Prevalence of menstrual pain, use of medication and school absenteeism due to the pain were studied by means of a mailed questionnaire in a sample representing 12-18-year-old girls in Finland (n = 3370, response rate 87%). Prevalence of menstrual pain was 48% among 12-year-old post-menarcheal...

International mobility of health care professionals is increasing, though little is known about how working in a culturally diverse team affects the native physicians’ psychosocial work environment. We examined Finnish physicians’ perceptions of work-related wellbeing according to whether...

Objectives To evaluate the effects of integrated home care and discharge practice (IHCaD-practice) on the use of services and cost-effectiveness.Methods A cluster randomised trial with Finnish municipalities (n = 22) as the units of randomisation. At baseline the sample included 668 home...

Objective: To analyse factors affecting physicians' choice to work in either the public or the private sector. Method: We undertook a longitudinal data analysis in the years 1988, 1993, 1998 and 2003 (n = 12_909) using a multilevel modelling technique. Factors related to economic factors,...