BACKGROUND This article investigates the legal database and theoretical basis of workplace health promotion (WHP) in three European countries: Finland, Latvia and Lithuania, and aims to find insights into effective WHP implementation. METHODS In November 2013, a stakeholders' survey was carried out. The questionnaire included questions about legal documents and non-legislative measures releva...

We examined the occurrence of brown bear (Ursus arctos) in Finland by using hunterprovided observations and harvest data for 1992–2004. We calculated a simple index (bears observed/ all observation cards) from observation cards filled annually by nearly 5,000 moose hunting clubs. This occurrence index was treated as a dependent variable in a mixed regression model to examine differences between...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Knee arthroscopy is commonly performed to treat degenerative knee disease symptoms and traumatic meniscal tears. We evaluated whether the recent high-quality randomized control trials not favoring arthroscopic surgery for degenerative knee disease affected the procedure incidence and trends in Finland and Sweden. PATIENTS AND METHODS We conducted a bi-national registry-...

AIMS The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of pre-eclampsia in Southern, Eastern, and Northern Finland, and the relationship between history of pre-eclampsia and maternal coronary artery disease (CAD) risk factors. METHODS AND RESULTS Women aged 25-64 years, who participated in a cross-sectional population survey and had been pregnant (n=3650), were studied. The proportion of wo...

Notable regional and seasonal variation has been reported in the rate of hospital admissions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPE). The aim of this study was to assess the variation in the length of hospital stay for COPD in Finland on the north south axis and by season. For this purpose, the patient records of subjects aged over 45 hospitalised altogether 153,401 times with COPD as ...

New wintering populations of Whooper Swan have been recently reported from west Asia, a lack of information about the population and its origin. The understanding the genetic structure and connectivity are crucial for determining strategies of management for its conservation programs. The samples were collected from two populations in northern Iran, Finland, Sweden, and Iceland, where with larg...

Abstract This article examines regional and stylistic variation in the merger of front vowels /eː/ /ɛː/ Finland-Swedish. The study investigates by comparing formant data from 141 speakers four Swedish-speaking regions Finland. Additionally, intraspeaker is explored incorporating samples three contextual styles. results indicate cross-regional differences between Finland-Swedish dialects, with a...

A checklist of the Agromyzidae (Diptera) recorded from Finland is presented. 279 (or 280) species are currently known from the country. Phytomyzalinguae Lundqvist, 1947 is recorded as new to Finland.

Background: Panoramic imaging is one of the most common imaging methods in dentistry. Regarding the side-effects of ionizing radiation, it is necessary to survey different aspects and details of panoramic imaging. In this study, we compared the absorbed x-ray dose around two panoramic x-ray units: PM 2002 CC Proline (Planmeca, Helsinki, Finland) and Cranex Tome (Soredex, Helsinki, Finland).<br ...

This paper reviews the activities in the field of microrobotics of two closely co-operating microsystem groups in Finland. Topics covered include mechanical and biological micromanipulators, microactuator modeling, modeling of handling tasks and prototyping gastrointestinal biotelemetering device.