Mirza Balaj

1.1k total citations
25 papers, 544 citations indexed

About

Mirza Balaj is a scholar working on Health, General Health Professions and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Mirza Balaj has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 544 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Health, 17 papers in General Health Professions and 6 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Recurrent topics in Mirza Balaj's work include Health disparities and outcomes (17 papers), Global Health Care Issues (9 papers) and Employment and Welfare Studies (8 papers). Mirza Balaj is often cited by papers focused on Health disparities and outcomes (17 papers), Global Health Care Issues (9 papers) and Employment and Welfare Studies (8 papers). Mirza Balaj collaborates with scholars based in Norway, United Kingdom and United States. Mirza Balaj's co-authors include Terje Andreas Eikemo, Courtney McNamara, Clare Bambra, Katie Thomson, Adam Todd, Erling F. Solheim, Nasima Akhter, Tim Huijts, Per Stornes and Adetayo Kasim and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Social Science & Medicine and BMJ Open.

In The Last Decade

Mirza Balaj

24 papers receiving 537 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mirza Balaj Norway	12	260	164	87	66	59	25	544
Rowena Ivers Australia	16	394 1.5×	177 1.1×	83 1.0×	29 0.4×	156 2.6×	60	862
Italia Rolle United States	15	289 1.1×	83 0.5×	108 1.2×	110 1.7×	208 3.5×	28	919
Carter Blakey United States	8	535 2.1×	135 0.8×	34 0.4×	46 0.7×	120 2.0×	11	809
Khoa Truong United States	14	282 1.1×	177 1.1×	52 0.6×	42 0.6×	201 3.4×	39	847
Chi Shen China	16	325 1.3×	206 1.3×	112 1.3×	23 0.3×	63 1.1×	48	755
Mats Ramstedt Sweden	18	292 1.1×	123 0.8×	40 0.5×	71 1.1×	100 1.7×	53	924
Syed Afroz Keramat Australia	15	149 0.6×	135 0.8×	88 1.0×	10 0.2×	122 2.1×	64	585
Jadvyga Petrauskienė Lithuania	16	284 1.1×	158 1.0×	28 0.3×	104 1.6×	78 1.3×	43	709
Seppo Koskinen Finland	7	370 1.4×	166 1.0×	31 0.4×	42 0.6×	79 1.3×	10	556
Monique Moore United States	10	246 0.9×	35 0.2×	49 0.6×	42 0.6×	107 1.8×	21	723

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Chisnoiu, Radu Marcel, et al.. (2025). Correlation Between Type of Edentulism, Age, Socioeconomic Status and General Health. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 14(11). 3924–3924. 1 indexed citations

Varga, Orsolya, Terje Andreas Eikemo, Grant M. A. Wyper, et al.. (2024). Subnational inequalities in years of life lost and associations with socioeconomic factors in pre-pandemic Europe, 2009–19: an ecological study. The Lancet Public Health. 9(3). e166–e177. 5 indexed citations

Kulhánová, Ivana, et al.. (2024). Educational inequalities in cervical cancer screening participation in 24 European countries. Public Health. 233. 1–7. 6 indexed citations

Machado, Myrela O., Terje Andreas Eikemo, Talal Mohammad, & Mirza Balaj. (2024). Educational inequalities in cervical cancer mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis. European Journal of Public Health. 34(Supplement_3).

Balaj, Mirza, et al.. (2023). Does educational mobility in mid-life affect mortality? A cohort study covering 1.3 million individuals in Sweden. SSM - Population Health. 25. 101589–101589. 1 indexed citations

Mosquera, Isabel, Adam Todd, Mirza Balaj, et al.. (2023). Components and effectiveness of patient navigation programmes to increase participation to breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening: A systematic review. Cancer Medicine. 12(13). 14584–14611. 14 indexed citations

Charalampous, Periklis, Sarah Cuschieri, Brigid Unim, et al.. (2023). Inequalities in the burden of non-communicable diseases across European countries: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study. International Journal for Equity in Health. 22(1). 140–140. 22 indexed citations

Kopasker, Daniel, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, João Vasco Santos, et al.. (2023). Microsimulation as a flexible tool to evaluate policies and their impact on socioeconomic inequalities in health. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe. 34. 100758–100758. 2 indexed citations

Friedman, Joseph, Mirza Balaj, Nazrul Islam, et al.. (2022). Inequalities in COVID-19 mortality: defining a global research agenda. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 100(10). 648–650. 2 indexed citations

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Balaj, Mirza, Talal Mohammad, Hanne Dahl Vonen, et al.. (2022). Educational inequalities in adult mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the Asia Pacific region. BMJ Open. 12(8). e059042–e059042. 5 indexed citations

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Thomson, Katie, Courtney McNamara, Mirza Balaj, et al.. (2021). The Gender Pain Gap: gender inequalities in pain across 19 European countries. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. 50(2). 287–294. 29 indexed citations

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Friedman, Joseph, Alhelí Calderón-Villarreal, Kristian Heggebø, et al.. (2021). COVID-19 and the Nordic Paradox: a call to measure the inequality reducing benefits of welfare systems in the wake of the pandemic. Social Science & Medicine. 289. 114455–114455. 5 indexed citations

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Balaj, Mirza, Hunter York, Kam Sripada, et al.. (2021). Parental education and inequalities in child mortality: a global systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet. 398(10300). 608–620. 125 indexed citations

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Todd, Adam, Courtney McNamara, Mirza Balaj, et al.. (2019). The European epidemic: Pain prevalence and socioeconomic inequalities in pain across 19 European countries. European Journal of Pain. 23(8). 1425–1436. 72 indexed citations

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Hillier-Brown, Frances, et al.. (2017). The effects of community pharmacy public health interventions on population health and health inequalities: a systematic review of reviews protocol. Systematic Reviews. 6(1). 176–176. 10 indexed citations

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Beckfield, Jason, Mirza Balaj, Courtney McNamara, et al.. (2017). The health of European populations: introduction to the special supplement on the 2014 European Social Survey (ESS) rotating module on the social determinants of health. European Journal of Public Health. 27(suppl_1). 3–7. 9 indexed citations

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McNamara, Courtney, Mirza Balaj, Katie Thomson, Terje Andreas Eikemo, & Clare Bambra. (2016). The contribution of housing and neighbourhood conditions to educational inequalities in non-communicable diseases in Europe: findings from the European Social Survey (2014) special module on the social determinants of health. European Journal of Public Health. 27(suppl_1). 102–106. 20 indexed citations

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Balaj, Mirza, Courtney McNamara, Terje Andreas Eikemo, & Clare Bambra. (2016). The social determinants of inequalities in self-reported health in Europe: findings from the European social survey (2014) special module on the social determinants of health. European Journal of Public Health. 27(suppl_1). 107–114. 44 indexed citations

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Balaj, Mirza, et al.. (2016). Exploring the differences in general practitioner and health care specialist utilization according to education, occupation, income and social networks across Europe: findings from the European social survey (2014) special module on the social determinants of health. European Journal of Public Health. 27(suppl_1). 73–81. 45 indexed citations

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McNamara, Courtney, Mirza Balaj, Katie Thomson, et al.. (2016). The socioeconomic distribution of non-communicable diseases in Europe: findings from the European Social Survey (2014) special module on the social determinants of health. European Journal of Public Health. 27(suppl_1). 22–26. 61 indexed citations

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