Markku Satokangas
Year of birth: 1981
Official title: Senior researcher
Tel. + 358 29 524 7725
E-mail: [email protected]
Expertise
- Equity in health care
- Register-based research
- Health services research
- Hospitalisations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC)
Primary duties
- Research of geographic equity in health care
- Evaluation of health care system
Education
- 2018, Specialist in general practise, University of Helsinki
- 2008, MD, University of Helsinki
Professional background
- 2021–, senior researcher, THL
- 2019–2020, researcher, THL
- 2018, doctoral student, University of Helsinki
- 2017, researcher, THL
- 2016–2017, specialising physician, HUS
- 2008–2015, general practitioner, Helsingin kaupunki
Language skills
- Finnish (native)
- English (excellent)
- Swedish (fair)
Current projects
- 2021–, Resilience, crisis preparedness and security of supply of the Finnish health system (RECPHEALS)
- 2018–, Improved knowledge base and service optimisation to health and social services (IMPRO)
- 2015–, Social Inequities in Aging (SIA)
Previous projects
Affiliations
- 2013–, Deputy board member, The Finnish Association for General Practice
- 2012–2014, Deputy delegation member, Junior Doctors' Association in Finland
- 2010–2012, Delegation member, Finnish Medical Association
Publications and research
Scientific research articles
- Satokangas M, Arffman M, Antikainen H, Leyland A H, Keskimäki I. (2021). Individual and area-level factors contributing to the geographic variation in ambulatory care sensitive conditions in Finland: a register-based study. Medical care, 59(2), 123-130.
- Manderbacka K, Arffman M, Satokangas M, Keskimäki I. (2019). Regional variation of avoidable hospitalisations in a universal health care system: a register-based cohort study from Finland 1996−2013. BMJ open, 9(7), e029592.
- Satokangas M, Lumme S, Arffman M, Keskimäki I. (2019). Trajectory modelling of ambulatory care sensitive conditions in Finland in 1996–2013: assessing the development of equity in primary health care through clustering of geographic areas – an observational retrospective study. BMC health services research, 19(1), 629.
- Lehikoinen M, Arffman M, Manderbacka K, Elovainio M. (2016). Comparative observational study of mortality amenable by health policy and care between rural and urban Finland: no excess segregation of mortality in the capital despite its increasing residential differentiation. International journal for equity in health, 15(1), 1.
- Manderbacka K, Arffman M, Lumme S, Lehikoinen M, Winell K, Keskimäki I. (2016). Regional trends in avoidable hospitalisations due to complications among population with diabetes in Finland in 1996−2011: a register-based cohort study. BMJ open, 6(8).
Journal articles
Satokangas, M. (2020). Väestörakenteen alueelliset erot sekoittavat terveyskeskusten välisten laatuerojen arvioimista. Yleislääkärilehti, 35(1), 28-31.
Other publications
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