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Differences in assessment, handling and prevention of occupational disorders due to strain, exhaustion and infection? Meanings of norms and resources related to gender, ethnicity and type of work
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 8.8) is to promote a safe and secure work environment and to reduce serious work injuries, especially among women migrants. International stu...
Low-wage jobs in the Swedish labor market 2005-2020. Which are the low-wage jobs, where are they, and what explains their development?
The purpose of the project is to investigate and explain the development of low-paid jobs in Sweden during the period 2005-2020 - are their share of the labour market growing or re...
Professor Beth Parker, University of Guelph, Canada
Professor Beth Parker, University of Guelph, Canada. Guest professorship at Lund University for 8 months in 2021. Time would be split in two periods: Feb-May and Sept-Dec.Motivatio...
Long-term effects of caring for a child with type 1 diabetes on parental economic and psychiatric health outcomes
About 7,000 families in Sweden have one or more children with type 1 diabetes. Affected children require multiple daily injections of insulin for survival and are always at risk fo...
Physical activity intervention for trauma-afflicted refugees
Refugees with prolonged and repeated experiences of trauma, are subjected to high levels of stress-related health problems, e.g. post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and increased...
From water waves to fusion - mathematical analysis of steady ideal flows
The Euler equations are a system of nonlinear partial differential equations derived already in the 18th century, but whose properties are not yet fully understood. We will conside...
Injecting drug use among legal minors and the best interests of the child: Lived experiences, support and policy frameworks in high income countries
Approximately 11.3 million people inject drugs globally, but within this population injecting drug use among minors under the age of 18 is a blind spot in research, policy and prac...
Youth, health and risk-taking: exploring how declining substance use and increasing mental health problems among young people are related to their everyday life concerns and practices
Knowledge of young people´s approaches to risk-taking, future and health are crucial to understanding current trends in alcohol consumption and mental illness. Up to the end of 199...
Resolving the missing carbon sink in blue carbon ecosystems: Oceanic outwelling
Coastal vegetated ecosystems (mangrove wetlands, salt marshes, seagrass beds and macroalgae/kelp forests) are hotspots in the global carbon cycle. Even though they cover a small ar...
Prescription opioid misuse: improving prevention and treatment
In the United States, misuse of opioid analgesics has led to widespread societal problems, including criminality, violence, addiction, transfer to the use of heroin, overdose, and...
After the Caliphate – Mobilization of women and men in the Salafi-jihadi environment in Sweden
This project investigates, with a specific focus on gender, how men and women in the Salafi-jihadi environment in the Swedish context mobilize after the territorial collapse of the...
HOW DOES OCCUPATION ASSOCIATE WITH DIABETES RISK AND PROGNOSIS? EVIDENCE FROM ALL SWEDISH EMPLOYEES 2006-2015
Diabetes is a chronic disease affecting one in five Swedes during their lifetime, increasing the risk of cardiovascular disease and premature death. Half of those affected are in w...
Engagement or Withdrawal? Determinants and Consequences of Changes in Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviours across the Retirement Transition.
Retirement from paid work may affect the time that is spent in sedentary or physically active behaviours, but the empirical evidence is mixed largely due to lack of objective and l...
Coping through sensory modulation. A Sensory Awareness Program (SAP) for reducing anxiety and mobilizing coping strategies for people with severe mental health problems. A randomized controlled trial.
Few alternatives to addictive medical treatment exists for persons with severe mental health problems (SMHP) and anxiety, often connected to high risk of suicide. Access to effecti...
Scandinavian Border Crossings: Race and Nation in Queer Assisted Reproduction
During the 2000s, Scandinavia has experienced a queer baby boom. With new legislation providing lesbian couples and single women access to state-funded reproduction technology, com...
Diagnostic usefulness of Sweden´s Corporate Health Screening Form and Medical Examination in Medical Control of Vibration Exposed and Response´s Relation to Current and Future Measurement Standards
At the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Clinic (OEMC) in Umeå, approximately 45% of patients with occupational disease manifested in their hands due to vibration exposure. I...
Who benefits from a prolonged working life? The role of work for psychological, cognitive, and health-related changes
The aim of this project is to investigate the effects of a prolonged working life, that is, that people continue to work past the age at which one typically retire. Previous resear...
Aging in flux: how changing behaviors and lifestyles in the new cohorts are reshaping old age
Old age is changing – both the timing of when one is considered to enter “old age” and what the lives of people in “old age” contain. Yet we know little about how these changes in...
Digital surveillance and dilemmas in police practice: Balancing technological opportunities and citizens’ integrity
The increased digitalisation of society and recent developments in AI is laying the ground for surveillance capabilities of a magnitude we have not seen before. Surveillance can be...
REWIRING OF AMYGDALO-STRITAL CIRCUITS – a neurobiological underpinning of nicotine dependence
There are more smokers in the world than ever before. The high prevalence is partially due to the addictive properties of nicotine, and less than 10% manage to maintain abstinent d...