About the Authors

Johan P. Mackenbach

j.mackenbach@erasmusmc.nl

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Ivana Kulhánová

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Matthias Bopp

Affiliation Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Carme Borrell

Affiliation Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Patrick Deboosere

Affiliation Department of Sociology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Katalin Kovács

Affiliation Demographic Research Institute, Hungarian Central Statistical Office, Budapest, Hungary

Caspar W. N. Looman

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Mall Leinsalu

Affiliations Stockholm Centre for Health and Social Change, Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Institute for Health Development, Tallinn, Estonia

Pia Mäkelä

Affiliation National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Pekka Martikainen

Affiliation Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Gwenn Menvielle

Affiliation Sorbonne Universités, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), INSERM, Institut Pierre Louis d’Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique (UMRS 1136), Paris, France

Maica Rodríguez-Sanz

Affiliation Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Jitka Rychtaříková

Affiliation Department of Demography, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Rianne de Gelder

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JPM. Performed the experiments: JPM IK RdG. Analyzed the data: JPM IK CWNL RdG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB CB PD KK ML PMak PMar GM MR-S JR. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: JPM. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: JPM IK MB CB PD KK ML CWNL PMak PMar GM MR-S JR RdG. Agree with the manuscript’s results and conclusions: JPM IK MB CB PD KK ML CWNL PMak PMar GM MR-S JR RdG. All authors have read, and confirm that they meet, ICMJE criteria for authorship.