The Head of the Unit is Pekka Martikainen. For collaborations and research inquiries, please feel free to contact us.
Current research interests include changes and causes of socioeconomic differences in cause-specific mortality, and various issues relating to ageing populations. He is also working on the health effects of marital status and living arrangements, as well as the competing effects of characteristics of areas and characteristics of individuals on mortality, and has been involved in cross-national comparisons of health inequalities.
Research topics:
Risk factors of obesity and metabolic diseases
Physical and mental development of the child and its later health consequences
Gene-environment interactions
Socio-economic and global health inequalities
The CODATwins project
Publications and other activities
Research topics:
Consequences of parental and childhood illness (SCOPE)
Poor health and union instability
Welfare state life courses: Social inequalities in the co-evolution of employment, health and critical life events (WELLIFE)
Union stability and mental health in families with children: the role of grandparents
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Research topics:
Welfare state life courses: Social inequalities in the co-evolution of employment, health and critical life events (WELLIFE)
Promoting mental well-being and healthy ageing in cities (MINDMAP)
Social determinants of dementia and institutional long-term care
Estimating future burden of Type 2 diabetes and life expectancy by income in Finland
Life course and economic implications of demographic change (LIFECON)
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Research topics:
Sociodemographic and health related determinants of electoral participation
Social stratification and mobility
ERC Advanced Grant on social inequalities in population health: integrating evidence from longitudinal, family-based and genetically informed data
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Research topics:
Alcohol policies shaping population health and various other interests
Life course and economic implications of demographic change (LIFECON)
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University Researcher at the Methodological Unit of the Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities (HSSH)
Research topics:
Welfare state life courses: Social inequalities in the co-evolution of employment, health and critical life events (WELLIFE)
Longitudinal birth cohort and family-based studies of morbidity, mortality and social disadvantage (BIRTHFAM)
Promoting mental well-being and healthy ageing in cities (MINDMAP)
Social consequences of parental and childhood illness (SCOPE)
Medication Use among Children and Adolescents – Family and Area Determinants
Publications and other activities
Research topics:
Family Formation in Flux
Romantic relationship histories
High performance computing
Research topics:
Context-dependencies of socioeconomic inequalities in health
Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and child health inequalities
Publications and other activities
Research topics:
Social consequences of parental and childhood illness (SCOPE)
Living arrangements and the transition to adulthood
Longitudinal birth cohort and family-based studies of morbidity, mortality and social disadvantage (BIRTHFAM)
Union stability and mental health in families with children: the role of grandparents
ERC Advanced Grant on social inequalities in population health: integrating evidence from longitudinal, family-based and genetically informed data
Publications and other activities
Research topics:
The association between income and mortality
Welfare state life courses: Social inequalities in the co-evolution of employment, health and critical life events (WELLIFE)
Promoting mental well-being and healthy ageing in cities (MINDMAP)
Life course and economic implications of demographic change (LIFECON)
Publications and other activities
Research topics:
Childhood circumstances and health inequalities among older people
University of Eastern Finland
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University of Helsinki
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University of Helsinki
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Helsinki Region Transport
Syddansk Universitet
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University of Bristol
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University of Helsinki
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Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
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City of Helsinki Urban Facts
netta.maki@hel.fi
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University of Turku
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University of Helsinki
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University of Helsinki
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THL (National Institute for Health and Welfare)
outi.sirnio@thl.fi
University of Helsinki
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The Professor of Sociology and Demography in 1977-2007 and the founder of the Population Research Unit.
Scientific autobiography in Finnish “Käytännöllisiä ja hyödyllisiä ongelmia: Puoli vuosisataa sosiaalitutkijana [Practical and useful problems: Half a century as a social scientist]”, University of Helsinki, 2012.