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Simon Øverland

Professor, Director Centre for International Health
Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care
  • E-mailsimon.overland@uib.no
  • Phone+47 55 58 61 90+47 952 36 392 +4755586190
  • Visitor Address
    Alrek helseklynge, blokk D, Årstadveien 17
    5009 Bergen
  • Postal Address
    Postboks 7804
    5020 Bergen
Academic article
  • Show author(s) (2023). Evaluating national guidelines for monitoring early growth using routinely collected data in Bergen, Norway. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. 8 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Trends in the prevalence of breastfeeding up to 6 months of age using structured data from routine child healthcare visits. Acta Paediatrica. 100-105.
  • Show author(s) (2022). The gendered relationship between illicit substance use and self-harm in university students. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 709-720.
  • Show author(s) (2022). The association between mental disorders and subsequent years of working life: a Danish population-based cohort study. The Lancet Psychiatry. 30-39.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Estimating risk factor attributable burden – challenges and potential solutions when using the comparative risk assessment methodology. Archives of Public Health.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Trends in Disability-Free Life Expectancy (DFLE) from 1995 to 2017 in the older Norwegian population by sex and education: The HUNT Study. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. 10 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Prevalence of mental disorders, suicidal ideation and suicides in the general population before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway: A population-based repeated cross-sectional analysis. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe. 10 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Parental income gradients in adult health: a national cohort study. BMC Medicine. 1-14.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Parental income and mental disorders in children and adolescents: prospective register-based study. International Journal of Epidemiology. 1615-1627.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Lockdown and non-COVID-19 deaths: Cause-specific mortality during the first wave of the 2020 pandemic in Norway: A population-based register study. BMJ Open. 1-10.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Intraindividual variability in sleep among people with insomnia and its relationship with sleep, health and lifestyle factors: an exploratory study. Sleep Medicine. 132-140.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Global, regional, and national mortality among young people aged 10–24 years, 1950–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. The Lancet. 1593-1618.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Associations between workplace bullying and later benefit recipiency among workers with common mental disorders. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health. 791-798.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Pain in Multiple Sites and Clusters of Cause-Specific Work Disability Development among Midlife Municipal Employees . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH). 11 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Socioeconomic gradients in mortality following HF hospitalization in a country with universal health care coverage. JACC. Heart failure. 917-927.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Predictors of employment in people with moderate to severe mental illness participating in a randomized controlled trial of Individual Placement and Support (IPS). International Journal of Social Psychiatry. 7 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. The Lancet. 1250-1284.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Lived experiences: A focus group pilot study within the MentALLY project of mental healthcare among European users. BMC Health Services Research. 1-19.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Healthcare professionals’ perspectives on mental health service provision: a pilot focus group study in six European countries. International Journal of Mental Health Systems. 1-18.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. The Lancet. 1223-1249.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. The Lancet. 1204-1222.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Global age-sex-specific fertility, mortality, healthy life expectancy (HALE), and population estimates in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2019: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. The Lancet. 1160-1203.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Five insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. The Lancet. 1135-1159.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Differential associations between types of social media use and university students' non-suicidal self-injury and suicidal behavior. Computers in Human Behavior. 6 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Alcohol‐attributed disease burden in four Nordic countries between 2000 and 2017: Are the gender gaps narrowing? A comparison using the Global Burden of Disease, Injury and Risk Factor 2017 study. Drug and Alcohol Review. 431-442.
