Dr. habil. Lajos Bálint
Assistant Professor
🚪 A 327
📑 Spatial and social differences in mortality; life table-based analyses; suicide; alcohol-related mortality; spatial models; multilevel models
Lajos Bálint graduated in Social Policy in 2000 and in Sociology in 2001 at the University of Pécs. He defended his PhD thesis in 2009, titled The Development of Regional Mortality Differences in Hungary, 1980–2006. Between 2000 and 2010, he worked at the Central Statistical Office in Pécs. Since 2011, he has been a research fellow at the Hungarian Demographic Research Institute in Budapest, and since 2007 he has been a senior research fellow. He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Területi Statisztika and Demográfia. He has substantial experience in quantitative methods, including life table analysis, multivariate statistics, multilevel modelling, and spatial analysis.
Scholarships, Honours, Awards
- 2012: Third place, Best Paper Award, Területi Statisztika.
- 2022: Recognition by the Editorial Board and Editorial Office of Orvosi Hetilap for the article A magyarországi öngyilkossági halálozás változásai a COVID-19-járvány első évében, Orvosi Hetilap, 2021, 162(41), 1631–1636.
- Markusovszky Lajos Award.
