Welcome to the Department of Public Health Sciences!
The Department of Public Health Sciences comprises a wide field of research on public health. The Department was created in 2018, when Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS) merged with Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs (SoRAD), a merger that strengthened social science research on public health at Stockholm University.
SoRAD's research has been focused on alcohol, drugs and gambling. Research at CHESS has examined how social factors as well as societal structures and processes contribute to ill health and disease. Both have also received major, competitive funding from the leading research financiers in the field.
In the middle of May the Swedish parliament voted to keep the speed premium in the Parental Leave Policy. An earlier reform that was intended to protect the level of parental benefits, but also led to a shortening of the time between births, which is associated with negative health consequences for both mother and child. A study from public health sciences researchers from Stockholm University had an impact on the parliament´s discussion on changes in the Parental Leave Policy.
A new study from Stockholm University’s Department of Public Health Sciences highlights large regional differences in the prevalence of early and premature menopause in low- and middle-income regions. It also highlights that prevalence in these regions is higher than what has been reported in the literature for high-income countries.
Income inequalities have a negative impact on everyone’s health, but they have a greater impact on the mortality risk of male descendants of immigrants compared to the majority population without a migration background in Sweden. These findings are presented in a new study by researchers at the Department of Public Health Sciences at Stockholm University.
Why do disadvantages persist in some families across generations, while others seem to escape the cycle? A new thesis from Stockholm University, sheds novel light on this question by tracing how socioeconomic and psychosocial disadvantages are associated with mental health problems across three generations. But it also reveals that it is possible to break such a vicious cycle of multigenerational disadvantages for improving mental health of future generations.
Tuesday August 19, Elin Holmén, specialist nurse in psychiatry and a PhD candidate at Karolinska Institutet, will give a seminar in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Stockholm University's seminar series PHS Talks. Holmén will talk about changes in mortality and causes of death among clients in the Stockholm needle and syringe program.
Tuesday August 19, Elin Holmén, specialist nurse in psychiatry and a PhD candidate at Karolinska Institutet, will give a seminar in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Stockholm University's seminar series PHS Talks. Holmén will talk about changes in mortality and causes of death among clients in the Stockholm needle and syringe program.
Wednesday October 15, Sunnee Billingsley, Professor of Sociology at Stockholm University’s Demography Unit and Department of Sociology, will give a seminar in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Stockholm University's seminar series PHS Talks. Billingsley will talk about her research on how intensive parenting attitudes impact health, fertility and careers in Sweden.
Wednesday October 15, Sunnee Billingsley, Professor of Sociology at Stockholm University’s Demography Unit and Department of Sociology, will give a seminar in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Stockholm University's seminar series PHS Talks. Billingsley will talk about her research on how intensive parenting attitudes impact health, fertility and careers in Sweden.
