Los Pollos Hermanos! 🐓 Our new cohort study published in JECH: Parental death is linked to increased psychotropic medication use in adults (ages 35–55), especially among those with fewer siblings, highlighting the role of family as a support network.
jech.bmj.com/content/earl...
PopHel Talks: Next Monday, 13th of April,
@joandamiens.bsky.social presents with title: Housing pathways and mental health across the life course - evidence from Finnish registers
13th of April, 02:00-02:45 PM (UTC+2)
Please register for a Zoom link: elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...
Earlier #ADHD diagnosis was associated with higher school performance, more academic educational track selection, and reduced risk of school dropout, while later diagnosis indicated greater dropout risk. ja.ma/4sTLI5f
📢 PopHel Newsletter for October 2025 - March 2026 is out! 📰
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New paper out! We found that severe mental disorders are more strongly related to childlessness than common mental health disorders, and that accounting for partnership and partner's mental health partly explains the association.
@flux-consortium.bsky.social
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🚨New paper out in Demographic Research🚨 and my first foray into demographic methods. It develops a new method to quantify how specific subpopulations drive demographic gaps. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
@demresjournal.bsky.social @pophel.bsky.social #demography #methods
“More Education & Fewer Children?”: Beck @juliahellstrand.bsky.social & Myrskyla assess how educ. enrollment/attainment contributed to fertility in Norway, finding that fertility decline is mainly linked to behavioral change. @pophel.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
A new study providing a comprehensive assesment of different behavioral, psychological and social polygenic indices on mortality by @pophel.bsky.social researchers @hlaht.bsky.social, Kaarina Korhonen, Karri Silventoinen and Pekka Martikainen, among others, out in @elife.bsky.social .
Read more: www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-...
PopHel Talks: Next Monday, 2nd of February, @xuzong.bsky.social presents with title: AI in Health Inequality Research - Promises, Challenges, and an Agenda.
2nd of February, 02:00-02:45 PM (UTC+2)
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We led an international effort to analyse changes in the parental socioeconomic composition of babies conceived during the COVID-19 pandemic across 15 countries. The results may have long-term implications for these birth cohorts. Read more here ->
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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PopHel Talks: Next Monday, Elina Einiö will be presenting with title: Gendered housing consequences of divorce - An analysis of marital dyads from different-sex and female same-sex couples 🌈
8th December, 02:00-02:45 PM (UTC+2)
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🎓🎓🎓Congratulations, @philippdierker.bsky.social🎉🎉🎉
He successfully defended his doctoral thesis “Partnership Dynamics and Changes in Health and Well-Being: A Bidirectional Relationship”. His findings are relevant to family sociology, public health, social policy.
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
A new pre-print from @soc-misc.bsky.social project!
We compare the number of self-reported miscarriages to healthcare records in Finland to better understand the quality of #miscarriage data.
More info 👇
My co-authors: Hanna Remes, Lara Lehtoranta, @mccompans.bsky.social, Pekka Martikainen
♻️🧠Thrilled to publish my first sole-authored paper in Socail Science & Medicine. This study revealed the link of childhood indoor air pollution with later-life cognitive health and its mechanisms, using national data and a machine learning approach. @pophel.bsky.social @helsinki.fi
Our new study finds a strong association between voting in elections and subsequent mortality risk.
Not formally open access, unfortunately but the publisher has generously made this (temporarily?) free to read!
doi.org/10.1136/jech...
@pophel.bsky.social members @hlaht.bsky.social, Isa Yang, Lasse Tarkiainen and Pekka Martikainen published apparently the first population-based individual-level survival analysis assessing to what extent voting in an election predicts future mortality.
It strongly does.
doi.org/10.1136/jech...
✝️ Our study found: While religion may help those raised in difficult family environments to cope, it cannot fully offset the health risks associated with childhood adversity (e.g,parental mental health issues). @pophel.bsky.social @helsinki.fi @share-eric.bsky.social
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📣Excited to share that our paper on widowhood, its gender and educational inequalities, and evolution over time in Finland is out now in @readdemography.bsky.social !✨
In “Evolution of Widowhood Lifespan," @morettimarg.bsky.social K Korhonen, @alysonvanraalte.bsky.social @timriffe1.bsky.social & P Martikainen find widowhood is less common & occurs later in life. @pophel.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @opik-ikerketa.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
Research professor Seppo Koskinen, THL, will serve as the opponent, and Pekka Martikainen as the custos.
The dissertation is also available in electronic form in Helda: helda.helsinki.fi/items/0e872e...
📢Doctoral Defence:
Ulla Suulamo - "Long-term trends in mortality differences - Register-based studies in Finland, 1970–2020"
16 October 2025 at 12:00
Address: Porthania, PIII, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki
Research professor Seppo Koskinen, THL, will serve as the opponent, and Pekka Martikainen as the custos.
The dissertation is also available in electronic form in Helda: helda.helsinki.fi/items/0e872e...
PopHel Talks: Next Monday, 13th October, Joonas Pitkänen will be presenting at PopHel Talks on family-based designs in childhood adversity research.
13th October, 02:00-02:45 PM (UTC+2)
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📣 Our new preprint used machine learning across 30 countries to reveal key life-course social determinants of loneliness among older adults. We also developed a Streamlined Loneliness Predictive Model for future applications.
@pophel.bsky.social @share-eric.bsky.social doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🚨Job alert!🚨
Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health is recruiting 2 postdocs. Join our team and investigate social inequalities in health!
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
#postdoc #demography #socialsciences #socialdata
📢 PopHel Newsletter for March - September 2025 is out!! 📰
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