Tutustu tutkijaan: Svetlana Solovieva (in English)

Marjo Honkaranta

MeetTheResearcher TutustuTutkijaan Svetlana Solovieva, Chief Researcher at the Työterveyslaitos – Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH) and a deputy principal investigator in LIFECON, is responsible for the Work Package concerning Working Life.

Svetlana’s background is in mathematics and epidemiology, and she has conducted register-based research on work disability and work participation.
In the LIFECON project she she studies the length of work careers.

She has also studied the influence of the work environment on work-related health, work disability, labor market participation and working life expectancy using national population surveys and large national register data.

Her research focuses on the potential of population level and workplace interventions targeted at improvement of working environment and reducing the harmful effects of occupational exposures on work-related diseases, thereby prolonging working life.

Population-level interventions include practices, policies and legislation, such as part-time work disability legislation. Workplace interventions include for example,  work modification and worktime control.

– A challenging question concerning demographic change is that the average length of working life remains relatively short compared to life expectancy despite the relatively good health of elderly population and increased longevity, says Svetlana.

– At the same time employability and work participation of young adults do not increase over time. The share of the active working-age population is decreasing. Moreover, there is a growing concern about the increase in mental health problems and their impact on work among female employees aged 18-35 years.

– To address this issue, attention must be paid to mental and physical “fitness to work” of young adults entering the labour force and to the promotion of a safe work environment across the entire working life, Svetlana stresses.

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