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Sakari Karvonen
Researcher at National Institute for Health and Welfare
Publications - 112
Citations - 2001
Sakari Karvonen is an academic researcher from National Institute for Health and Welfare. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Public health. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 103 publications receiving 1828 citations. Previous affiliations of Sakari Karvonen include National Institutes of Health & University of Helsinki.
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Socioeconomic status and smoking: analysing inequalities with multiple indicators.
TL;DR: Attempts to reduce smoking among the socioeconomically disadvantaged need to target several dimensions of socioeconomic position, including education, occupational status, household income per consumption unit, housing tenure, economic difficulties and economic satisfaction.
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Socio-regional context as a determinant of adolescents' health behaviour in Finland.
Sakari Karvonen,Arja Rimpelä +1 more
TL;DR: This study shows that socio-regional context associates with adolescents' alcohol use and use of high milk fat products, while the more detailed nature of this relationship remains unclear.
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Social mobility and health related behaviours in young people.
TL;DR: Achieved social position proved to determine health related behaviours more strongly than class of origin, thus emphasising the way education facilitates both health values and behaviours as well as the future social position.
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The role of school context in the increase in young people's health complaints in Finland.
TL;DR: The study suggests that young people's psychosocial health involves a range of influences deriving from individual susceptibility and from the social and educational functioning of schools, however, none of these factors can account for the rapid decrease in young people’s psychossocial health.
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Smoking and SF-36 health functioning.
TL;DR: As heavy smokers more often report limitations with daily activities as well as loss of well-being, these impairments potentially provide valuable incentives for non-smoking to be used in health education messages and interventions.