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Are you using administrative registers to investigate the association between income and health? Then you should definitely check the last paper from our group, led by @lindaejlskov.bsky.social and just published at the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health!

So well deserved, Tomáš! This is so great! Congratulations! 🥳 Looking forward to this new chapter together 😀 (proud supervisor 😎😜)

I think that both @tformanek.bsky.social and @dannicc.bsky.social did a great job! We all agreed that it is not black or white and it will depend on the specific study, but the popular vote went to ‘hypothesis-driven approaches’. It was a good way to discuss different approaches 😊

We will try a new format for our group’s journal club tomorrow. Looking forward to the debate between @tformanek.bsky.social and @dannicc.bsky.social about hypothesis-based vs data-driven approaches on social determinants of health (such a great idea 🤓🙌). Any thoughts about it??

This study was carried out in collaboration with colleagues mostly at @aarhusuni.bsky.social (Natalie Momen, Christoffer Beck, Mette Lise Lousdal, Esben Agerbo, John McGrath, Carsten B Pedersen & Merete Nordentoft) with the funding from the Lundbeck Foundation - thanks for the support!

While trends may partly be explained by increase in underlying incidence, several other factors may contribute, such as diagnostic practices, health sector capacity, and risk factors for mental disorders.

Our study highlights the complex patterns of mental disorder incidence and underscores the importance of considering sex, age, and temporal factors in mental health research.

3️⃣ For schizophrenia, incidence rates increased for females in recent birth cohorts at younger ages (while remaining stable for males), leading to a higher peak incidence for females than for males in the most recent periods.

Key Findings:

1️⃣ The overall incidence rate of mental disorders was 55 per 10,000 person-years.

2️⃣ Higher incidence rates were observed in younger ages for more recent birth cohorts and calendar periods for most types of mental disorders, with notable sex differences.

We estimated the sex- and age-specific incidence of diagnosed mental disorders across different birth cohorts and calendar periods. This population-based cohort study, encompassing anonymous data from 6 million individuals, provides a detailed analysis of mental disorder trends from 2004 to 2021.

📢 New publication from our group: a comprehensive study on mental health disorder trends in Denmark according to age, calendar period, and birth cohort

We are excited to announce the publication of our latest research in JAMA Psychiatry: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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📣JOB ALERT! Are you interested in psychiatric epidemiology? We are looking for a PhD student or postdoc to join our team in beautiful Aarhus (Denmark)! We welcome all applicants (regardless of gender, culture, country of origin, etc). bit.ly/AUepi2023 #EpiSky #demography Please share🙂

#HiSciSky I’ve finally decided to give it a try with BlueSky! I'm an Associate Professor at Aarhus University (Denmark) interested in psychiatric and social epidemiology, biostatistics, register-based epidemiology, etc. Looking forward to learning how that works 😀 #EpiSky #PsySciSky #MedSky