List of works by Ossi Rahkonen

10-year trends of educational differences in long sickness absence due to mental disorders

scientific article published on 12 May 2017

A 26-year follow-up study of heavy drinking trajectories from adolescence to mid-adulthood and adult disadvantage.

scientific article published on 26 March 2013

Analysing changes of health inequalities in the Nordic welfare states

scientific article published in August 2002

Angina pectoris: relation of epidemiological survey to registry data

scientific article

Association of sleep duration with weight and weight gain: a prospective follow-up study

scientific article published on 29 December 2010

Association of smoking status with obesity and diabetes among elderly people

scientific article published on 04 December 2006

Associations of childhood circumstances with physical and mental functioning in adulthood.

scientific article published on 27 September 2005

Associations of functional ability with health-related behavior and body mass index among the elderly.

scientific article

Associations of job strain and working overtime with adverse health behaviors and obesity: evidence from the Whitehall II Study, Helsinki Health Study, and the Japanese Civil Servants Study

scientific article

Associations of multiple socio-economic circumstances with physical functioning among Finnish and British employees

scientific article published on 06 December 2008

Associations of psychosocial working conditions with self-rated general health and mental health among municipal employees.

scientific article published on 28 October 2005

Associations of relative weight with subsequent changes over time in insomnia symptoms: a follow-up study among middle-aged women and men.

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Associations of self-rated health with different forms of leisure activities among ageing people.

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Bidirectional associations between insomnia symptoms and unhealthy behaviours

scientific article published on 14 September 2012

Bidirectional longitudinal relationship between leisure-time physical activity and psychotropic medication usage: A register linked follow-up study

scientific article published on 27 November 2016

Change in economic difficulties and physical and mental functioning: Evidence from British and Finnish employee cohorts

scientific article published on 22 April 2013

Changes Over Time in Absolute and Relative Socioeconomic Differences in Smoking: A Comparison of Cohort Studies From Britain, Finland, and Japan

scientific article published on 13 January 2016

Changes and associations in healthy diet among the Finnish elderly, 1985-2001.

scientific article published on July 2003

Changes in Leisure-Time Physical Activity and Subsequent Sickness Absence Due to Any Cause, Musculoskeletal, and Mental Causes

scientific article published on 4 May 2016

Changes in alcohol drinking and subsequent sickness absence

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Changes in economic difficulties and subsequent sickness absence: a prospective register-linkage study

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Changes in healthy food habits after transition to old age retirement

scientific article published on 20 May 2011

Changes in leisure time physical activity and subsequent disability retirement: A register-linked cohort study

scientific article published on 06 September 2016

Changes in leisure-time physical activity after transition to retirement: a follow-up study

scientific article

Changes in leisure-time physical activity and subsequent common mental disorders among ageing employees

scientific article published on 10 March 2017

Changes in leisure-time physical activity and subsequent sickness absence: a prospective cohort study among middle-aged employees

scientific article published on 11 October 2012

Changes in occupational class differences in leisure-time physical activity: a follow-up study

scientific article

Changes in physical and mental health functioning during retirement transition: a register-linkage follow-up study

scientific article published on 6 February 2018

Changes in psychosocial and physical working conditions and common mental disorders

scientific article published on 9 March 2016

Changes in psychosocial and physical working conditions and psychotropic medication in ageing public sector employees: a record-linkage follow-up study

scientific article published on 12 July 2017

Changes in socio-economic differences in food habits over time

scientific article published on 04 May 2011

Changes in socio-economic differences in food habits over time - CORRIGENDUM.

scientific article published in June 2015

Changes in working conditions and major weight gain among normal- and overweight midlife employees

scientific article published on 11 October 2017

Changes in working conditions and physical health functioning among midlife and ageing employees

scientific article published on 3 September 2015

Changes in working conditions and subsequent sickness absence

scientific article published on 22 August 2013

Changes of occupational class differences in physical functioning: a panel study among employees (2000-2007).

scientific article published on 5 October 2010

Childhood adversities and socioeconomic position as predictors of leisure-time physical inactivity in early adulthood

scientific article published on 17 April 2014

Childhood and current determinants of heavy drinking in early adulthood

scientific article published on 25 March 2008

Cohort profile: the Helsinki Health Study

scientific article published on 31 March 2012

Common mental disorders and sickness absence: a register-linkage follow-up study among Finnish municipal employees

scientific article published on 31 January 2018

Complaints of insomnia among midlife employed people: the contribution of childhood and present socioeconomic circumstances

scientific article published in October 2010

Correction to: Obesity, change of body mass index and subsequent physical and mental health functioning: a 12-year follow-up study among ageing employees

scientific article published on 17 October 2017

Determinants of health in early adulthood: what is the role of parental education, childhood adversities and own education?

