Finland, like many other western countries, has experienced profound structural changes
during the post-war period: urbanisation, increasing education, smaller family size, improved …

Background: Most of the member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development (OECD) aim to ensure equitable access to health care. This is often …

To assess changes in medicine use and polypharmacy, two cross-sectional surveys were
carried out among community-dwelling persons aged 64 years or over in 1990–91 (n …

Background In the many descriptive studies on prescribed psychotropic drug use by
community-dwelling older persons, several sociodemographic and other factors associated …

There are no population-based follow-up studies to estimate the fraction of asthma
incidence that is attributable to work. In Finland, individuals with clinically well-established …

OBJECTIVE This study investigated the associations of cigarette smoking and alcohol
intoxication with major depressive episode. DESIGN Major depressive episode during the …

Context: It is not known to what extent quality of life of patients treated for acromegaly is
dependent on levels of GH and IGF-I attained. Objective: The objective of this study is to …

Objective: To measure subjective health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of patients with type
1 diabetes and describe the influence of symptoms of diabetes-related long-term …

Objective. To investigate how self-reported musculoskeletal pain and health-related quality
of life (HRQoL) are associated among young adults. Design and Setting. The study …

Objective To assess the level of and changes in the use of psychotropics among the home‐
dwelling elderly in the 1990s. Methods A descriptive analysis based on data from two cross …