Jaakko Nevalainen

Biographic Data

ID5493987
NAMEJaakko Nevalainen
GIVEN NAMESJaakko
FAMILY NAMENevalainen
SIGNATURENEVALAINEN J
AFFILIATIONSTampere University
ORCID0000-0001-6295-0245
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • How likely are Eastern European and central Asian countries to achieve global NCD targets

    Open AccessAnastasiya Dumcheva, Jaakko Nevalainen et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    In most Eastern Europe and Central Asia countries, progress towards achieving NCD global targets is slow, or there's a reverse trend. Further quantitative and qualitative research is needed to understand the underlying reasons. Separate indicators are needed to monitor trends for cancers, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases

  • Does food insecurity compromise diet quality among Finnish private sector service workers

    Open AccessRoosa Joutsi, Hanna M Walsh et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2024

    Objective: To investigate the association between food insecurity (FI) and diet quality in private sector service workers. Design: Data were collected via electronic questionnaires (2019) and the national register data (2018–2019). FI was measured using the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) and diet quality using an FFQ and a modified Healthy Food Intake Index (mHFII). The associations between HFIAS and mHFII were studied using ANOVA…

  • Private sector service workers’ well-being before and during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessMaijaliisa Erkkola, Hanna M Walsh et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences & Humanities Open2023

    Workers attending to the essential functions of society have been most affected by COVID-19, but the well-being of workers outside the health care sector has scarcely been documented. We describe well-being profiles of Finnish blue-collar workers in private sector services and changes in their well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. Altogether 6345 members of the Service Union United provided cross-sectional pre-COVID data in April-June 2019, an…

  • Food purchase behaviour in a Finnish population

    Open AccessJelena Meinilä, Hanna Hartikainen et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2023

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  • Who buys non-alcoholic beer in Finland? Sociodemographic characteristics and associations with regular beer purchases

    Open AccessAnu Katainen, Liisa Uusitalo et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Drug…2023

    Educated and affluent consumers have been the forerunners of non-alcoholic beer consumption in Finland. In order to promote the substitution of regular beer with non-alcoholic beer the shift towards lower-strength beverages should be facilitated across social strata

  • Food purchase behaviour in a Finnish population

    Open AccessJelena Meinilä, Hanna Hartikainen et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2022

    Objective: To identify food purchase patterns and to assess their carbon footprint and expenditure. Design: Cross-sectional. Setting: Purchase patterns were identified by factor analysis from the annual purchases of 3435 product groups. The associations between purchase patterns and the total purchases’ carbon footprints (based on life-cycle assessment) and expenditure were analysed using linear regression and adjusted for nutritional energy cont…

  • Food insecurity among Finnish private service sector workers

    Open AccessHanna M Walsh, Jaakko Nevalainen et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2022

    Objective: To examine the prevalence and determinants of food insecurity among private sector service workers in Finland and assess validity of the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) tool. Design: In this cross-sectional study, food insecurity and background characteristics were collected from Finnish private service workers via electronic questionnaires (2019) and national register data (2018–2019). We conducted univariate and multiv…

  • Alcohol expenditure in grocery stores and their associations with tobacco and food expenditures

    Open AccessLiisa Uusitalo, Maijaliisa Erkkola et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    Alcohol consumption is a significant cause of disease, death and social harm, and it clusters with smoking tobacco and an unhealthy diet. Using automatically registered retail data for research purposes is a novel approach, which is not subject to underreporting bias. Based on loyalty card data (LoCard) obtained by a major Finnish retailer holding a market share of 47%, we examined alcohol expenditure and their associations with food and tobacco …

  • Food photographs in portion size estimation among adolescent Mozambican girls

    Open AccessLiisa Korkalo, Maijaliisa Erkkola et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2013

    Objective To assess the validity of food photographs in portion size estimation among adolescent girls in Mozambique. The study was carried out in preparation for the larger ZANE study, which used the 24 h dietary recall method. Design Life-sized photographs of three portion sizes of two staple foods and three sauces were produced. Participants ate weighed portions of one staple food and one sauce. After the meal, they were asked to estimate the …

  • Fatty acids in serum and diet – a canonical correlation analysis among toddlers

    Open AccessLiisa Uusitalo, Jaakko Nevalainen et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2011

    Fatty acid concentrations in blood are potential biomarkers of dietary fat intake, but methodological studies among children are scarce. The large number of fatty acids and their complex interrelationships pose a special challenge in research on fatty acids. Our target was to assess the interrelationships between the total fatty acid profiles in diet and serum of young children. The study subjects were healthy control children from the birth coho…