Puska PekkaSummaryAffiliation: World Health Organization Country: Switzerland Publications
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Commentary: Physical activity promotion in primary careP Puska
World Health Organization, NCD Prevention and Health Promotion, Geneva, Switzerland
Int J Epidemiol 31:815-7. 2002- Influencing public nutrition for non-communicable disease prevention: from community intervention to national programme--experiences from FinlandPuska Pekka
Department of Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Public Health Nutr 5:245-51. 2002..This paper discusses the experiences of the North Karelia Project in the light of needs from the less-industrialised countries and makes some general recommendations... - WHO's strategy on nutrition and noncommunicable diseases preventionP Puska
Noncommunicable Diseases Prevention and Health Promotion, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
IARC Sci Publ 156:519-21. 2002 - [Primary prevention of non-communicable diseases. Experiences from population based intervention in Finland for the global work of WHO]P Puska
National Public Health Institute, Mannerheimintie 166, 00300 Helsinki, Finnland
Z Kardiol 93:II37-42. 2004..In the last few years WHO has started to up-grade its work to fight noncommunicable diseases. Some initiatives are presented and discussed... - Soy in hypercholesterolaemia: a double-blind, placebo-controlled trialP Puska
North Karelia Project, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Eur J Clin Nutr 56:352-7. 2002..To study whether Abacor, a product based on isolated soy protein with high and standardised levels of isoflavones and cotyledon soy fibres, was more effective in lowering total and LDL cholesterol than placebo... - Smoking trends in hypertensive and normotensive Finns during 1982-1997M Kastarinen
Department of Public Health and General Practice, University of Kuopio, Finland
J Hum Hypertens 16:299-303. 2002..In the future, the methods used for smoking cessation advice given by health care personnel should be intensified to make this effort more effective... - Determinants and predictors of heavy alcohol consumption among aging Finnish menS L Kivela
University of Oulu, Dept of Public Health, Finland
Compr Gerontol B 2:103-9. 1988..Drinking and smoking habits were closely related in these aging or aged men... - The Finnish evidence-based guideline for open-angle glaucomaA Tuulonen
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Oulu, FIN-90014 Oulu, Finland
Acta Ophthalmol Scand 81:3-18. 2003..The important risk factors in glaucoma are elevated IOP (even if IOP is within normal range in half of patients ), age, positive family history, exfoliation, race and myopia... 
Rethinking the terms non-communicable disease and chronic diseaseM Ackland
Health Surveillance and Evaluation Section, Department of Human Services, Level 18, 120 Spencer Street, Melbourne 3000, Australia
J Epidemiol Community Health 57:838-9. 2003- Validation of self reported smoking by serum cotinine measurement in a community-based studyE Vartiainen
National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
J Epidemiol Community Health 56:167-70. 2002..The validity of self reported smoking in population surveys remains an important question. An associated question is what would be the value of measuring serum cotinine concentrations in such surveys to obtain validated smoking data... - East-west differences in reported preventive practices. A comparative study of six European areas of the WHO-CINDI programmeH Pardell
CINDI-Catalonia Programme, Department of Health and Social Security, Autonomous Government of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Eur J Public Health 11:393-6. 2001..CONCLUSIONS: Major differences have been found in reported preventive practices between Eastern and Western European countries. Great potential exists for chronic disease prevention among them... - Socioeconomic status and ischemic stroke: The FINMONICA Stroke RegisterD Jakovljevic
KTL National Public Health Institute, Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, Helsinki, Finland
Stroke 32:1492-8. 2001..The purpose of the present study was to examine the association of socioeconomic status with ischemic stroke. Besides mortality, we analyzed the incidence, case-fatality ratio, and prognosis of ischemic stroke events... - Distribution and prevalence of major risk factors of noncommunicable diseases in selected countries: the WHO Inter-Health ProgrammeX Berrios
Department of Public Health, Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Bull World Health Organ 75:99-108. 1997..Reported here are the mean values of blood pressure, body mass index, and serum total cholesterol as well as specific prevalences of smoking, hypertension, obesity, and hypercholesterolaemia... - Changes in premature deaths in Finland: successful long-term prevention of cardiovascular diseasesP Puska
Division of Health and Chronic Diseases, National Public Health Institute of Finland, Helsinki, Finland
Bull World Health Organ 76:419-25. 1998..These results show that a major reduction in CVD mortality among the working-age population can take place in association with active reduction of major risk factors, with a favourable impact on cancer and all-causes mortality... - Trends in cigarette smoking in 36 populations from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s: findings from the WHO MONICA ProjectA Molarius
National Public Health Institute (KTL, Helsinki, Finland
Am J Public Health 91:206-12. 2001..CONCLUSIONS: These data illustrate the evolution of the smoking epidemic in populations and provide the basis for targeted public health interventions to support the WHO priority for tobacco control... - Smoking cessation between teenage years and adulthoodM Paavola
Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, National Public Health Institute, Mannerheimintie 166, 00300 Helsinki, Finland
Health Educ Res 16:49-57. 2001..001). One-third of all teenage smokers stop smoking before the age of 28, averaging a 2.3% annual decline. Cessation is greater among occasional than daily smokers and greater overall among females... - Do health behaviour and psychosocial risk factors explain the European east-west gap in health status?M Laaksonen
National Public Health Institute, Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, Mannerheimintie 166, FIN 00300 Helsinki, Finland
Eur J Public Health 11:65-73. 2001..Health behaviour and psychosocial factors have been suggested to be important contributors to East-West differences in mortality and health status... - Socioeconomic differences in the incidence, mortality and prognosis of intracerebral hemorrhage in Finnish Adult Population. The FINMONICA Stroke RegisterD Jakovljevic
Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Neuroepidemiology 20:85-90. 2001..12, 95% confidence interval 1.02-4.40). In conclusion, marked socioeconomic differences were found in the incidence and mortality of ICH, in particular among working aged men... - Attitudes towards war, killing, and punishment of children among young people in Estonia, Finland, Romania, the Russian Federation, and the USAA McAlister
University of Texas Houston School of Public Health, Houston, TX, USA
Bull World Health Organ 79:382-7. 2001..CONCLUSION: The results confirm the gap between the US and European groups in moral disengagement attitudes and tendencies that could lead to deadly violence... - Socioeconomic inequalities in the incidence, mortality and prognosis of subarachnoid hemorrhage: the FINMONICA Stroke RegisterD Jakovljevic
KTL National Public Health Institute, Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, Helsinki, Finland
Cerebrovasc Dis 12:7-13. 2001..In conclusion, there is a clear excess mortality and morbidity of SAH in young individuals with low income, particularly among men... 
Enhancing global capacity in the surveillance, prevention, and control of chronic diseases: seven themes to consider and build uponB C K Choi
Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Government of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
J Epidemiol Community Health 62:391-7. 2008..With increasing human progress and technological advance, the pandemic of chronic diseases will become an even bigger threat to global health...