction

    Article • BMJ Open, October 2020, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  41. Complex sociodemographic inequalities in consultations for low back pain: lessons from multilevel intersectional analysis

    Article • Pain, September 2020, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Juan Merlo

  42. <p>Geographical and sociodemographic differences in discontinuation of medication for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease – A Cross-Classified Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA)</p>

    Article • Clinical Epidemiology, July 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Juan Merlo

  43. Disentangling the contribution of hospitals and municipalities for understanding patient level differences in one-year mortality risk after hip-fracture: A cross-classified multilevel analysis in Sweden

    Article • PLOS One, June 2020, PLOS

    Pia Kjær Kristensen, Juan Merlo

  44. Low adherence to statin treatment during the 1st year after an acute myocardial infarction is associated with increased 2nd-year mortality risk—an inverse probability of treatment weighted study on 54 872 patients

    Article • European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy, February 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Juan Merlo

  45. Acknowledging the role of patient heterogeneity in hospital outcome reporting: Mortality after acute myocardial infarction in five European countries

    Article • PLOS One, February 2020, PLOS

    Juan Merlo

  46. Multilevel versus single-level regression for the analysis of multilevel information: The case of quantitative intersectional analysis

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, January 2020, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  47. Understanding the complexity of socioeconomic disparities in type 2 diabetes risk: a study of 4.3 million people in Sweden

    Article • BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care, November 2019, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  48. Does country-level gender equality explain individual risk of intimate partner violence against women? A multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA) in the European Union

    Article • European Journal of Public Health, September 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Juan Merlo

  49. Precision public health: Mapping socioeconomic disparities in opioid dispensations at Swedish pharmacies by Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA)

    Article • PLOS One, August 2019, PLOS

    Juan Merlo

  50. Hospital differences in mortality rates after hip fracture surgery in Denmark

    Article • Clinical Epidemiology, July 2019, Dove Medical Press

    Juan Merlo, Pia Kjær Kristensen

  51. A simple multilevel approach for analysing geographical inequalities in public health reports: The case of municipality differences in obesity

    Article • Health & Place, July 2019, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  52. Intersectional inequalities and the U.S. opioid crisis: challenging dominant narratives and revealing heterogeneities

    Article • Critical Public Health, June 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Wemrell, Juan Merlo

  53. Prevalence of intimate partner violence against women in Sweden and Spain: A psychometric study of the ‘Nordic paradox’

    Article • PLOS One, May 2019, PLOS

    Professor Enrique Gracia, Juan Merlo

  54. Albuminuria measurement in diabetic care: a multilevel analysis measuring the influence of accreditation on institutional performance

    Article • BMJ Open Quality, January 2019, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  55. Socioeconomic differences in body mass index in Spain: An intersectional multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy

    Article • PLOS One, December 2018, PLOS

    Juan Merlo

  56. Overuse of methylphenidate: an analysis of Swedish pharmacy dispensing data

    Article • Clinical Epidemiology, November 2018, Dove Medical Press

    Juan Merlo

  57. General and specific contextual effects in multilevel regression analyses and their paradoxical relationship: A conceptual tutorial

    Article • SSM - Population Health, August 2018, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  58. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Sweden: An intersectional multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy

    Article • SSM - Population Health, April 2018, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  59. Multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA) within an intersectional framework

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, April 2018, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  60. Hormonal contraception increases the risk of psychotropic drug use in adolescent girls but not in adults: A pharmacoepidemiological study on 800 000 Swedish women

    Article • PLOS One, March 2018, PLOS

    Juan Merlo

  61. Psychotropic drug use as indicator of mental health in adolescents affected by a plexus injury at birth: A large population-based study in Sweden

    Article • PLOS One, March 2018, PLOS

    Juan Merlo

  62. The role of the clinical departments for understanding patient heterogeneity in one-year mortality after a diagnosis of heart failure: A multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity for profiling provider outcomes