  • Show author(s) (2020). A Critical Perspective on Mental Health News in Six European Countries: How Are “Mental Health/Illness” and “Mental Health Literacy” Rhetorically Constructed? Qualitative Health Research. 1362-1378.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Seasonality and symptoms of depression: A systematic review of the literature. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences (EPS). 15 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Mortality following first-time hospitalization with acute myocardial infarction in Norway, 2001-2014: Time trends, underlying causes and place of death. International Journal of Cardiology. 6-12.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Mapping disparities in education across low- and middle-income countries. Nature. 235-238.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Life expectancy and disease burden in the Nordic countries: results from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2017. The Lancet Public Health. e658-e669.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Heart failure in Norway, 2000-2014: analysing incident, total and readmission rates using data from the Cardiovascular Disease in Norway (CVDNOR) Project. European Journal of Heart Failure. 241-248.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Global, regional, and national burden of suicide mortality 1990 to 2016: systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. The BMJ. 1-11.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Determinants of long-term unemployment in early adulthood: A Finnish birth cohort study. SSM - Population Health. 1-12.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Associations between adverse childhood experiences and adversities later in life. Survey data from a high-risk Norwegian sample. International Journal of Child Abuse & Neglect. 1-8.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Association of Household Income with Life Expectancy and Cause-Specific Mortality in Norway, 2005-2015. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). 1916-1925.
  • Show author(s) (2019). A randomized controlled multicenter trial of individual placement and support for patients with moderate-to-severe mental illness. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health. 33-41.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Which aspects of positive affect are related to mortality? Results: From a general population longitudinal study. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 571-581.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Sykdomsbyrden i Norge i 2016. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 12 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Population attributable fractions for Type 2 diabetes: an examination of multiple risk factors including symptoms of depression and anxiety. Diabetology and Metabolic Syndrome. 10 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Long-term outcomes of an integrated approach to help people with mental illness return to work. European Journal of Public Health.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Long-term effects on income and sickness benefits after work-focused cognitive-behavioural therapy and individual job support: a pragmatic, multicentre, randomised controlled trial. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 703-708.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Inequity in disability pension: an intersectional analysis of the coconstitution of gender, education and age. The Hordaland Health Study. Critical Public Health. 1-12.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 359 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. The Lancet. 1859-1922.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. . The Lancet. 1923-1994.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. The Lancet. 1736-1788.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. The Lancet. 1684-1735.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Association of sleep duration and sleep quality with the physical, social, and emotional functioning among Australian adults. Sleep Health. 194-200.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Adjunctive Internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia in men with depression: A randomised controlled trial. Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry (Print). 1-11.
  • Show author(s) (2018). A longitudinal study of road traffic noise and body mass index trajectories from birth to 8 years. Epidemiology. 729-738.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Type 2 diabetes and comorbid symptoms of depression and anxiety: Longitudinal associations with mortality risk. Diabetes Care. 352-358.
  • Show author(s) (2017). The gender gap in accrued pension rights - an indicator of women’s accumulated disadvantage over the course of working life. The Hordaland Health Study (HUSK). Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. 417-424.
  • Show author(s) (2017). The factor structure of the Hopkins Symptoms Checklist (HSCL-25) in a student population: A cautionary tale. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. 357-365.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Symptoms of anxiety and depression in type 2 diabetes: Associations with clinical diabetes measures and self-management outcomes in the Norwegian HUNT study. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 116-123.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Sleep difficulties and academic performance in Norwegian higher education students. British Journal of Educational Psychology. 722-737.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Russefeiring og eksamenstid – bruk av fastlege og legevakt. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 4 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Road traffic noise and children's inattention. Environmental health. 14 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Nocturnal road traffic noise exposure and children?s sleep duration and sleep problems. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH). 1-13.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Legesøkning og legemiddeluttak etter innføring av nye fraværsregler. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 9 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Facing unemployment: Study protocol for the implementation and evaluation of a community-based intervention for psychological well-being promotion. BMC Psychiatry. 1-9.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Exercise and the Prevention of Depression: Results of the HUNT Cohort Study. American Journal of Psychiatry. 28-36.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Unemployment and mental health. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 717-718.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Trial participant representativeness compared to ordinary service users in a work rehabilitation setting. Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications. 12-15.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Social and emotional loneliness and self-reported difficulty initiating andmaintaining sleep (DIMS) in a sample of Norwegian university students. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 91-99.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Registry-based analysis of participator representativeness: a source of concern for sickness absence research? BMJ Open. 12 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Health-related behaviour in relation to transition into age-retirement: An observational study based on HUNT3. JRSM open. 8 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Childhood Maltreatment and Adult Mental Health . Nordic Journal of Psychiatry. 140-145.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Work-focused cognitive-behavioural therapy and individual job support to increase work participation in common mental disorders: a randomised controlled multicentre trial. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 745-752.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Use of Sleep Medications and Mortality: The Hordaland Health Study. Drugs - real world outcomes. 123-128.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Trajectories and stability of self-reported short sleep duration from adolescence to adulthood. Journal of Sleep Research. 621-628.
