Dissertations

List of all dissertations published at the Department of Public Health Sciences, including the former research centres CHESS and SoRAD, starting 2001.

2023

Lauren Bishop: Under the influence: Substance misuse from the perspective of linked lives

2022

Johanna Garefelt: Work and sleep – what’s stress got to do with it?

Josephine Jackisch: Troubled childhoods cast long shadows: Studies of childhood adversity and premature mortality in a Swedish post-war birth cohort

Devy Lysandra Elling: Intervening in a social world: An evaluation of an alcohol prevention programme in a Swedish workplace context

Helena Honkaniemi: Mental health after migration to Sweden: The role of the social determinants of health

Sandra Blomqvist: The worries of working: Longitudinal studies on the impact of employment uncertainty and employment transitions on clinically defined mental health conditions

2021

Sophie Albrecht: The Highs and Lows of Work-Time Control: Exploring the role of control over working hours for health

Laura Wells: Socially structured health behaviors: Studies of social inequality in adolescent and young adult physical activity, alcohol consumption, and smoking in Sweden

2020

Maria Granvik Saminathen: Effective schools in a segregated landscape. Studies of academic achievement and psychological well-being among adolescents in Sweden

Arzu Arat: Social inequalities in access to child healthcare services: An international comparative perspective

2019

Johan Rehnberg: Inequalities in life and death: Income and mortality in an ageing population

Katarina Winter: Everybody knows? Conversational coproduction in communication of addiction expertise

Julia Åhlin: Rythm of the job stress blues: Psychosocial working conditions and depression in working life and across retirement

2017

Helena Schiller: How to work for a good night's sleep

Olof Östergren: Understanding the Educational Gradient in Mortality

Can Liu: Psychosocial Factors and Preterm Birth: National Register-Based Studies (Link to Karolinska Institutet)

Helio Adelino Manhica: Mental health, substance misuse and labour market participation in teenage refugees in Sweden – A longitudinal perspective

Andrea Dunlavy: Between Two Worlds: Studies of migration, work, and health

Josefin Månsson: Cannabis discourse in contemporary Sweden: Continuity and change

2016

Gabriella Olsson: Expressions of context: Studies of schools, families, and health risk behaviours

Filip Roumeliotis: Ideological closure: Drug prevention in a post-political society

Kristina Sundqvist: Beyond recreational gambling: A psychological perspective on risk- and problem gambling

2015

Eva Samuelsson: Use or Misuse?: Addiction Care Practitioners’ Perceptions of Substance Use and Treatment

Karl Gauffin: Embodiment of inequality : the translation of childhood social inequality to alcohol related health disparities later in life (Link to Karolinska Institutet)

2014

Alexander Miething: Others’ income, one’s own fate: How income inequality, relative social position and social comparisons contribute to disparities in health

Lisa Folkesson Hellstadius: Psychobiological functioning in mid-adolescent girls and boys: Linkages to self reported stress, self-esteem and recurrent pain

Josefin Bernhardsson: Normalitetens gränser: En fokusgruppstudie om alkoholkultur(er), genus- och åldersskapande

Tove Sohlberg: Smoking cessation in Sweden – gender, pathways, and identity

2013

Amal Khanolkar: Inequalities in Health - Social, Biological, Ethnic and Life-Course Perspectives (Link to Karolinska Institutet)

Jenny Torssander: Equality in Death? How the Social Positions of Individuals and Families are Linked to Mortality

Johan Svensson: Alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harm among young people: studies of the recent experience in Sweden (Link to Karolinska Institutet)

Sanna Tikkaja: Social mobility in relation to cardiovascular and psychiartic health (Link to Karolinska Institutet)

Mimmi Eriksson Tinghög: Mission Impossible? Universal Alcohol Prevention at Workplaces in Sweden

2011

Anton Lager: The Role of Education and Cognitive Skills in Understanding Mortality Inequalities (Link to Karolinska Institutet)

Ylva B Almquist: A class of origin: The school class as a social context and health disparities in a life-course perspective

2010

Nina-Katri Gustafsson: Bridging the World: Alcohol Policy in Transition and Diverging Alcohol Patterns in Sweden

Jonas Landberg: Alcohol-Related Problems in Eastern Europe: A Comparative Perspective

Kristiina Rajaleid: Early and later life mechanisms in the aetiology of cardiovascular disease

Sara Brolin Låftman: Children's Living Conditions: Studies on Health, Family and School

Christina Scheffel Birath: Women with alcohol problems seeking treatment: Underlying individual and psychosocial characteristics (Link to Karolinska Institutet)

Stefan Fors: Blood on the tracks: Life-course perspectives on health inequalities in later life

2009

Jenny Cisneros Örnberg: The Europeanization of Swedish Alcohol Policy

Jenny Freidenfelt Liljeberg: Risking antisocialty: Individual & social interaction factors (Link to Karolinska Institutet)

Jennie Ahrén-Moonga: An Eating Disorder is more than Just Disordered Eating (Link to Karolinska Institutet)

2008

Ninive von Greiff: Ungdomsinriktad alkohol- och drogprevention: förutsättningar, evidens och legitimitet

Marie Väfors Fritz: Psychosocial adjustment problems: Individual and acculturation differences

Mikael Rostila: Healthy Bridges: Studies of social capital, welfare, and health

2007

Marit Gisselmann: The first injustice: Socio-economic inequalities in birth outcome

Susanna Toivanen: Work-Related Inequalities in Health: Studies of income, work environment, and sense of coherence

Sharon Rödner Sznitman: Socially Integrated Drug Users: Between Deviance and Normality

2006

Klara Hradilova Selin: Measuring Harm from Drinking in Sweden: Self-reports from Drinkers in the General Population

Jessica Palm: Moral Concerns: Treatment Staff and User Perspectives on Alcohol and Drug Treatment

Jessica Storbjörk: The social ecology of alcohol and drug treatment: Client experiences in context

2005

Björn Trolldal: Availability and Sales of Alcohol: Experiences from Canada and the U.S.

Kalle Tryggvesson: Freedom in a Bottle: Young Swedes on Rationales and Norms for Drunken Behaviour

Monica Åberg Yngwe: Resources and Relative Deprivation (Link to Karolinska Institutet)

Maria Kölegård Stjärne: A matter of context : Social inequalities in incidence of myocardial infarction (Link to Karolinska Institutet)

2004

Anne H Berman: Enhancing Health Among Drug Users in Prison

Mall Leinsau: Troubled transitions (Link to DiVA at Södertörns Högskola)

Gloria Macassa: Poverty and Health in Different Contexts (Link to Karolinska Institutet)

2002

Bitte Modin: Setting the scene for life. Longitudinal studies of early social disadvantage and later life chances: Department of Sociology

2001

Mats Ramstedt: Comparative Studies on Alcohol-Related Problems in Postwar Western Europe

Lars Westfelt: Brott och Straff i Sverige och Europa: En studie i komparativ kriminologi

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