scientific article published in September 2005

Determinants of health inequalities by income from the 1980s to the 1990s in Finland

scientific article

Different measures of body weight as predictors of sickness absence

scientific article published on 5 December 2012

Do childhood social circumstances affect overweight and obesity in early adulthood?

scientific article published on 13 January 2009

Does social support affect the relationship between socioeconomic status and depression? A longitudinal study from adolescence to adulthood

scientific article published on 27 October 2006

Drinking habits and disability retirement

scientific article published on 10 August 2012

Drinking habits and sickness absence: the contribution of working conditions

scientific article published on 14 October 2009

Drinking, Self-Reported Health and Strenuous Life-Style among Young People in Finland

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Economic difficulties and physical functioning in Finnish and British employees: contribution of social and behavioural factors

scientific article

Economic difficulties and subsequent disability retirement

scientific article published on 23 January 2015

Economic difficulties and subsequent sleep problems: evidence from British and Finnish occupational cohorts

scientific article

Educational differences in disability retirement among young employees in Helsinki, Finland

scientific article published on 17 December 2015

Educational differences in estimated and measured physical fitness

scientific article published on 31 May 2013

Educational differences in sickness absence trends among young employees from 2002 to 2013 in Helsinki, Finland

scientific article published on 6 May 2016

Effects of childhood socio-economic conditions on educational differences in leisure-time physical activity.

scientific article published on 30 November 2009

Eighteen-year trends in obesity among the elderly

scientific article published in November 2004

Erratum to “Economic difficulties and subsequent sleep problems: Evidence from British and Finnish occupational cohorts” [Sleep Med 12 (6) (2012) 680–685]

scholarly article published in Sleep Medicine

Explaining educational differences in sickness absence: a population-based follow-up study

scientific article published on 30 April 2015

Gender differences in sickness absence--the contribution of occupation and workplace.

scientific article published on 9 March 2010

Health behaviours as explanations for educational level differences in cardiovascular and all-cause mortality: a follow-up of 60 000 men and women over 23 years

scientific article published on 14 June 2007

High mortality among people suspected of drunk-driving. An 18-year register-based follow-up

scientific article published on 23 March 2010

Household economic resources, labour-market advantage and health problems - a study on causal relationships using prospective register data

scientific article

Household income and health problems during a period of labour-market change and widening income inequalities - a study among the Finnish population between 1987 and 2007.

scientific article

Influence of material and behavioural factors on occupational class differences in health

scientific article

Influence of parental education, childhood adversities, and current living conditions on daily smoking in early adulthood

scientific article published on 26 April 2006

Insomnia symptoms and mortality: a register-linked study among women and men from Finland, Norway and Lithuania

scientific article

Insomnia symptoms and subsequent cardiovascular medication: a register-linked follow-up study among middle-aged employees

scientific article published on 7 December 2013

Insomnia symptoms and subsequent psychotropic medication: a register-linked study with 5-year follow-up

scientific article published on 19 March 2014

Intentions to retire, life dissatisfaction and the subsequent risk of disability retirement

scientific article published on 29 January 2009

Interrelationships between education, occupational class and income as determinants of sickness absence among young employees in 2002-2007 and 2008-2013.

scientific article

Interrelationships between education, occupational class, income and sickness absence

scientific article published on 20 October 2009

Job control, job demands, or social class? The impact of working conditions on the relation between social class and health

scientific article published on January 2006

Job decision latitude as a potential modifier of the contribution of physical workload to poor functioning in middle-aged employees

Joint association of physical activity and body weight with subsequent physical and mental functioning: a follow-up study.

scientific article

Joint associations of sleep duration and insomnia symptoms with subsequent sickness absence: the Helsinki Health Study

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Joint associations of smoking and physical activity with disability retirement: a register-linked cohort study

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Leisure-time physical activity and all-cause mortality

scientific article

Leisure-time physical activity and direct cost of short-term sickness absence among Finnish municipal employees

scientific article published on 8 March 2016

Leisure-time physical activity and disability retirement: a prospective cohort study

scientific article

Leisure-time physical activity and psychotropic medication: a prospective cohort study

scientific article

Lifestyle Risk Factors Increase the Risk of Hospitalization for Sciatica: Findings of Four Prospective Cohort Studies

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Long working hours and depressive symptoms: systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies and unpublished individual participant data

scientific article published on 8 February 2018

Mental health functioning (SF-36) and intentions to retire early among ageing municipal employees: the Helsinki Health Study.

