The impact of education and occupation on the employment status of cancer survivors.

We explored the effect of a diagnosis of cancer on employment according to cancer type, education, occupation, age, gender, mother tongue (Swedish or Finnish), calendar time and hospital district. All 12,542 new cancer cases diagnosed in 1987-1988 and 1992-1993, aged 15-60 years at the time of the diagnosis were identified from the Finnish Cancer Registry. The employment rate of the cancer survivors 2-3 years after the diagnosis was only 9% lower than their gender- and age-matched referents.

Work injuries among Finnish farmers: a national register linkage study 1996-1997.

Background: Farming is one of the most injury-prone occupations in Finland as it is in other countries. Our goals were to describe work injuries of Finnish farmers and to compare occupational injury rates between various subgroups.

Methods: A national cohort of 69,629 full-time farmers and their 11,657 compensated injuries were identified from an insurance company database.

Mortality and cancer incidence of workers in Finnish road paving companies.

Background: This study, a component of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Multicentric Study on Cancer Risk Among European Asphalt Workers, aimed at identifying major mortality risks among workers in Finnish road paving companies.

Methods: The Finnish cohort was comprised of 9,643 men and women from six road paving companies. The mortality of men employed during at least one season (5,676) was followed up from 1964 until end of 1994; an average of 17 years.

Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke in Finland in 2000.

Objectives: Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke at workplaces, homes and other places was assessed.

Methods: Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke was defined as occurring when a person reported inhaling, at least occasionally, tobacco smoke from other people's smoke. Some of the exposed were also smokers themselves.

Socioeconomic inequalities in cardiovascular mortality and the role of work: a register study of Finnish men.

Background: In Finland, socioeconomic inequalities in mortality have been well documented. However, the role of working conditions in the emergence of those inequalities has not been thoroughly examined.

Methods: Data came from the Longitudinal Census file, which included censuses since 1970 (every 5 years).