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Finland
2026

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D-Index
77
Citations
17152
World Ranking
471
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Finland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Finland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Finland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Finland Leader Award

Overview

Ossi Rahkonen is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland and has contributed extensively to the fields of Medicine and Health Professions. Their research spans several subfields, including General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, Pharmacology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scientist's recent publications cover diverse topics and have appeared in notable journals. These include:

  • Association of Healthy Lifestyle With Years Lived Without Major Chronic Diseases, 2020, JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Factors associated with health survey response among young employees: a register-based study using online, mailed and telephone interview data collection methods, 2020, BMC Public Health
  • Cognitive stimulation in the workplace, plasma proteins, and risk of dementia: three analyses of population cohort studies, 2021, BMJ
  • Association between educational level and smoking cessation in an 11-year follow-up study of a national health survey, 2021, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
  • Changes in fruit, vegetable and fish consumption after statutory retirement: a prospective cohort study, 2020, British Journal Of Nutrition

Ossi Rahkonen collaborates frequently with several researchers. Among the most frequent coauthors are:

  • Tea Lallukka
  • Anne Kouvonen
  • Olli Pietiläinen
  • Eero Lahelma

Their work has been published often in the following venues:

  • European Journal of Public Health
  • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Sosiaalilääketieteellinen Aikakauslehti
  • International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health

Main topics addressed in Rahkonen's research include Workplace Health and Well-being, Employment and Welfare Studies, Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, Health disparities and outcomes, Retirement, Disability, and Employment, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, and Physical Activity and Health.

These research themes reflect a focus on public health concerns related to occupational environments, chronic diseases, and lifestyle factors affecting health outcomes. The longitudinal and population cohort approach seen in several papers supports epidemiological and observational methodologies prevalent in their work.

Best Publications

  • Socioeconomic status and smoking: analysing inequalities with multiple indicators.

    Mikko Laaksonen;Ossi Rahkonen;Sakari Karvonen;Eero Lahelma

  • Obesity and loss of disease-free years owing to major non-communicable diseases: a multicohort study.

    Solja T Nyberg;G David Batty;Jaana Pentti;Jaana Pentti;Marianna Virtanen

  • Health behaviours as explanations for educational level differences in cardiovascular and all-cause mortality: a follow-up of 60 000 men and women over 23 years.

    Mikko Laaksonen;Kirsi Talala;Tuija Martelin;Ossi Rahkonen

  • Multiple socio-economic circumstances and healthy food habits

    T Lallukka;M Laaksonen;O Rahkonen;E Roos

  • Socioeconomic Position and Self-Rated Health: The Contribution of Childhood Socioeconomic Circumstances, Adult Socioeconomic Status, and Material Resources

    Mikko Laaksonen;Ossi Rahkonen;Pekka Martikainen;Eero Lahelma

  • Association of Healthy Lifestyle With Years Lived Without Major Chronic Diseases

    Solja T. Nyberg;Archana Singh-Manoux;Archana Singh-Manoux;Jaana Pentti;Jaana Pentti;Ida E. H. Madsen

  • Associations of job strain and working overtime with adverse health behaviors and obesity: evidence from the Whitehall II Study, Helsinki Health Study, and the Japanese Civil Servants Study.

    Tea Lallukka;Eero Lahelma;Ossi Rahkonen;Eva Roos

  • Past or present? Childhood living conditions and current socioeconomic status as determinants of adult health

    Ossi Rahkonen;Eero Lahelma;Minna Huuhka

  • Well-being and health behaviour by parental socioeconomic status: a follow-up study of adolescents aged 16 until age 32 years.

    Taina Huurre;Hillevi Aro;Ossi Rahkonen

  • Long working hours and depressive symptoms: systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies and unpublished individual participant data

    Marianna Virtanen;Marianna Virtanen;Markus Jokela;Ida Eh Madsen;Linda L Magnusson Hanson

  • Gender differences in illhealth in Finland: patterns, magnitude and change.

    Eero Lahelma;Pekka Martikainen;Pekka Martikainen;Ossi Rahkonen;Karri Silventoinen

  • Working conditions and health behaviours among employed women and men: the Helsinki Health Study

    Tea Lallukka;Sirpa Sarlio-Lähteenkorva;Eva Roos;Mikko Laaksonen

  • Working conditions as risk factors for disability retirement: a longitudinal register linkage study

    Eero Lahelma;Mikko Laaksonen;Tea Lallukka;Pekka Martikainen

  • Cohort Profile: The Helsinki Health Study

    Eero Lahelma;Akseli Aittomäki;Mikko Laaksonen;Tea Lallukka

  • Bidirectional associations between insomnia symptoms and unhealthy behaviours.

    Peppi Haario;Ossi Rahkonen;Mikko Laaksonen;Eero Lahelma

  • Social background, adult body-height and health.

    Karri Silventoinen;Eero Lahelma;Ossi Rahkonen

  • Multiple measures of socioeconomic circumstances and common mental disorders.

    Eero Lahelma;Mikko Laaksonen;Pekka Martikainen;Ossi Rahkonen

  • Socioeconomic circumstances and common mental disorders among Finnish and British public sector employees: evidence from the Helsinki Health Study and the Whitehall II Study

    Elina Laaksonen;Pekka Martikainen;Eero Lahelma;Tea Lallukka

  • Explanations for gender differences in sickness absence: evidence from middle-aged municipal employees from Finland.

    Mikko Laaksonen;Pekka Martikainen;Ossi Rahkonen;Eero Lahelma

  • Occupational class inequalities across key domains of health: results from the Helsinki Health Study.

    Eero Lahelma;Pekka Martikainen;Ossi Rahkonen;Eva Roos

  • Register-based study among employees showed small nonparticipation bias in health surveys and check-ups

    Mikko Laaksonen;Akseli Aittomäki;Tea Lallukka;Ossi Rahkonen

Frequent Co-Authors

Eero Lahelma
Eero Lahelma University of Helsinki
Mikko Laaksonen
Mikko Laaksonen University of Helsinki
Pekka Martikainen
Pekka Martikainen University of Helsinki
Eva Roos
Eva Roos University of Helsinki
Ritva Prättälä
Ritva Prättälä National Institutes of Health
Jane E. Ferrie
Jane E. Ferrie University College London
Karri Silventoinen
Karri Silventoinen University of Helsinki
Tuija Martelin
Tuija Martelin Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Sakari Suominen
Sakari Suominen University of Turku
Antti Uutela
Antti Uutela Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)

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