scientific article published in January 2006

Mental symptoms and cause-specific mortality among midlife employees

scientific article

Mortality and causes of death among drugged drivers

scientific article published on 5 November 2009

Multiple measures of socioeconomic circumstances and common mental disorders.

scientific article published on 9 May 2006

Multiple socioeconomic determinants of weight gain: the Helsinki Health Study

scientific article

Obesity and loss of disease-free years owing to major non-communicable diseases: a multicohort study

article by Solja T Nyberg et al published October 2018 in Lancet Public Health

Obesity and psychotropic medication: a prospective register linkage study among midlife women and men.

scientific article

Obesity, change of body mass index and subsequent physical and mental health functioning: a 12-year follow-up study among ageing employees

scientific article published on 26 September 2017

Occupational Class Differences in Trajectories of Working Conditions in Women.

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Occupational class differences in body mass index and weight gain in Japan and Finland

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Occupational class differences in leisure-time physical inactivity--contribution of past and current physical workload and other working conditions.

scientific article published on 4 December 2009

Occupational class inequalities across key domains of health: results from the Helsinki Health Study.

scientific article published on 13 July 2005

Occupational class inequalities in disability retirement after hospitalisation

scientific article published in August 2017

Occupational social class and disability retirement among municipal employees--the contribution of health behaviors and working conditions

scientific article published on 4 July 2011

Pain and disability retirement: a prospective cohort study

scientific article published in March 2012

Past and present socioeconomic circumstances and psychotropic medication: a register-linkage study

scientific article published on 21 April 2012

Physical and mental health functioning after all-cause and diagnosis-specific sickness absence: a register-linkage follow-up study among ageing employees

scientific article

Physical and psychosocial working conditions as explanations for occupational class inequalities in self-rated health

scientific article published in July 2009

Pre-retirement physical working conditions and changes in physical health functioning during retirement transition process

scientific article published on June 2016

Register-based study among employees showed small nonparticipation bias in health surveys and check-ups.

scientific article published on 16 May 2008

Relative weight and disability retirement: a prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 11 October 2012

Risk factors of sciatic pain: a prospective study among middle-aged employees

scientific article published on 15 December 2010

Secular trends and educational differences in the incidence of type 2 diabetes in Finland, 1972-2007.

scientific article published on 03 April 2015

Self-rated health as a predictor of disability retirement--the contribution of ill-health and working conditions

scientific article

Separate and combined associations of pain and emotional exhaustion with sickness absence

scientific article published on 5 September 2015

Sex differences in child and adolescent mortality by parental education in the Nordic countries

scientific article published on 25 October 2010

Sex differences in child and adolescent mortality in the Nordic countries, 1981--2000.

scientific article published on 13 March 2009

Sex inequalities in physical and mental functioning of British, Finnish, and Japanese civil servants: role of job demand, control and work hours

scientific article

Short sickness absence and subsequent sickness absence due to mental disorders - a follow-up study among municipal employees

scientific article

Sickness absence among young employees: trends from 2002 to 2013.

scientific article published on 31 July 2015

Sickness absence due to different musculoskeletal diagnoses by occupational class: a register-based study among 1.2 million Finnish employees

scientific article published on 30 January 2018

Sickness absence, employment history, and high-risk employees: a 10-year longitudinal study

scientific article published in September 2010

Sleep and sickness absence: a nationally representative register-based follow-up study

scientific article

Sleep complaints in middle-aged women and men: the contribution of working conditions and work-family conflicts

scientific article published on 7 April 2010

Sleep problems and disability retirement: a register-based follow-up study

scientific article

Sleep problems and sickness absence among middle-aged employees

scientific article published on 15 August 2011

Smoking and SF-36 health functioning.

scientific article published on 27 January 2006

Smoking and alcohol consumption among the elderly: trends and associations, 1985-2001.

scientific article

Smoking in context - a multilevel approach to smoking among females in Helsinki.

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Social class differences in health behaviours among employees from Britain, Finland and Japan: The influence of psychosocial factors

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Social class inequalities in health among occupational cohorts from Finland, Britain and Japan: a follow up study

scientific article published on 27 December 2014

Social participation, trust and self-rated health: a study among ageing people in urban, semi-urban and rural settings.

scientific article

Socio-demographic and behavioral variation in barriers to leisure-time physical activity

scientific article published on 21 September 2015

Socio-economic and occupational determinants of work injury absence

scientific article published on 3 December 2012

Socio-economic determinants of drugged driving--a register-based study

scientific article published on 4 May 2011

Sociodemographic and socioeconomic differences in sleep duration and insomnia-related symptoms in Finnish adults

scientific article

Socioeconomic circumstances and common mental disorders among Finnish and British public sector employees: evidence from the Helsinki Health Study and the Whitehall II Study.

scientific article published on 21 May 2007

Socioeconomic differences in health check-ups and medically certified sickness absence: a 10-year follow-up among middle-aged municipal employees in Finland

scientific article published on 02 December 2016

Socioeconomic position and self-rated health: the contribution of childhood socioeconomic circumstances, adult socioeconomic status, and material resources

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Socioeconomic status and smoking: analysing inequalities with multiple indicators.

