⏰ New DAGIS Research publication⏰ Associations of chronotype and socio-demographic factors with timing of eating in Finnish preschool-aged children: doi.org/10.1007/s003... #chrononutrition #circadianrhythm #publichealth #nutritionresearch

💡 NEW DAGIS publication 💡 Who needs family meals? In our latest study @hennavepsalainen.bsky.social et al. investigated the associations between shared meals and dietary quality among children, fathers and mothers. Full article: doi.org/10.1017/S000... @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social @helsinki.fi

Bluesky just got a bit brighter! ☀️ Follow @dagis-research.bsky.social for research into health and well-being in children, families and educational settings in Finland. Our latest study investigates the associations between parent–child outdoor visits and preschool-aged children’s #screentime 🧒🌳📺

🧠🌳 Outdoor activity linked to lower dementia risk, particularly in those living in more accessible green space in a new UK Biobank cohort study. Link to article: doi.org/10.1038/s43856-025-01130-z #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #Dementia #GreenSpace #PhysicalActivity

“Goldilocks day”: identifying the optimal awake movement behaviour composition for predicted cardiometabolic health outcomes in youth. New publication from the @hepaeurope.bsky.social Children and Adolescents working group doi.org/10.1080/0301... #PhysicalActivity #SedentaryBehaviour

Thank you @hepaeurope.bsky.social for a wonderful conference in Kaunas! Highlights included discussing key issues around children's physical activity and health and being involved in HEPA Europe's Climate and Sustainability Action Pledge to embed #sustainability into all aspects of our work 💛

Too early to think? Why school start times matter for sleep and learning 🎒 ⏰ Another great episode of @lightoclock.bsky.social podcast covering adolescent sleep, circadian rhythms and initiatives aimed at delaying school start times www.tscnlab.org/podcast/s03e04 #chronobiology #chronotype

Arrived in beautiful Vienna for the International Congress of Behavioral Medicine 🇦🇹 We are sharing research from the DAGIS project, including 'Giving Feedback to Study Participants' to improve recruitment and reward participation in research #ICBM2025 @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social

NEW major review of effectiveness of exercise for improving cognition, memory and executive function 🧠🤸 bjsm.bmj.com/content/59/1... #Exercise #PhysicalActivity #ChildHealth #ADHD

Tänään Keskisuomalaisen jutussa yhdessä dosentti Anne Soinin kanssa lasten liikkumisesta. #lapset www.ksml.fi/paikalliset/...

NEW DAGIS Publication! 🎉 Parenting practices that enhanced vegetable availability & accessibility linked to more vegetable consumption in preschool children. Overprotective parenting was linked to reduction in child vegetable intake: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40677107/ @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social

New publication: The influence of #chronotype on school adjustment, sleep and somatic and mental health among Finnish adolescents: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PublicHealth #mentalhealth #sleep #circadianrhythms #school

New DAGIS publication! 🎉🎉 Boosting feeding-related parental self-efficacy and limiting sugary food availability at home may improve young children’s diets—regardless of family income or parental education level www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social @helsinki.fi

How are home, school and digital food environments associated with schoolchildren's food consumption? Read our latest DAGIS blog post by Mayke Kramer who explores the topic in her Master's thesis dagis.fi/2025/07/03/h... @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social @helsinki.fi #ChildHealth #PublicHealth

🆕 Cochrane review "Do dietary and activity strategies help prevent obesity in children aged 2-4 years?" Key take-home message: Combining strategies for changing diet & physical activity levels may reduce BMI slightly long term 🍏🏃 www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.... #PublicHealth #ChildHealth

Cohort study of 11 876 children and adolescents (aged 9-12) in the US found increases in social media use during early adolescence were prospectively associated with greater depressive symptoms 1 year later pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #Screentime #SoMe #Mentalhealth #Childhealth

Insightful study by colleagues in Sweden on the potential role of dietary antioxidants, particularly β-carotene and vitamin C, in adolescent mental health 🥦 🍊 doi.org/10.1007/s003... #PublicHealth #MentalHealth