    Article • PLOS One, December 2017, PLOS

    Juan Merlo

  63. The tyranny of the averages and the indiscriminate use of risk factors in public health: The case of coronary heart disease

    Article • SSM - Population Health, December 2017, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  64. Measures of clustering and heterogeneity in multilevel Poisson regression analyses of rates/count data

    Article • Statistics in Medicine, November 2017, Wiley

    Juan Merlo

  65. Sociodemographic patterns in pharmacy dispensing of medications for erectile dysfunction in Sweden

    Article • European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  66. Country of residence, gender equality and victim blaming attitudes about partner violence: a multilevel analysis in EU

    Article • European Journal of Public Health, September 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Juan Merlo

  67. Revisiting the discriminatory accuracy of traditional risk factors in preeclampsia screening

    Article • PLOS One, May 2017, PLOS

    Juan Merlo

  68. Intermediate and advanced topics in multilevel logistic regression analysis

    Article • Statistics in Medicine, May 2017, Wiley

    Juan Merlo

  69. Absolute rather than relative income is a better socioeconomic predictor of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Swedish adults

    Article • International Journal for Equity in Health, May 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  70. Categorical and anti-categorical approaches to US racial/ethnic groupings: revisiting the National 2009 H1N1 Flu Survey (NHFS)

    Article • Critical Public Health, April 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Juan Merlo

  71. An intersectional approach to multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity (MAIH) and discriminatory accuracy

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, April 2017, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  72. Intersectionality and risk for ischemic heart disease in Sweden: Categorical and anti-categorical approaches

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, March 2017, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  73. Two-Thirds of Survey Respondents in Southern Sweden Used Complementary or Alternative Medicine in 2015

    Article • Complementary Medicine Research, January 2017, Karger Publishers

    Juan Merlo

  74. The median hazard ratio: a useful measure of variance and general contextual effects in multilevel survival analysis

    Article • Statistics in Medicine, November 2016, Wiley

    Juan Merlo

  75. A GPS-Based Methodology to Analyze Environment-Health Associations at the Trip Level: Case-Crossover Analyses of Built Environments and Walking

    Article • American Journal of Epidemiology, September 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Juan Merlo

  76. Intimate partner violence against women and the Nordic paradox

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, May 2016, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  77. An Original Stepwise Multilevel Logistic Regression Analysis of Discriminatory Accuracy: The Case of Neighbourhoods and Health

    Article • PLOS One, April 2016, PLOS

    Juan Merlo

  78. Appropriate assessment of ethnic differences in adolescent use of psychotropic medication: multilevel analysis of discriminatory accuracy

    Article • Ethnicity and Health, February 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Juan Merlo

  79. Short Term Survival after Admission for Heart Failure in Sweden: Applying Multilevel Analyses of Discriminatory Accuracy to Evaluate Institutional Performance

    Article • PLOS One, February 2016, PLOS

    Juan Merlo

  80. Contemporary Epidemiology: A Review of Critical Discussions Within the Discipline and A Call for Further Dialogue with Social Theory

    Article • Sociology Compass, February 2016, Wiley

    Maria Wemrell, Juan Merlo

  81. Measures of discriminatory accuracy and categorizations in public health: a response to Allan Krasnik’s editorial

    Article • European Journal of Public Health, November 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Juan Merlo

  82. Ethnic differences in asthma treatment among Swedish adolescents: A multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, November 2015, SAGE Publications

    Juan Merlo

  83. Does the Neighborhood Area of Residence Influence Non-Attendance in an Urban Mammography Screening Program? A Multilevel Study in a Swedish City

    Article • PLOS One, October 2015, PLOS

    Juan Merlo

  84. Testosterone prescribing in the population-a short social epidemiological analysis in Sweden

    Article • Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, July 2015, Wiley

    Juan Merlo

  85. Questioning the discriminatory accuracy of broad migrant categories in public health: self-rated health in Sweden

    Article • European Journal of Public Health, June 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Juan Merlo

  86. Does Maternal Country of Birth Matter for Understanding Offspring’s Birthweight? A Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity in Sweden

