Petra Mäkelä
Biographic Data
| ID | 291522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Petra Mäkelä |
| GIVEN NAMES | Petra |
| FAMILY NAME | Mäkelä |
| SIGNATURE | MÄKELÄ P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3343-2139 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Invisible Skills, Unequal Burdens: A Sociological Agenda for Recognising Emotional Labour in Participatory Research
Co-production and participatory research now occupy a prominent place within sociology and across neighbouring disciplines, framed as more inclusive and democratic forms of knowledge-making. Yet the emotional labour that sustains these collaborations often goes unrecognised. This article examines both the nature of that invisible labour and its unequal distribution, falling disproportionately on early-career and precariously employed researchers.…
Attitudes Towards Drinking in the Presence of Small Children: Do the Associations With Parenthood and Own Risky Drinking Change When Per Capita Alcohol Consumption Declines?
Attitudes toward under-age drinking: The role of own drinking patterns and parenthood
Background Parental attitudes influence adolescent alcohol use. This study examined Finnish adults’ attitudes toward underage drinking and their associations with parenthood and personal alcohol use.Methods Data came from the 2023 Finnish Drinking Habit Survey, a general-population sample of adults aged 20–79 years (N = 4,587), collected through telephone interviews. Attitudes were assessed using three statements on adolescent alcohol use. Person…
Drinking occasion types and their connection to intoxication in different generations in Finland in 2023 and 2008
Background We analyze Finns’ drinking contexts by age and sex: prevalence of drinking occasion types, the role of intoxication in them, and changes since 2008, when alcohol consumption was 37% higher than in 2023.Methods Surveys of the Finnish general population aged 20–69 in 2023 (n = 2133) and 2008 (n = 2500) recorded respondents’ most recent drinking occasions (n = 5851 and 8095), including place, time, company, and amount of alcohol consumed.…
Changes in socio‐economic inequality in alcohol‐attributable mortality in periods of increasing and decreasing alcohol affordability
The Capabilities in Academic Policy Engagement (Cape) programme in England: A mixed methods evaluation
CAPE led to an increase in academic-policy engagement activities, mostly as linear and relational interventions. These generated costs as well as benefits and often advantaged individuals with significant prior experience of academic-policy engagement. Future academic-policy engagement interventions should consider motivations, capabilities, goals and resources at the individual and organisation levels, while using strategic planning and coordina…
The Identity Work of Torture Scars
Scarring can be understood as a visible bodily entity or a metaphorical internal experience. Each type has liminal qualities, changing in form or intensity over time. The bearer may conceal scarring from others or may share stories that hold varied emotions, from horror or disgust to pride or self-esteem. For people who have survived torture or other forms of violence, and are seeking asylum, scars may take on particular additional meanings as ob…
Coproducing a film resource for asylum seekers in the UK—A field reflection
In this field reflection, we critically explore our experiences of coproduction, as a group comprising people with lived experience of seeking asylum in the UK, and clinical academics. We collaboratively developed a film resource for people facing the challenges of the asylum system and for professionals who support them. We aim to (1) reflect on how this collaboration came about and how it led to both planned outputs and unanticipated outcomes, …
Drinking in the home: What does it entail for younger and older Finns
Narrative Inquiry by Vera Caine, D. Jean Clandinin and Sean Lessard
Non-Drinkers’ Experiences of Drinking Occasions: A Population-Based Study of Social Consequences of Abstaining from Alcohol
BACKGROUND: People should be able to quit or moderate their drinking without negative social consequences, but studies have shown how nondrinkers often face pressure and negative reactions. As previous research has mostly focused on youth, we conducted a population-level study of the ways adult nondrinkers encounter their drinking companions on drinking occasions and what kinds of reactions they perceive from their social environments. METHOD: 2,…
Elaborating the association of age at first drink with risky drinking: Results from a cross-sectional survey
Objective An association between early drinking onset and subsequent heavy drinking has been established, but interpretation is problematic: is the onset of drinking or of intoxication important; is early onset a marker for vulnerability or a causal risk factor; what role does recall bias play? We (1) compare the associations of onset indicators with subsequent risky drinking, (2) assess whether drinking onset has a stronger association with subs…
