Lau Caspar Thygesen

Epidemiological research on the interplay and association between welfare and major diseases

• Social consequences of chronic disease

• Economic crisis and public health consequences

• Analyses of the healthy worker effect

• Musculoskeletal diseases among airport porters

Methodological developments in register-based research

• Confounder adjustment in register-based studies using external information and instrumental variables

• Comparison of difference methods for age-standardization

• Validation studies of selected registers

National Institute of Public Health
University of Southern Denmark
Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 2nd floor
1353 Copenhagen K

Denmark