    Article • PLOS One, May 2015, PLOS

    Juan Merlo

  87. Psychotropic drug use in adolescents born with an orofacial cleft: a population-based study

    Article • BMJ Open, April 2015, BMJ

    Viveka Lyberg-Åhlander, Juan Merlo

  88. Improving Our Knowledge on the Risk of Congenital Malformations in Families With Celiac Disease

    Article • Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, March 2015, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  89. Complaints, Complainants, and Rulings Regarding Drug Promotion in the United Kingdom and Sweden 2004–2012: A Quantitative and Qualitative Study of Pharmaceutical Industry Self-Regulation

    Article • PLoS Medicine, February 2015, PLOS

    Juan Merlo

  90. Revising the link between proton-pump inhibitors and risk of acute myocardial infarction—a case-crossover analysis

    Article • European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, November 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  91. Perinatal risk factors increase the risk of being affected by both type 1 diabetes and coeliac disease

    Article • Acta Paediatrica, November 2014, Wiley

    Juan Merlo

  92. Applying measures of discriminatory accuracy to revisit traditional risk factors for being small for gestational age in Sweden: a national cross-sectional study

    Article • BMJ Open, July 2014, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  93. Invited Commentary: Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity--A Fundamental Critique of the Current Probabilistic Risk Factor Epidemiology

    Article • American Journal of Epidemiology, June 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Juan Merlo

  94. Adolescents' Utilisation of Psychiatric Care, Neighbourhoods and Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Deprivation: A Multilevel Analysis

    Article • PLOS One, November 2013, PLOS

    Juan Merlo

  95. Testing the association between social capital and health over time: a family-based design

    Article • BMC Public Health, July 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  96. The Effect of Swedish Snuff (Snus) on Offspring Birthweight: A Sibling Analysis

    Article • PLOS One, June 2013, PLOS

    Juan Merlo

  97. Risk factors for diagnosed intentional self-injury: a total population-based study

    Article • European Journal of Public Health, June 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Juan Merlo

  98. Questioning the Causal Link between Maternal Smoking during Pregnancy and Offspring Use of Psychotropic Medication: A Sibling Design Analysis

    Article • PLOS One, May 2013, PLOS

    Juan Merlo

  99. Revisiting the Effect of Maternal Smoking during Pregnancy on Offspring Birthweight: A Quasi-Experimental Sibling Analysis in Sweden

    Article • PLOS One, April 2013, PLOS

    Juan Merlo

  100. Revisiting causal neighborhood effects on individual ischemic heart disease risk: A quasi-experimental multilevel analysis among Swedish siblings

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, January 2013, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  101. Socioeconomic factors and concomitant diseases are related to the risk for venous thromboembolism during long time follow-up

    Article • Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis, December 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  102. Congenital Anomalies and Childhood Celiac Disease in Sweden

    Article • Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, December 2012, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Juan Merlo

  103. Increased registration of hypertension and cancer diagnoses after the introduction of a new reimbursement system

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, November 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Juan Merlo

  104. Sex differences in coeliac disease risk: A Swedish sibling design study

    Article • Digestive and Liver Disease, November 2012, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  105. An Interactive Mapping Tool to Assess Individual Mobility Patterns in Neighborhood Studies

    Article • American Journal of Preventive Medicine, October 2012, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  106. Bringing the individual back to small-area variation studies: A multilevel analysis of all-cause mortality in Andalusia, Spain

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, October 2012, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  107. How are immigrant background and gender associated with the utilisation of psychiatric care among adolescents?