Contaminating data with theory to reimagine support for ‘self-management’
The future of alcohol surveys: Between the devil and the deep blue sea
The future of survey research in the alcohol field, as elsewhere, does look gloomy. Even if there is a need to better confront this reality, abandoning traditional survey methods does not guarantee better outcomes and is not an equally burning issue in all countries or surveys and for all objectives. Correcting biases is easier when the aim is to estimate the parameters of a consumption distribution than when the aim is to measure drinking patter…
Alcohol‐attributed disease burden in four Nordic countries between 2000 and 2017: Are the gender gaps narrowing? A comparison using the Global Burden of Disease, Injury and Risk Factor 2017 study
Changes in Alcohol Consumption during the Covid-19 Pandemic Are Dependent on Initial Consumption Level: Findings from Eight European Countries
Evidence suggests that changes in alcohol consumption during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic were unevenly distributed over consumer groups. We investigated possible inter-country differences in how changes in alcohol consumption are contingent on initial consumption (before or at the start of the pandemic), and how changes in consumption translate into possible changes in the prevalence of heavy drinking. We used data from the European…
When tides turn: How does drinking change when per capita alcohol consumption drops
Purpose: A period of first increasing and then decreasing alcohol consumption in Finland in the 2000s offers an opportunity to scrutinize how population-level changes stem from varying developments in different population subgroups and drinking patterns. We examine 1) whose consumption changed in terms of age, sex, and level of consumption, and 2) how drinking patterns changed and whether the changes indicated steps toward a more Mediterranean dr…
Night‐time is the right time? Late‐night drinking and assaults in Finnish public and private settings
The Road to the Alcohol Act 2018 in Finland: A conflict between public health objectives and neoliberal goals
Finnish alcohol policy has aimed for decades years to mitigate alcohol-related harm by using high taxation and restrictions on the physical availability of alcohol. The state monopoly on the retail of alcohol has played a central role in reducing the availability of alcohol. In 2011, preparations began for a comprehensive reform of the Alcohol Act 1994. Over time, the issue became highly politicised, lobbied and divisive. It took intense work of …
Emotion and Narrative: Perspectives in Autobiographical Storytelling
Supporting self‐management after traumatic brain injury: Codesign and evaluation of a new intervention across a trauma pathway
BACKGROUND: Supported self-management (SSM) is a recognized approach for people with long-term conditions but, despite the prevalence of unmet needs, little is known about its role for people with traumatic brain injury (TBI). OBJECTIVES: To codesign an SSM intervention with people with TBI and evaluate feasibility of implementation through multidisciplinary staff across a trauma pathway. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: People who had previously been a…
Low-risk drinking guidelines to reduce alcohol-related harm: Delphi survey to explore aspects ‘beyond epidemiology’
Background: Low-risk drinking guidelines across Europe portray a wide variation. We turned to European experts to identify areas of agreement and disagreement on questions relevant to forming and communicating low-risk guidelines: need and purpose of guidelines, criterion for low risk, desired components and stratification, views over evidence base and communication aspects.Methods: A policy Delphi survey carried out in two rounds in 2015 with pu…
They brought you back to the fact you’re not the same”: Sense of self after traumatic brain injury
Toward a typology of drinking occasions: Latent classes of an autumn week's drinking occasions
Drinking occasions are important determinants of the quantity and effects of alcohol consumption. We examine the Finnish drinking culture by identifying a typology of typical autumn week's drinking occasions and by determining the central characteristics of drinking occasions that differentiate one occasion from another. The data come from the 2008 Finnish Drinking Habits Survey (n = 2725, response rate 73.6%) on a general population sample aged …
Changes in Finnish drinking occasions between 1976 and 2008 – The waxing and waning of drinking contexts
A deeper understanding of drinking practices of a population requires a study of the situations in which people drink, i.e. the context of drinking. This study explores the changes and continuities in the prevalence and nature of drinking in terms of place, company, time and the social drinking context, during a period when overall alcohol consumption in Finland grew by half and drinking culture at large was transformed radically. Analyses were b…
The effects of regional characteristics on alcohol-related mortality-a register-based multilevel analysis of 1.1 million men
