Anna Pulakka
PhD
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 retirementAmmattiryhmien väliset erot liikemittarilla mitatussa fyysisessä aktiivisuudessa ikääntyneillä työntekijöillä (2021)
- Occupational and Environmental Medicine
- (2020) Eriarvoisuuden kasvot liikunnassa Sofia Lehto, Tuija Leskinen, Kristin Suorsa, Anna Pulakka, Jussi Vahtera, Sari Stenholm
- 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 MedicineSleep
- Changes in Accelerometer-Measured Sleep during the Transition to Retirement: The Finnish Retirement and Aging (FIREA) study (2020)
- Commuting time to work and behaviour-related health: A fixed-effect analysis (2020)
- Occupational and Environmental Medicine
- Comparison between recent and long-term physical activity levels as predictors of cardiometabolic risk: A cohort study (2020)
- BMJ OpenJournal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour
- Comparison of Sedentary Time Between Thigh-Worn and Wrist-Worn Accelerometers (2020)
- 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
- 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 MedicineJournals of Gerontology, Series A
- Objectively Measured Sedentary Time Before and After Transition to Retirement: The Finnish Retirement and Aging Study (2020)
