Jussi
Vahtera
Senior Advisor, Public Health
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Areas of expertise
Public health
Epidemiology
Neighborhood influences on health
Life-course research
Psychosocial stress
Psychosocial work environment
Social Determinants of Health.
Research
My studies focus on work and living environments, psychosocial risks, and behaviors as determinants of health and longevity from a life-course perspective. I have experience in working with large longitudinal datasets and have a strong record of research collaboration both nationally and internationally. My recent research has contributed to the understanding of the effects of social, built and natural neighborhoods on cardiovascular health.
Publications
Persistence of sleep difficulties for over 16 years amongst 66,948 working-aged adults (2021)
PLoS ONE
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Daily physical activity patterns and their association with health-related physical fitness among aging workers - the Finnish Retirement and Aging study (2021)
Journals of Gerontology, Series A
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Psychological Distress During the Retirement Transition and the Role of Psychosocial Working Conditions and Social Living Environment (2021)
Journals of Gerontology, Series B
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Contexts of sedentary time and physical activity among ageing workers and recent retirees: cross-sectional GPS and accelerometer study (2021)
BMJ Open
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Hospital-treated infectious diseases and the risk of dementia: a large, multicohort, observational study with a replication cohort (2021)
Lancet Infectious Diseases
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Does working beyond the statutory retirement age have an impact on health and functional capacity? The Finnish Retirement and Aging cohort study (2021)
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Social relationships as predictors of extended employment beyond the pensionable age: a cohort study (2021)
European Journal of Ageing
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Workplace discrimination as risk factor for long-term sickness absence: Longitudinal analyses of onset and changes in workplace adversity (2021)
PLoS ONE
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Cognitive stimulation in the workplace, plasma proteins, and risk of dementia: three analyses of population cohort studies (2021)
BMJ
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
The Effect of Commercial Activity Tracker Based Physical Activity Intervention on Body Composition and Cardiometabolic Health Among Recent Retirees (2021)
Frontiers in aging
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))