Do consequences of a given pattern of drinking vary by socioeconomic status? A mortality and hospitalisation follow-up for alcohol-related causes of the Finnish Drinking Habits Surveys
BACKGROUND: Socioeconomic differences in alcohol-related mortality and hospitalisations, as based on register data, are larger than socioeconomic differences in various types of harmful drinking, as based on survey data. OBJECTIVE: The aim was to use a follow-up study to examine whether differential drinking patterns between socioeconomic groups explain the observed differences in alcohol-related mortality and hospitalisations, or whether similar…
What underlies the high alcohol related mortality of the disadvantaged: High morbidity or poor survival
Study objective: To investigate whether the large socioeconomic differences in alcohol related mortality can be explained by differences in morbidity or differences in survival. Design: Register linkage study. A nationwide hospital discharge register was linked to population censuses for socioeconomic data and to the cause of death register for mortality follow up. Setting: Finland. Participants: Men and women aged 15 years and older discharged f…
Has the Boozing Finn Been Tamed? Changes in the Relationships between Drinking, Intoxication, and Alcohol-Related Harm When Turning from a Spirits-Drinking Country to a Beer-Drinking Country
The aim of this study is to examine whether there is evidence of a “taming” of drinking patterns and a decrease in the rate of harms per each liter of alcohol consumed during the time when Finland transformed from a spirits-drinking country with a low alcohol consumption level to a beer-drinking country with a high level of consumption. According to the results, there has been a nearly constant increase in both alcohol consumption and related har…
Mortality and causes of death among drugged drivers
BACKGROUND: Studying drugged drivers gives complementary information about mortality of drug users, which mainly has been studied among opioid abusers. The aim of this study was to analyse mortality rates and causes of death among drivers under the influence of drugs (DUID) in Finland and compare them with the general Finnish population during 1993-2006. METHODS: Register data from 5832 DUID suspects apprehended by the police were studied, with a…
The impact of a large reduction in the price of alcohol on area differences in interpersonal violence: A natural experiment based on aggregate data
BACKGROUND: This paper examines the effect of a drastic reduction in the price of alcohol that occurred in Finland in 2004 on interpersonal violence in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, and how these changes varied at the small-area level. METHODS: This study comprised 86 administrative tracts from the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. Data pertaining to the social structure of the tracts and interpersonal violence were collected from archival sources in…
Alcohol-Related Mortality during an Economic Boom and Recession
Alcohol-related mortality accounts for a considerable proportion of premature mortality in Finland. The end of the 1980s saw a rapid economic boom, followed by a severe recession in the 1990s. In this study, Finnish individual-level cause of death data for 1987–1995 are used to examine how alcohol-related mortality developed during this period and whether the development was similar in subgroups of the population by age, sex and socioeconomic sta…
Views into Studies of Differences in Drinking Habits and Alcohol Problems between Sociodemographic Groups
In the alcohol research field, associations between alcohol consumption or problems and some basic sociodemographic variables–e.g., sex, age, socioeconomic status—are often presented. The first part of this paper discusses different uses of and views to such data on sociodemographic differences. The second part discusses different paths available to research when the aim is to get a more thorough understanding of the nature and origins of the ass…
Alcohol-Related Mortality during an Economic Boom and Recession
Alcohol-related mortality accounts for a considerable proportion of premature mortality in Finland. The end of the 1980s saw a rapid economic boom, followed by a severe recession in the 1990s. In this study, Finnish individual-level cause of death data for 1987–1995 are used to examine how alcohol-related mortality developed during this period and whether the development was similar in subgroups of the population by age, sex and socioeconomic sta…
Views into Studies of Differences in Drinking Habits and Alcohol Problems between Sociodemographic Groups
In the alcohol research field, associations between alcohol consumption or problems and some basic sociodemographic variables–e.g., sex, age, socioeconomic status—are often presented. The first part of this paper discusses different uses of and views to such data on sociodemographic differences. The second part discusses different paths available to research when the aim is to get a more thorough understanding of the nature and origins of the ass…
