Oksanen, T., Kouvonen, A., Kivimäki, M., Pentti, J., Virtanen, M., Linna, A., ...
The majority of previous research on social capital and health is limited to social capital in residential neighborhoods and communities. Using data from the Finnish 10-Town study we examined social...
Liukkonen, V., Virtanen, P., Kivimäki, M., Pentti, J., Vahtera, J.
Background We studied whether health resources, measured as sense of coherence (SOC), are associated with participation in a follow-up survey among permanent and non-permanent employees who responded...
Low organisational justice and heavy drinking: a prospective cohort study (2008)
Kouvonen, A., Kivimäki, M., Elovainio, M., Väänänen, A., De Vogli, R., Heponiemi, T., ...
Objectives: To investigate whether low perceived organisational injustice predicts heavy drinking among employees. Methods: Data from a prospective occupational cohort study, the 10-Town Study, on 15...
Suoyrjö, H., Hinkka, K., Oksanen, T., Kivimäki, M., Klaukka, T., Pentti, J., ...
Objective: To determine the effects of multidisciplinary in-patient rehabilitation for chronic back or neck pain on sickness absences and analgesic purchases. Design: A prospective observational...
Job strain and psychologic distress influence on sickness absence among Finnish employees (2007)
Virtanen, M., Vahtera, J., Pentti, J., Honkonen, T., Elovainio, M., Kivimäki, M.
Background: Work stress is a recognized risk factor for mental health disorders, but it is not known whether work stress is associated with the morbidity among individuals with psychologic distress....
Increased sickness absence in diabetic employees: what is the role of co-morbid conditions? (2007)
Kivimäki, M., Vahtera, J., Pentti, J., Virtanen, M., Elovainio, M., Hemingway, H.
AIMS: Diabetes is thought to be associated with increased risk of sickness absence in working populations. We examined the contribution of co-morbidity to this association. METHODS: Records of...
Outcome of stable angina in a working population: the burden of sickness absence (2007)
Hemingway, H., Vahtera, J., Virtanen, M., Pentti, J., Kivimäki, M.
BACKGROUND: The decline in acute event rates among patients with stable angina emphasizes the need for outcome events that are commonly experienced, externally observed and sensitive to changing...
Suoyrjö, H., Hinkka, K., Kivimäki, M., Klaukka, T., Pentti, J., Vahtera, J.
OBJECTIVE: To study the allocation of rehabilitation measures provided by the Finnish Social Insurance Institution in relation to the characteristics and health status of rehabilitants. DESIGN: A...
Social inequalities in antidepressant treatment and mortality: a longitudinal register study (2007)
Kivimäki, M., Gunnell, D., Lawlor, D.A., Davey Smith, G., Pentti, J., Virtanen, M., ...
Background. Despite an increased prevalence of depression among people of low socio-economic position, it remains unclear whether their treatment with antidepressants appropriately matches their...
Kivimäki, M., Honkonen, T., Wahlbeck, K., Elovainio, M., Pentti, J., Klaukka, T., ...
Objective: Organisational downsizing is common in modern work life, but its effect on employees’ mental health is not known. The authors examined whether working in downsizing organisations...
Increased absence due to sickness among employees with fibromyalgia (2007)
Kivimäki, M., Leino-Arjas, P., Kaila-Kangas, L., Virtanen, M., Elovainio, M., Puttonen, S., ...
Background: Little is known about the effect of fibromyalgia on absence due to sickness in working populations. Objective: To examine the risk of absence due to sickness among employees with...
Job strain and adverse health behaviors: the Finnish Public Sector Study (2007)
Kouvonen, A., Kivimäki, M., Väänänen, A., Heponiemi, T., Elovainio, M., Ala-Mursula, L., ...
Objective: The objective of this study was to explore the association between job strain and the co-occurrence of adverse health behaviors; smoking, heavy drinking, obesity, and physical inactivity....
Kivimäki, M., Vanhala, A., Pentti, J., Länsisalmi, H., Virtanen, M., Elovainio, M., ...
Background In hospitals, the costs of employee turnover are substantial and intentions to leave among staff may manifest as lowered performance. We examined whether team climate, as indicated by...
Neighbourhood socioeconomic status, health and working conditions of school teachers (2007)
Virtanen, M., Kivimäki, M., Elovainio, M., Linna, A., Pentti, J., Vahtera, J.
Objective: To investigate the associations of workplace neighbourhood socioeconomic status with health behaviours, health and working conditions among school teachers. Method: The survey responses...
