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Joan Damiens
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📊 Demographer Post-doc at @pophel (University of Helsinki) Social inequalities in health and mortality; mental health, housing, intergenerational and longitudinal perspectives.
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Xu Zong @xuzong.bsky.social · 14d
📣 I am seeking postdoctoral or faculty positions starting in 2026. My research focuses on aging, health, and machine learning, and published multiple papers in leading journals. Any opportunities would be appreciated, thank you for sharing! 😊
More about me: researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/x...
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Julia Hellstrand @juliahellstrand.bsky.social · Aug 5
Highly surprised but deeply honored to receive the European Demographer Award. Thank you! Congratulations to fellow awardees @cosmostrozza.bsky.social and @fertdem.bsky.social. See you in Berlin in October?
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Population Europe @populationeu.bsky.social · Aug 5
Proud to announce this year's European Demographer Awards!

They go to Julia Hellstrand @juliahellstrand.bsky.social ‬ (Helsinki), Cosmo Strozza @cosmostrozza.bsky.social (Odense) and Éva Beaujouan @fertdem.bsky.social (Vienna).

More: population-europe.eu/network/news...

Congratulations!
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Natacha Zimmer @natachazimmer.bsky.social · Jul 9
The first paper of my PhD research is out!
Using Belgian national register data, we analyse the influence of the initial reception place on residential trajectories among asylum-seeking migrants.
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DEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · Jul 9
📢New publication from DEMO Members!

Natacha Zimmer (@natachazimmer.bsky.social) and Bruno Schoumaker (@brunoschoumaker.bsky.social) explore internal migration trajectories among #asylum seekers in #Belgium, highlighting how initial reception shapes residential patterns.
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The Journey Beyond Reception: Asylum Seekers’ Internal Migration Trajectories in Belgium
Research on internal migrations of asylum seekers has focused on contexts of stringent dispersal policies and has highlighted that such policies are often not in line with the subsequent settlement o...
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Xu Zong @xuzong.bsky.social · Jul 8
💚 publication in Journal of Affective Disorders! We provided novel evidence of dose-repsonse relationships between childhood adversity and 🦠COVID-19-related mental disorders, also uncovered some protective moderating factors
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Eugenio Paglino @eugeniopaglino.bsky.social · Jun 2
🚨 Another article on health and migration out in Social Science and Medicine! With Pekka Martikainen and Irma Elo, we look at the mortality of internal migrants in Finland
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Internal migration, health selection, and the salmon bias: A register-based study of Finland
Studies on international migrants have repeatedly found a mortality advantage of migrant over native-born populations. Data artifacts, differential pr…
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Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health @pophel.bsky.social · May 26
How homeownership (and possibly its duration) both in teenage years and in the late thirties can be associated with psychotropic medication and hospital visits and specialised care for mental health reasons and self-harm?
Read here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🏠💊🏥
Individual and parental housing tenure and mental healthcare use among Finnish men and women in early mid-adulthood
Homeownership is a valuable status associated with better mental health outcomes than being a tenant. However, research has yet to investigate the rol…
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Joan Damiens @joandamiens.bsky.social · May 22
"If #academia is serious about #equity, it needs to rethink how authorship is assigned."

Authors highlight:
1️⃣"Local researchers should be recognised as intellectual partners"
2️⃣"Marginalised scholars’ work is overlooked"
3️⃣"Encouraging multilingual publications"

#science #demography #inclusivity
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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · May 21
💥New: #Authorship shapes academic careers, but as Joseph Mellors and Stroma Cole of the University of Westminster argue, current practices often reinforce #inequality, overlooking key contributors and marginalising voices from the Global South.

#Publishing #Research ⬇️
Why restrictive academic authorship practices perpetuate inequality - Impact of Social Sciences
Authorship plays a central role in the credibility and career progression of academics. Yet as Joseph Mellors and Stroma Cole argue, restrictive authorship practices risk perpetuating inequalities…
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Eugenio Paglino @eugeniopaglino.bsky.social · May 16
🚨 New article out in Social Science & Medicine!
Irma Elo and I take a deeper look at trends in life expectancy for foreign-born and native-born populations in the United States before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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US-Born and Foreign-born Life Expectancy by Race and Hispanic Origin before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States
Interdisciplinary health scholarship has long documented the lower mortality of the foreign-born compared to the US-born populations. In this study, w…
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Margherita Moretti @morettimarg.bsky.social · May 14
Great to be at #REVES2025 in Tampere 🤓 This morning, I presented on the demography of widowhood in Finland, and we also had an overview of some @pophel.bsky.social works!
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Philippe Bocquier @phbocquier.bsky.social · May 10
A retrospective on fundamental cause theory: State of the literature, and goals for the future
Sean A P Clouston et al. Annu Rev Sociol. 2021 Jul.
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Philippe Bocquier @phbocquier.bsky.social · Apr 30
Nice, my article with Ashira is now fully open access:
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The Potential of Internal Migration to Shape Rural and Urban Populations Across Africa, Asia, and Latin America
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Hud's Bar & Greasy Spoon 🟧 @erikhuddleston.bsky.social · Apr 28
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Damiano Uccheddu @damianouccheddu.bsky.social · Apr 28
On my way to Luxembourg for a month of research, ideas, and collaboration with Prof. @anjaleist.bsky.social (Institute for Research on Socio-Economic Inequality – IRSEI @uni.lu) on how #socialinequalities shape #cognitiveHealth in later life. Can’t wait to get started! #AcademicSky
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Joan Damiens @joandamiens.bsky.social · Apr 24
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The results highlight the role of past and present HO🏡 histories and intergenerational continuities as a central #mentalhealth determinant that is independent of other socioeconomic and demographic factors.