    Article • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, September 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  108. Comment to “Socioeconomic position and education in patients with coeliac disease”

    Article • Digestive and Liver Disease, August 2012, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  109. Acculturation and celiac disease risk in second-generation immigrants: a nationwide cohort study in Sweden

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, July 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Juan Merlo

  110. Associations of Supermarket Characteristics with Weight Status and Body Fat: A Multilevel Analysis of Individuals within Supermarkets (RECORD Study)

    Article • PLOS One, April 2012, PLOS

    Juan Merlo

  111. Socioeconomic Position, Comorbidity, and Mortality in Aortic Aneurysms: A 13-Year Prospective Cohort Study

    Article • Annals of Vascular Surgery, April 2012, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  112. Revisiting the risk of celiac disease in children born small for gestational age: A sibling design perspective

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, March 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Juan Merlo

  113. Timing of surgery for hip fracture and in-hospital mortality: a retrospective population-based cohort study in the Spanish National Health System

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  114. Commentary

    Article • Epidemiology, January 2012, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Juan Merlo

  115. Mother's country of birth and prescription of psychotropic medication in Swedish adolescents: a life course approach

    Article • BMJ Open, January 2012, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  116. Place effects for areas defined by administrative boundaries: A life course analysis of mortality and cause specific morbidity in Scania, Sweden

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, October 2011, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  117. Coeliac disease in children: a social epidemiological study in Sweden

    Article • Acta Paediatrica, September 2011, Wiley

    Juan Merlo

  118. Psychotropic drugs and accidents in Scania, Sweden

    Article • European Journal of Public Health, September 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Juan Merlo

  119. Cohort Profile: Residential and non-residential environments, individual activity spaces and cardiovascular risk factors and diseases--The RECORD Cohort Study

    Article • International Journal of Epidemiology, July 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Juan Merlo

  120. Re: How can we produce relevant information for decision makers from small area variation studies?

    Article • Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, June 2011, Wiley

    Juan Merlo

  121. Small-area variations in sales of TNF inhibitors in Sweden between 2000 and 2009: comments on the article by M Neovius et al

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology, May 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Juan Merlo

  122. Contextual Influences on the Individual Life Course: Building a Research Framework for Social Epidemiology

    Article • Psychosocial Intervention, April 2011, Colegio Oficial de Psicologos de Madrid

    Juan Merlo

  123. Performance Evaluations and League Tables

    Article • Medical Care, March 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Juan Merlo

  124. Area-aggregated assessments of perceived environmental attributes may overcome single-source bias in studies of green environments and health: results from a cross-sectional survey in southern Sweden

    Article • Environmental Health, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  125. Understanding adherence to therapeutic guidelines: a multilevel analysis of statin prescription in the Skaraborg Primary Care Database

    Article • European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, December 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  126. International differences in self-reported health measures in 33 major metropolitan areas in Europe

    Article • European Journal of Public Health, December 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Juan Merlo

  127. Is There Important Variation Among Health Care Institutions?

    Article • Medical Care, August 2010, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Juan Merlo

  128. Variation in plasma calcium analysis in primary care in Sweden - a multilevel analysis

    Article • BMC Family Practice, May 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  129. Psychotropic drugs and falling accidents among the elderly: a nested case control study in the whole population of Scania, Sweden

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, May 2010, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  130. Validity of registration of ICD codes and prescriptions in a research database in Swedish primary care: a cross-sectional study in Skaraborg primary care database

    Article • BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, April 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  131. Auditing patient registration in the Swedish quality register for acute coronary syndrome

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, April 2010, SAGE Publications

    Juan Merlo

  132. Socioeconomic position and secondary preventive therapy after an AMI

    Article • Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, January 2010, Wiley

    Juan Merlo

  133. Neighbourhoods in eco-epidemiologic research: Delimiting personal exposure areas. A response to Riva, Gauvin, Apparicio and Brodeur

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, November 2009, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  134. Context and disease when disease risk is low: the case of type 1 diabetes in Sweden

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, October 2009, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  135. Is the physician's adherence to prescription guidelines associated with the patient's socio-economic position? An analysis of statin prescription in South Sweden

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, August 2009, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  136. Individual and collective bodies: using measures of variance and association in contextual epidemiology

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, August 2009, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  137. Socioeconomic position, macroeconomic environment and overweight among adolescents in 35 countries

    Article • International Journal of Obesity, July 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Namanjeet Ahluwalia, Juan Merlo, Professor Bjørn Evald Holstein