  • Show author(s) (2015). The relationship between maternal depression and smoking cessation during pregnancy—a cross-sectional study of pregnant women from 15 European countries. Archives of Women's Mental Health. 73-84.
  • Show author(s) (2015). The impact of maternal smoking during pregnancy on depressive and anxiety behaviors in children: The Norwegian mother and child cohort study. BMC Medicine.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Symptoms of depression and difficulty initiating sleep from early adolescence to early adulthood: a longitudinal study. Sleep. 1599-1606.
  • Show author(s) (2014). The joint contribution of pain and insomnia to sickness absence and disability retirement: a register-linkage study among Norwegian and Finnish employees. European Journal of Pain. 883-892.
  • Show author(s) (2014). The association between smoking and depression from adolescence to adulthood. Addiction. 1022-1030.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Shame among long-term sickness absentees: correlates and impact on subsequent sickness absence. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. 96-103.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Psykiske lidingar og kulturell variasjon : betyr historisk og kulturell variasjon i psykiske lidingar at diagnosar er relative? Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. 738-744.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Protocol for the effect evaluation of Individual Placement and Support (IPS): A randomized controlled multicenter trial of IPS versus treatment as usual for patients with moderate to severe mental illness in Norway. BMC Psychiatry. 10 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Previous sickness absence and current low perceived social support at work among employees in the general population: A historical cohort study. BMJ Open. 8 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Midlife insomnia and subsequent mortality. The Hordaland Health Study. BMC Public Health.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Job strain, health and sickness absence: results from the Hordaland Health Study. PLOS ONE. 9 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Insomnia as a risk factor for ill health: Results from the large population-based prospective HUNT Study in Norway. Journal of Sleep Research. 124-132.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Exploring work-related causal attributions of common mental disorders. Journal of occupational rehabilitation. 493-505.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Expectations and illness perceptions as predictors of benefit recipiency among workers with common mental disorders: secondary analysis from a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 9 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Early life factors in relation to cardiovacular disease in old age in Bergen: a Norwegian retrospective cohort study based on the Hordaland Study (HUSK). Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 12 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Associations between illness perceptions and return-to-work expectations in workers with common mental health symptoms. Journal of occupational rehabilitation. 160-170.
  • Show author(s) (2013). The joint contribution of insomnia and obstructive sleep apnea on sickness absence. Journal of Sleep Research. 223-230.
  • Show author(s) (2013). The impact of smoking in adolescence on early adult anxiety symptoms and the relationship between infant vulnerability factors for anxiety and early adult anxiety symptoms: The TOPP study. PLOS ONE.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Snus use and cardiovascular risk factors in the general population: the HUNT3 study. Addiction. 2019-2028.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Psychometric properties of the Norwegian version of the childhood trauma questionnaire in high-risk groups. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 286-291.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Common mental disorders and long-term sickness absence in a general working population. The Hordaland health study. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 287-297.
  • Show author(s) (2013). An investigation of factors identified at birth in relation to anxiety and depression in old age: The Hordaland Health Study (HUSK). BMC Psychiatry.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Widespread pain and medically certified disability pension in the Hordaland Health Study. European Journal of Pain. 611-620.