Online lives, offline consequences 📢 New WHO Europe policy brief calls for urgent coordinated action to protect youth mental health: www.who.int/europe/news/... #ScreenTime #DigitalMedia #MentalHealth #PublicHealth

Delighted to announce "Connecting Nature and Public Health" a EPHC 2025 pre-conference on 11 Nov 2025 in Finland. Topics include: 🌱 Green Prescriptions and Mental Health 🌿 Biodiversity and Health Watch our teaser video: vimeo.com/1073430845/5... @eupha.bsky.social @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social

Lapsi­barometri 2025 julkaistu 🧒🤸‍♀️🛝 Kun 408 eskarilaiselta kysyttiin puhelin­haastattelussa näkemyksiä eskarista, ylivoimaisesti tärkeimmäksi asiaksi nousi leikkiminen. Myös kaverit ja kaveri­taitojen oppiminen korostuivat tuloksissa. Lue raportti: julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi/handle/10024... #lapset

Kolmasosa lapsista ja nuorista (7–20-vuotiaat) täyttää liikkumissuosituksen. Liikkumissuosituksen saavuttavien osuudet vähenevät iän myötä. Pojat liikkuvat suosituksen mukaisesti yleisemmin kuin tytöt. Lue koko LIITU 2025 raportti täältä: www.liikuntaneuvosto.fi/lausunnot-ja... #liikuminen

Lasten ja nuorten liikuntakäyttäytyminen Suomessa – LIITU-tutkimuksen tuloksia 2024 🤸🏼‍♀️🏀✨️ www.liikuntaneuvosto.fi/lausunnot-ja...

Thank you everyone who attended @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social FHRC Scientific Days 2025! We enjoyed hearing the latest research in genetics & public health and with 125 researchers attending it was a record year. Check out the new FHRC website to learn more about our work: research.folkhalsan.fi ✨

Early bird or late owl? 🐦‍⬛🦉 Sohvi Lommi presenting results from @fin-hit.bsky.social study showing late chronotypes were associated with adverse health behaviours and elevated BMIz at earlty adolescence #PublicHealth #chronotype

Reetta Lehto giving an excellent educational talk on circadian rhythms and health behaviours. In the DAGIS project at @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social we are studying chrononutrition & chronoactivity in children and associations between #chronotype, food consumption and weight outcomes #PublicHealth

Mikaela von Bonsdorff giving an exciting overview of the work of the Healthy Aging Group at @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social Scientific Days 2025 ✨️ The biological age of a 38-year-old can range between 28 and 61 years depending on multiple factors #HealthyAging #ActiveAging

Anna-Elina Lehesjoki welcoming a record number of researchers at @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social Scientific Days 2025 🙌 Looking forward to two days of innovative public health and genetics research #PublicHealth

Vill du känna att ditt jobb är viktigt, varje dag? Vi söker en förbundsdirektör på @folkhalsan.bsky.social 🤸🍏🤝 www.folkhalsan.fi/lediga-jobb/... #folkhälsa #föreningsverksamhet #ledarskap

A sunrise from Hanko, Finland to start the week ☀️ #NaturePhotography #BalticSea

Editorial: The Effects of Climate Change and Environmental Factors on Exercising Children and Youth 🏃 www.frontiersin.org/journals/spo... #PublicHealth #PhysicalActivity

Exciting news! Through natural experiment a large study in older adults in Wales finds evidence of a dementia-preventing or dementia-delaying effect of shingles vaccine www.theguardian.com/society/2025... Full study here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PublicHealth #dementia

Exciting start to Circadian Rhythms & Obesity: A Timely Approach to Health seminar 🕙🥪 Anna Abdollahi presented our DAGIS study showing preschoolers with later #chronotype or greater social jetlag were more likely to have higher BMI z-score eight years later. Full article: rdcu.be/d6rRQ #PublicHealth

📢 Registration for #EPHConference2025 is OPEN! Join Europe’s largest public health gathering to connect with experts, researchers & policymakers. Gain insights, engage in debates & expand your network. 🔗 Register: ephconference.eu/register-107 ❓ FAQs: ephconference.eu/faqs-240

Combined work and PhD opportunity at the University of Edinburgh: Co-producing alternatives to suicide prevention project, contributing to innovative suicide research that centres liveability and lived/living experience elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...? #mentalhealth #publichealth

Fin_HIT Cohort Profile Update is now published! 🎉 The third data collection conducted when participants reached adulthood, focusing on diet and mental health Check out the full publication here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40137925/ #FinHIT #AdolescentHealth #PublicHealth

Study protocol for an important systematic review investigating the impact of physical activity on children with ADHD @marie-louiseskov.bsky.social bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/1...

