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Pekka Martikainen
Researcher at University of Helsinki
Publications - 534
Citations - 22923
Pekka Martikainen is an academic researcher from University of Helsinki. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Socioeconomic status. The author has an hindex of 80, co-authored 484 publications receiving 20628 citations. Previous affiliations of Pekka Martikainen include University College London & Karolinska Institutet.
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Pathways between socioeconomic determinants of health
TL;DR: Analyses of the predictive power of socioeconomic indicators on health run the risk of being fruitless, if interrelations between various indicators are neglected.
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What does self rated health measure? Results from the British Whitehall II and French Gazel cohort studies
Archana Singh-Manoux,Pekka Martikainen,Jane E. Ferrie,Marie Zins,Michael Marmot,Marcel Goldberg +5 more
TL;DR: Measures of mental and physical health status contribute most to the SRH construct and the part played by age, early life factors, family history, sociodemographic variables, psychosocial factors, and health behaviours in these two occupational cohorts is modest.
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Excess mortality of unemployed men and women during a period of rapidly increasing unemployment
TL;DR: It is found that the association between unemployment and mortality weakens as the general unemployment rate increases, and studies that took place when the unemployment rate was low may overestimate the effect of unemployment on mortality because of unaccounted confounding.
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Is retirement good or bad for mental and physical health functioning? Whitehall II longitudinal study of civil servants
TL;DR: The study found that retirement at age 60 had no effects on physical health functioning and, if anything, was associated with an improvement in mental health, particularly among high socioeconomic status groups.
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Psychosocial determinants of health in social epidemiology
TL;DR: The definition of ‘psychosocial’ and the collection of articles in this issue reflect choices made by the IJE's editors, and it is possible that some of the articles’ authors are surprised to find that their work has been branded as using a psychosocial approach to epidemiology.