Work stress and health in primary health care physicians and hospital physicians (2007)
Virtanen, P., Oksanen, T., Kivimäki, M., Virtanen, M., Pentti, J., Vahtera, J.
Objective: In order to understand the reasons for the low priority given to work in primary health care among physicians, we studied differences in work stress, health and health related lifestyles...
Ala-Mursula, L., Vahtera, J., Kouvonen, A., Väänänen, A., Linna, A., Pentti, J., ...
Objectives: To explore the associations of working hours (paid, domestic, commuting, and total) with sickness absence, and to examine whether these associations vary according to the level of...
Kouvonen, A., Kivimäki, M., Elovainio, M., Pentti, J., Linna, A., Virtanen, M., ...
Objectives: To investigate the association between effort/reward imbalance (ERI) at work and sedentary lifestyle. Methods: Cross sectional data from the ongoing Finnish Public Sector Study related to...
Vahtera, J., Pentti, J., Helenius, H., Kivimäki, M.
Study Objectives: This study examined whether sleep disturbances after family death or illness are associated with an increase in health problems and delayed recovery. Design: Longitudinal...
Psychometric evaluation of a short measure of social capital at work (2006)
Kouvonen, A., Kivimäki, M., Vahtera, J., Oksanen, T., Elovainio, M., Cox, T., ...
Background Prior studies on social capital and health have assessed social capital in residential neighbourhoods and communities, but the question whether the concept should also be applicable in...
Kouvonen, A., Kivimäki, M., Virtanen, M., Heponiemi, T., Elovainio, M., Pentti, J., ...
Background: In occupational life, a mismatch between high expenditure of effort and receiving few rewards may promote the co-occurrence of lifestyle risk factors, however, there is insufficient...
Elovainio, M., Linna, A., Kivimäki, M., Ala-Mursula, L., Pentti, J., ...
We examined whether the combination of uncertainty (lack of work-time control, and negative changes at work) and organizational justice (i.e., justice of decision-making procedures and interpersonal...
Ala-Mursula, L., Vahtera, J., Linna, A., Pentti, J., Kivimäki, M.
Study objective: To examine whether the effects of work stress on sickness absence vary by the level of control the employees have over their working times. Design: Prospective cohort study. A survey...
Väänänen, A., Buunk, B.P., Kivimäki, M., Pentti, J., Vahtera, J.
The authors examined esteem enhancement theory and equity theory in explaining the long-term health status of men (n = 178) and women (n = 575). Baseline characteristics were measured in 1990-1993,...
Kivimäki, M., Vahtera, J., Elovainio, M., Helenius, H., Singh-Manoux, A., Pentti, J.
The authors prospectively examined changes in health after a major life event (death or onset of severe illness in family) among 5,007 employees (mean age=44.8 years) whose optimism and pessimism...
Väänänen, A., Vahtera, J., Pentti, J., Kivimäki, M.
Objective: The aim of this study was to study prospectively the associations between sources of social support, life events, and psychiatric morbidity, as explicated in the chronic strain and the...
Vahtera, J., Kivimäki, M., Forma, P., Wikström, J., Halmeenmäki, T., Linna, A., ...
Objective: To examine whether downsizing, the reduction of personnel in organisations, is a predictor of increased risk of disability retirement among employees who kept their jobs. Design:...
Kouvonen, A., Kivimäki, M., Virtanen, M., Pentti, J., Vahtera, J.
Study objective: To examine the relation between work stress, as indicated by the job strain model, and the effort-reward imbalance model, and smoking. Setting: Ten municipalities and 21 hospitals in...
Elovainio, M., Bos, K. Van Den, Linna, A., Kivimäki, M., Ala-Mursula, L., Pentti, J., ...
We examined whether the combination of uncertainty (lack of work-time control, and negative changes at work) and organizational justice (i.e., justice of decision-making procedures and interpersonal...
Sickness absence as a risk marker of future disability pension: the 10-town study (2004)
Kivimäki, M., Forma, P., Wikström, J., Halmeenmäki, T., Pentti, J., Elovainio, M., ...
Sickness absence is increasingly recognised as a measure of ill health. Studies have examined associations between absence, morbidity, and mortality,1–3 but less is known about the status of...
Virtanen, P., Vahtera, J., Nakari, R., Pentti, J., Kivimäki, M.
This study revisits two Finnish local governments-Raisio and Nokia-that in an earlier study showed different sickness absence rates in the early 1990s. The locality difference was interpreted...
Väänänen, A., Kevin, M.V., Ala-Mursula, L., Pentti, J., Kivimäki, M., Vahtera, J.