  • Show author(s) (2012). The bidirectional association between depression and insomnia: The HUNT Study. Psychosomatic Medicine. 758-765.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Socioeconomic status and children’s mental health: results from the Bergen Child Study. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 1557-1566.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Lost working years due to mental disorders: An analysis of the Norwegian Disability Pension Registry. PLOS ONE. 7 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Late-onset smokers: how many, and associations with health behaviours and socioeconomic status. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. 537-543.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Alcohol consumption, problem drinking, abstention and disability pension award. The Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT). Addiction. 98-108.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Trends in timing of sleep in the general population of Norway. 1980 to 2000. Perceptual and Motor Skills. 509-518.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Somatization: the under-recognized factor in non-specific eczema. The Hordaland Health Study (HUSK). British Journal of Dermatology. 593-601.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Smoking cessation among Norwegian adolescents and young adults: preferred cessation methods. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 154-160.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Seasonal variations in sleep problems at latitude 63°–65° in Norway. The Nord-Trøndelag Health Study, 1995–1997. American Journal of Epidemiology. 147-153.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Reverse causality in the association between whiplash and symptoms of anxiety and depression the HUNT study. Spine. 1380-1386.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Psykiske lidelser og arbeidsuførhet. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. 739-744.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Do gastrointestinal complaints increase the risk for subsequent medically certified long-term sickness absence? The HUSK study. BMC Gastroenterology. 10 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Distal and proximal family predictors of adolescents' smoking initiation and development. A longitudinal latent curve model analysis. BMC Public Health.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Concurrent validity of the CAGE questionnaire. The Nord-Trøndelag Health Study. Addictive Behaviours. 302-307.
  • Show author(s) (2010). The health status of nonparticipants in a population-based Health Study. The Hordaland Health Study. American Journal of Epidemiology. 1306-1314.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Physical activity and common mental disorders. British Journal of Psychiatry. 357-364.
  • Show author(s) (2010). General practitioners' opinions on how to improve treatment of mental disorders in primary health care. Interviews with one hundred Norwegian general practitioners. BMC Health Services Research.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Common mental disorders and disability pension award: Seven year follow-up of the HUSK study. Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 59-67.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Associations between sleep, risk and safety climate: A study of offshore personnel on the Norwegian continental shelf. Safety Science. 469-477.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Associations between schools' tobacco restrictions and adolescents' use of tobacco. Health Education Research. 748-756.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Associations between adolescent socioeducational status and use of snus and smoking. Tobacco Control. 291-296.
  • Show author(s) (2009). The epidemiology of insomnia: associations with physical and mental health. The HUNT-2 study. Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 109-116.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Sociodemographic variations in communication on sexuality and HIV/AIDS with parents, family members and teachers among in-school adolescents: A multi-site study in Tanzania and South Africa. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. 65-74.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Levels of anxiety and depression as predictors of mortality: the HUNT study. British Journal of Psychiatry. 118-125.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Insomnia symptoms and use of health care services and medications: the HUNT-2 study. Behavioral Sleep Medicine. 210-222.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Insomnia and long sleep duration are risk factors for later work disability. The Hordaland Health Study. Journal of Sleep Research. 122-128.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Health anxiety and disability pension award: The HUSK Study. Psychosomatic Medicine. 353-360.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Eksempler på bruk av koblinger mellom helseundersøkelser og FD-trygd for forskning under den trygdemedisinske modellen, attraksjonsmodellen og utstøtningsmodellen. Norsk Epidemiologi. 127-137.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Does insomnia predict sick leave? The Hordaland Health Study. Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 67-74.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Association between magnesium intake and depression and anxiety in community-dwelling adults: the Hordaland Health Study. Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry (Print). 45-52.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Verifiability of diagnostic categories and work ability in the context of disability pension award: A survey on "gatekeeping" among general practitioners in Norway. BMC Public Health.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Tobakksbruk blant norske ungdomsskoleelever 1875-2005. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 1815-1819.
