Publications

My publications examine social inequalities in health across the life course, with a focus on how disadvantage accumulates over time and shapes health, multimorbidity, longevity, and preventive healthcare.

Selected publications

Conceptual article · 2026

Secondary prevention as a complex adaptive system: risk classification, healthcare capacity, and inequality

Wagner C, Uleman JF, de Vries TR, Varga TV.

Preprint. September 2026.

This preprint frames secondary prevention as a complex adaptive system, showing how changes in risk thresholds interact with healthcare capacity and unequal access to produce unintended and unequally distributed consequences.

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Empirical article · 2026

Trajectories and inequalities in routine healthcare uptake from adolescence to retirement

Wagner C, Jolidon V, van der Linden BWA, Delaruelle K, Gauthier JA, Toma S, Bracke P, Burton-Jeangros C, Cullati S.

Social Science & Medicine. 2026;405:119608.

This study uses sequence analysis to examine long-term patterns of routine healthcare uptake across 14 European countries and how these patterns differ by life-course socioeconomic disadvantage.

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Review · 2024

Life course epidemiology and public health

Wagner C, Carmeli C, Jackisch J, Kivimäki M, van der Linden BWA, Cullati S, Chiolero A.

The Lancet Public Health. 2024;9(4):e261–e269.

This Review examines how life course epidemiology changes the way chronic disease causes and prevention strategies are understood, with examples including hypertension, breast cancer, and dementia.

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Additional publications

Empirical article · 2023

Intergenerational educational trajectories and inequalities in longevity

Wagner C, Cullati S, Sieber S, Huijts T, Chiolero A, Carmeli C.

SSM - Population Health. 2023;22:101367.

This study examines how parental and individual education shape inequalities in longevity among adults born before 1965 in 14 European countries.

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Empirical article · 2024

Educational inequalities in multimorbidity at older ages

Wagner C, Jackisch J, Ortega N, Sieber S, van der Linden BWA, Chiolero A, Cullati S, Carmeli C.

European Journal of Public Health. 2024;34(4):704–711.

This study examines how parental and individual education shape inequalities in multimorbidity risk among older adults across 14 European countries.

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Full publication list

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