The overall aim of the project was to examine whether bereavement (i.e. death of parent or sibling) during different stages in childhood (0-18 years) influences mortality and disease in adulthood.

The case of New Public Management in Swedish substance abuse treatment

The aim of the project has been to investigate the political discussions about, and the bureaucratic handling of, Swedish drug abuse treatment during the years 2001-2015.

The project investigated the social and developmental origins and consequences of overweight and obesity, negative body image, disordered eating and impaired psychological well-being over the life course and across generations of parents and children in South Africa and Sweden.

Students who are exposed to bullying, but also those who bully others, have an increased risk of psychological ill-health.

Cancer screening, stage at diagnosis and survival among people with disabilities: Evidences from the Swedish national registers

Does childhood trauma influence offspring development? Testing a trans-generational response hypothesis.

This project follows a Swedish cohort of young people from age 15, with the aim of studying depression and anxiety at ages 20-23 years, and to examine treatment gaps for these conditions.

In this project we will integrate research on social determinants of health with the life course model of pregnancy and childbirth as a sensitive period in the life courses of parents and offspring.

The responsibility to offer support and treatment for people with gambling problems and their significant others was clarified in Swedish legislation in 2018. The aim of this study was to explore barriers for and experiences of help-seeking among people with gambling and alcohol problems.

The gendered dynamics of Swedish drinking situations from a comparative perspective.

The project aims to increase understanding of the drivers of inequalities among families involved with child welfare services in Sweden.

Do early-life poverty and food shortage trigger biological and cognitive responses in four subsequent generations? - A test of the Pembrey-Bygren transgenerational response hypothesis.

Explaining COVID-19 mortality among immigrants in Sweden: A social determinants of health perspective

Foster children as midlife adults: For whom and under what circumstances may placement in foster care counteract social and health-related adversity across the life course?

This project aims to examine the extent to which social, economic, and health-related adversities are transmitted across multiple generations – from parents, to children, to grandchildren – and whether processes reflecting resilience may break this reproduction of inequality.

The young people who were placed in SiS special youth homes between 2000-2019 will here be followed up , with the aim of obtaining knowledge about how care works in the short and long term.

How are young people with mental health problems doing later on? A prospective cohort study of self-reported mental health problems in adolescence and living conditions in young adulthood

A substantial number of spouses and offspring experience a family member with an illness while they remain working. The diagnoses of the patient reverberate in the family and cause substantial distress for the relatives.

Alcohol, drugs and tobacco constitute a major public health concern in Sweden. This project contributes with new knowledge about the extent to which the local preventive ANT-work in Sweden varies between municipalities and whether the work leads to reduced ANT-related problems.

What are the associations between the death of a family member during the COVID-19 pandemic and the risk of in- and out-patient psychiatric care, use of psychotropic medication, mental health related sick-leave, and attempted and completed suicides among bereaved family members?

Inequality in the length of life is the most fundamental of all inequality, but has been overlooked in the study of international migrants. For migrants, this represents a complex mix of their previous conditions in the origin country, the migration process, and current and often disadvantageous conditions in the host country.

The project Overlooked Children in Need (ORCHID): A Study on the Development and Well-Being of Children of Parents with Disabilities, aims to investigate the impact of parental disability on their children's outcomes from birth to young adulthood in Sweden, as well as to evaluate potential contributing and buffering factors, including the policy environment.

It is increasingly common for people to be in paid work after retirement. This is partly a result of governments in many advanced economies implementing reforms to extend working lives.

Network that gathers junior and senior researchers working with questions concerning privatisation and competition of services provided through the municipal personal social services in the Nordic countries.

An analysis of which individual and family-related characteristics are associated with problem gambling, and how problem gambling is related to young people’s self-reported health, life satisfaction, and future orientation.

Recovered, in treatment, or dead? A 20-year follow-up of women and men in Swedish substance use treatment.

The aim of this research programme is to study how social, economic, and health-related inequalities in the parental generation re-emerge in subsequent generations as well as the extent to which siblings and friends may explain or break this reproduction.