What underlies the high alcohol related mortality of the disadvantaged: High morbidity or poor survival
Study objective: To investigate whether the large socioeconomic differences in alcohol related mortality can be explained by differences in morbidity or differences in survival. Design: Register linkage study. A nationwide hospital discharge register was linked to population censuses for socioeconomic data and to the cause of death register for mortality follow up. Setting: Finland. Participants: Men and women aged 15 years and older discharged f…
Comparing Drinking Patterns in Finland and Ontario (Canada)
A comparison is made of drinking patterns in Finland and Ontario (Canada). Respondents in two existing population surveys, the 1996 Joint Nordic Questionnaire and the 1996 Ontario Drug Monitor, were compared on their frequency of alcohol use in the past year, frequency of heavy drinking (6+ on Nordic survey and 5+ in Ontario), and both frequency and typical quantity of beer, wine and liquor consumption in males and females. It appeared that there…
The effects of regional characteristics on alcohol-related mortality-a register-based multilevel analysis of 1.1 million men
Do consequences of a given pattern of drinking vary by socioeconomic status? A mortality and hospitalisation follow-up for alcohol-related causes of the Finnish Drinking Habits Surveys
BACKGROUND: Socioeconomic differences in alcohol-related mortality and hospitalisations, as based on register data, are larger than socioeconomic differences in various types of harmful drinking, as based on survey data. OBJECTIVE: The aim was to use a follow-up study to examine whether differential drinking patterns between socioeconomic groups explain the observed differences in alcohol-related mortality and hospitalisations, or whether similar…
The impact of a large reduction in the price of alcohol on area differences in interpersonal violence: A natural experiment based on aggregate data
BACKGROUND: This paper examines the effect of a drastic reduction in the price of alcohol that occurred in Finland in 2004 on interpersonal violence in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, and how these changes varied at the small-area level. METHODS: This study comprised 86 administrative tracts from the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. Data pertaining to the social structure of the tracts and interpersonal violence were collected from archival sources in…
Dimensionality of drinking consequences – cross-cultural comparability and stability over time
Despite the long tradition for asking about the negative social and health consequences of alcohol consumption in surveys, little is known about the dimensionality of these consequences. Analysing cross-sectional and longitudinal data from the Nordic Taxation Study collected for Sweden, Finland, and Denmark in two waves in 2003 and 2004 by means of an explorative principal component analysis for categorical data (CATPCA), it is tested whether con…
Changes in the norms guiding alcohol use in the Finnish general population over the past 40 years
Attitudinal climate can be seen as a central factor influencing drinking habits; the level of consumption has been claimed to depend on how many adverse consequences of drinking a society tolerates. In the past few decades, however, only a few studies have looked at normative aspects of drinking in the general population. This article investigates changes in attitudes and norms around drinking in Finland by reviewing existing research and present…
Mortality and causes of death among drugged drivers
BACKGROUND: Studying drugged drivers gives complementary information about mortality of drug users, which mainly has been studied among opioid abusers. The aim of this study was to analyse mortality rates and causes of death among drivers under the influence of drugs (DUID) in Finland and compare them with the general Finnish population during 1993-2006. METHODS: Register data from 5832 DUID suspects apprehended by the police were studied, with a…
Conflicting norms on parental duties – Can parents party
Conflicting norms on parental duties – Can parents party?." Addiction Research & Theory, 19(5), pp. 406–407
Drinking in the presence of underage children: Attitudes and behaviour
The ambivalent characteristic of the Finnish drinking culture is particularly evident in the context of family life. While drinking to intoxication in the home environment is widely tolerated, attitudes towards drinking in the presence of children appear negative, and there is broad political concern about harms to children. This study aims to both illuminate the attitudes towards drinking and the actual drinking behaviour of parents living with …
Harm Caused by Different Beverage Types—A Recurring Question
This publication is one of two thematic journal issues produced by the project Trouble per liter - The effects of policies favoring lighter beverages. The project's origins date back to March 2007, when Nordic and Russian alcohol researchers met up for a research-based alcohol policy conference in Moscow. During the meeting it became evident that, from a Russian point of view, the historic Nordic drinking trend away from a domination of distilled…
