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  1. Changes in health behaviors and risk of cardiovascular disease among midlife and aging municipal employees with and without metabolic risk factors: A register-linkage cohort study in Finland

    Article • Preventive Medicine, October 2025, Elsevier

    Jaakko Harkko

  2. Social isolation and cardiovascular disease: mediation by health behaviours and metabolic risk factors in a 22-year survey follow-up

    Article • August 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Jaakko Harkko

  3. Hyvinvointipalveluiden vaikuttavuuden edistäminen edellyttää tutkimuksen ja kehittämisen yhdistävää strategiaa

    Article • Sosiaalilääketieteellinen Aikakauslehti, May 2025, Sosiaalilaaketieteellisen aikakauslehti

    Jaakko Harkko

  4. Leadership in sustainment of Individual Placement and Support model: a comparative case study in Finland

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, March 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jaakko Harkko

  5. Work-family conflicts and sickness absence due to mental disorders among female municipal employees – a register-linked study comparing health and social care employees to employees in other sectors

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health, October 2024, Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health

    Jaakko Harkko

  6. Decision‐chain integrity and sustainment of the individual placement and support model: An embedded single case study in Finland

    Article • Social Policy and Administration, July 2024, Wiley

    Jaakko Harkko

  7. External context in individual placement and support implementation: a scoping review with abductive thematic analysis

    Article • Implementation Science, November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jaakko Harkko

  8. Trajectories of hospitalizations after age-based statutory retirement

    Article • European Journal of Ageing, October 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jaakko Harkko

  9. Trajectories of CVD medication after statutory retirement: contributions of pre-retirement sociodemographic, work and health-related factors: a register study in Finland

    Article • BMC Geriatrics, September 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jaakko Harkko

  10. Occupational Class Differences in Emotional Exhaustion Among Municipal Employees – The Role of Employment Sector and Psychosocial Working Conditions

    Article • Psychological Reports, June 2022, SAGE Publications

    Jaakko Harkko

  11. Intervention targeted at physicians’ treatment of musculoskeletal disorders and sickness certification: an interrupted time series analysis

    Article • BMJ Open, December 2021, BMJ

    Jaakko Harkko, Tom Rosenström

  12. Working conditions and antidepressant medication use: A prospective study among 18 to 39-year-old municipal employees

    Article • Psychiatry Research, November 2021, Elsevier

    Jaakko Harkko

  13. Physical working conditions and subsequent sickness absence: a record linkage follow-up study among 19–39-year-old municipal employees

    Article • International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, October 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jaakko Harkko

  14. Working conditions and mental health functioning among young public sector employees

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, October 2021, SAGE Publications

    Jaakko Harkko

  15. Seeing an occupational health psychologist reduces sickness absence due to mental disorders: A quasi-experimental study

    Article • Preventive Medicine, August 2021, Elsevier

    Jaakko Harkko

  16. Frequent short sickness absence, occupational health service utilisation and long-term sickness absence due to mental disorders among young employees

    Article • International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, June 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jaakko Harkko

  17. Does seeing a psychologist reduce sickness absence due to mental disorders? A quasi-experiment

    Article • European Journal of Public Health, September 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Jaakko Harkko

  18. Socioeconomic Differences in Occupational Health Service Utilization and Sickness Absence Due to Mental Disorders: A Register-Based Retrospective Cohort Study

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, March 2020, MDPI AG

    Jaakko Harkko

  19. Correction:Effectiveness of internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy in reducing sickness absence among young employees with depressive symptoms: study protocol for a large-scale pragmatic randomised controlled trial

    Article • BMJ Open, March 2020, BMJ

    Jaakko Harkko

  20. Association between socioeconomic position and occupational health service utilisation trajectories among young municipal employees in Finland

    Article • BMJ Open, November 2019, BMJ

    Jaakko Harkko

  21. Effectiveness of internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy in reducing sickness absence among young employees with depressive symptoms: study protocol for a large-scale pragmatic randomised controlled trial

    Article • BMJ Open, October 2019, BMJ

    Jaakko Harkko

  22. Unemployment and work disability due to common mental disorders among young adults: selection or causation?

    Article • European Journal of Public Health, March 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Jaakko Harkko

  23. Educational attainment, labour market position and mental ill health as pathways from adversities in adolescence to disability pension in early adulthood: A Finnish cohort study using register data

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, July 2016, SAGE Publications

    Jaakko Harkko