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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New study in European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry by Lotta Volotinen, Hanna Remes, Pekka Martikainen and Niina Metsä-Simola found that low parental education is more strongly associated with increased ADHD diagnosis only in families without identified history of ADHD.

Read more: rdcu.be/eG9eY

Our symposium from #SLLS2025 @sllshome.bsky.social consisted of research from Shubh Sharma @eugeniopaglino.bsky.social @olivia-mcevoy.bsky.social mcevoy.bsky.social @moberndorfer.bsky.social orfer.bsky.social Lauren Bishop and registry data expertise from Hanna Remes.
Thanks to all who attended!

Parental education and income strongly predicted adolescents' COVID-19 vaccine uptake 💉 A new study by Sanni Variskallio et al. out now in Vaccine: doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

📢New article by Ulla Suulamo, Hanna Remes, Lasse Tarkiainen, Pekka Martikainen:

How have mortality differences by living arrangements changed during a time of major shifts in household patterns, with fewer two-parent families and more people living alone?🏘️

academic.oup.com/eurpub/advan...

Earlier evidence has shown modest month of birth differences on childhood atopic diseases.
Our study shows notable variation by outdoor temperature after birth. Particularly, cold weather after autumn or winter birth increased the risk for atopic diseases.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Implementation of stricter alcohol policies (Finland, mid-1970s), especially alcohol advertising ban, likely protected adolescents at the time from later life alcohol-attributable adverse health.

Preprint out in Epidemiology.
doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0000000000001857

PopHel Talks: Aapo Hiilamo presents with the title “Children's out-of-home care in Finland, 1993-2020: lifetime risks, expectancies, exit routes, and number of placements for synthetic cohorts”

24th March, 02:00-02:45 PM (UTC+2)
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PopHel Talks: Alvaro Obeso presents with the title “Microevolutionary genetic processes of Roma population based in the Basque country - A Short Tandem Repeat based study.”

10th February, 02:00-02:45 PM (UTC +2)
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