Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Scand J Public Health. 2022 Nov;50(7):835-842. doi: 10.1177/14034948221079061. Epub 2022 Mar 29.
We examined the development of research articles published in the and its predecessors and the from 1969 until 2020 to be able to identify the place of international comparisons of socioeconomic inequalities in health in the journal.
Altogether 3237 research articles were screened to yield 126 comparative research articles. Examining full texts of the comparative articles led to 13 articles reporting comparisons of health inequalities.
The first one came out in 1972, but the rest only after the mid-1990s. The most common socioeconomic indicator was education, but also occupational class and income was used. The most common health indicator was self-rated health. The articles compared Nordic countries with each other, but also with non-Nordic countries. Although the number of comparative studies on health inequalities was relatively small, there were examples of well-designed studies using advanced methodology. We examined only published journal articles over the past five decades, not submitted but rejected papers.
我们研究了自 1969 年至 2020 年期间发表在《社会科学与医学》及其前身《社会科学与医学评论》和《社会科学与医学》中的研究论文的发展情况，以确定该期刊中社会经济健康不平等的国际比较在期刊中的地位。
总共筛选了 3237 篇研究文章，得出了 126 篇比较性研究文章。对比较性文章的全文进行研究后，有 13 篇文章报告了健康不平等的比较情况。
第一篇文章发表于 1972 年，但其余文章直到 20 世纪 90 年代中期才出现。最常见的社会经济指标是教育，但也使用职业阶层和收入。最常见的健康指标是自评健康。这些文章将北欧国家相互比较，也将北欧国家与非北欧国家进行了比较。尽管关于健康不平等的比较研究数量相对较少，但也有一些设计良好、使用先进方法的例子。我们只检查了过去五十年中发表的期刊文章，而不是提交但被拒绝的论文。
