Tampere Institute for Advanced Study Mentoring Handbook. Version 1.0

This Handbook is a practical guide to mentoring. It does not tell you exactly what to do and how to do it. Rather, it is like a (travel) guidebook: you use it to acquaint yourself with general ideas and concepts, and then pick the pieces that you think serve you best. Mentoring requires mutual consent and collaboration – this Handbook is merely a resource for colleagues to use as they together think best – or not at all. We hope you find it useful

Use of Registry Data in the Analysis of Medical Practices : Cesarean birth in the Finnish Medical Birth Registry

Yhteenveto: Rekisteritietojen laatu ja käyttökelpoisuus hoitokäytäntöjen tutkimisessa - esimerkkinä syntymärekisteri ja keisarileikkaukse

Menstrual pain, health and behaviour in girls

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 girls and 79% among 18-year-olds. Thirty percent of the 16-year-old girls had used medication and 21% had stayed at home due to menstrual pain in the last 6 months; 3% had both been absent and used medication several times. Three types of factors were associated with menstrual pain: (1) physiological (gynaecological age, duration of menstrual flow); (2) indicators of poor self-rated health (not feeling active in the morning, bad physical condition, number of common colds); (3) unhealthy practices (consumption of alcohol, low physical activity, smoking). The prevalence of menstrual pain did not correlate with the variables describing the place of residence or the socio-economic status of the family. The determinants of menstrual pain are supposed to lie more in the biological construct and micro-environment of the girls than in macro-level structures of the society. The experience of pain seems to be related to self-rated health as a whole and to lifestyle rather than to specific disorders and health practices.adolescence dysmenorrhoea health behaviour

Suomalaisten terveys (2005)

Suomalaisten terveys -teoksen (2005) ajantasaistettu englanninkielinen käännös; kirjoittajina mm. Vappu Taipale, Marko Elovainio, Mika Gissler, Pekka Hakkarainen, Unto Häkkinen, Ilmo Keskimäki, Ville Lehtinen, Kristiina Manderbacka, Simo Mannila, Leena Metso, Heli Mustonen, Anja Noro, Juha Partanen, Sami Pirkola, Lauri Vuorenkoski, Kristian Wahlbeck, Eeva Widströ