  138. Is physician adherence to prescription guidelines a general trait of health care practices or dependent on drug type?-A multilevel logistic regression analysis in South Sweden

    Article • Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, May 2009, Wiley

    Juan Merlo

  139. Antibiotic use among 8-month-old children in Malmö, Sweden – in relation to child characteristics and parental sociodemographic, psychosocial and lifestyle factors

    Article • BMC Pediatrics, May 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  140. Socioeconomic Inequality in Exposure to Bullying During Adolescence: A Comparative, Cross-Sectional, Multilevel Study in 35 Countries

    Article • American Journal of Public Health, May 2009, American Public Health Association

    Professor Margarida Gaspar de Matos, Juan Merlo, Professor Bjørn Evald Holstein

  141. Gender differences in daily smoking prevalence in different age strata: A population-based study in southern Sweden

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, January 2009, SAGE Publications

    Juan Merlo

  142. Health Care Utilisation and Attitudes towards Health Care in Subjects Reporting Environmental Annoyance from Electricity and Chemicals

    Article • Journal of Environmental and Public Health, January 2009, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Juan Merlo

  143. Multilevel survival analysis of health inequalities in life expectancy

    Article • International Journal for Equity in Health, January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  144. Therapeutic traditions, patient socioeconomic characteristics and physicians’ early new drug prescribing–a multilevel analysis of rosuvastatin prescription in south Sweden

    Article • European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, October 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  145. Correction

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, March 2008, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  146. Social capital externalities and mortality in Sweden

    Article • Economics & Human Biology, March 2008, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  147. Cord blood islet autoantibodies and seasonal association with the type 1 diabetes high-risk genotype

    Article • Journal of Perinatology, February 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  148. The association between socioeconomic position, use of revascularization procedures and five-year survival after recovery from acute myocardial infarction

    Article • BMC Public Health, February 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  149. Neighbourhood social interactions and risk of acute myocardial infarction

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, January 2008, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  150. Relevance of Motor Skill Problems in Victims of Bullying: In Reply

    Article • PEDIATRICS, November 2007, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

    Juan Merlo

  151. Is Victimization From Bullying Associated With Medicine Use Among Adolescents? A Nationally Representative Cross-sectional Survey in Denmark

    Article • PEDIATRICS, July 2007, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

    Juan Merlo, Professor Bjørn Evald Holstein

  152. Understanding the effects of a decentralized budget on physicians' compliance with guidelines for statin prescription – a multilevel methodological approach

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, May 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  153. Perceived discrimination, socioeconomic disadvantage and refraining from seeking medical treatment in Sweden

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, May 2007, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  154. Socioeconomic disadvantage and primary non-adherence with medication in Sweden

    Article • International Journal for Quality in Health Care, April 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Juan Merlo

  155. Assessment of the magnitude of geographical variations and socioeconomic contextual effects on ischaemic heart disease mortality: a multilevel survival analysis of a large Swedish cohort

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, April 2007, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  156. Income change at retirement, neighbourhood-based social support, and ischaemic heart disease: Results from the prospective cohort study “Men born in 1914”

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, February 2007, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  157. Neighborhood Socioeconomic Deprivation and Residential Instability

    Article • Epidemiology, January 2007, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Juan Merlo

  158. The Validity of Obesity Based on Self-reported Weight and Height: Implications for Population Studies*

    Article • Obesity, January 2007, Wiley

    Juan Merlo

  159. Inequity in access to dental care services explains current socioeconomic disparities in oral health: The Swedish National Surveys of Public Health 2004-2005

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, December 2006, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  160. Social capital and administrative contextual determinants of lack of access to a regular doctor: A multilevel analysis in southern Sweden

    Article • Health Policy, December 2006, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  161. Social capital and neo-materialist contextual determinants of sense of insecurity in the neighbourhood: A multilevel analysis in Southern Sweden

    Article • Health & Place, December 2006, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  162. Recent Increase of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Effects on Ischemic Heart Disease Mortality: A Multilevel Survival Analysis of Two Large Swedish Cohorts

