Jussi Vahtera - UTU Research Portal

Jussi Vahtera

- Senior Advisor,
Public Health (Department of Clinical Medicine)

jussi.vahtera@utu.fi

+358 29 450 2030

+358 40 592 9990

Kiinamyllynkatu 10

Turku

ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6036-061X

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

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Effectiveness of legislative changes obligating notification of prolonged sickness absence and assessment of remaining work ability on return to work and work participation: a natural experiment in Finland (2016)
- Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Halonen JI, Solovieva S, Pentti J, Kivimaki M, Vahtera J, Viikari-Juntura E
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Health- and work-related predictors of work disability among employees with a cardiometabolic disease - A cohort study (2016)
- Journal of Psychosomatic Research
Ervasti J, Kivimaki M, Pentti J, Salo P, Oksanen T, Vahtera J, Virtanen M
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Hospital Admissions Before an Alcohol-Related Death Among Middle-Aged Employed Men and Women: A Cohort Study Using Routine Data (2016)
- Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
Paljarvi T, Martikainen P, Vahtera J, Leinonen T, Makela P
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Increased risk of cause-specific work disability prior to the diagnosis of sleep apnea (2016)
- Journal of Sleep Research
Salo P, Alexanderson K, Pentti J, Kjeldgard L, Kivimaki M, Vahtera J
(Other publication)
Job insecurity and risk of diabetes: a meta-analysis of individual participant data (2016)
- Canadian Medical Association Journal
Jane E Ferrie, Marianna Virtanen, Markus Jokela, Ida E H Madsen, Katriina Heikkilä, Lars Alfredsson, G David Batty, Jakob B Bjorner, Marianne Borritz, Hermann Burr, Nico Dragano, Marko Elovainio, Eleonor I Fransson, Anders Knutsson, Markku Koskenvuo, Aki Koskinen, Anne Kouvonen, Meena Kumari, Martin L Nielsen, Maria Nordin, Tuula Oksanen, Krista Pahkin, Jan H Pejtersen, Jaana Pentti, Paula Salo, Martin J Shipley, Sakari B Suominen, Adam Tabak, Töres Theorell, Ari Väänänen, Jussi Vahtera, Peter J M Westerholm, Hugo Westerlund, Reiner Rugulies, Solja T Nyberg, Mika Kivimäki
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Long working hours and cancer risk: a multi-cohort study (2016)
- British Journal of Cancer
Katriina Heikkila, Solja T Nyberg, Ida EH Madsen, Ernest de Vroome, Lars Alfredsson, Jacob J Bjorner, Marianne Borritz, Hermann Burr, Raimund Erbel, Jane E Ferrie, Eleonor I Fransson, Goedele A Geuskens, Wendela E Hooftman, Irene L Houtman, Karl-Heinz Jöckel, Anders Knutsson, Markku Koskenvuo, Thorsten Lunau, Martin L Nielsen, Maria Nordin, Tuula Oksanen, Jan H Pejtersen, Jaana Pentti, Martin J Shipley, Andrew Steptoe, Sakari B Suominen, Töres Theorell, Jussi Vahtera, Peter JM Westerholm, Hugo Westerlund, Nico Dragano, Reiner Rugulies, Ichiro Kawachi, G David Batty, Archana Singh-Manoux, Marianna Virtanen, Mika Kivimaäki
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Onset of Impaired Sleep and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: A Longitudinal Study (2016)
- Sleep
Clark AJ, Salo P, Lange T, Jennum P, Virtanen M, Pentti J, Kivimaki M, Rod NH, Vahtera J
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Organizational justice and disability pension from all-causes, depression and musculoskeletal diseases: A Finnish cohort study of public sector employees (2016)
- Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health
Juvani A, Oksanen T, Virtanen M, Elovainio M, Salo P, Pentti J, Kivimäki M, Vahtera J.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Predictors of first-year statin medication discontinuation: A cohort study (2016)
- Journal of Clinical Lipidology
Halava H, Huupponen R, Pentti J, Kivimaki M, Vahtera J
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Psychosocial factors associated with work disability in men and women with diabetes: a pooled analysis of three occupational cohort studies. (2016)
- Diabetic Medicine
Ervasti J, Kivimäki M, Dray-Spira R, Head J, Goldberg M, Pentti J, Jokela M, Vahtera J, Zins M, Virtanen M.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Purchases of prescription antidepressants in the Swedish population in relation to major workplace downsizing. (2016)
- Epidemiology
Hanson LM, Westerlund H, Singh Chungkham H, Vahtera J, Sverke M, Alexanderson K.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Response to letter "Do all hypnotic drugs and sedatives have risk for cancer?" (2016)
- Sleep Medicine
Sivertsen B., Salo P., Pentti J., Kivimäki M., Vahtera J.
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal)
Smoking, physical inactivity and obesity as predictors of healthy and disease-free life expectancy between ages 50 and 75: a multicohort study (2016)
- International Journal of Epidemiology
Stenholm S, Head J, Kivimäki M, Kawachi I, Aalto V, Zins M, Goldberg M, Zaninotto P, Magnuson Hanson L, Westerlund H, Vahtera J
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Socioeconomic gradient in work disability in diabetes: Evidence from three occupational cohorts (2016)
- Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
Ervasti J, Kivimäki M, Dray-Spira R, Head J, Goldberg M, Pentti J, Jokela M, Vahtera J, Zins M, Virtanen M
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Socioeconomic inequalities in statin adherence under universal coverage: does sex matter? (2016)
- Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
Aarnio E, Martikainen J, Winn AN, Huupponen R, Vahtera J, Korhonen MJ
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Somatic symptoms of anxiety and nonadherence to statin therapy (2016)
- International Journal of Cardiology
Korhonen MJ, Pentti J, Hartikainen J, Kivimaki M, Vahtera J
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Structural and functional aspects of social support as predictors of mental and physical health trajectories: Whitehall II cohort stud (2016)
- Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
Hakulinen C, Pulkki-Råback L, Jokela J, Ferrie JE, Aalto AM, Virtanen M, Kivimäki M, Vahtera J, Elovainio M.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Trajectories of self-rated health in the last 15 years of life by cause of death (2016)
- European Journal of Epidemiology
Stenholm S, Kivimäki M, Jylhä M, Kawachi I, Westerlund H, Pentti J, Goldberg M, Zins M, Vahtera J.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Childhood Adversity as a Predictor of Non-Adherence to Statin Therapy in Adulthood (2015)
- PLoS ONE
Korhonen MJ, Halonen JI, Brookhart MA, Kawachi I, Pentti J, Karlsson H, Kivimaki M, Vahtera J
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Childhood Psychosocial Adversity and Adult Neighborhood Disadvantage as Predictors of Cardiovascular Disease A Cohort Study (2015)
- Circulation
Halonen JI, Stenholm S, Pentti J, Kawachi I, Subramanian SV, Kivimaki M, Vahtera J
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)