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2023

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Medicine

D-Index
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Citations
62665
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1916
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Finland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Finland Leader Award

Overview

Jussi Vahtera is affiliated with Turku University Hospital in Finland and has an extensive publication record in medicine, health professions, and social sciences. Their work spans a range of subfields including general health professions, public health, environmental and occupational health, physiology, health, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's research focuses on topics such as workplace health and well-being, health disparities and outcomes, employment and welfare studies, physical activity and health, retirement, disability, and employment, obesity, physical activity and diet, as well as urban transport and accessibility.

Among recent significant publications are:

  • Association between socioeconomic status and the development of mental and physical health conditions in adulthood: a multi-cohort study, 2020, The Lancet Public Health
  • Association of Healthy Lifestyle With Years Lived Without Major Chronic Diseases, 2020, JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Hospital-treated infectious diseases and the risk of dementia: a large, multicohort, observational study with a replication cohort, 2021, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Socioeconomic Inequalities in Disability-free Life Expectancy in Older People from England and the United States: A Cross-national Population-Based Study, 2020, The Journals of Gerontology Series A
  • Association Between Depression and Physical Conditions Requiring Hospitalization, 2023, JAMA Psychiatry

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Jaana Pentti
  • Mika Kivimäki
  • Sari Stenholm
  • Jenni Ervasti
  • Marianna Virtanen

Jussi Vahtera has contributed to various publication venues, with the highest number of articles appearing in:

  • BMJ Open
  • European Journal of Ageing
  • Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  • PLoS ONE
  • The Lancet Public Health

In addition to journal articles, Jussi Vahtera has published a book titled Parempaa unta: tutkimus työstä, kokonaiskuormituksesta, unesta ja palautumisesta ikääntyneillä työntekijöillä in 2021 through Itä-Suomen yliopisto eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Work stress and risk of cardiovascular mortality: prospective cohort study of industrial employees

    Mika Kivimäki;Päivi Leino-Arjas;Ritva Luukkonen;Hilkka Riihimäki

  • Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of individual participant data.

    Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Solja T. Nyberg;G. David Batty;G. David Batty;Eleonor I. Fransson;Eleonor I. Fransson;Eleonor I. Fransson

  • Work stress in the etiology of coronary heart disease - a meta-analysis

    Mika Kivimäki;Marianna Virtanen;Marko Elovainio;Anne Kouvonen

  • Temporary employment and health: a review

    Marianna Virtanen;Mika Kivimäki;Matti Joensuu;Pekka Virtanen

  • Organizational Justice: Evidence of a New Psychosocial Predictor of Health

    Marko Elovainio;Mika Kivimäki;Jussi Vahtera

  • Long working hours and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke : a systematic review and meta-analysis of published and unpublished data for 603 838 individuals

    Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Markus Jokela;Solja T. Nyberg;Archana Singh-Manoux;Archana Singh-Manoux

  • Workplace bullying and the risk of cardiovascular disease and depression

    M Kivimäki;M Virtanen;M Vartia;M Elovainio

  • Workplace bullying and sickness absence in hospital staff

    Mika Kivimäki;Marko Elovainio;Jussi Vahtera

  • Association between socioeconomic status and the development of mental and physical health conditions in adulthood: a multi-cohort study.

    Mika Kivimäki;G David Batty;G David Batty;Jaana Pentti;Martin J Shipley

  • Overweight, obesity, and risk of cardiometabolic multimorbidity: pooled analysis of individual-level data for 120 813 adults from 16 cohort studies from the USA and Europe

    Mika Kivimaki;Mika Kivimaki;Mika Kivimaki;Eeva Kuosma;Jane E. Ferrie;Jane E. Ferrie;Ritva Luukkonen

  • Factors underlying the effect of organisational downsizing on health of employees: longitudinal cohort study

    Mika Kivimäki;Jussi Vahtera;Jaana Pentti;Jane E Ferrie

  • Sickness absence as a global measure of health: evidence from mortality in the Whitehall II prospective cohort study

    Mika Kivimäki;Jenny Head;Jane E Ferrie;Martin J Shipley

  • Effect of organisational downsizing on health of employees

    Jussi Vahtera;Mika Kivimaki;Jaana Pentti

  • Job strain as a risk factor for clinical depression: systematic review and meta-analysis with additional individual participant data

    Ida E. H. Madsen;S. T. Nyberg;L. L. Magnusson Hanson;J. E. Ferrie

  • Organisational justice and health of employees: prospective cohort study

    M Kivimäki;M Elovainio;J Vahtera;J E Ferrie

  • Organisational downsizing, sickness absence, and mortality: 10-town prospective cohort study

    Jussi Vahtera;Mika Kivimäki;Jaana Pentti;Anne Linna

  • Justice at work and reduced risk of coronary heart disease among employees: the Whitehall II Study.

    Mika Kivimäki;Jane E Ferrie;Eric Brunner;Jenny Head

  • Effect of change in the psychosocial work environment on sickness absence: a seven year follow up of initially healthy employees

    Jussi Vahtera;Mika Kivimäki;Jaana Pentti;Töres Theorell

  • Work stress, weight gain and weight loss: evidence for bidirectional effects of job strain on body mass index in the Whitehall II study.

    M Kivimäki;J Head;J E Ferrie;M J Shipley

  • Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease

    Mika Kivimäki;Solja T Nyberg;G David Batty;Eleonor I Fransson

Frequent Co-Authors

Mika Kivimäki
Mika Kivimäki University College London
Jaana Pentti
Jaana Pentti University of Turku
Marianna Virtanen
Marianna Virtanen University of Eastern Finland
Marko Elovainio
Marko Elovainio University of Helsinki
Jane E. Ferrie
Jane E. Ferrie University College London
Hugo Westerlund
Hugo Westerlund Stockholm University
Sakari Suominen
Sakari Suominen University of Turku
G. David Batty
G. David Batty University College London
Markku Koskenvuo
Markku Koskenvuo University of Helsinki

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