@pophel.bsky.social
Health and mortality, population ageing, social disadvantage, family dynamics. @University of Helsinki. https://www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-institute-demography-and-population-health
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10.10.2025 07:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
PopHel Talks: Next Monday, 13th October, Joonas Pitkänen will be presenting at PopHel Talks on family-based designs in childhood adversity research.
13th October, 02:00-02:45 PM (UTC+2)
Please register for a Zoom link:
elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...
📣 Our new preprint used machine learning across 30 countries to reveal key life-course social determinants of loneliness among older adults. We also developed a Streamlined Loneliness Predictive Model for future applications.
@pophel.bsky.social @share-eric.bsky.social doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🚨Job alert!🚨
Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health is recruiting 2 postdocs. Join our team and investigate social inequalities in health!
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
#postdoc #demography #socialsciences #socialdata
📢 PopHel Newsletter for March - September 2025 is out!! 📰
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You will also receive information on upcoming public talks 👩🏫 and open positions at PopHel‼️
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🚆🚀 Thrilled to share our paper has been published in Social Science & Medicine, as well as my second paper in this journal. We first reveal the olders' cognitive health externalities of high-speed rail and related mechanisms using ML causal approach and national data. @pophel.bsky.social
01.10.2025 11:32 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
🔥Suomi rakentaa maailman parasta rekisteritutkimuksen
alustaa!
#FIRE syntyy #FIONA juurille yhteistyössä @utu.fi @stat.fi @aalto.fi i @uniuef.bsky.social @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social @vatt-tutkimus.bsky.social @helsinki.fi #Tampereenyliopisto
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#rekisteritutkimus
Associate Professor Mauricio Avendano, University of Lausanne, will serve as the opponent, and Pekka Martikainen as the custos.
The dissertation is also available in electronic form in Helda. helda.helsinki.fi/items/a8641e...
📢Doctoral Defence:
Juha Luukkonen: Alcohol Reforms and Health - Register studies about exposure to changing alcohol policies in adolescence and pregnancy
26 September 2025 at 12:00
University Main Building, room 3003 (Tekla Hultin), Fabianinkatu 33.
Nuorempana alkoholia laillisesti ostaneet henkilöt ovat sairastuneet ja kuolleet kroonisiin alkoholiperäisiin sairauksiin useammin kuin henkilöt, jotka saivat laillisesti ostaa alkoholia 21–vuotiaana.
19.09.2025 11:00 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
New study in European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry by Lotta Volotinen, Hanna Remes, Pekka Martikainen and Niina Metsä-Simola found that low parental education is more strongly associated with increased ADHD diagnosis only in families without identified history of ADHD.
Read more: rdcu.be/eG9eY
Co-convenor of my first symposium at #SLLS2025 @sllshome.bsky.social "Leveraging Nordic Register Data to Study Health Inequalities" with my colleagues at @pophel.bsky.social and presented forthcoming research on peer influence on substance use, which uses the biological linking within registry data.
17.09.2025 06:55 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Our symposium from #SLLS2025 @sllshome.bsky.social consisted of research from Shubh Sharma @eugeniopaglino.bsky.social @olivia-mcevoy.bsky.social mcevoy.bsky.social @moberndorfer.bsky.social orfer.bsky.social Lauren Bishop and registry data expertise from Hanna Remes.
Thanks to all who attended!
A photo from a sailing boat with Helsinki in sight.
New winds are blowing 🌬⛵️
After submitting my PhD at @eui-sps.bsky.social this summer, I've started working at the MaxHel @pophel.bsky.social. Grateful for my new colleagues who make every lunch break memorable—like sailing together yesterday! Ready to embrace new horizons in my academic journey.
👶➡️🧑🦳 Our study shows that adverse childhood circumstances such as lack of friendships, poor housing, increase the risk of 💔 suicidal thoughts in later life, highlighting the need for a lifespan approach to suicide prevention. @pophel.bsky.social @share-eric.bsky.social www.helsinki.fi/en/news/fair...
03.09.2025 15:00 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
❔ Miten perhevapaiden käyttö jakautuu?
❔ Miten ne vaikuttavat äitien työmarkkina-asemaan? Entä vanhempien, lasten ja perheiden hyvinvointiin?
❔ Miten perhevapaita pitäisi uudistaa?
📅 to 18.9. klo 12-16
🗺️ Helsingin yliopisto, Juhlasali 303
#perhevapaat #syntyvyys
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Professor Stefanie Möllborn, Stockholm University, will serve as the opponent, and Mikko Myrskylä as the custos.
The dissertation is also available in electronic form in Helda.
helda.helsinki.fi/items/27244d...
Philipp Dierker will defend the doctoral dissertation in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, on 29 August 2025 at 13:00. The public examination will take place at the following address: Metsätalo, B116 (sali 1), Unioninkatu 40.
27.08.2025 11:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
📢Doctoral Defence:
Philipp Christian Dierker: Partnership dynamics and changes in health and well-being - A bidirectional relationship
29 August 2025 at 13:00
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- Parental vaccination status played a major role in the association, possibly indicating general vaccine hesitancy 🩺
- The Finnish Medical Journal (in Finnish): www.laakarilehti.fi/e45360
- The socioeconomic gradient in adolescents' COVID-19 vaccine uptake in 2022 ranged from less than 60% among children with the lowest educated parents to over 90% among children with the highest educated parents 🧒
27.08.2025 09:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Odds ratios of having received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine among adolescents aged 12–17 years by parental education, 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2022.
Parental education and income strongly predicted adolescents' COVID-19 vaccine uptake 💉 A new study by Sanni Variskallio et al. out now in Vaccine: doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
26.08.2025 13:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
New study 🚨 out in @jama.com! We find that California wildfires🔥in January may have contributed 440 excess deaths in Los Angeles County. This estimate significantly exceeds the 30 direct fatalities linked to these events jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @pophel.bsky.social @helsinki.fi
11.08.2025 07:40 — 👍 25 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
Out-of-Home Care for Children in Finland Has Doubled Since 1993! Scientists @mpidr.bsky.social & @helsinki.fi analyzed how the risk of Finnish children being placed in out-of-home care has evolved. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/ohc
A.Hiilamo, J.Pitkänen, @morettimarg.bsky.social P.Martikainen, M.Myrskylä
📊 Are you interested in fertility trends in different countries? Try FLUX's new web application!
🔍 The application uses high-quality demographic data and automatically updates with the latest available information.
#demography #fertility
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> Socioeconomic factors explained only a modest share of these differences and their growth.
07.08.2025 08:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0> Mortality declined across all living arrangements over the past 30 years in Finland, with absolute differences between groups generally narrowing.
> Relative mortality differences mostly widened, especially between those living alone and those living with a partner.
Directly age-standardized mortality rates (per 1000 person-years) by living arrangements, gender, age group, and period; age adjustment using person-years among men and women in the broad age group across all periods as the standard for men and women aged 30 and over.
📢New article by Ulla Suulamo, Hanna Remes, Lasse Tarkiainen, Pekka Martikainen:
How have mortality differences by living arrangements changed during a time of major shifts in household patterns, with fewer two-parent families and more people living alone?🏘️
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👓Recommended Reading📚
How is Depression Linked to Childlessness? @kailaheimosanna.bsky.social, Mikko Myrskylä, and colleagues from the @mpidr.bsky.social & @pophel.bsky.social @helsinki.fi examined the relationship between #depression and #childlessness. www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
💚 publication in Journal of Affective Disorders! We provided novel evidence of dose-repsonse relationships between childhood adversity and 🦠COVID-19-related mental disorders, also uncovered some protective moderating factors
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