9 results on '"Liukkonen, Virpi"'
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2. Social capital in working life and the health of employees
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Liukkonen, Virpi, Virtanen, Pekka, Kivimaki, Mika, Pentti, Jaana, and Vahtera, Jussi
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Social capital (Sociology) -- Influence ,Workers -- Health aspects ,Workers -- Psychological aspects ,Health ,Social sciences - Abstract
It is commonly assumed that social capital influences health, but only few studies have examined this hypothesis in the context of the workplace. The present prospective cohort study of 6028 public sector employees in Finland investigated social capital as a workplace characteristic which potentially affects employee health. The two indicators of social capital were trust in the labour market, measured by security of the employment contract, and trust in co-worker support. Self-rated health status and psychological distress were used as indicators of health. The combination of subsidised job contract and low co-worker support (i.e. the lowest category of social capital) was associated with poorer health prospects than the combination of permanent employment and high support (the highest social capital category) in an age-adjusted model, but this association disappeared in logistic regression analysis adjusted by sociodemographic background factors and baseline health. Fixed-term employment predicted better self-rated health and less psychological distress when compared with permanent employment. Co-worker support was most common in permanent and least common in subsidised employees and it was associated with better self-rated health in women. Our findings suggest only partial support for the hypothesis of work-related social capital as a health resource. Keywords: Social capital; Public sector employees; Non-permanent employment; Co-worker support; Self-rated health; Finland
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- 2004
3. Employment trajectories and changes in sense of coherence
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Liukkonen, Virpi, Virtanen, Pekka, Vahtera, Jussi, Suominen, Sakari, Sillanmäki, Lauri, and Koskenvuo, Markku
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- 2010
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4. Labor Market Trajectories and Health: A Four-Year Follow-up Study of Initially Fixed-Term Employees
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Virtanen, Pekka, Vahtera, Jussi, Kivimäki, Mika, Liukkonen, Virpi, Virtanen, Marianna, and Ferrie, Jane
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- 2005
5. Työhyvinvointi puunkorjuuyritysten menestymisen tukena
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Siukola, Anna, Pursio, Hannu, Liukkonen, Paula, Vänni, Kimmo, Uitti, Jukka, Liukkonen, Virpi, Kosonen, Hanna, Nygård, Clas-Håkan, Yhteiskuntatieteiden tiedekunta - Faculty of Social Sciences, and Tampere University
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- 2018
6. Sense of coherence and attrition during four-year follow-up in cohorts of permanent and non-permanent Finnish employees
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Pentti Jaana, Kivimäki Mika, Virtanen Pekka, Liukkonen Virpi, and Vahtera Jussi
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Public aspects of medicine ,RA1-1270 - Abstract
Abstract 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 at baseline. Methods Of a cohort of 5,981 permanent employees, those who after four years were still in the service of the same employer were asked to participate in a follow-up survey. Another cohort consisted of 2,194 fixed-term and 682 subsidised employees; among these the follow-up survey was posted to those whose addresses were found in the population register. Non-participation was divided into loss to follow-up (i.e., failure to locate the individual, death and, among permanent employees, turnover or exit from labour market) and non-response to the follow-up survey. Logistic regression analyses were used to examine whether the respondents differed from the non-respondents with respect to SOC and other characteristics at baseline. Results Among permanent employees the follow-up survey yielded 3,998 respondents, 1,051 were lost, and 932 did not reply. Among non-permanent employees the follow-up survey yielded 1,563 respondents on initially fixed-term and 467 on subsidised contracts, the corresponding figures for those lost were 145 and 38, and for the non-respondents 486 and 177. Low SOC was associated with lower response rate among fixed-term but not among permanent or subsidised employees. No association was found between SOC and loss to follow-up. Conclusion SOC is a potential source of non-random sample attrition and should be taken into account for when estimating bias due to non-participation in occupational cohorts that include fixed-term employees.
