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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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Employment security and health

TL;DR: The association of low perceived security with psychological distress was significantly stronger in permanent employees than among fixed term and subsidised employees, indicating that perceived security is more important for mental health among employees with a permanent contract.
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Sickness absence as a risk marker of future disability pension: the 10-town study

TL;DR: Disability retirements from the end of the assessment period for municipal employees who had a job contract lasting a minimum of three full consecutive years between 1 January 1990 and 31 December 2000 are determined.
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Job Strain as a Risk Factor for Leisure-Time Physical Inactivity: An Individual-Participant Meta-Analysis of Up to 170,000 Men and Women: The IPD-Work Consortium

TL;DR: The authors combined individual-level data from 14 European cohort studies to examine the association between favorable work characteristics and leisure-time physical inactivity in a total of 170,162 employees, and suggest that unfavorable work characteristics may have a spillover effect on leisure- time physical activity.
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Temporary Employment and Risk of Overall and Cause-specific Mortality

TL;DR: Findings suggest that the conventional research practice of treating the employed as a single group may attenuate the associations between employment status and mortality.