#socialsciences
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Joan Damiens @joandamiens.bsky.social · Apr 24
👩‍👧‍👦During childhood, living with one or both parents is a strong confounder of the relationship.

🏘️Growing up with two parents as tenants also weakens the relationship between housing tenure and mental healthcare use during adulthood.
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Joan Damiens @joandamiens.bsky.social · Apr 24
HO🏡 during youth and adulthood is associated with lower mental healthcare use, independently from #education, income, occupation status, and previous mental healthcare use.

During adulthood, HO🏡 duration does not really matter.
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Joan Damiens @joandamiens.bsky.social · Apr 24
📊 Method: random-effect logit models
Population: Finnish ⛄ National Registers for residents born in 1972–1975, aged 35-41.

Mental healthcare use is measured via:
💊psychotropic medication purchases and
🏥 hospital visits and specialised care for mental health reasons.

#registerdata #Finland
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Joan Damiens @joandamiens.bsky.social · Apr 24
🔄 It is the case for present HO🏡 in the late 30ies, but also for parental HO🏡 during childhood.

#popsky #demography
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Joan Damiens @joandamiens.bsky.social · Apr 24
Is #homeownership (HO🏡) associated with lower mental healthcare use in the late 30ies?

With Liina Junna, Lasse Tarkiainen and Pekka Martikainen, from @helsinki.fi @pophel.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social, we found so!

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📜 SSM - Mental health
Individual and parental housing tenure and mental healthcare use among Finnish men and women in early mid-adulthood
Homeownership is a valuable status associated with better mental health outcomes than being a tenant. However, research has yet to investigate the rol…
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · Apr 23
💡[SPOTLIGHT]💡
Study examines how pregnancy outcomes affect women’s health over time. @aledinal.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social compares the physical health of women who experienced pregnancy losses to those with live births.
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Linda Enroth @lindaenroth.bsky.social · Apr 18
Welcome to the 36th Reves conference 14-16 May in Tampere, Finland.

The full program has been published and the registration is open until 23rd April.

The George Myers lecture will be given by Jean-Marie Robine!

Join us at Tampere hall 🌱
#REVES2025

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Program and instructions | 36th REVES CONFERENCE 2025 | Tampere Universities
36th REVES Meeting 14-16 May 2025 Tampere, Finland
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Eva Beaujouan @fertdem.bsky.social · Apr 1
Demography paper: we explore the link between mental or physical health and fertility desires across the life course. Mental health seems to trigger changes in reproductive goals at young ages (men), physical health becomes more important at older reproductive ages.
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Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · Mar 31
“Self-assessed Physical & Mental Health & Fertility Expectations”: Using HILDA data, Ester Lazzari & Eva Beaujouan @fertdem.bsky.social examine how self-assessed health influences expectations at different stages of men's & women's reproductive life. @univie.ac.at read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
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Joan Damiens @joandamiens.bsky.social · Apr 1
I did not expect it to be true... I'm still disappointed 😞
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Ingrid van Dijk @ingridvandijk.bsky.social · Apr 1
I'm looking for 1-2 doctoral candidates in my ERC-funded project "Relative Health: Long-Run Inequalities in Health and Survival Between Families and Across Generations". These are 4-year, fully funded positions at Lund University. More info: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Doctoral student in Economic History – Inequalities in health and survival
The Department of Economic History is a research-intensive department that employs about 100 people: researchers, teachers, technical/administrative staff, and Ph.D. candidates. The department has a l
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CNRS @cnrs.fr · Mar 31
#CNRSleJournal 📰 En France, les troubles psychiatriques sont la première cause de handicap. Le projet #ProPSY investit dans l’imagerie et les biomarqueurs pour personnaliser les soins et améliorer la prise en charge.
La santé mentale est un enjeu de santé publique !🔍🧠
« Il n’y a pas de santé sans santé mentale »
Pour des diagnostics plus précis et des traitements individualisés, la recherche française en psychiatrie se dote d’un vaste projet, ProPSY, financé sur cinq ans. Ses armes : une imagerie de pointe et...
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