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Vesa Saaristo

Researcher at National Institutes of Health

Publications -  36
Citations -  155

Vesa Saaristo is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Service provider & Organization development. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 35 publications receiving 135 citations. Previous affiliations of Vesa Saaristo include National Institute for Health and Welfare.

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From childhood socio-economic position to adult educational level - do health behaviours in adolescence matter? A longitudinal study

TL;DR: The pathway from health behaviours in adolescence to adult education runs through school career and the interplay between behaviours and educational pathways in adolescence is suggested as one of the mechanisms leading to health inequalities in adulthood.
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Access to a school health nurse and adolescent health needs in the universal school health service in Finland.

TL;DR: Students with lower socio‐economic background, poorer well‐being at school, lack of support for studying and greater health needs reported difficult access more often, raising concern about equality and unmet health needs in school health services.
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Quality of the contraceptive service structure: A pilot study in Finnish health centre organisations

TL;DR: In the majority of the HCOs involved, the quality of service structure was rated average, but there was much variation between the H COs, and the results of the multivariate analysis emphasise the importance of good management of services.

Access to a school health nurse and adolescent health needs in the universal school health service in Finland

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the differences in access to school health nurse between service providers, schools, students' characteristics and school health resources and found that students with lower socio-economic background, poorer well-being at school, lack of support for studying and greater health needs reported difficult access more often.