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Anja Taanila is affiliated with the University of Oulu in Finland. Their research spans multiple areas within the social sciences and psychology, with particular attention to health-related topics in adolescence and childhood, as well as broader psychosocial and emotional development.

The scientist has published extensively in the fields of social sciences, with seven publications, and psychology, with five publications. Their work highlights several subfields including health, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, clinical psychology, sociology and political science, and general health professions.

Main topics of research addressed by Anja Taanila include:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Adolescent and pediatric healthcare
  • Childhood cancer survivors' quality of life
  • Child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development
  • Family support in illness
  • Child and adolescent health
  • Children's physical and motor development

Their frequently published works appear in venues such as:

  • Sosiaalilääketieteellinen Aikakauslehti
  • European Journal of Pediatrics
  • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
  • BMJ Military Health
  • BMC Public Health

Recent scholarly papers authored or co-authored by Anja Taanila include:

  • Childhood chronic condition and subsequent self-reported internalizing and externalizing problems in adolescence: a birth cohort study, 2022, European Journal of Pediatrics
  • Parental separation and offspring morbidity in adulthood: a descriptive study of the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966, 2021, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
  • Entanglements of loneliness and mental ill health among young adult women, 2020, International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being
  • Physical activity, social-communicative skills and fitness for military service, 2023, BMJ Military Health
  • Association between childhood family structure and longitudinal health behaviour changes in adulthood - Northern Finland birth cohort 1966 study, 2024, BMC Public Health

Frequent collaborators of Anja Taanila are:

  • Tuula Hurtig
  • Heidi Varis
  • Maria Hagnäs
  • Ilona Mikkola
  • Tanja Nordström

Best Publications

  • Maternal adiposity prior to pregnancy is associated with ADHD symptoms in offspring: evidence from three prospective pregnancy cohorts

    Alina Rodriguez;J. Miettunen;T. B. Henriksen;J. Olsen;J. Olsen

  • 5-HTTLPR genotype and anxiety-related personality traits: A meta-analysis and new data

    Marcus R. Munafò;Nelson B. Freimer;Whitney Ng;Roel Ophoff;Roel Ophoff

  • Variants in ADCY5 and near CCNL1 are associated with fetal growth and birth weight

    R M Freathy;D O Mook-Kanamori;U Sovio;I Prokopenko

  • Physical activity and obesity mediate the association between childhood motor function and adolescents’ academic achievement

    Marko T. Kantomaa;Emmanuel Stamatakis;Anna Kankaanpää;Marika Kaakinen

  • The Role of Adiposity in Cardiometabolic Traits: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis

    Tove Fall;Sara Hägg;Sara Hägg;Reedik Mägi;Reedik Mägi;Alexander Ploner

  • Adolescents' physical activity in relation to family income and parents' education.

    Marko T. Kantomaa;Tuija H. Tammelin;Simo Näyhä;Simo Näyhä;Anja M. Taanila

  • Is insufficient quantity and quality of sleep a risk factor for neck, shoulder and low back pain? A longitudinal study among adolescents

    Juha P. Auvinen;Juha P. Auvinen;Tuija H. Tammelin;Simo P. Taimela;Paavo J. Zitting

  • Prevalence and Psychiatric Comorbidity of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in an Adolescent Finnish Population

    Susan L. Smalley;James J. McGOUGH;Irma K. Moilanen;Sandra K. Loo

  • Mother's education and the risk of preterm and small for gestational age birth: a DRIVERS meta-analysis of 12 European cohorts

    Milagros Ruiz;Peter Goldblatt;Joana Morrison;Lubomír Kukla

  • Maternal smoking and hyperactivity in 8-year-old children

    Arto J. Kotimaa;Irma Moilanen;Anja Taanila;Hanna Ebeling

  • Coping of parents with physically and/or intellectually disabled children.

    Anja Taanila;L. Syrjälä;J. Kokkonen;M. R. Järvelin;M. R. Järvelin

  • Epidemiology of alexithymia among adolescents.

    Matti Joukamaa;Anja Taanila;Jouko Miettunen;Juha T. Karvonen

  • Maintenance of genetic variation in human personality: testing evolutionary models by estimating heritability due to common causal variants and investigating the effect of distant inbreeding.

    Karin J.H. Verweij;Jian Yang;Jari Lahti;Juha Veijola

  • ADHD Symptoms and Subtypes: Relationship between Childhood and Adolescent Symptoms.

    Tuula Hurtig;Hanna Ebeling;Anja Taanila;Jouko Miettunen

  • Emotional and behavioral problems in relation to physical activity in youth.

    Marko T. Kantomaa;Tuija H. Tammelin;Hanna E. Ebeling;Anja M. Taanila

  • Longitudinal associations between childhood and adulthood externalizing and internalizing psychopathology and adolescent substance use

    J. Miettunen;G. K. Murray;P. B. Jones;P. Mäki

  • ADHD and comorbid disorders in relation to family environment and symptom severity.

    Tuula Hurtig;Hanna Ebeling;Anja Taanila;Jouko Miettunen

  • Mental health, behaviour and intellectual abilities of people with Down syndrome

    Tuomo Määttä;Tuula Tervo-Määttä;Anja Taanila;Markus Kaski

  • Do inattention and hyperactivity symptoms equal scholastic impairment? evidence from three European cohorts

    Alina Rodriguez;Alina Rodriguez;Marjo-Riitta Järvelin;Marjo-Riitta Järvelin;Carsten Obel;Carsten Obel;Anja Taanila

  • Infant developmental milestones: a 31-year follow-up

    Anja Taanila;Graham K Murray;Jari Jokelainen;Matti Isohanni

  • Physical activity, emotional and behavioural problems, maternal education and self-reported educational performance of adolescents

    M. T. Kantomaa;T. H. Tammelin;P. Demakakos;H. E. Ebeling

  • MAINTENANCE OF GENETIC VARIATION IN HUMAN PERSONALITY: TESTING EVOLUTIONARY MODELS BY ESTIMATING HERITABILITY DUE TO COMMON CAUSAL VARIANTS AND INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF DISTANT INBREEDING

    Karin J. H. Verweij;Jian Yang;Jari Lahti;Juha Veijola

Frequent Co-Authors

Marjo-Riitta Järvelin
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin Imperial College London
Jouko Miettunen
Jouko Miettunen Oulu University Hospital
Irma Moilanen
Irma Moilanen University of Oulu
Hanna Ebeling
Hanna Ebeling Oulu University Hospital
Matti Joukamaa
Matti Joukamaa Tampere University
Graham K. Murray
Graham K. Murray University of Cambridge
Nelson B. Freimer
Nelson B. Freimer University of California, Los Angeles
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki
Grant W. Montgomery
Grant W. Montgomery University of Queensland

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