Pia Mäkelä
Official title: Research Professor, PhD, Adjunct Professor
Tel. +358 29 524 7159
E-mail: [email protected]
Expertise
- Alcohol use, drinking habits, drinking culture
- Consequences of alcohol use in Finland
- Alcohol policy
Primary duties
- Drinking Habit Survey
- Monitoring and studying of alcohol use, its consequences and alcohol policy in Finland
- Communication related to alcohol-related research
Education
- 2005, Adjunct Professor of Sociology, University of Helsinki
- 1999, D.Soc.Sc., Sociology/Demography, University of Helsinki
- 1994, M.Soc.Sc., Sociology/Demography, University of Helsinki
Professional background
- Research Professor, THL 2017–
- Senior Researcher, THL (previously STAKES), 1999–2017
- Head of Unit, THL, 2012–2016
- Ph.D. Student 1994–1999, University of Helsinki
Professional memberships
- Senior Editor of the journal Addiction
- Member of the Board of the Finnish Foundation for Alcohol Studies
- Co-ordinating committee of the Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol
Publications and research
- Pia Mäkelä, Janne Härkönen, Tomi Lintonen (in press) Drinking at home: what does it entail for younger and older Finns? Drug and Alcohol Review.
- Pia Mäkelä, Pekka Kumpulainen, Janne Härkönen, Tomi Lintonen (2022) Domestication of drinking: a survey study of changes in types of drinking occasions during periods of increasing and decreasing alcohol consumption in the 2000s in Finland. Addiction 117:2625–34.
- Katainen Anu, Härkönen Janne & Mäkelä Pia (2021) Social Consequences of Abstaining from Alcohol: A Population-Based Study on Experienced Pressure to Drink Among Finnish Non-Drinkers. Substance Use and Misuse, in press.
- Mäkelä P, Rossow I, Moan IS, Bye E, Kilian C, Raitasalo K, Allebeck P (2021) Measuring changes in alcohol use in Finland and Norway during the COVID-19 pandemic: comparison between data sources. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, e1892.
- Mäkelä P, Kumpulainen P, Härkönen J, Lintonen T (2021) How are drinking occasions and all alcohol drunk by Finns distributed between different types of drinking occasions - A typology of drinking occasions. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 82(6), 767–775.
- Mäkelä P, Härkönen J (2021) Alcohol consumption of Finns has decreased: but whose and what kind of consumption? Addiction Research & Theory, in press.
- Peña, S., Mäkelä, P., Laatikainen, T., Härkänen, T., Männistö, S., Heliövaara, M., and Koskinen, S. (2021) Joint effects of alcohol use, smoking and body mass index as an explanation for the alcohol harm paradox: causal mediation analysis of eight cohort studies. Addiction, 116: 2220– 2230.
- Rossow I, Mäkelä P (2021) Public health thinking around alcohol-related harm: why does per capita consumption matter? Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 82(1): 9-17.
- Mäkelä P, Rautiainen E, Partanen A, Kuussaari K (2021). Comparison of data sources on alcohol problems: an exploratory exercise using surveys vs. national health care registers. NAD 38(2)125-140.
- Peña S, Mäkelä P, Härkänen T, Heliövaara M, Gunnar T, Männistö S, Laatikainen T, Vartiainen E, Koskinen S (2020). Measurement error as an explanation for the alcohol harm paradox: analysis of eight cohort studies. International Journal of Epidemiology 49(6):1836-46.
- Tigerstedt C, Mäkelä P, Karlsson T, Härkönen J, Lintonen T, Warpenius K (2020) Change and continuity in Finnish drinking in the 21st century. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 37(6)609-618.
- Mäkelä P, Warpenius K (2020) Night-time is the right time? Late night drinking in Finnish public and private settings. Drug and Alcohol Review 39(4) 321-329.
- Karlsson T, Mäkelä P, Tigerstedt C, Keskimäki I (2020) The Road to the Alcohol Act 2018 in Finland: A conflict between public health objectives and neoliberal goals. Health Policy 214(1): 1-6.
- Kiiskinen T, Mars NJ, Palviainen T, Koskela J, Rämö JT, Ripatti P, Ruotsalainen S, FinnGen, GSCAN Consortium, Palotie A, Madden PAF, Rose RJ, Kaprio J, Salomaa V, Mäkelä P, Havulinna AS & Ripatti S (2020) Genomic prediction of alcohol-related morbidity and mortality. Transl Psychiatry 10, 23.
- Norström T, Mäkelä P (2019) The connection between per capita alcohol consumption and alcohol‐specific mortality accounting for unrecorded alcohol consumption: The case of Finland 1975–2015. Drug and Alcohol Review 38:731–736, published online 8.9.2019. DOI: 10.1111/dar.12983
- Mäkelä P, Montonen M (2018) Low-risk drinking guidelines to reduce alcohol-related harm: Delphi survey to explore aspects ‘beyond epidemiology’. Addiction Research & Theory 26(6): 487-497. D
- Paljärvi T, Martikainen P, Leinonen T, Vuori E, Mäkelä P (2018) Opportunities for preventing severe alcohol-related health outcomes in outpatient settings: a ten-year cohort study of reimbursed purchases of prescription drugs. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 186:175–181.
- Shield K, Gmel G, Gmel G, Mäkelä P, Probst C, Room R, Rehm J (2017) Lifetime risk of mortality due to different levels of alcohol consumption in seven European countries: implications for low-risk drinking guidelines. Addiction 112(9): 1535-44.
- Paljärvi, Tapio; Martikainen, Pekka; Vahtera, Jussi; Leinonen, Taina; Mäkelä, Pia: Hospital Admissions Before an Alcohol-Related Death Among Middle-Aged Employed Men and Women: A Cohort Study Using Routine Data; Alcohol Clin Exp Res, 40: 2161–2168, 2016.
- Mustonen H, Mäkelä P, Lintonen T: Situational drinking in private and public drinking locations: a multilevel analysis of blood alcohol level in Finnish drinking occsions. Drug and Alcohol Review 35(6)772-784, 2016. Published online in May 2016
- Mäkelä P, Maunu A. Come on, have a drink – the prevalence and cultural logic of social pressure to drink more. Drugs: education, prevention and policy, 23:4, 312-321, 2016.
- Mäkelä P, Herttua K, Martikainen P. The Socioeconomic Differences in Alcohol-Related Harm and the Effects of Alcohol Prices on Them: A Summary of Evidence from Finland. Alcohol and Alcoholism 50(6) 661–669, 2015.
- Paljärvi T, Martikainen P, Pensola T, Leinonen T, Herttua K, Mäkelä P (2015) Life Course Trajectories of Labour Market Participation among Young Adults Who Experienced Severe Alcohol-Related Health Outcomes: A Retrospective Cohort Study. PLoS ONE 10(5): e0126215.
Full list of publications (pdf 354 kt)
Dissertation
Mäkelä P. Alkoholiin liittyvät kuolemat. Yleisyys ja yhteys sukupuoleen ja sosioekonomiseen asemaan [Alcohol-related deaths. Incidence and connection to sex and socioeconomic status]. Stakes, Research Reports 105, Helsinki 1999.