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- 2008
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7. Non-standard Employment and Health with Respect to Sense of Coherence and Social Capital
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Liukkonen, Virpi, Terveystieteiden yksikkö - School of Health Sciences, and University of Tampere
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työsuhde ,koherenssin tunne ,Työterveys - Occupational Health ,työura ,social capital ,employment status ,health ,sense of coherence ,terveys ,sosiaalinen pääoma ,employment trajectory - Abstract
Työsuhteella ja työuralla yhteys työntekijöiden terveyteen Tutkimuksessa tarkasteltiin työsuhteiden ja työurien yhteyttä työntekijöiden terveyteen ja elämänhallinnan eli koherenssin tunteeseen. Poikkileikkaustutkimuksessa todettiin, että työikäisten terveys oli sitä huonompi, mitä kauempana he olivat työmarkkinoiden ydintyövoimasta eli vakinaisesta työsuhteesta. Seurantatutkimuksissa todettiin, että työsuhde ja työura olivat merkitsevästi yhteydessä työntekijöiden terveyteen ja elämänhallinnan tunteessa tapahtuneisiin muutoksiin, ja toisaalta työntekijät valikoituivat terveyden perusteella erilaisille työurille. Aineistoina tutkimuksessa olivat työikäistä väestöä edustava satunnaistettu otos Health and Social Support -tutkimuksesta, kunta-alan vakinaisen henkilöstön tutkimusryhmä Kunta10 -tutkimuksesta sekä ei-vakinaisen henkilöstön tutkimusryhmä Tilapäisenä kunnan töissä -tutkimuksesta. Tulosten mukaan työikäisessä väestössä määräaikaisten työntekijöiden terveys ei eronnut seurannan alussa merkitsevästi vakinaisten työntekijöiden terveydestä koetun terveyden, kroonisten sairauksien tai masennuksen suhteen. Sen sijaan muunlaisissa epätyypillisissä työsuhteissa olleiden, työllistettyjen ja ansiosidonnaisella työttömyyspäivärahalla olleiden terveys oli huonompi kuin vakinaisten työntekijöiden. Kaikkein huonoin terveys oli peruspäivärahalla olleilla työttömillä. Kunta-alalla työskentelevien vakinaisten ja ei-vakinaisten työntekijöiden seurantatutkimuksessa todettiin, että seurannan alussa määräaikaisessa työsuhteessa olleilla naisilla oli koettu terveydentila parempi ja psyykkinen rasittuneisuus vähäisempää seurannan lopussa, kun heitä verrattiin seurannan alussa vakinaisessa työsuhteessa olleisiin naisiin. Naistyöntekijöillä seurannan alussa koettu luottamus työkavereilta saatuun tukeen oli yhteydessä parempaan terveydentilaan seurannan lopussa. Tutkimuksessa käytettiin luottamusta työmarkkinoihin eli työsuhdetta ja luottamusta työkavereilta saatuun tukeen työhön liittyvän sosiaalisen pääoman mittareina. Naistyöntekijät, joilla oli seurannan alussa vähiten työhön liittyvää sosiaalista pääomaa eli työllistetyt, jotka eivät luottaneet työkavereilta saatuun tukeen, kokivat terveytensä seurannan lopussa huonommaksi kuin paljon sosiaalista pääomaa omaavat eli vakinaisessa työsuhteessa olleet, jotka luottivat työkavereilta saatuun tukeen. Tutkittaessa työurien vaikutusta työntekijöiden terveyteen todettiin, että määräaikaisilla kunta-alan naistyöntekijöillä työttömäksi joutuminen ja epävakaalla työuralla oleminen oli yhteydessä huonoon terveydentilaan seurannan lopussa, kun taas vakinaisen työsuhteen saaneilla oli vähemmän psyykkistä rasittuneisuutta seurannan lopussa. Työikäisen väestön ja kunta-alan ei-vakinaisten työntekijöiden seurantatutkimuksissa elämänhallinnan tunteen kehitys oli pääsääntöisesti parempi työntekijöillä, joiden työura kehittyi vakaampaan suuntaan. Työuran vaikutus elämänhallinnan tunteessa tapahtuviin muutoksiin oli erityisen voimakas nuorilla työntekijöillä. Toisaalta tutkittaessa määräaikaisessa työsuhteessa olleita kunta-alan naistyöntekijöistä todettiin, että seurannan alussa terveydentilansa huonoksi kokevat työntekijät joutuivat muita useammin epävakaalle työuralle ja työttömäksi. Tutkittaessa työsuhteiden ja työurien yhteyttä terveyteen on tärkeää luokitella erilaiset työsuhteet mahdollisimman tarkasti. Tutkittu tieto ja tietoisuus työmarkkina-asemaan ja työuriin liittyvistä haitallisista terveysvaikutuksista auttaa kohdentamaan työterveyshuollon tukitoimia niitä tarvitseville. Non-standard employment has become an integral feature of labor markets in developed countries in recent decades at the same time as demands for flexibility of the labor force have increased. In the broadest sense of the concept, non-standard employment may be defined as any work where the criteria of the standard employment