This programme offers an overall coverage of topics of immediate interest in Swedish gambling research today, based on five different work packages.

Risk and resilience: Pathways to (ill)health among men and women with experiences of childhood adversity (RISE)

With this project we aim to examine the nature and financial impacts of participation in the labour market after pensionable age in two contrasting societies: Sweden and the United States.

Risks of injection drug use in a Swedish context: Prevention of harms in practice according to users, treatment staff, and societal actors

This project focuses on three sets of school-contextual conditions which have been subject to structural changes during the past decades in Sweden – school leadership, teachers’ working conditions, and school segregation – and their links to students’ psychological health.

School is a context of central importance in young people's lives, and also an environment that can contribute to shaping behaviour.

The interlacing of decision-makers, experts and researchers is often put forward as a decisive factor in the creation of modern Sweden. However, research shows that this collaboration has never been without friction, e.g. in the conflict between research commissioned by politicians and the free research.

This postdoc project investigated precarious employment as a social determinant of health. Precarious work has been described as "non-standard employment that is poorly paid, insecure, unprotected, and cannot support a household" and is highly interlinked with more traditional classifications of social class.

Project aim: to investigate whether indicators of “effective schools” is linked to students’ school performance and psychological health, and also explore ‘contrasting contexts’ to the Swedish school setting.

Social inequalities in health and labor market attachment among older workers – the importance of childhood circumstances and physical and psychosocial work environments over the entire working life.

The Stockholm Birth Cohort study (SBC) is a collaboration project between Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) and Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS).

The reporting of stress and stress-related health complaints is high in adolescents, and a gender difference to the disadvantage of girls is a typical finding in large-scale studies. The overall purpose of this research project is to increase the understanding of experiences of stress and stress-related health complaints in adolescent girls and boys.

Studies of Migration and Social Determinants of Health (SMASH) is a collaborative research project based at the Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University and funded by the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (Forte) for the period 2017-2022.

A comparative perspective on Swedish social policy to develop inclusive programmes for an extended working life

The ambiguous socioeconomic gradient in immigrants’ health in the context of the ‘healthy migrant paradox’

Youth mental health is an important asset for modern societies. During the last three decades, a progressive deterioration of youth mental health has occurred. However, the reason for this decline is largely unknown. This project aims at filling these gaps.

The school provides an important arena for the promotion of public health in the younger part of the population. In addition to being a work environment for educational training, the school is a social arena where the training and practicing of social relations takes place.

Countries' political responses to covid-19 share a common goal of protecting public health, yet are highly diverse in both design and outcome. In a set of three integrated studies, the purpose of this project is to investigate how social inequalities in health have been affected by political determinants during the covid-19 pandemic.

The purpose of this project is to assess the unintended health consequences of Sweden’s parental leave policy, while addressing the interplay between parental leave use and health, both before and after childbearing.

How does it affect the children?

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Understanding the Roles of Origin and Destination: Behavioral Patterns and Health among the First and Second Generation of Finnish Migrants in Sweden

The project will offer unique insights into decision-making processes influencing how EBIs are used in practice. Such knowledge is needed for a more granular understanding of how practitioners manage the fidelity to and adaptation of EBIs and thus, ultimately, how the value of implementating EBIs can be optimized.

The Uppsala Birth Cohort Multigenerational Study (UBCoS Multigen) offers a unique opportunity to explore several issues highly relevant for health equity research.

Education is an important basis for children's development and is usually described as a way out of vulnerability. The project deals with the educational careers of a particularly vulnerable group, namely children with experience of community care in the form of placements in foster homes or institutions.

Understanding the mechanisms leading to young people drinking less than the generations before holds implications for approaches to reducing alcohol consumption at the population level in an ongoing way. The project is focuses attention on individual, developmental and social factors of all adolescents, including light drinkers and those who do not drink.

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

“Addiction” as a changing pattern of relations: Comparing autobiographical narratives about different dependencies.