Has the Boozing Finn Been Tamed? Changes in the Relationships between Drinking, Intoxication, and Alcohol-Related Harm When Turning from a Spirits-Drinking Country to a Beer-Drinking Country
The aim of this study is to examine whether there is evidence of a “taming” of drinking patterns and a decrease in the rate of harms per each liter of alcohol consumed during the time when Finland transformed from a spirits-drinking country with a low alcohol consumption level to a beer-drinking country with a high level of consumption. According to the results, there has been a nearly constant increase in both alcohol consumption and related har…
Changes in Finnish drinking occasions between 1976 and 2008 – The waxing and waning of drinking contexts
A deeper understanding of drinking practices of a population requires a study of the situations in which people drink, i.e. the context of drinking. This study explores the changes and continuities in the prevalence and nature of drinking in terms of place, company, time and the social drinking context, during a period when overall alcohol consumption in Finland grew by half and drinking culture at large was transformed radically. Analyses were b…
Toward a typology of drinking occasions: Latent classes of an autumn week's drinking occasions
Drinking occasions are important determinants of the quantity and effects of alcohol consumption. We examine the Finnish drinking culture by identifying a typology of typical autumn week's drinking occasions and by determining the central characteristics of drinking occasions that differentiate one occasion from another. The data come from the 2008 Finnish Drinking Habits Survey (n = 2725, response rate 73.6%) on a general population sample aged …
They brought you back to the fact you’re not the same”: Sense of self after traumatic brain injury
Low-risk drinking guidelines to reduce alcohol-related harm: Delphi survey to explore aspects ‘beyond epidemiology’
Background: Low-risk drinking guidelines across Europe portray a wide variation. We turned to European experts to identify areas of agreement and disagreement on questions relevant to forming and communicating low-risk guidelines: need and purpose of guidelines, criterion for low risk, desired components and stratification, views over evidence base and communication aspects.Methods: A policy Delphi survey carried out in two rounds in 2015 with pu…
Supporting self‐management after traumatic brain injury: Codesign and evaluation of a new intervention across a trauma pathway
BACKGROUND: Supported self-management (SSM) is a recognized approach for people with long-term conditions but, despite the prevalence of unmet needs, little is known about its role for people with traumatic brain injury (TBI). OBJECTIVES: To codesign an SSM intervention with people with TBI and evaluate feasibility of implementation through multidisciplinary staff across a trauma pathway. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: People who had previously been a…
Night‐time is the right time? Late‐night drinking and assaults in Finnish public and private settings
The Road to the Alcohol Act 2018 in Finland: A conflict between public health objectives and neoliberal goals
Finnish alcohol policy has aimed for decades years to mitigate alcohol-related harm by using high taxation and restrictions on the physical availability of alcohol. The state monopoly on the retail of alcohol has played a central role in reducing the availability of alcohol. In 2011, preparations began for a comprehensive reform of the Alcohol Act 1994. Over time, the issue became highly politicised, lobbied and divisive. It took intense work of …
Emotion and Narrative: Perspectives in Autobiographical Storytelling
Contaminating data with theory to reimagine support for ‘self-management’
The future of alcohol surveys: Between the devil and the deep blue sea
The future of survey research in the alcohol field, as elsewhere, does look gloomy. Even if there is a need to better confront this reality, abandoning traditional survey methods does not guarantee better outcomes and is not an equally burning issue in all countries or surveys and for all objectives. Correcting biases is easier when the aim is to estimate the parameters of a consumption distribution than when the aim is to measure drinking patter…
Alcohol‐attributed disease burden in four Nordic countries between 2000 and 2017: Are the gender gaps narrowing? A comparison using the Global Burden of Disease, Injury and Risk Factor 2017 study
Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (29 works) · Medicine (26 works) · Environmental health (22 works) · Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects (20 works) · Psychology (20 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Demography (17 works) · Population (16 works) · Alcohol (15 works) · Alcohol consumption (12 works)