Katri Aaltonen
PhD (Pharm), Docent
Department of Social Research katri.m.aaltonen@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1737-264X |
Research community or research topic
PI, Research project MultiMed
PI, Research project MultiMed
Biography
I am a Docent in pharmaceutical policy (academic title awarded in recognition of scientific and teaching merits) and PhD in Social Pharmacy. I work as an Academy Research Fellow in the INVEST Research Flagship Centre. I am principal investigator in the Research Council of Finland -funded project Multilevel governance and decentralization of medicine budgets - Striving for quality and sustainability (MultiMed).
I completed my PhD in Social Pharmacy at the University of Eastern Finland in 2017. I have worked as Researcher and Senior Researcher at the Social Insurance Institution of Finland since 2010 (currently on leave). At the University of Turku, I previously worked as Research Council of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher, in project Economic burden of medicines on households: De-commodification and re-commodification (DE-RE).
Research
My research interests include equity considerations and access to medications and healthcare, quality use of medications, citizens' opinions and experiences, evaluating the effects of reforms, and comparative pharmaceutical policy.
Publications 
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- Epidemiological outcomes and policy implementation in the Nordic countries during the COVID-19 pandemic (2025)
- Archives of Public Health
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Sosiaaliturva (2025) Ratkaisuja kestävän yhteiskunnan rakentamiseen Väestön terveys- ja hyvinvointikatsaus 2025 Aaltonen, Katri; Korpela, Tuija; Mikkola, Hennamari; Mukkila, Susanna; Ollonqvist, Joons; Saikkonen, Paula
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Erityiskorvattavuus ja lääkkeiden käytön aloittaminen - Rekisteritutkimus uusista tyypin 2 diabeteslääkkeistä (2024) Rättö, Hanna; Aaltonen, Katri; Kurko, Terhi
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Financial burden of medicines in five northern european countries: A decommodification perspective (2024)
- Social Science and Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Prescribing patterns before the initiation of novel antidiabetic medicines in public, occupational, and private healthcare: a register study reflecting the guidelines of care in type 2 diabetes (2024)
- BMC Health Services Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Suomessa lääkekulut aiheuttavat taloudellista ahdinkoa useammin kuin muissa Pohjois-Euroopan maissa (2024)
- INVEST blog
(E1 Popularised article) - The Effect of Informal Caregiving on Depression : An Asymmetric Panel Fixed-Effects Analysis of In-Home and Out-Of-Home Caregivers Across Europe (2024)
- Journal of Aging and Social Policy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Analysing the Effects of Healthcare Payment Policies on Poverty: A Microsimulation Study with Real-World Healthcare Data (2023)
- International Journal of Microsimulation
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Austerity, economic hardship and access to medications: a repeated cross-sectional population survey study, 2013-2020 (2023)
- Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Lääkkeistä tinkiminen yleistyi hallituksen kovien säästötoimien aikaan (2023)
- INVEST blog
(E1 Popularised article) - Terveysmenojen korotukset vaikuttivat erityisesti pienituloisiin (2023)
- Kelan Tutkimusblogi
(Other publication) - Citizens’ opinions and experiences related to costs and reimbursements for medications in times of retrenchment: cross-sectional population surveys in 2015 and 2017 (2022)
- International Journal for Equity in Health
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Diabeteslääkkeiden korvauksia leikattiin – miten kävi potilaiden? (2022)
- INVEST Policy brief (Politiikkasuositukset)
(E1 Popularised article) - Diabeteslääkkeiden kulutus väheni omavastuukorotuksen myötä – potilaiden taloudelliset ongelmat ja tyytymättömyys hoitoon yleistyivät (2022)
- Kelan Tutkimusblogi
(E1 Popularised article) - INVEST-flagship/Tervola-Heino-Aaltonen-2021-Analysing-the-effects-of-healthcare-payment-policies-in-conjunction-with: v1.0.0 (2022)
- Zenodo
(I2 ICT program or software application ) - Kysely: suuri osa pitää lääkekorvauksia epäoikeudenmukaisina (2022)
- INVEST blog
(E1 Popularised article) - Analysing the effects of healthcare payment policies in conjunctionwith tax - benefit policies: A microsimulation study with real - world healthcare data (2021) Aaltonen Katri, Tervola Jussi, Heino Pekka
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Can people afford to pay for health care? - New evidence on financial protection in Finland (2021) (2021) Tervola Jussi, Aaltonen Katri, Tallgren Fanny
(C1 Refereed scientific book) - Kotitalouksien terveysmenojen vaikutukset toimeentuloon Suomessa – Tiivistelmä WHO:n maaraportista (2021) Tervola Jussi, Aaltonen Katri, Tallgren Fanny
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Lääkkeiden käytön, kustannusten ja vaikutusten havaintotutkimus (2021) Yhteiskunnallinen lääketutkimus – ideasta näyttöön Aaltonen Katri, Jyrkkä Johanna, Korhonen Maarit Jaana, Martikainen Jaana
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book)
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