    Article • American Journal of Epidemiology, October 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Juan Merlo

  163. Social capital, the miniaturisation of community, traditionalism and first time acute myocardial infarction: A prospective cohort study in southern Sweden

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, October 2006, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  164. Neighbourhood effects and the real world beyond randomized community trials: a reply to Michael J Oakes

    Article • International Journal of Epidemiology, September 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Juan Merlo

  165. Residual risk for acute stroke in patients with type 2 diabetes and hypertension in primary care: Skaraborg Hypertension and Diabetes Project

    Article • Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism, September 2006, Wiley

    Juan Merlo

  166. Similar support for three different life course socioeconomic models on predicting premature cardiovascular mortality and all-cause mortality

    Article • BMC Public Health, August 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  167. Individual and contextual determinants of self-reported poor psychological health: A population-based multilevel analysis in southern Sweden

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, August 2006, SAGE Publications

    Juan Merlo

  168. Does it really matter where you live? A panel data multilevel analysis of Swedish municipality-level social capital on individual health-related quality of life

    Article • Health Economics Policy and Law, June 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Juan Merlo

  169. Spatial clustering of mental disorders and associated characteristics of the neighbourhood context in Malmo, Sweden, in 2001

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, May 2006, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  170. Social capital and health: Does egalitarianism matter? A literature review

    Article • International Journal for Equity in Health, April 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  171. A brief conceptual tutorial of multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: using measures of clustering in multilevel logistic regression to investigate contextual phenomena

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, April 2006, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  172. The natural course of women with recurrent fetal loss

    Article • Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, April 2006, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  173. Contribution of main causes of death to social inequalities in mortality in the whole population of Scania, Sweden

    Article • BMC Public Health, March 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  174. The role country of birth plays in receiving disability pensions in relation to patterns of health care utilisation and socioeconomic differences: a multilevel analysis of Malmo, Sweden

    Article • BMC Public Health, March 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  175. Individual characteristics, area social participation, and primary non-concordance with medication: a multilevel analysis

    Article • BMC Public Health, March 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  176. Anxiolytic–hypnotic drug use associated with trust, social participation, and the miniaturization of community: A multilevel analysis

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, March 2006, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  177. Children's exposure to nitrogen dioxide in Sweden: investigating environmental injustice in an egalitarian country

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, March 2006, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  178. Multilevel analysis of systolic blood pressure and ACE gene I/D polymorphism in 438 Swedish families – a public health perspective

    Article • BMC Medical Genetics, March 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  179. Representativity of a postal public health questionnaire survey in Sweden, with special reference to ethnic differences in participation

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, March 2006, SAGE Publications

    Juan Merlo

  180. The Danish effect on Swedish alcohol costs

    Article • The European Journal of Health Economics, March 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  181. Disentangling contextual effects on cause-specific mortality in a longitudinal 23-year follow-up study: impact of population density or socioeconomic environment?

    Article • International Journal of Epidemiology, February 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Juan Merlo

  182. Neighborhood social participation, use of anxiolytic-hypnotic drugs, and women's propensity for disability pension: a multilevel analysis

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, January 2006, SAGE Publications

    Juan Merlo

  183. A brief conceptual tutorial on multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: interpreting neighbourhood differences and the effect of neighbourhood characteristics on individual health

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, December 2005, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  184. Overweight and all-cause mortality in a Swedish rural population: Skaraborg Hypertension and Diabetes Project

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, December 2005, SAGE Publications

    Juan Merlo

  185. Hospital Level of Care and Neonatal Mortality in Low- and High-Risk Deliveries

    Article • Medical Care, November 2005, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Juan Merlo

  186. THE AUTHORS REPLY

    Article • American Journal of Epidemiology, September 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Juan Merlo

  187. RE: “APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT OF NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS ON INDIVIDUAL HEALTH: INTEGRATING RANDOM AND FIXED EFFECTS IN MULTILEVEL LOGISTIC REGRESSION”

