Anna Pulakka
PhD
anna.pulakka@utu.fi +358 29 450 4453 +358 50 448 5143 Joukahaisenkatu 3-5 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0602-8632 |
Public health, global health, physical activity, accelerometers, smoking
I am a global and public health expert with experience of objective physical activity measurements in both children and adults. My PhD study in the field of International Health at University of Tampere encompassed developing and validating accelerometer measurement methods for young children in low-resource settings in Malawi. I also used these methods to investigate the effects of nutrition intervention on physical activity.
I have worked as a senior researcher in the Finnish Retirement and Aging study (FIREA, www.utu.fi/firea) at University of Turku since 2015. I have been planning and supervising the accelerometer data collection and investigating different analysis methods for the accelerometer data. I have also published several articles related to accelerometer-measured physical activity and health behaviour changes in retirement transition.
Global health, physical activity measurements
- Changes in prolonged sedentary behaviour across the transition to retirement (2021)
- Occupational and Environmental Medicine
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Ammattiryhmien väliset erot liikemittarilla mitatussa fyysisessä aktiivisuudessa ikääntyneillä työntekijöillä (2020) Eriarvoisuuden kasvot liikunnassa Sofia Lehto, Tuija Leskinen, Kristin Suorsa, Anna Pulakka, Jussi Vahtera, Sari Stenholm
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Associations of accelerometer-based sleep duration and self-reported sleep difficulties with cognitive function in late mid-life: The Finnish Retirement and Aging Study (2020)
- Sleep Medicine
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Changes in Accelerometer-Measured Sleep during the Transition to Retirement: The Finnish Retirement and Aging (FIREA) study (2020)
- Sleep
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Commuting time to work and behaviour-related health: A fixed-effect analysis (2020)
- Occupational and Environmental Medicine
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Comparison between recent and long-term physical activity levels as predictors of cardiometabolic risk: A cohort study (2020)
- BMJ Open
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Comparison of Sedentary Time Between Thigh-Worn and Wrist-Worn Accelerometers (2020)
- Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Cross-sectional associations of neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and greenness with accelerometer-measured leisure-time physical activity in a cohort of ageing workers (2020)
- BMJ Open
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Emerging collaborative research platforms for the next generation of physical activity, sleep and exercise medicine guidelines: The Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting, and Sleep consortium (ProPASS) (2020)
- British Journal of Sports Medicine
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Objectively Measured Sedentary Time Before and After Transition to Retirement: The Finnish Retirement and Aging Study (2020)
- Journals of Gerontology, Series A
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Physical Activity across Retirement Transition by Occupation and Mode of Commute (2020)
- Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Changes in Smoking During Retirement Transition: A Longitudinal Cohort Study (2019)
- Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Daily physical activity patterns among aging workers: the Finnish Retirement and Aging Study (FIREA) (2019)
- Occupational and Environmental Medicine
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Eläke lisää liikettä - joksikin aikaa (2019)
- Liikunta ja tiede
(Article in trade journal or blog post (D1)) - Path analyses of risk factors for linear growth faltering in four prospective cohorts of young children in Ghana, Malawi and Burkina Faso (2019)
- BMJ Global Health
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - The effects of supplementing maternal and infant diets with lipid-based nutrient supplements on physical activity and sedentary behaviour at preschool age in Ghana (2019)
- British Journal of Nutrition
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Association Between Employment Status and Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior: The Maastricht Study (2018)
- Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Change in physical activity and accumulation of cardiometabolic risk factors (2018)
- Preventive Medicine
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Changes in non-occupational sedentary behaviours across the retirement transition: The Finnish Retirement and Aging (FIREA) study (2018)
- Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Classification and processing of 24-hour wrist accelerometer data (2018)
- Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))