The objective of the study was to determine whether the double burden of and negative spillover between domestic and full-time paid work are associated with an increase in health problems. Survey...
Sickness absence as a predictor of mortality among male and female employees (2004)
Vahtera, J., Pentti, J., Kivimäki, M.
Objective: To determine the extent to which sickness absence is predictive of mortality. Design: Prospective cohort study. Data on medically certified long term absences (>3 days), self certified...
Effect of employee worktime control on health: a prospective cohort study (2004)
Ala-Mursula, L., Vahtera, J., Pentti, J., Kivimäki, M.
Aims: To investigate the health effects of employee worktime control. Methods: Prospective cohort study among 4218 permanent full time municipal employees linking questionnaire data from 1997 and...
Organisational downsizing, sickness absence, and mortality: 10-town prospective cohort study (2004)
Vahtera, J., Kivimäki, M., Pentti, J., Linna, A., Virtanen, M., Virtanen, P., ...
Objective: To examine whether downsizing, the reduction of personnel in organisations, is a predictor of increased sickness absence and mortality among employees. Design: Prospective cohort study...
Temporary employment and risk of overall and cause-specific mortality (2003)
Kivimäki, M., Vahtera, J., Virtanen, M., Elovainio, M., Pentti, J., Ferrie, J.E.
The number of nonpermanent employees is rising, but mortality in this group has received little attention. The authors examined the associations between temporary employment and all-cause and...
Human costs of organizational downsizing: comparing health trends between leavers and stayers (2003)
Kivimäki, M., Vahtera, J., Elovainio, M., Pentti, J., Virtanen, M.
We studied health-related selection and consequences of an organizational downsizing among 886 municipal employees. Measurements of health indicators were conducted before any rumor of the downsizing...
Alcohol intake and sickness absence: a curvilinear relation (2002)
Vahtera, J., Poikolainen, K., Kivimäki, M., Ala-Mursula, L., Pentti, J.
Little is known about the U-shaped relation between alcohol intake and health beyond findings related to cardiovascular disease. Medically certified sickness absence is a health indicator in which...
Employment security and health (2002)
Virtanen, P., Vahtera, J., Kivimäki, M., Pentti, J., Ferrie, J.
Objective: To study the relation of contractual and perceived employment security to employee health. Design: Cross sectional survey. Setting: Municipal sector employees in eight Finnish towns....
Kivimäki, M., Elovainio, M., Vahtera, J., Feldt, T., Keltikangas-Järvinen, L., ...
Objective: We proposed and tested a model in which low sense of coherence (SOC) was hypothesized to underlie the association between hostility and health problems. Methods: Structural equation...
Ala-Mursula, L., Vahtera, J., Kivimäki, M., Kevin, M.V., Pentti, J.
Study objective: To investigate the impact of employees' worktime control on health, taking into account other aspects of job control. Design: Analysis of questionnaire data in 1997 and register data...
Organisational downsizing and musculoskeletal problems in employees: a prospective study (2001)
Kivimäki, M., Vahtera, J., Ferrie, J.E., Hemingway, H., Pentti, J.
Objectives: To study the association between organisational downsizing and subsequent musculoskeletal problems in employees and to determine the association with changes in psychosocial and...
The role of extended weekends in sickness absenteeism (2001)
Vahtera, J., Kivimäki, M., Pentti, J.
Objectives: Employees are thought to lengthen their weekends by voluntary absenteeism, but the magnitude of such potentially reversible behaviour is not known. Methods: A follow up study based on...
Downsizing, changes in work, and self-rated health of employees: a 7-year 3-wave panel study (2001)
Kivimäki, M., Vahtera, J., Pentti, J., Thomson, L., Griffiths, A., Cox, T.
The question of whether changes in work and interpersonal relationships mediate the adverse effects of downsizing on health of employees was explored. Longitudinal data from a 7-year study of 550...
Vahtera, J., Kivimäki, M., Pentti, J., Theorell, T.
Study objective: To investigate the impact of changes in psychosocial work environment on subsequent sickness absence. Design: Analysis of questionnaire and sickness absence data collected in three...
Hostility and ill health: role of psychosocial resources in two contexts of working life (2000)
Vahtera, J., Kivimäki, M., Uutela, A., Pentti, J.
Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which increased risk to health problems in hostile employees is associated with psychosocial resources and life context. Methods:...
Kivimaki, M., Vahtera, J., Pentti, J., Ferrie, J.E.
Objective: To explore the underlying mechanisms between organisational downsizing and deterioration of health of employees. Design: Longitudinal cohort study. Data were assembled from before...
