Publications by authors named "R Ruuhela"
Background And Aim: In climates with wintry conditions, slip and fall injuries of pedestrians during wintertime can result in high healthcare and societal costs. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of early warnings about slipperiness in preventing such injuries in Finland. Since 2004, the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) has been providing a weather service for pedestrians, which has been developed continuously over time.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Emergency departments (ED) and prehospital emergency medical services (EMS) will experience new or increasing challenges due to the changing climate. The aims of this study was to add knowledge about these challenges in Finland and to help EMS and ED operators to prepare for the effects of climate change.
Methods: A two-round Delphi study was conducted.
Aims: Although seasonality has been documented for mental disorders, it is unknown whether similar patterns can be observed in employee sickness absence from work due to a wide range of mental disorders with different severity level, and to what extent the rate of change in light exposure plays a role. To address these limitations, we used daily based sickness absence records to examine seasonal patterns in employee sickness absence due to mental disorders.
Methods: We used nationwide diagnosis-specific psychiatric sickness absence claims data from 2006 to 2017 for adult individuals aged 16-67 ( = 636,543 sickness absence episodes) in Finland, a high-latitude country with a profound variation in daylength.
Background: Cold weather increases respiratory symptoms and provokes exacerbations of asthma, but there are no previous studies on its role in the aetiology of asthma.
Objective: We tested the hypothesis that a cold winter increases the risk of developing asthma during the following 1 to 2 years.
Methods: We conducted a case-crossover study of 315 newly diagnosed cases of asthma from the population-based Espoo Cohort Study from birth to the age of 27 years.
Article Synopsis
- A study evaluated the link between long-term residential sunlight exposure and cognitive function in 1,838 Finnish adults, using daily solar radiation data in relation to cognitive assessments.
- Results showed that greater sunlight exposure over 2 and 5 years was linked to improved global cognitive function and better performance on specific cognitive tasks like new learning and visual memory.
- However, higher sunlight exposure also correlated with poorer reaction times, suggesting a complex relationship between sunlight and cognitive abilities.