E Lahelma

..The studied psychosocial factors related to work, work-family interface and social relationships did not explain the found class differences in health behaviours...

..We examined the contributions of work arrangements, physical working conditions and psychosocial working conditions to subsequent disability retirement...

..This study examined the associations of workplace bullying with subsequent common mental disorders 5-7 years later, taking account of baseline common mental disorders and several covariates...

..The aim of this study was to examine changes in leisure-time physical activity of moderate and vigorous intensity among ageing employees facing transition to retirement over a follow-up of 5-7 years...

..We also examined whether a set of selected covariates could account for the observed changes...

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..In the future the target groups for prevention of excessive drinking should also include young and less-educated women in all four countries studied...

..This study investigated the associations between SOC and intentions to retire early and whether these associations were explained by socio-economic, psychosocial and work and health related factors...

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..However, in Britain the disadvantaged social position of lone mothers accounts for a greater proportion of their poor health than in Finland...

..e. the subjective, functional and medical domains. Additionally, we examine whether physical or mental workload will affect these inequalities, and whether these effects are specific to particular health indicators...

..While the associations of conventional socioeconomic status measures with common mental disorders were weak and inconsistent, our results highlight the importance of past and present economic difficulties to these disorders...

..Many previous studies on socioeconomic inequalities in health have neglected the causal interdependencies between different socioeconomic indicators. This study examines the pathways between three socioeconomic determinants of ill health...

..Furthermore, the results suggest that a male excess in illhealth is likely to be found with more severe domains of illhealth among elderly people...

..We examined variations in occupational class inequalities in health within four employment sectors and the contribution of working conditions to these inequalities...

..Work-family conflicts are associated with poor health. However, work-family conflicts and health behaviors have been little studied...

..Body height differences were examined by birth cohort, economic difficulties in childhood and adult socioeconomic position in Finland and Sweden...

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..The aim was to examine the association between employment status and health among women and men in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, and analyse whether this association is modified by marital status and parental status...

..To examine associations between seven indicators of socio-economic circumstances and healthy food habits, while taking into account assumed temporal order between these socio-economic indicators...

..We aimed to examine whether working conditions, health-related behaviours and family-related factors explain occupational class differences in medically certified sickness absence...

..This study examined the change in heritability of adult body height across birth cohorts in Finland...

..To study the effects of pain on sickness absence, taking into account physical and psychosocial work load and socio-economic position...

..Among men, the pattern was otherwise similar; however, men with intermediate education differed from those with low education. We conclude that the absolute cost of healthy food is likely to have a role across all income groups...

..To study the socio-demographic determinants of body-height and the bearing of these determinants on the association between body-height and health among Finnish adults...

..High job strain has been linked with cardiovascular outcomes. This study aimed to examine whether job strain is associated with angina pectoris symptoms among British and Finnish non-manual employees...

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..Gender, age and education level predicted exit from the labour market. Among suicide attempters young middle-aged men with low education had the highest risk of unemployment...

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..To examine gender differences in sickness absence spells of various lengths and to explain these differences by health status, working conditions and family-related factors...

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..To study the associations between psychosocial working conditions and weight gain...

..To examine the associations of individual and household income with various health behaviours, before and after adjusting for educational attainment and occupational social class...

..We examined the association of relative weight with individual income at different levels of socioeconomic status among gainfully employed Finnish women and men...

..To examine the associations between sleep problems and major weight gain during a 5- to 7-year follow-up among middle-aged women and men...

..The results suggest that vigorous physical activity is associated with sickness absence and may contribute to better work ability...

..To compare the age pattern of educational health inequalities in four Nordic countries in the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s...

..The gender differences in these associations were examined...

..SOC was related to negative changes in people's environment. Initially strong SOC was not more stable than initially mediocre or weak SOC. Men and women reacted quite similarly to negative life events...

..The correlation of genetic factors between these two characteristics was not statistically significant. The results suggest that the association between body height and education is due mainly to nongenetic family factors...

..Socio-economic health inequalities are well documented, but efforts to explain health inequalities are less. However, previous studies suggest that working conditions provide potential explanations for inequalities in health...

..To examine the associations of mental health functioning (SF-36) and work and family related psychosocial factors with intentions to retire early...

..How this relates to changes in health inequalities is in the focus of this supplement...

..To assess the relation between self rated health and mortality over a period of 23 years, taking into account medical history, cardiovascular risk factors, and education at the beginning of the follow up...

..To study the associations of sociodemographic factors, working conditions, lifestyle and previous pain in the spine with new onset chronic neck pain (NP)...

..In conclusion, in particular family to work conflicts, but also work to family conflicts, are clear determinants of women's sleep medication...

..To assess the extent of lung cancer mortality differentials by education while adjusting for exposure to tobacco smoke and asbestos based on survey questions...

..It was found that non-employed women without a partner are likely to have poor health. In order to reduce inequalities in health among women, more efforts should be put on promoting health among these groups...

..The aim of this study was to analyse and compare the social patterning of relative weight and obesity by occupational status, educational attainment and marital status between Danish and Finnish women and men...

..The stronger contribution of environmental factors to body-height among women questions the hypothesis that women are better buffered against environmental stress, at least for this phenotype...

..In conclusion, both past and present economic disadvantage is associated with various aspects of food insecurity. The association between food insecurity and BMI is curvilinear...

..There was little or no change in the prevalence of ill health during the time period studied. Despite social and economic changes differences in health remained broadly stable in the examined countries...