Workplace as an origin of health inequalities (1999)
Vahtera, J., Virtanen, P., Kivimäki, M., Pentti, J.
Objective: To investigate the effect of the workplace on the socioeconomic gradient of sickness absence. Design: Comparison of the relation between socioeconomic status and employee sickness absence...
Kivimäki, M., Vahtera, J., Koskenvuo, M., Uutela, A., Pentti, J.
BACKGROUND: According to the psychosocial vulnerability model, the health of hostile individuals is at greater risk than that of non-hostile individuals, due partly to lesser ability of the former to...
Psychosocial factors predicting employee sickness absence during economic decline (1997)
Kivimäki, M., Vahtera, J., Thomson, L., Griffiths, A., Cox, T., Pentti, J.
Psychosocial factors such as work characteristics, life events, social support, and personality were examined as predictors of the change in medically certified sickness absence observed during a...
Effect of organisational downsizing on health of employees (1997)
Vahtera, J., Kivimäki, M., Pentti, J.
BACKGROUND: Reduction of personnel by businesses and other organisations (organisational downsizing) is common in Europe, but little is known about its effects on the health of employees. METHODS: We...
Hostility and registered sickness absences: a prospective study of municipal employees (1997)
Vahtera, J., Kivimäki, M., Koskenvuo, M., Pentti, J.
BACKGROUND: Prior evidence on the relationship between hostility and minor health problems is limited to cross-sectional self-report studies. In the present study, this relationship was examined...
Organisational downsizing and musculoskeletal problems in employees: a prospective study
Kivimaki, M, Vahtera, J, Ferrie, J, Hemingway, H, Pentti, J
OBJECTIVES—To study the association between organisational downsizing and subsequent musculoskeletal problems in employees and to determine the association with changes in psychosocial and...
The role of extended weekends in sickness absenteeism
Vahtera, J, Kivimaki, M, Pentti, J
OBJECTIVES—Employees are thought to lengthen their weekends by voluntary absenteeism, but the magnitude of such potentially reversible behaviour is not known. METHODS—A follow up study based on...
Cancer at sea: a case-control study among male Finnish seafarers
Saarni, H, Pentti, J, Pukkala, E
Aims: To study the possible work related reasons for the increased incidence of many cancers among seafarers.
Effect of employee worktime control on health: a prospective cohort study
Ala-Mursula, L, Vahtera, J, Pentti, J, Kivimaki, M
Aims: To investigate the health effects of employee worktime control.
Vahtera, J., Kivimaki, M., Pentti, J., Theorell, T.
STUDY OBJECTIVE—To investigate the impact of changes in psychosocial work environment on subsequent sickness absence. DESIGN—Analysis of questionnaire and sickness absence data collected in...
Employee control over working times: associations with subjective health and sickness absences
Ala-Mursula, L, Vahtera, J, Kivimaki, M, Kevin, M, Pentti, J
Study objective: To investigate the impact of employees' worktime control on health, taking into account other aspects of job control.
Employment security and health
Virtanen, P, Vahtera, J, Kivimaki, M, Pentti, J, Ferrie, J
Design: Cross sectional survey.
Sickness absence as a predictor of mortality among male and female employees
Vahtera, J, Pentti, J, Kivimaki, M
Objective: To determine the extent to which sickness absence is predictive of mortality.
Sickness absence as a risk marker of future disability pension: the 10-town study
Kivimaki, M., Forma, P., Wikstrom, J., Halmeenmaki, T., Pentti, J., Elovainio, M., ...
Organisational downsizing as a predictor of disability pension: the 10-town prospective cohort study
Vahtera, J., Kivimaki, M., Forma, P., Wikstrom, J., Halmeenmaki, T., Linna, A., ...
Objective: To examine whether downsizing, the reduction of personnel in organisations, is a predictor of increased risk of disability retirement among employees who kept their jobs.
Workplace as an origin of health inequalities
Vahtera, J., Virtanen, P., Kivimaki, M., Pentti, J.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of the workplace on the socioeconomic gradient of sickness absence. DESIGN: Comparison of the relation between socioeconomic status and employee sickness absence...
Work stress, smoking status, and smoking intensity: an observational study of 46 190 employees
Kouvonen, A., Kivimaki, M., Virtanen, M., Pentti, J., Vahtera, J.
Study objective: To examine the relation between work stress, as indicated by the job strain model, and the effort-reward imbalance model, and smoking.
Ala-Mursula, L., Vahtera, J., Linna, A., Pentti, J., Kivimaki, M.
Study objective: To examine whether the effects of work stress on sickness absence vary by the level of control the employees have over their working times.