Welcome to the webpage of the Population Mental Health Group at the National Centre for Register-based Research (Department of Public Health, Aarhus University) and the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal).
Our work combines advanced epidemiological methods and large administrative databases (e.g., electronic healthcare records) to understand the causes and consequences of mental disorders. Our primary areas of research include:
- Analyzing the impact of mental disorders on several health and societal outcomes, including comorbidity (within mental disorders and with other physical diseases) and mortality.
- Advancing the understanding of the social, health and environmental determinants of mental disorders.
- Developing new strategies to improve the accuracy and validity of register-based studies. We develop methods to overcome the limitations of electronic databases, e.g., using surveys to incorporate information on social connections or lifestyle factors – usually absent in register-based research; or methods to accommodate shifts in patient characteristics over time, essential to understanding potential interventions.
You can have a look at who we are, our recent publications, ongoing projects, and prizes and awards in this website. Would you like to join our group?
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