Ritva Prättälä

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
110 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Ritva Prättälä is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Health and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Ritva Prättälä has authored 110 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 32 papers in Health and 30 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Ritva Prättälä's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (42 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (32 papers) and Nutritional Studies and Diet (27 papers). Ritva Prättälä is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (42 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (32 papers) and Nutritional Studies and Diet (27 papers). Ritva Prättälä collaborates with scholars based in Finland, United States and Lithuania. Ritva Prättälä's co-authors include Eva Roos, Eero Lahelma, Tuija Martelin, Miguel Ángel Martínez‐González, Kirsi Talala, Satu Helakorpi, Ville Helasoja, L Johansson, Ossi Rahkonen and Gun Roos and has published in prestigious journals such as Social Science & Medicine, BMC Public Health and Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.

In The Last Decade

Ritva Prättälä

101 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A systematic review of socio-economic differences in food habits in Europe: consumption of fruit and vegetables

2000 526 citations L Johansson, Ritva Prättälä et al. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ritva Prättälä Finland	36	2.1k	1.3k	908	732	351	110	4.2k
Latetia V. Moore United States	25	2.7k 1.3×	1.3k 1.0×	708 0.8×	540 0.7×	365 1.0×	62	4.5k
Kim D. Raine Canada	41	2.3k 1.1×	2.2k 1.7×	426 0.5×	554 0.8×	541 1.5×	196	5.3k
Katrina Giskes Australia	29	2.0k 1.0×	1.0k 0.8×	739 0.8×	879 1.2×	310 0.9×	65	3.7k
Shannon N. Zenk United States	42	3.3k 1.6×	1.9k 1.5×	1.1k 1.2×	469 0.6×	338 1.0×	137	6.4k
Eva Roos Finland	34	2.0k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	521 0.6×	444 0.6×	390 1.1×	140	4.0k
Kathryn Backholer Australia	36	2.9k 1.4×	1.1k 0.8×	387 0.4×	756 1.0×	439 1.3×	198	5.5k
Carlijn B. M. Kamphuis Netherlands	35	1.6k 0.8×	799 0.6×	643 0.7×	855 1.2×	267 0.8×	115	3.9k
Rhona M. Hanning Canada	34	1.7k 0.8×	1.5k 1.2×	311 0.3×	485 0.7×	468 1.3×	141	3.9k
Diana C. Parra United States	39	3.2k 1.5×	1.3k 1.0×	402 0.4×	1.7k 2.3×	279 0.8×	120	5.7k
Kimberly B. Morland United States	20	2.9k 1.4×	1.3k 1.0×	692 0.8×	295 0.4×	378 1.1×	32	4.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Ritva Prättälä

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ritva Prättälä

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Kestilä, Laura, Tomi Mäki‐Opas, Anton E. Kunst, et al.. (2014). Childhood Adversities and Socioeconomic Position as Predictors of Leisure-Time Physical Inactivity in Early Adulthood. Journal of Physical Activity and Health. 12(2). 193–199. 15 indexed citations

Nieminen, Tarja, Ritva Prättälä, Tuija Martelin, et al.. (2013). Social capital, health behaviours and health: a population-based associational study. BMC Public Health. 13(1). 613–613. 172 indexed citations

Valkeinen, Heli, Kennet Harald, Katja Borodulin, et al.. (2013). Educational differences in estimated and measured physical fitness. European Journal of Public Health. 23(6). 998–1002. 10 indexed citations

Sarlio‐Lähteenkorva, Sirpa & Ritva Prättälä. (2012). Voidaanko ravitsemuspolitiikalla kaventaa väestön ravitsemuksen sosioekonomisia eroja?. Sosiaalilääketieteellinen Aikakauslehti. 49(2). 1 indexed citations

Talala, Kirsi, Taina Huurre, Tiina Laatikainen, et al.. (2011). The contribution of psychological distress to socio-economic differences in cause-specific mortality: a population-based follow-up of 28 years. BMC Public Health. 11(1). 138–138. 8 indexed citations

Sippola, Risto, Katja Borodulin, Ossi Rahkonen, et al.. (2010). Explaining educational differences in leisure‐time physical activity in Europe: the contribution of work‐related factors. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. 22(3). 439–447. 38 indexed citations

Prättälä, Ritva, Albert‐Jan Roskam, Eva Roos, et al.. (2009). Association between educational level and vegetable use in nine European countries. Public Health Nutrition. 12(11). 2174–2182. 53 indexed citations

Patja, Kristiina, et al.. (2009). Adult smoking as a proxy for environmental tobacco smoke exposure among children — Comparing the impact of the level of information in Estonia, Finland and Latvia. Preventive Medicine. 49(2-3). 240–244. 8 indexed citations

Koskinen, Seppo, et al.. (2008). Functional disabilities do not prevent the elderly in Finland from eating regular meals. Appetite. 51(1). 97–103. 10 indexed citations

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Petkevičienė, Janina, Jūratė Klumbienė, Ritva Prättälä, et al.. (2007). Educational variations in the consumption of foods containing fat in Finland and the Baltic countries. Public Health Nutrition. 10(5). 518–523. 15 indexed citations

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Johansson, Edvard, Petri Böckerman, Ritva Prättälä, & Antti Uutela. (2006). Alcohol-related mortality, drinking behavior, and business cycles. The European Journal of Health Economics. 7(3). 212–217. 58 indexed citations

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Tolonen, Hanna, Satu Helakorpi, Kirsi Talala, et al.. (2006). 25-year Trends and Socio-demographic Differences in Response Rates: Finnish Adult Health Behaviour Survey. European Journal of Epidemiology. 21(6). 409–415. 226 indexed citations

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Giskes, Katrina, Anton E. Kunst, Joan Benach, et al.. (2005). Trends in smoking behaviour between 1985 and 2000 in nine European countries by education. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 59(5). 395–401. 12 indexed citations

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Sánchez‐Villegas, Almudena, J. Alfredo Martínéz, Ritva Prättälä, et al.. (2003). A systematic review of socioeconomic differences in food habits in Europe: consumption of cheese and milk. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 57(8). 917–929. 80 indexed citations

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Sánchez‐Villegas, Almudena, et al.. (2003). Disparities in food habits in Europe: systematic review of educational and occupational differences in the intake of fat. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. 16(5). 349–364. 89 indexed citations

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Roos, Eva, Eero Lahelma, Mikko Virtanen, Ritva Prättälä, & Pirjo Pietinen. (1998). Gender, socioeconomic status and family status as determinants of food behaviour. Social Science & Medicine. 46(12). 1519–1529. 204 indexed citations

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Prättälä, Ritva, et al.. (1992). Diminishing or increasing contrasts? Social class variation in Finnish food consumption patterns, 1979-1990.. PubMed. 46(4). 279–87. 80 indexed citations

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Prättälä, Ritva, Gretel H. Pelto, Pertti J. Pelto, M. Ahola, & Leena Räsänen. (1992). Perceptions of spreading fats among women in Helsinki whose households use only butter or margarine. Appetite. 18(3). 185–191. 3 indexed citations

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Helakorpi, Satu, Antti Uutela, Ritva Prättälä, & Pekka Puska. (1991). Suomalaisen aikuisväestön terveyskäyttäytyminen, kevät 1991. STM:n Hallinnonalan avoin julkaisuarkisto (Julkari). 17 indexed citations

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Prättälä, Ritva, et al.. (1984). Valistuslehtisten välittämä kuva sokerista ja makeista elintarvikkeista. Sosiaalilääketieteellinen Aikakauslehti. 21(6). 271–178. 1 indexed citations

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