..This study examined the associations of key dimensions of socioeconomic status and long sickness absence spells as well as their changes over time from 1990 to 1999...

..To examine whether physical activity contributes to physical health functioning five to seven years later among middle-aged employees...

..To examine the predictive value of intentions to retire early on the process of disability retirement and the contribution of life dissatisfaction to the association between intentions to retire early and disability retirement...

..An increase in the use of general practitioner services for children has taken place since the 1980s in the Nordic countries, but little is known about the use of dental services during this time...

..In conclusion, job strain and working overtime had some, albeit mostly weak and inconsistent, associations with adverse health behaviors and obesity in these middle-aged white-collar employee cohorts from Britain, Finland, and Japan...

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..Future studies would benefit from a broad psychosocial framework. Investments to healthier psychosocial working environments are needed to tackle pain related problems among employees...

..To determine which work arrangements, physical working conditions, and psychosocial working conditions are important risk factors for sickness absence...

..Furthermore, we examined whether the contribution of occupation is related to different distributions of female and male jobs across the social class hierarchy...

..Conditions associated with long-term accumulation of material welfare may be a significant aspect of the causal processes that lead to socioeconomic inequalities in ill health...

..This study therefore aimed to examine the associations of both past and present socioeconomic circumstances with complaints of insomnia...

..However, previous studies have not paid attention to mutual interrelationships between these socio-economic position measures and medically confirmed sickness absence...

..Another aim was to examine whether psychosocial and physical working conditions and work arrangements explain these associations...

..The aim of this study was to examine different domains of health functioning as predictors of sickness absence...

..The associations between workplace bullying and subsequent sleep problems are poorly understood. This study aims to address this evidence gap...

..Sleep complaints need to be taken into account in worksite health promotion and occupational health care in order to reduce the burden of poor sleep...

..This study compared the associations of past and present socio-economic circumstances with physical functioning between employees from Finland and Britain...

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..We examine the associations between various socioeconomic circumstances and common mental disorders among middle-aged Finnish and British public sector employees...

..We sought to examine the importance of childhood circumstances, adult socioeconomic status, and material circumstances to physical and mental functioning among middle-aged women and men...

..The study examines sociodemographic variation in associations and co-occurrence of health behaviours that contribute to multifactorial chronic diseases...

..In addition, the effect of occupational class on these associations is examined...

..These circumstances provide detailed information on the association of childhood circumstances with adult functioning over and above parental education...

..We examined socioeconomic inequalities in self-rated health by analyzing indicators of childhood socioeconomic circumstances, adult socioeconomic position, and current material resources...

..Chronic pain was relatively common in this population, and those with older age, lower education and occupational class appear to be at excess risk for chronic pain, especially for disabling chronic pain...

..While previous studies have mostly relied on one socioeconomic indicator at a time, this study examined socioeconomic differences in smoking by using several indicators that reflect different dimensions of socioeconomic position...

..To examine material and behavioural factors as explanations for occupational class differences in health, while taking into account the interrelations between these two groups of factors...

..To examine socioeconomic differences in obesity using several different socioeconomic indicators, ranging from childhood socioeconomic environment and adult socioeconomic status to material resources and economic satisfaction...

..Disparities in body mass index (BMI) between persons with different educational levels in Western countries are well documented, but the background of these education-associated disparities remains poorly understood...

..e. childhood living conditions, work and family life, and social relationships, with sense of coherence (SOC) among Finnish men and women. A particular interest was devoted to interactions between sex and GRR...

..This is exemplified by the lack of health inequalities among employed Japanese women...

..91, 95% CI=1.02-15.02). Indicators of socioeconomic status were important predictors of smoking cessation even when we adjusted for previous smoking behavior. For men, marriage was associated with an increased probability of cessation..

..Except for cereals and dark bread, these results remained statistically significant in the fully adjusted model. The results suggest that poor mental health is associated with unhealthy food habits...

..The aim of this study was to analyse whether unfavourable working conditions are associated with diet, physical activity, alcohol consumption, and smoking...

..The objective of this study was to investigate socioeconomic inequalities in work ability among municipal employees and the contribution of work conditions to these inequalities...

..The aim of this study was to examine sociodemographic determinants of multiple unhealthy behaviours, with special reference to independent and combined effects of the determinants...

..To examine the relationship between work-family conflicts and drinking behaviours among women and men, and to discover whether the relationship remains the same after taking into account family structure and socio-economic status...

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..This study examined the effects of pain on employees' health related functioning by bodily locations of pain, number of painful locations, and whether pain was acute or chronic...

..An important challenge for further research is to identify environmental influences contributing to self-rated health independently of, or in interaction with, genetic factors...

..The objective of the study was to examine whether the association of physical workload with musculoskeletal disorders might explain occupational social class inequalities in self-rated health...

..This study investigated (1) the level of sense of coherence (SOC), (2) the structure of generalized resistance resources (GRRs), and (3) associations of GRRs with SOC among Finnish- and Swedish-speaking Finns...

..The association remained after adjusting for sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors. This study shows that a better balance between family life and work outside the home would probably have a health promoting effect...

..To examine the associations of mental health functioning with intentions to retire early among ageing municipal employees...

..This study aimed to examine whether psychosocial working conditions are associated with angina pectoris (AP) symptoms in women...

..This study examines the relationship between family-work conflicts with food habits and physical activity, and whether the relationship is dependent on family structure and work-related factors...

..To examine the association between smoking and general health as measured by the Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) questionnaire...