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Health and mortality, population ageing, social disadvantage, family dynamics. @University of Helsinki. https://www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-institute-demography-and-population-health

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Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health @pophel.bsky.social · May 14

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Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health (PopHel) | 59 followers on LinkedIn. At the Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health (PopHel) we study health and mortality, popu...

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Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health @pophel.bsky.social · 23h

🚨Job alert!🚨

Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health is recruiting 2 postdocs. Join our team and investigate social inequalities in health!

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#postdoc #demography #socialsciences #socialdata

Two Postdoctoral Researchers on Health Inequalities

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Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health @pophel.bsky.social · 1d

📢 PopHel Newsletter for March - September 2025 is out!! 📰
To receive our newsletter you can subscribe to our mailing list by sending an email to [email protected] 📩
You will also receive information on upcoming public talks 👩‍🏫 and open positions at PopHel‼️

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PopHel Newsletter | Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health | University of Helsinki

This newsletter shares our research activities at the Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health (PopHel).

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Xu Zong @xuzong.bsky.social · 6d

🚆🚀 Thrilled to share our paper has been published in Social Science & Medicine, as well as my second paper in this journal. We first reveal the olders' cognitive health externalities of high-speed rail and related mechanisms using ML causal approach and national data. @pophel.bsky.social

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INVEST Research Flagship Centre @invest-flagship.bsky.social · 13d

🔥Suomi rakentaa maailman parasta rekisteritutkimuksen
alustaa!

#FIRE syntyy #FIONA juurille yhteistyössä @utu.fi @stat.fi @aalto.fi i @uniuef.bsky.social @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social @vatt-tutkimus.bsky.social @helsinki.fi #Tampereenyliopisto

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#rekisteritutkimus

FIRE-hanke tehostaa suomalaista rekisteritutkimusta vahvistaen sen kansainvälistä asemaa - INVEST

Suomeen rakennetaan uusi FIRE-infrastruktuuri vauhdittamaan ihmisten elämästä kertovien rekistereiden käyttöä tutkimuksessa. FIRE kehittää rekisteriaineistoja, kouluttaa tutkijoita rekisteriaineistoje...

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Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health @pophel.bsky.social · 15d

Associate Professor Mauricio Avendano, University of Lausanne, will serve as the opponent, and Pekka Martikainen as the custos.

The dissertation is also available in electronic form in Helda. helda.helsinki.fi/items/a8641e...

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Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health @pophel.bsky.social · 15d

📢Doctoral Defence:

Juha Luukkonen: Alcohol Reforms and Health - Register studies about exposure to changing alcohol policies in adolescence and pregnancy

26 September 2025 at 12:00

University Main Building, room 3003 (Tekla Hultin), Fabianinkatu 33.

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University of Helsinki @helsinki.fi · 19d

Nuorempana alkoholia laillisesti ostaneet henkilöt ovat sairastuneet ja kuolleet kroonisiin alkoholiperäisiin sairauksiin useammin kuin henkilöt, jotka saivat laillisesti ostaa alkoholia 21–vuotiaana.

Nuoruudessa koettu alkoholipolitiikka yhteydessä myöhempään terveyteen | Helsingin yliopisto

Vapaammalle alkoholipolitiikalle nuoruudessaan altistuneet henkilöt olivat keski-ikään mennessä sairastuneet ja kuolleet alkoholiperäisiin sairauksiin useammin kuin tiukemmalle alkoholipolitiikalle nu...

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Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health @pophel.bsky.social · 19d

New study in European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry by Lotta Volotinen, Hanna Remes, Pekka Martikainen and Niina Metsä-Simola found that low parental education is more strongly associated with increased ADHD diagnosis only in families without identified history of ADHD.

Read more: rdcu.be/eG9eY

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Olivia McEvoy @olivia-mcevoy.bsky.social · 21d

Co-convenor of my first symposium at #SLLS2025 @sllshome.bsky.social "Leveraging Nordic Register Data to Study Health Inequalities" with my colleagues at @pophel.bsky.social and presented forthcoming research on peer influence on substance use, which uses the biological linking within registry data.

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Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health @pophel.bsky.social · 21d

Our symposium from #SLLS2025 @sllshome.bsky.social consisted of research from Shubh Sharma @eugeniopaglino.bsky.social @olivia-mcevoy.bsky.social mcevoy.bsky.social @moberndorfer.bsky.social orfer.bsky.social Lauren Bishop and registry data expertise from Hanna Remes.
Thanks to all who attended!

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Lotta Lintunen @lintuslotta.bsky.social · Sep 5

New winds are blowing 🌬⛵️
After submitting my PhD at @eui-sps.bsky.social this summer, I've started working at the MaxHel @pophel.bsky.social. Grateful for my new colleagues who make every lunch break memorable—like sailing together yesterday! Ready to embrace new horizons in my academic journey.

A photo from a sailing boat with Helsinki in sight.

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Xu Zong @xuzong.bsky.social · Sep 3

👶➡️🧑‍🦳 Our study shows that adverse childhood circumstances such as lack of friendships, poor housing, increase the risk of 💔 suicidal thoughts in later life, highlighting the need for a lifespan approach to suicide prevention. @pophel.bsky.social @share-eric.bsky.social www.helsinki.fi/en/news/fair...

