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Andreea Badache

Position: Doctoral Student School/office: School of Health Sciences

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About Andreea Badache

Andreea-Corina Badache holds a Ph.D. with focus on Disability Sciences, Aging and Epidemiolgoy from the School of Health Sciences at Örebro University, Sweden. She was part of the Newbreed doctoral program within the thematic area of Biology of Aging and Successful Ageing. The programme was co-funded by the European Commission through the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, Co-founding of Regional, National and International Programmes (MSCA COFOUND).

Andreea obtained in 2013 a Bachelor degree in Physiotherapy from Babes-Bolyai, Romania. Afterward, she decided to pursue her studies abroad and in 2015, she completed her Master degree in Rehabilitation Sciences from KU Leuven, in Belgium. Subsequently, she enrolled in a Master program in Healthcare Policy, Innovation, and Management at Maastricht University, in the Netherlands from where she graduated in 2017.

She has worked with major international organizations, including the World Health Organization (WHO) In Geneva, Kobe Centrum and in Washington, DC, the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico, the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Italy. Her work has focused on disability and rehabilitation, aging, long-term care (LTC), health systems, LTC workforce, epidemiology, global health diplomacy, global health, non-communicable diseases, and public health data analysis.

Her doctoral research focused on the epidemiology of aging, using longitudinal data from European studies to analyze disability trends, sensory function, cognition and assess the social determinants of healthy and successful aging.

Her academic interests include public and global health, health inequalities, epidemiology of aging and disability, life course epidemiology, gerontology, rehabilitation, health policy and non-communicable diseases.

Affiliations

Swedish National Graduate School for Competitive Science on Ageing and Health (SWEAH), an initiative of Lund University and funded by The Swedish Research Council.
Swedish Institute for Disability Research
Babes-Bolyai University

Research Collaborations

Working group member in the EU COST Action CA18218 - European Burden of Disease Project
Collaborator - Global Burden of Disease Project

Publications

Publications

Articles in journals

Badache, A. , Mäki-Torkko, E. , Widén, S. & Fors, S. (2024). A descriptive epidemiological study of the prevalence of self-reported sensory difficulties by age group, sex, education, disability, and migration status in Sweden in 2020. BMC Public Health, 24 (1). [BibTeX]
Mack, M. , Badache, A. , Erden, A. , Giannaki, C. D. , Haider, S. , Kaltsatou, A. , Kömürcü Akik, B. , Netz, Y. & et al. (2024). Chronic exercise effects on overall depression severity and distinct depressive symptoms in older adults: A protocol of a systematic and meta-analytic review. PLOS ONE, 19 (5). [BibTeX]
Badache, A. , Rehnberg, J. , Mäki-Torkko, E. , Widén, S. & Fors, S. (2024). Longitudinal associations between sensory and cognitive functioning in adults 60 years or older in Sweden and Denmark. Archives of gerontology and geriatrics (Print), 121. [BibTeX]
Chen-Xu, J. , Varga, O. , Mahrouseh, N. , Eikemo, T. A. , Grad, D. A. , Wyper, G. M. A. , Badache, A. , Balaj, M. & 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. [BibTeX]
Badache, A. C. , Mäki-Torkko, E. , Widén, S. & Fors, S. (2023). Why are old-age disabilities decreasing in Sweden and Denmark? Evidence on the contribution of cognition, education, and sensory functions. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, 78 (3), 483-495. [BibTeX]
Baxter, R. , Jemberie, W. B. , Li, X. , Naseer, M. , Pauelsen, M. , Shebehe, J. , Viklund, E. W. , Xia, X. & et al. (2021). COVID-19: Opportunities for interdisciplinary research to improve care for older people in Sweden. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 49 (1), 29-32. [BibTeX]

Articles, reviews/surveys

Ballesteros, S. , Audifren, M. , Badache, A. , Belkin, V. , Giannaki, C. D. , Kaltsatou, A. , Marusic, U. , Ziaaldini, M. M. & et al. (2024). Effects of chronic physical exercise on executive functions and episodic memory in clinical and healthy older adult populations: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol. Systematic Reviews, 13 (1). [BibTeX]
Officer, A. , Prina, M. , Badache, A. , Broers, B. , Gnanapragasam, S. & Pautex, S. (2024). Factors associated with attitudes toward death and dying in the second half of life: A scoping review. Death Studies. [BibTeX]
Officer, A. , Pautex, S. , Badache, A. , Broers, B. & Prina, M. (2024). Systematic review on attitudes towards death and dying in adults 50 years and older living in countries with community transmission of COVID-19. Archives of gerontology and geriatrics (Print), 127. [BibTeX]
Badache, A. , Hachem, H. & Mäki-Torkko, E. (2023). The perspectives of successful ageing among older adults aged 75+: a systematic review with a narrative synthesis of mixed studies. Ageing & Society, 43, 1203-1239. [BibTeX]

Conference papers

Varga, O. , Baravelli, C. , Chen-Xu, J. , Mahrouseh, N. , Eikemo, T. A. , Grad, D. , Wyper, G. , Badache, A. & et al. (2024). Regional inequalities in years of life lost within the European Economic Area: Using the Gini coefficient and slope index of inequality to assess spatial disparities. In: European Journal of Public Health. Oxford University Press. [BibTeX]
Mahrouseh, N. , Chen-Xu, J. , Charalampous, P. , Eikemo, T. , Varga, O. , Grad, D. , Badache, A. , Mechili, E. & et al. (2023). Premature mortality and levels of inequality in years of life lost across 296 regions of 31 european countries in 2019: A burden of disease study. In: Population Medicine. Paper presented at 17th World Congress on Public Health, Rome, Italy, May 2-6, 2023. (pp. 260-260). European Publishing. [BibTeX]
Baravelli, C. M. , Chen-Xu, J. , Varga, O. , Grad, D. A. , Mahrouseh, N. , Charalampous, P. , Unim, B. , Economou, M. & et al. (2023). Subnational inequalities in YLLs and associated socioeconomic factors: a disease burden study. In: European Journal of Public Health. Paper presented at 16th European Public Health Conference: Our Food, Our Health, Our Earth: A Sustainable Future for Humanity, Dublin, Ireland, November 8–11, 2023. (pp. ii142-ii143). Oxford University Press. [BibTeX]

Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries

Badache, A. (2025). Beyond the Years : How Sensory and Cognitive Functions in Old-Age Shape Disability, and Perspectives on Successful Aging: An epidemiological perspective of disability. (Doctoral dissertation). (Comprehensive summary) Örebro: Örebro University. [BibTeX]

Licentiate theses, comprehensive summaries

Badache, A. (2024). An Exploration of Successful Aging: Integrating Perspectives and Exploring Disability Trends. Lic. (Comprehensive summary) Örebro: Örebro University. [BibTeX]

Manuscripts

Badache, A. , Mäki-Torkko, E. , Widén, S. & Fors, S. A descriptive epidemiological study of the prevalence of self-reported sensory difficulties by age group, sex, education, disability, and migration status in Sweden in 2020. [BibTeX]
Badache, A. , Rehnberg, J. , Mäki-Torkko, E. , Widén, S. & Fors, S. Longitudinal associations between sensory and cognitive functioning in adults 60 years or older in Sweden and Denmark. [BibTeX]