  • Show author(s) (2008). The effect of OSAS on sick leave and work disability. European Respiratory Journal. 1497-1503.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Smoking in relation to anxiety and depression: Evidence from a large population survey: The HUNT study. European psychiatry. 77-84.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Røyking og snusbruk blant ungdommar i 2004 og 2007. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 1820-1824.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Relative harm of snus and cigarettes: what do norwegian adolescents say? Tobacco Control. 422-425.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Relative harm of snus and cigarettes: What do Norwegian adolescents say? Tobacco Control. 422-425.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Health status before, during and after disability pension award: the Hordaland Health Study (HUSK). Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 769-773.
  • Show author(s) (2008). A comparison of insomnia and depression as predictors of disability pension: The HUNT Study. Sleep. 875-880.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Undertreatment before the award of a disability pension for mental illness: The HUNT study. Psychiatric Services. 1479-1482.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Anxiety, depression, and cause-specific mortality: The HUNT study. Psychosomatic Medicine. 323-331.
  • Show author(s) (2006). The long-term effect of insomnia on work disability - The HUNT-2 historical cohort study. American Journal of Epidemiology. 1018-1024.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Mentale lidelser undervurderes som årsak til uføretrygding. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 1491-1492.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Employment status and perceived health in the Hordaland Health Study (HUSK). BMC Public Health. 9 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2006). A population-based cohort study of the effect of common mental disorders on disability pension awards. American Journal of Psychiatry. 1412-1418.
  • Show author(s) (2006). A population based cohort study of the effect of common mental disorder on disability pension awards”. American Journal of Psychiatry. 1412-1418.
Report
  • Show author(s) (2018). Sykdomsbyrden i Norge i 2016. Resultater fra Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 (GBD 2016). .
  • Show author(s) (2018). Psykisk helse i Norge. .
  • Show author(s) (2018). Mental health among children and adolescents. Health-promoting and preventive public health interventions. A summary of evidence about effects. .
  • Show author(s) (2017). Kostholdets betydning for fysisk og psykisk helse, ny kunnskap Svar på oppdrag fra Helse- og omsorgsdepartementet til Folkehelseinstituttet. .
  • Show author(s) (2013). Effektevaluering av Senter for jobbmestring. Sluttrapport. .
  • Show author(s) (2012). Delrapport 3 - Evaluering av Senter for jobbmestring. .
  • Show author(s) (2009). Evaluation of the Norwegian tobacco preventive policy for the period 2003-2007. 3. 3. .
  • Show author(s) (2009). Effekten av psykoterapi for mennesker med depressive lidelser. 6/2009. 6/2009. .
  • Show author(s) (2008). Medikamentell vedlikeholdsbehandling av gravide med opioidavhengighet. 31/2008. 31/2008. .
  • Show author(s) (2007). Smoke-free hospitality venues. 5. 5. .
Academic lecture
  • Show author(s) (2009). Sleep tight? A study of the relationship between risk perception and sleep quality among offshore personnel.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Integrating quantitative and qualitative evidence in Cochrane reviews: a novel methodological approach.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Common mental disorders and disability pension award during seven year follow-up.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ): Level of severity: Symptoms of posttraumatic stress and general psychological distress.
  • Show author(s) (2007). General mortality from anxiety and depression. The HUNT study.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Insomnia as a predictor of future work disability.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Outline of PhD-project.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Is the impact of mental health problems on disability pension award underestimated?
  • Show author(s) (2004). Occupational Status and Health Related Quality of Life in the general population.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Er verknaden av angst og depresjon på uføretrygding undervurdert?
Reader opinion piece
  • Show author(s) (2013). Long-term sickness absence in the workplace: causes of sickness absence and their predictors Reply. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 99-99.
  • Show author(s) (2011). RE: "THE HEALTH STATUS OF NONPARTICIPANTS IN A POPULATION-BASED HEALTH STUDY: THE HORDALAND HEALTH STUDY" REPLY. American Journal of Epidemiology. 1345-U147.
Non-fiction book
  • Show author(s) (2010). Hunter’s diseases of occupations, 10th edition. Hodder Education.
Feature article
  • Show author(s) (2010). Dør man av vanlige psykiske lidelser? Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. 756-758.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Er nedsatt funksjonsevne blant uføretrygdede alltid en konsekvens av medisinske diagnoser og symptomer? Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning. 39-45.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Mentale lidelser undervurderes som årsak til uføretrygding. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 1491-2.
