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Jussi Vahtera
Researcher at Turku University Hospital
Publications - 680
Citations - 43694
Jussi Vahtera is an academic researcher from Turku University Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Cohort study. The author has an hindex of 109, co-authored 646 publications receiving 38715 citations. Previous affiliations of Jussi Vahtera include Finnish Institute of Occupational Health & University of Turku.
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Work stress and health in primary health care physicians and hospital physicians
TL;DR: Job strain and heavy workload outweigh the attractiveness of a good working climate and low organisational injustice in relation to the current recruitment crisis in primary health care and the studied working conditions.
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Antidepressant use before and after the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes: a longitudinal modeling study
Mika Kivimäki,Adam G. Tabak,Debbie A Lawlor,G. David Batty,Archana Singh-Manoux,Markus Jokela,Marianna Virtanen,Paula Salo,Tuula Oksanen,Jaana Pentti,Daniel R. Witte,Jussi Vahtera +11 more
TL;DR: In incident cancer case subjects, antidepressant use substantially increased after the cancer diagnosis, demonstrating that the analysis was sensitive for detecting long-term changes in antidepressant trajectories when they existed.
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Increased sickness absence in diabetic employees: what is the role of co-morbid conditions?
TL;DR: The contribution of co‐morbidity to the association of diabetes with increased risk of sickness absence in working populations was examined.
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Socioeconomic Inequalities in Disability-free Life Expectancy in Older People from England and the United States: A Cross-national Population-Based Study.
Paola Zaninotto,George David Batty,Sari Stenholm,Ichiro Kawachi,Martin Hyde,Marcel Goldberg,Hugo Westerlund,Jussi Vahtera,Jenny Head +8 more
TL;DR: In both countries, efforts in reducing health inequalities should target people from disadvantaged socioeconomic groups, becauseequalities in healthy life expectancy exist in both countries and are of similar magnitude.
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Does Sickness Absence Due to Psychiatric Disorder Predict Cause-specific Mortality? A 16-Year Follow-up of the GAZEL Occupational Cohort Study
Maria Melchior,Jane E. Ferrie,Kristina Alexanderson,Marcel Goldberg,Mika Kivimäki,Archana Singh-Manoux,Jussi Vahtera,Hugo Westerlund,Marie Zins,Jenny Head +9 more
TL;DR: People absent due to psychiatric disorder were at increased risk of cause-specific mortality and could help identify individuals at risk of premature mortality and serve to monitor workers’ health.