Lack of childhood friendships linked to suicidal thoughts in over-50s | University of Helsinki

An international University of Helsinki study has found that adverse childhood circumstances increase the risk of suicidal ideation in later life.

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FLUX @flux-consortium.bsky.social · Sep 1

❔ Miten perhevapaiden käyttö jakautuu?
❔ Miten ne vaikuttavat äitien työmarkkina-asemaan? Entä vanhempien, lasten ja perheiden hyvinvointiin?
❔ Miten perhevapaita pitäisi uudistaa?

📅 to 18.9. klo 12-16
🗺️ Helsingin yliopisto, Juhlasali 303

#perhevapaat #syntyvyys

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Perhevapaat 2020-luvulla: vaikutukset ja uudistustarpeet - Flux Consortium

Torstaina 18.9.2025 klo 12.00–16.00 Helsingin yliopisto, Juhlasali 303 (Unioninkatu 33, Helsinki) Suomessa perhevapaat jakautuvat yhä epätasaisesti, ja järjestelmä kaipaa uudistamista....

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Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health @pophel.bsky.social · Aug 27

Professor Stefanie Möllborn, Stockholm University, will serve as the opponent, and Mikko Myrskylä as the custos.

The dissertation is also available in electronic form in Helda.
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Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health @pophel.bsky.social · Aug 27

Philipp Dierker will defend the doctoral dissertation in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, on 29 August 2025 at 13:00. The public examination will take place at the following address: Metsätalo, B116 (sali 1), Unioninkatu 40.

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Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health @pophel.bsky.social · Aug 27

📢Doctoral Defence:

Philipp Christian Dierker: Partnership dynamics and changes in health and well-being - A bidirectional relationship

29 August 2025 at 13:00

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Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health @pophel.bsky.social · Aug 27

- Parental vaccination status played a major role in the association, possibly indicating general vaccine hesitancy 🩺

- The Finnish Medical Journal (in Finnish): www.laakarilehti.fi/e45360

Koronarokotteet yleisempiä koulutettujen vanhempien lapsilla

Tutkijan mukaan matalasti koulutetuista perheistä tulevien jääminen ilman rokotesuojaa uhkaa kasvattaa eriarvoisuutta.

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Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health @pophel.bsky.social · Aug 27

- The socioeconomic gradient in adolescents' COVID-19 vaccine uptake in 2022 ranged from less than 60% among children with the lowest educated parents to over 90% among children with the highest educated parents 🧒

Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health @pophel.bsky.social · Aug 26

Parental education and income strongly predicted adolescents' COVID-19 vaccine uptake 💉 A new study by Sanni Variskallio et al. out now in Vaccine: doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

Odds ratios of having received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine among adolescents aged 12–17 years by parental education, 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2022.

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Eugenio Paglino @eugeniopaglino.bsky.social · Aug 11

New study 🚨 out in @jama.com! We find that California wildfires🔥in January may have contributed 440 excess deaths in Los Angeles County. This estimate significantly exceeds the 30 direct fatalities linked to these events jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @pophel.bsky.social @helsinki.fi

Excess Deaths Attributable to the Los Angeles Wildfires From January 5 to February 1, 2025

This study aims to estimate the number of excess deaths attributable to the Los Angeles wildfires using an interrupted time series design.

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · Aug 25

Out-of-Home Care for Children in Finland Has Doubled Since 1993! Scientists @mpidr.bsky.social & @helsinki.fi analyzed how the risk of Finnish children being placed in out-of-home care has evolved. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/ohc
‪A.Hiilamo, J.Pitkänen, @morettimarg.bsky.social P.Martikainen, M.Myrskylä

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FLUX @flux-consortium.bsky.social · Aug 6

📊 Are you interested in fertility trends in different countries? Try FLUX's new web application!

🔍 The application uses high-quality demographic data and automatically updates with the latest available information.

#demography #fertility

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New Web Application Launch: Explore Fertility Trends Across Countries from 1891 to 2023 - Flux Consortium

We are excited to announce the release of our new interactive web application, “Fertility Statistics Visualization Tool (1891–2023)”, now available...

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Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health @pophel.bsky.social · Aug 7

> Socioeconomic factors explained only a modest share of these differences and their growth.

Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health @pophel.bsky.social · Aug 7

> Mortality declined across all living arrangements over the past 30 years in Finland, with absolute differences between groups generally narrowing.

> Relative mortality differences mostly widened, especially between those living alone and those living with a partner.

Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health @pophel.bsky.social · Aug 7

📢New article by Ulla Suulamo, Hanna Remes, Lasse Tarkiainen, Pekka Martikainen:

How have mortality differences by living arrangements changed during a time of major shifts in household patterns, with fewer two-parent families and more people living alone?🏘️

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Directly age-standardized mortality rates (per 1000 person-years) by living arrangements, gender, age group, and period; age adjustment using person-years among men and women in the broad age group across all periods as the standard for men and women aged 30 and over.

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