Letter to the editor
  • Show author(s) (2018). Response to Arteaga et al. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 257-257.
Doctoral dissertation
  • Show author(s) (2015). Psychological factors in long-term sickness absence: the role of shame and social support. Epidemiological studies based on the Health Assets Project.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Mental health and impairment in disability benefits. Studies applying linkages between health surveys and administrative registries.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Show author(s) (2018). Klimaendringar i Norge og helse.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Arbeid og helse.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Work and psychiatric disorder: An evidence based approach.
Abstract
  • Show author(s) (2008). The effect of insomnia and sleep duration on work disability. European psychiatry. S7-S8.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Symptoms of anxiety and depression predict report of whiplash trauma. European psychiatry. S37-S38.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Sleep disturbances and duration of sleep as risk-factors for mortality. European psychiatry. S7-S7.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Health status before, during and after disability pension award. European psychiatry. S37-S37.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Does age influence the effect of insomnia on work disability? International Journal of Psychology (IJP). 15-16.
  • Show author(s) (2008). A comparison of insomnia and depression in disability pension award. European psychiatry. S7-S7.
  • Show author(s) (2007). The effect of insomnia and sleep duration on work disability. Sleep and Biological Rhythms.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Anxiety, depression and cause-specific mortality. The HUNT historical cohort study. European psychiatry. S54-S54.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Anxiety, depression and cause-specific mortality. The HUNT historical cohort study. European psychiatry. S54.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Under-treatment of mental illness among people granted disability pension: the HUNT study, Norway. European Journal of Public Health.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Insomnia as risk-factor for permanent work disability. Sleep.
  • Show author(s) (2005). The Karasek and Theorell job demand-control-support model in predicting sickness absence in the general population. European Journal of Public Health.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Is the impact of mental health problems on disability pension award underestimated? European Journal of Public Health.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Is the economic rational choice model empirically relevant for disability pension award when inequality is taken into account? European Journal of Public Health.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Employment status and perceived health. European Journal of Public Health.
  • Show author(s) (2005). A longitudinal study of the effect of BMI on GP-certified sickness absence. European Journal of Public Health.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Are anxiety and depression as causes for disability pensioning underestimated? A prospective study based on the general population. European psychiatry. 36S-36S.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Are anxiety and depression as causes for disability pensioning underestimated? A prospective population-based study. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 26-26.
Poster
  • Show author(s) (2007). General mortality from anxiety and depression (the HUNT study).
  • Show author(s) (2006). A historical cohort study of sleep disturbances and duration of sleep as risk-factors for mortality. The HUNT study.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Employment Status and Percieved Health.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Occupational status and Health Related Quality of Life (HR-QoL) in the general population. The Hordaland Health Study '97-99.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Occupational Status and Health Related Quality of Life. The Hordaland Health Study.
Errata
  • Show author(s) (2019). Erratum: Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 (The Lancet (2018) 392(10159) (1923–1994), (S0140673618322256), (10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32225-6)). The Lancet. e44.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Erratum: Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 (The Lancet (2018) 392(10159) (1736–1788)(S0140673618322037)(10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32203-7)). The Lancet. 2170.
Academic literature review
  • Show author(s) (2016). Workplace bullying and sickness absence: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the research literature. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health. 359-370.
  • Show author(s) (2012). The fetal origins of adult disease: a narrative review of the epidemiological literature. JRSM short reports. 7 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Work and common psychiatric disorders. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 198-207.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Electroconvulsive therapy for depression Protocol information. The Cochrane library.
Popular scientific chapter/article
  • Show author(s) (2011). Å redusere bedriftens sykefravær - et hpåløst prosjekt? 341|-366.

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Cand.psychol, Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen, Norway

PhD, Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen, Norway 

Master of Public Health, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Fields of competence 
Epidemiology
Mental Health
Public Health