Josefine Björkqvist
Passionate about #PublicHealth research and translating evidence into practice
👩💻 Researcher at Folkhälsan Research Center 🇫🇮 and University of Aberdeen 🇬🇧
✨ Physical Activity, Environment and Child & Adolescent Health
🔗 www.dagis.fi
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- 🚨 The Finnish national recommendations for children's digital media use are now published. Researchers from @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social have been part of the expert network involved in preparing the recommendations and parents & children participated actively: thl.fi/en/-/recomme... #screentime
- ⏰ 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
- Reposted by Josefine Björkqvist💡 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 🧒🌳📺
- DAGIS Research is now on Bluesky! 🤸 DAGIS is a research project in health behaviors in Finnish preschool & school children. Latest article: Associations between parent–child outdoor visits & preschool-aged children’s screen time doi.org/10.1186/s441... @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social @helsinki.fi
- 🧠🌳 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
- Reposted by Josefine BjörkqvistTänään 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
- Reposted by Josefine Björkqvist📢 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
- Reposted by Josefine BjörkqvistFin_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
- Reposted by Josefine BjörkqvistStudy 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
- 🆕 3-Year PhD in Quantitative Social Sciences on "Adolescent Social Media, Mental Health & Inequalities"! 🎯 Deadline: March 31 Supervisors: @pablogracia.bsky.social [@uab.cat @cedemografia.bsky.social] & @alinacosma.bsky.social [@tcddublin.bsky.social] Apply & Share!👇 webs.uab.cat/touch/jobs/s...
- 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
- Reposted by Josefine BjörkqvistWe 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
- 🚨 Save the Date! 🚨 The 18th European Public Health Conference is coming to Helsinki, Finland! 🗓️ When: 11–14 November 2025 💡 Theme: Investing for sustainable health and well-being 📆 Pre-conference: 11 November 📆 Main conference: 12–14 November #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
