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Pain was associated with depressive symptoms and comorbidities and especially daily pain with poor self-rated health, according to the doctoral dissertation of Merja Karjalainen, Lic Med.

The aim of MPH Hyocher Kim’s dissertation was to explore the scale of occupational injury and suggest a direction for developing occupational safety and health checklists and regulations in Korean agriculture.

Several projects are underway at the University of Eastern Finland that seek to help embrace a gentler and more accepting approach to food and eating in food education. 

In order for children to have an uncomplicated relationship with food, it is good to start building a balanced food relationship in already in early childhood education.

Exposure to certain endocrine-disrupting chemicals could elevate the risk of breast cancer, according to a new comprehensive systematic review of epidemiological research.

Can vitamin D supplementation prevent cancer, diabetes or COVID-19? Recent research has yielded both hope, disappointments and new questions.

Malting, the processing of cereal grains into malt, generates rootlets as a side-stream product, which is currently mostly utilised as animal feed. However, this leftover material has not only a high protein content, but also high amounts of phytochemicals.

The new strategy aims is to make Finland a key player in the transition to a healthy and sustainable global food system.

The Working Conditions of Home Offices (ETERGO) study examines, for the first time, the conditions of remote work as a whole, taking into account physical and cognitive ergonomics, communality, and indoor air, and their associations with recovery from work, work ability and health.