Riku Perhoniemi

Presentation

I study work incapacity in the Finnish population, focusing on prevalence, temporal changes, and differences between different population groups and regions. For example, an understanding of the connections of work capacity to unemployment and socioeconomic status is essential in promoting equality.

I have previously studied, among other things, wellbeing at work, careers, gambling, and integration of Finns.

Expertise

• work ability
• sickness allowance
• disability pension
• wellbeing at work

Research projects

• Changes in Work Disability in the 2000s
• Use and Costs of Social and Health Services and Social Security Benefits in Oulu, 2013–2018
• Sickness Allowance as Part of the Healthcare and Social Welfare System
• Checkpoints for Sickness Allowance Periods: Implementation of Rehabilitation and Return to Work
• Differences and Trends in Sickness Absences by Population Group

Selected publications

• Perhoniemi R, Blomgren J, Laaksonen M (2023). Unemployed and disabled for work: identifying 3-year labour market pathways from the beginning of a sickness absence using sequence and cluster analyses in a register-based longitudinal study in Finland. BMJ open 1;13(12):e076435. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-076435
• Perhoniemi R, Blomgren J, Laaksonen M (2023). Identifying labour market pathways after a 30-day-long sickness absence–a three-year sequence analysis study in Finland. BMC Public Health Dec;23(1):1-2. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15895-2
• Perhoniemi R, Blomgren J (2022). Use of Health Services and Rehabilitation before and after the Beginning of Long-Term Sickness Absence—Comparing the Use by Employment and Disability Pension Transition after the Sickness Absence in Finland. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health;19(9):4990. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19094990
• Perhoniemi R, Blomgren J (2022). Outpatient healthcare use before and during a long-term sickness absence spell: a register-based follow-up study comparing healthcare use by the length of sickness absence and transition to disability pension in Finland. BMJ open 1;12(2):e053948. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053948
• Perhoniemi R, Blomgren J, Jäppinen S (2022). Pitkien sairauspoissaolojen kehitys maakunnittain 2010−2019. Yhteiskuntapolitiikka 1/2022. https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2022021519152
• Perhoniemi R, Blomgren J (2021). Frequent attenders of three outpatient health care schemes in Finland: characteristics and association with long-term sickness absences, 2016–2018. BMC Public Health;21(1):1-4. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10866-x
• Perhoniemi R, Blomgren J, Laaksonen M (2021). Mitä sairauspäivärahan enimmäisajan täytyttyä? Toimeentulon lähteet kahden vuoden seurannassa. Sosiaalilääketieteellinen aikakauslehti 2021: 58: 16–30. https://doi.org/10.23990/sa.89604
• Perhoniemi R, Blomgren J, Laaksonen M (2020). Työkyvyttömyyseläkehakemusten ja hylkäysosuuksien maakunnalliset erot. Yhteiskuntapolitiikka, 1/2020. https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe202002115167
• Perhoniemi, Riku, Blomgren, Jenni, Jäppinen, Sauli, Virta, Lauri (2020). Sairauspäivärahojen kustannukset maakunnittain vuonna 2019. Kelan työpapereita 155/2020. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2020062645813
• Perhoniemi R, Tuulio-Henriksson A, Blomgren J, Laaksonen M (2021). Consumption of psychotropic drugs among disability pension applicants with mental disorders: comparing awarded and rejected applicants in Finland. Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology 56(3):437. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-020-01850-8
• Perhoniemi R, Blomgren J, Laaksonen M (2020). Determinants of disability pension applications and awarded disability pensions in Finland, 2009 and 2014. Scandinavian journal of public health. 2020 Mar;48(2):172-80. https://doi.org/10.1177/1403494819843778
• Perhoniemi R, Blomgren J, Laaksonen M (2020). Sources of income following a rejected disability pension application: a sequence analysis study. Disability and rehabilitation. 2020 Jul 16;42(15):2161-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2018.1555619
• Perhoniemi, R, Blomgren J & Laaksonen M. (2018). Mitä hylkäävän työkyvyttömyyseläkepäätöksen jälkeen? Työttömyys-, sairauspäiväraha- ja kuntoutusrahaetuudet sekä uudet eläkepäätökset neljän vuoden seurannassa. Yhteiskuntapolitiikka, 83, 117–131. https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe201804196717
• Perhoniemi R, Lundell K, Sohlman P, Heino S & Pekkarinen L (2015). Työkyvyttömyyseläkkeen hylkäävät päätökset julkisella sektorilla – tutkimus hylkäävän päätöksen 2009-2013 saaneista. Kevan tutkimuksia 2/2015.