    Article • American Journal of Epidemiology, September 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Juan Merlo

  188. A brief conceptual tutorial on multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: investigating contextual phenomena in different groups of people

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, September 2005, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  189. Female Advantage in AMI Mortality Reversed in Type 2 Diabetes Patients

    Article • Diabetes Care, September 2005, American Diabetes Association

    Juan Merlo

  190. Understanding adherence to official guidelines on statin prescribing in primary health care—a multi-level methodological approach

    Article • European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, August 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  191. Changing Analytical Approaches in European Epidemiology – A Short Comment on a Recent Article

    Article • European Journal of Epidemiology, August 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  192. Comparison of a Spatial Perspective with the Multilevel Analytical Approach in Neighborhood Studies: The Case of Mental and Behavioral Disorders due to Psychoactive Substance Use in Malmö, Sweden, 2001

    Article • American Journal of Epidemiology, July 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Juan Merlo

  193. A brief conceptual tutorial of multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: linking the statistical concept of clustering to the idea of contextual phenomenon

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, June 2005, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  194. Comparison of a spatial approach with the multilevel approach for investigating place effects on health: the example of healthcare utilisation in France

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, June 2005, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  195. Controlled withdrawal of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in elderly patients in nursing homes with no indication of depression—a commentary

    Article • European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, May 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  196. Low adherence with antihypertensives in actual practice: the association with social participation – a multilevel analysis

    Article • BMC Public Health, February 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  197. Low molecular weight heparin for repeated pregnancy loss: is it based on solid evidence?

    Article • Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, February 2005, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  198. Appropriate Assessment of Neighborhood Effects on Individual Health: Integrating Random and Fixed Effects in Multilevel Logistic Regression

    Article • American Journal of Epidemiology, January 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Juan Merlo

  199. Research methods courses as a means of developing academic general practice

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, January 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Juan Merlo

  200. Survival in patients with hypertension treated in primary care A population-based follow-up study in the Skaraborg Hypertension and Diabetes Project

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, December 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Juan Merlo

  201. Atrial fibrillation and its association with type 2 diabetes and hypertension in a Swedish community

    Article • Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism, September 2004, Wiley

    Juan Merlo

  202. RE: “DETECTING PATTERNS OF OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS CLUSTERING WITH ALTERNATING LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS APPLIED TO LONGITUDINAL DATA”

    Article • American Journal of Epidemiology, September 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Juan Merlo

  203. Individual self-reported health, social participation and neighbourhood: a multilevel analysis in Malmö, Sweden

    Article • Preventive Medicine, July 2004, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  204. Population Effects on Individual Systolic Blood Pressure: A Multilevel Analysis of the World Health Organization MONICA Project

    Article • American Journal of Epidemiology, June 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Juan Merlo

  205. Country of birth, socioeconomic position, and healthcare expenditure: a multilevel analysis of Malmo, Sweden

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, February 2004, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  206. Neighbourhood social participation and women's use of anxiolytic-hypnotic drugs: a multilevel analysis

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, January 2004, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  207. Increasing prevalence of overweight, obesity and physical inactivity: Two population-based studies 1986 and 1994

    Article • European Journal of Public Health, December 2003, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Juan Merlo

  208. Social participation, social capital and daily tobacco smoking: a population-based multilevel analysis in Malmö, Sweden

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, December 2003, SAGE Publications

    Juan Merlo

  209. Social epidemiology, intra-neighbourhood correlation, and generalised estimating equations

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, November 2003, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  210. Multilevel analytical approaches in social epidemiology: measures of health variation compared with traditional measures of association

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, August 2003, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  211. Utilisation of antibiotics in young children: opposite relationships to adult educational levels in Danish and Swedish counties

    Article • European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, August 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  212. Effect of Neighborhood Social Participation on Individual Use of Hormone Replacement Therapy and Antihypertensive Medication: A Multilevel Analysis

    Article • American Journal of Epidemiology, May 2003, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Juan Merlo

