Publications by authors named "E Sanchez-Ledesma"
Emerging socioeconomic correlates of loneliness. Evidence from the Barcelona Health Survey 2021.
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol
November 2024
Purpose: Recent evidence shows that loneliness is associated with socioeconomic factors. However, studies often focus on traditional socioeconomic indicators (income, occupation, educational level) only, disregarding other important socioeconomic determinants, such as job insecurity, housing conditions or material deprivation. Therefore, we analyse the association of a broad range of socioeconomic indicators with loneliness.
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- Adolescence is a critical period where issues like excess weight and body dissatisfaction can increase, potentially worsening due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The study analyzed data from the FRESC survey conducted in 2016 and 2021 in Barcelona, revealing that excess weight among adolescents rose from 25.3% to 29.8% and body dissatisfaction jumped from 44.2% to 60.4%.
- Significant socioeconomic inequalities concerning excess weight increased specifically in girls, indicating a troubling trend in adolescent health that calls for targeted public policies to address these disparities.
Half of all mental health disorders appear during adolescence, although it is still far from clear how they relate to gender (not sex) criteria. This study aims both to analyse the relationship between gender and adolescent mental health and to propose an index: the Gender Adherence Index (GAI). We used cross-sectional, secondary data from 3888 adolescents (aged 13-19) from the FRESC Health Survey on Adolescence in Barcelona.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To analyse the gap in life expectancy by educational level in the city of Barcelona from 2004 to 2018 and to decompose this gap by age and causes of death.
Method: We computed abridged life tables at the age of 25 years by sex from 2004 to 2018 using standard methods. Educational level was categorised in two groups (lower secondary or less vs.