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Socioeconomic status as a cause and consequence of psychosomatic symptoms from adolescence to adulthood.

scientific article published on 15 July 2005

Statutory retirement and changes in self-reported leisure-time physical activity: a follow-up study with three time-points

scientific article

Subjective social status and health in young people.

scientific article published on 17 January 2011

Substance use as a predictor of driving under the influence (DUI) rearrests. a 15-year retrospective study.

scientific article

Ten year trends in health inequalities among older people, 1993-2003.

scientific article published on 17 July 2009

The Magnitude of Occupational Class Differences in Sickness Absence: 15-Year Trends among Young and Middle-Aged Municipal Employees

scientific article

The Myth of Gender Differences in Health: Social Structural Determinants across Adult Ages in Britain and Finland

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The association between alcohol drinking and self-reported mental and physical functioning: a prospective cohort study among City of Helsinki employees

scientific article published on 4 May 2017

The association between social determinants and drunken driving: a 15-year register-based study of 81,125 suspects

scientific article published on 29 June 2011

The associations between psychosocial working conditions and changes in common mental disorders: a follow-up study

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The associations of household wealth and income with self-rated health – A study on economic advantage in middle-aged Finnish men and women

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The contribution of childhood circumstances, current circumstances and health behaviour to educational health differences in early adulthood

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The contribution of lone parenthood and economic difficulties to smoking

scientific article published on 08 January 2005

The contribution of musculoskeletal disorders and physical workload to socioeconomic inequalities in health

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The contribution of smoking to mortality during working age at different levels of leisure-time physical activity

scientific article published on 9 May 2016

The effect of occupational and workplace gender composition on sickness absence

scientific article published in February 2012

The effect of trust and change in trust on self-rated health: a longitudinal study among aging people.

scientific article published on 10 January 2009

The effects of adolescence sports and exercise on adulthood leisure-time physical activity in educational groups

scientific article

The effects of childhood circumstances, adult socioeconomic status, and material circumstances on physical and mental functioning: a structural equation modelling approach.

scientific article published on 28 March 2007

The impact of physical activity on physical health functioning--a prospective study among middle-aged employees

scientific article published on 23 February 2010

The joint association of sleep duration and insomnia symptoms with disability retirement--a longitudinal, register-linked study

scientific article

The joint associations of smoking and obesity with subsequent short and long sickness absence: a five year follow-up study with register-linkage

scientific article published on 28 December 2017

The joint contribution of cardiovascular disease and socioeconomic status to disability retirement: A register linkage study

scientific article published on 27 December 2016

Trajectories of mental health before and after old-age and disability retirement: a register-based study on purchases of psychotropic drugs

scientific article published on 12 March 2012

Trends and educational disparities in functional capacity among people aged 65-84 years

scientific article published on 24 August 2006

Trends in socioeconomic differences in sickness absence among Finnish municipal employees 1990—99

Understanding Income Inequalities in Health among Men and Women in Britain and Finland

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Unhealthy lifestyle and sleep problems as risk factors for increased direct employers' cost of short-term sickness absence

scientific article published on 4 December 2017

Weight change and sickness absence--a prospective study among middle-aged employees

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Well-being and health behaviour by parental socioeconomic status: a follow-up study of adolescents aged 16 until age 32 years.

scientific article published in May 2003

Work arrangements, physical working conditions, and psychosocial working conditions as risk factors for sickness absence: Bayesian analysis of prospective data

scientific article

Work-family conflicts and drinking behaviours among employed women and men.

scientific article

Work-family conflicts and self-rated health among middle-aged municipal employees in Finland

scientific article published in January 2006

Working conditions and health behaviours among employed women and men: the Helsinki Health Study

scientific article published in January 2004

Working conditions and major weight gain-a prospective cohort study

scientific article published in January 2013

Working conditions as risk factors for disability retirement: a longitudinal register linkage study

scientific article

Workplace bullying and common mental disorders: a follow-up study.

scientific article published on 20 January 2011

Workplace bullying and subsequent psychotropic medication: a cohort study with register linkages

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Workplace bullying and subsequent sleep problems – the Helsinki Health Study

scientific article published on November 30, 2010