  213. Social inequalities in health- do they diminish with age? Revisiting the question in Sweden 1999

    Article • International Journal for Equity in Health, March 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  214. Validity of self-reported information on cancer: Determinants of under- and over-reporting

    Article • European Journal of Epidemiology, March 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  215. Social capital and sense of insecurity in the neighbourhood: a population-based multilevel analysis in Malmö, Sweden

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, March 2003, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  216. Gender and power: Nurses and doctors in Canada

    Article • International Journal for Equity in Health, February 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mario Roberto Dal Poz, Juan Merlo

  217. Prostate cancerPrevalence‐based healthcare costs

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology, January 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Juan Merlo

  218. Social capital and leisure time physical activity: a population based multilevel analysis in Malmo, Sweden

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, January 2003, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  219. Action Control and Situational Risks in the Prevention of HIV and STIs: Individual, Dyadic, and Social Influences on Consistent Condom Use in a University Population

    Article • AIDS Education and Prevention, December 2002, Guilford Publications

    Juan Merlo

  220. Is there an interaction between self-rated health and medication with analgesics and hypnotics in the prediction of disability pension?

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, October 2002, SAGE Publications

    Juan Merlo

  221. Use of calcium channel blockers as antihypertensives in relation to mortality and cancer incidence: a population-based observational study

    Article • Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, August 2002, Wiley

    Juan Merlo

  222. Individual and neighbourhood determinants of social participation and social capital: a multilevel analysis of the city of Malmö, Sweden

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, June 2002, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  223. Incidence of cardiovascular disease, cancer and death in postmenopausal women affirming use of hormone replacement therapy

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, March 2002, SAGE Publications

    Juan Merlo

  224. Incidence of cardiovascular disease, cancer and death in postmenopausal women affirming use of hormone replacement therapy

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, January 2002, SAGE Publications

    Juan Merlo

  225. Diastolic blood pressure and area of residence: multilevel versus ecological analysis of social inequity

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, November 2001, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  226. Prescriptions with potential drug interactions dispensed at Swedish pharmacies in January 1999: cross sectional study

    Article • BMJ, August 2001, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  227. Survival after initial hospitalisation for heart failure: a multilevel analysis of patients in Swedish acute care hospitals

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, May 2001, BMJ

    Juan Merlo

  228. The use of analgesics and hypnotics in relation to self-rated health and disability pension — A prospective study of middle-aged men

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, April 2001, SAGE Publications

    Juan Merlo

  229. Association of outpatient utilisation of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and hospitalised heart failure in the entire Swedish population

    Article • European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, March 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  230. Article • European Journal of Epidemiology, January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  231. Self-administered Questionnaire Compared with a Personal Diary for Assessment of Current Use of Hormone Therapy: An Analysis of 16,060 Women

    Article • American Journal of Epidemiology, October 2000, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Juan Merlo

  232. Mortality in elderly men with low psychosocial coping resources using anxiolytic - hypnotic drugs

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, October 2000, SAGE Publications

    Juan Merlo

  233. Distribution and determinants of ischaemic heart disease in an urban population. A study from the myocardial infarction register in Malmo, Sweden

    Article • Journal of Internal Medicine, May 2000, Wiley

    Juan Merlo

  234. Article • European Journal of Epidemiology, January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  235. Utilization of cardiovascular drugs (blood pressure lowering drugs, lipid lowering drugs and nitrates) and mortality from ischaemic heart disease and stroke

    Article • European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, March 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  236. Comparison of dose standard units for drug utilisation studies

    Article • European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, April 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  237. Increased risk of ischaemic heart disease mortality in elderly men using anxiolytics-hypnotics and analgesics

    Article • European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, January 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo

  238. Blood pressure and mortality in elderly people

    Article • The Lancet, June 1995, Elsevier

    Juan Merlo

  239. Age standardisation of drug utilisation: comparisons of different methods using cardiovascular drug data from Sweden and Spain

    Article • European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, June 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Juan Merlo