We study health behavior in different population groups, attitudes towards health and health behavior, and self-rated health:
YiPEE: Youth co-Production for sustainable Engagement and Empowerment in health. An EU-funded project to co-create, implement and evaluate a multi-component intervention to improve young people's mental health and prevent diseases in four country settings.
Changemaker: Promoting co-designed sustainable health interventions with young changemakers for reduced risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in urban Burkina Faso, Kenya and Tanzania. An EU-funded project to co-design and implement a multi-component intervention and to evaluate its implementation and effectiveness on young people's behavioral risk factor reduction and prevention of obesity and related diseases.
Parents having a child with higher weight. What issues effect how parents implement healthy lifestyle choices in their family life? A qualitative research on how parents make every day choices and what issues around the family affect the choices.
Finnish children's self-rated health – declining subjective well-being in modern society. This doctoral dissertation examines trends in Finnish children's subjective well-being over time and its persistent, changed and new explanatory factors.
Diets, food consumption, and related attitudes, cultural imageries, fears and hopes; dietary movements, food activism. Several projects, using qualitative and quantitative methods. More information about the projects.
Implementing Preventive Tobacco Policies: The role of contextual factors in policy implementation at school and national levels.