On 30 March, Europe switch to Daylight Saving Time (DST), moving clocks forward by 1 hour. Great episode by @lightoclock.bsky.social on what scientists in sleep & circadian research and the public say about changing the clocks 🕙🌅 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0tOU... #chronobiology #publichealth #sleep

Our colleague @elinaengberg.bsky.social from @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social presenting the SUNRISE Finland study at the Nordic seminar on health promoting physical activity. SUNRISE Finland has collected data on movement behaviours from 1000+ children aged 3-4 across Finland 🤸‍♂️

Finland is named the happiest country in the world for the 8th year in a row 🇫🇮🌿 Reasons include high quality social security, health care and education, high trust and freedom and low inequality and corruption. edition.cnn.com/travel/world... #happiness #wellbeing

Excellent PhD opportunity to investigate Social Media Use and Young People’s Mental Health. Looking forward to seeing the results 🎯 #mentalhealth #socialmedia #digitalmedia #youth #adolescent

Onsdagslänk med @folkhalsan.bsky.social Laddar upp inför morgondagens Nordiska seminarium om hälsofrämjande genom rörelse, aktivitet och glädje under hela livet 🏃‍♀️🤸🚴 www.arcada.fi/sv/evenemang... #rörelseglädje #fysiskaktivitet #hälsa

Luontobarometri 2025: Suomalaiset tunnistavat laajasti luonnon terveyshyödyt ja odottavat kunnilta toimia 🦋🌿 www.sitra.fi/uutiset/luon... #luonto #terveys #kuntavaalit

We are excited to share the date for the 18th European Public Health Conference in Helsinki! 🌍💙 This is where public health professionals unite to inspire, innovate, & drive progress. Will we see you there? Let’s shape the future of public health together! #EPH2025 #PublicHealth #SustainableHealth

Därför söker tonårshjärnan snabba kickar 🧠💫 Intressant avsnitt av Vetenskapspodden om tonåringars hjärnor och utveckling tillsammans med Armita Golkar som är psykologiforskare vid @stockholm-uni.bsky.social www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/darf... #hälsa #vetenskap #unga

Nyt kevät on todella tulossa 🌱 Nautin kahvia auringonnousun aikaan tänä aamuna klo 6:30, kun mustarastas ja kottarainen lauloivat #luonto #luontokuvaus #Helsinki #kevät

KAJ-effekten har kombinerat min kärlek för @eurovision.tv och #folkhälsa 💛

Fitness and screen time at age 13 associated with academic performance at age 16 in a new study in Swedish adolescents onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Screentime #Exercise #AdolescentDevelopment #Learning #AcademicSuccess

Mahtavaa työtä taas @hel.fi! Pyörätie aurattu jo klo 07:50 🙌❄️🚲 #pyöräily #talvi #liikkuminen #Helsinki #cycling #ActiveTravel

www.normalcurves.com?utm_medium=e... Great new episode of Normal Curves with ace sleuthing by Kristin Sainini, on hyping of Vitamin D deficiency. Bad stats, COI, and Regina coins the term “cockroach statistics”: when you find one dodgy number, there’s always more.

Välkommen på Projekt Växthus slutseminarium om hur vi tillsammans kan främja unga vuxnas psykiska hälsa 🧠🤸 Seminariet organiserat av @folkhalsan.bsky.social förbund i Helsingfors 20.03.25. Missa inte denna möjlighet att bidra till en bättre framtid för våra unga www.folkhalsan.fi/evenemang/ev...