relationship, i.e. full-time, permanent salary employment with open ended contract, are not fulfilled. This dissertation examines the relationship between non-standard employment and health. The studies are based on data obtained from three prospective cohort studies. In the Health and Social Support Study a representative sample of Finnish working age population was followed up for five years. In the Finnish Public Sector Study a cohort of permanent employees and in the Temporaries in Municipal Jobs Study a cohort of non-permanent employees was followed up for four years. According to the results of the baseline survey, health is unevenly distributed along the core-periphery labor market structure in the Finnish workforce. Comparison of permanent and fixed-term employees did not reveal significant differences in self-rated health, chronic disease and depression. The first step of increase in health problems was seen between the fixed-term employees and the group that included various atypical employees and the unemployed receiving earnings-related allowance or participating in subsidy programs. A further step was observed between this group and the unemployed receiving only the low basic allowance. In the follow-up study of municipal permanent and non-permanent employees, work-related sources of social capital at baseline, measured by trust in labor market (employment contract) and trust in co-worker support, and combined social job capital were associated with health at the end of the follow-up. Fixed-term employment was associated with better self-rated health and less psychological distress in women when compared with permanent employees. Trust in receiving support from co-workers was associated with better self-rated health in women. Low level of social job capital, i.e. the combination of subsidised employment with no trust in co-workers support, was associated with poor health in women. Another longitudinal study of municipal employees showed that different employment trajectories carry different health risks. Among women with initially fixed-term contracts trajectories toward the periphery of the labor markets were associated with poorer self-rated health at end of the follow-up, while trajectories towards permanent employment were associated with low psychological distress at end of the follow-up. On the other hand, poor self-rated health at baseline was associated with a trajectory toward unstable employment. Employment trajectories were also associated with changes in sense of coherence. The scores mainly improved more in employment trajectories directed to more stable employment than in trajectories directed to less stable employment. Particularly marked effects of employment trajectory on sense of coherence were seen in employees aged less than 30 years. The study focused on sample attrition showed differences between standard and non-standard employees. Low sense of coherence predicted non-response in fixed-term employees and poor self-rated health predicted non-response and exit from the cohort in permanent employees. In conclusion, when studying association between employment status and health it is important to classify employment status as accurately as possible. Different employment trajectories carry different risks to health, and cumulative exposure to different labor market positions from the beginning of the working careers needs explorations in particular in order to identify possible risk of adverse health effect in workers. Better knowledge and awareness of the risks also enable targeted occupational health interventions.
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- 2012
8. Does provision of targeted health care for the unemployed enhance re-employment?
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Romppainen, Katri, primary, Saloniemi, Antti, additional, Kinnunen, Ulla, additional, Liukkonen, Virpi, additional, and Virtanen, Pekka, additional
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- 2014
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9. Sense of coherence and attrition during four-year follow-up in cohorts of permanent and non-permanent Finnish employees
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Liukkonen, Virpi, primary, Virtanen, Pekka, additional, Kivimäki, Mika, additional, Pentti, Jaana, additional, and Vahtera, Jussi, additional
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- 2008
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