In his doctoral thesis, Yannick Klein has investigated the relationship between nature exposure and mental health in adults in Sweden, both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. His studies shows that both active and passive exposure to nature have positive effects on mental health.
The editors of the book, Christophe Premat, Jean-Michel De Waele, and Michel Perottino, bring together contributions from researchers exploring how experts were mobilized to justify difficult political decisions.
Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
Communication professionals have a paramount role in global crisis. What did they learn during the covid pandemic that could be used in future global crisis? In an article, Mats Landqvist and Mona Blåsjö identifies and analyzes strategy changes among communicators in municipalities and how their conceptions of communicated knowledge transformed during the pandemic.
Higher mortality and more admissions to intensive care units. Many migrant groups in Sweden were hit harder than those born in Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the vaccine was crucial in reducing inequality. This is shown by a study by researchers at the Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University, in collaboration with researchers from Stockholm University's Demographic Department (SUDA) and Karolinska Institutet. The study was recently published in the scientific journal Nature Communications.
The relationship between income and Covid-19-related intensive care changed drastically in Sweden during the pandemic. A new study from the Department of Public Health Sciences at Stockholm University shows examples of inequality in health and the importance of income differences with regards to how the pandemic affected people.
Gunnar Andersson and colleagues from Stockholm University and the Karolinska Institute have analyzed mortality and morbidity patterns in Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic in a report for the Swedish Corona Commission.
A new study from Stockholm University shows that occupation on its own was not linked to a higher risk of dying from Covid-19 in Sweden. However, older people who lived with adults in working age who could not work from home had a higher risk of dying from Covid-19.
What has the pandemic meant for public health and the economy? This is a question that a recently awarded grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond will hopefully help researchers provide answers to.
The purpose of the book is to arrive at a holistic understanding of the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on politics, economy, business, and society in a globalized world.
Mikael Rostila, co-author of a new report from the Swedish Public Health Agency, appears at the national broadcaster SVT News, highlighting the disparity between residents born abroad and ethnic Swedes. Socio-economic factors such as low income and overcrowding are cited as the main reasons why those born abroad are hit harder.
Most countries introduced school closures during the spring of 2020 despite substantial uncertainty regarding the effectiveness in containing SARS-CoV-2. In Sweden, upper secondary schools moved online while lower secondary schools remained open. A comparison of parents with children in the final year of lower secondary and first year of upper secondary school shows that keeping the former open had limited consequences for the overall transmission of the virus. However, the infection rate doubled among lower secondary teachers relative to upper secondary ones.
Loss of smell is the single most important symptom of COVID-19. Individuals who rate their sense of smell to 0-2 on a scale of 0-10 have a high probability of being infected by the coronavirus, according to a new large international study.
The project fills the knowledge gap concerning opportunities and challenges for strengthening social dialogue in the exceptional COVID-19 pandemic governance related to social rights and working conditions of vulnerable groups.
The central questions examined in this PhD Research Project are the scope for what actions State agents can take in times of crises, and whether or not constitutional necessity can be used as a legal ground for acting outside of the constitution.
The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a global health crisis. It is expected to lead to lasting changes in all policy areas of global cooperation and transnational governance – including health, mobility, trade, industry, finance, and sustainability.
Fatigue is anecdotally one of the most commonly reported and disabling symptoms after COVID-19 and is the cardinal symptom in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and exhaustion disorder (ED).
The consortium will establish in vitro and in vivo models to evaluate new antiviral compounds active against SARS-CoV-2. The aim is to develop broad-spectrum antivirals that can be administered locally to the nose and/or lungs.
The aims of the project are to assess the role of green and blue environments for health and resilience to effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and changes in behaviors.
In March 2020, everyday life changed dramatically for many Swedish workers as a result of the Public Health Agency’s recommendations on telework (work from home using ICT) to reduce the spread of COVID-19; within some weeks telework increased by 400%. Many of those who began teleworking did so without or with only limited experience of telework.
With better descriptions of a patient’s state and history, more efficient recommendations can be provided. We explore how AI tools can be put to practical use in healthcare. We focus on complex and multimodal data and use cases such as COVID-19 public health interventions or patient phenotyping for adverse drug events, sepsis, or cancer.
With a focus on inter individual distances; does the public know how actual exposure to an airborne virus varies with, e.g, variation of face to face distance and length of a conversation?
How did communication specialists in Swedish municipalities work during the covid-19-pandemic? What did they learn that could be of use in future crisis?
SWECOV is the Swedish Register-based Research Project on COVID-19. SWECOV is a multidisciplinary research collaboration focused on using quantitative methods and comprehensive register data about the whole Swedish population to answer important questions about the consequences of the pandemic.
Transitions to telepsychotherapy, personality orientation and attachment style: Learning from COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on provision of psychotherapy.
Video Remote Interpreting (VRI): A study on Cognitive Load in Simultaneous and Dialogue Interpreting via video and interpreters' attitudes towards VRI in Sweden
The purpose of the project is to investigate working conditions, living habits and self-rated mental and general health before and after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, and if there have been changes in these areas, in a nationwide sample of gainfully employed individuals in Sweden.
We are exploring basic mechanisms regarding a group of small non-coding oligonucleotides and their therapeutic potential. We have discovered that a set of single-stranded oligonucleotides temporarily inhibit certain endocytic pathways and thereby modulate innate immune responses as well as providing anti-viral effects.
We investigate cognition and processes in interpreting, subtitling and translation. This involves studying advanced language use, the brain, executive functions, and cognitive and social processes in interpreting and translation.
In this lab, the focus is primarily on mechanisms in diseases with a large impact on quality of life where knowledge about disease mechanisms are lacking, such as disorders of gut-brain interaction (e.g. irritable bowel syndrome, IBS), fatigue (ME/CFS, exhaustion disorder and post-covid syndrome) and chronic pain.