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- Forsberg, Per Ola, et al.
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Workplace socioeconomic characteristics and coronary heart disease : a nationwide follow-up study
- 2023
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Ingår i: BMJ Open. - 2044-6055. ; 13:7
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objectives Important gaps in previous research include a lack of studies on the association between socioeconomic characteristics of the workplace and coronary heart disease (CHD). We aimed to examine two contextual factors in association with individuals' risk of CHD: the mean educational level of all employees at each individual's workplace (education work) and the neighbourhood socioeconomic characteristics of each individual's workplace (neighbourhood SES work). Design Nationwide follow-up/cohort study. Setting Nationwide data from Sweden. Participants All individuals born in Sweden from 1943 to 1957 were included (n=1 547 818). We excluded individuals with a CHD diagnosis prior to 2008 (n=67 619), individuals without workplace information (n=576 663), individuals lacking residential address (n=4139) and individuals who had unknown parents (n=7076). A total of 892 321 individuals were thus included in the study (426 440 men and 465 881 women). Primary and secondary outcome measures The outcome variable was incident CHD during follow-up between 2008 and 2012. The association between education work and neighbourhood SES work and the outcome was explored using multilevel and cross-classified logistic regression models to determine ORs and 95% CIs, with individuals nested within workplaces and neighbourhoods. All models were conducted in both men and women and were adjusted for age, income, marital status, educational attainment and neighbourhood SES residence. Results Low (vs high) education work was significantly associated with increased CHD incidence for both men (OR 1.29, 95% CI 1.23 to 1.34) and women (OR 1.38, 95% CI 1.29 to 1.47) and remained significant after adjusting for potential confounders. These findings were not replicable for the variable neighbourhood SES work. Conclusions Workplace socioeconomic characteristics, that is, the educational attainment of an individual's colleagues, may influence CHD risk, which represents new knowledge relevant to occupational health management at workplaces.
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- Forsberg, Per, 1972-
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Symbols in wood as a means of reciprocity : Accounting and social cohesion in pluralistic economies
- 2023
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Ingår i: Critical Perspectives on Accounting. - : Elsevier. - 1045-2354 .- 1095-9955. ; 96
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Neoliberalism rests on a fatalistic rhetoric about more perfect markets, individualistic calculus, and technologies for domination as crucial for the creation of financial value. This neglects any alternative ways of keeping people together, other than through markets, where the erosion of social cohesion is viewed as a natural effect of development. This neoliberal project has been holding accounting studies in a stranglehold, and there is a need for studies on how accounting can create social cohesion and make plural economies possible. This study’s exploration contributes to the theory of relational accounting practices by building a deeper understanding of accounting’s social function and the plurality of economies. Taking Graeber’s revision of Mauss as its starting point, it elaborates on how social relations are created through accounting practices that give rise to different reciprocities that involve morals together with autonomy and democracy, and it also examines when accounting may dissolve such social cohesion. Based on an illustrative case of pre-industrial farmers’ relational accounting practices in 18th- and 19th-century Sweden—consisting of notched wooden sticks used for balancing contributions and rights in the village—the study explains how accounting as a means of balanced reciprocity is important for social cohesion, having peacemaking functions, being important for democratic governance, teaching morality, and creating a sense of fairness. It emphasizes the relevance of Graeber’s revision of Mauss for a deeper understanding of relational accounting practices in certain contexts and as a way to combat the fatalism of neoliberalism.
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- Forsberg, Per, 1972-
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Övertron på mätning
- 2023
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Ingår i: Axess. - : Axess publishing. - 1651-0941. ; :1
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Forskningsöversikt (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Hans Järta kritiserade i början av 1800-talet den själlösa användningen av statistik. Hans tankar är aktuella 200 år senare.
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- Jansåker, Filip, et al.
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The relation of body mass index, body height, and parity to pyelonephritis : A nationwide population-based cohort study of over one million parous women (1997-2018)
- 2022
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Ingår i: International Journal of Infectious Diseases. - : Elsevier BV. - 1201-9712. ; 125, s. 67-73
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objectives: We aimed to explore the association between various physiological factors and pyelonephritis in parous women. Methods: Swedish nationwide registers were used to identify 1,073,467 parous women aged 15-50 years. The study period began in 1997 and ended in 2018, or at the first incidence of pyelonephritis, death, or emigration. Cox proportional hazards methods were used to determine hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of pyelonephritis in relation to body mass index (BMI) and body height adjusted for age, parity, and individual-level sociodemographic variables. Results: A total of 21,625 women (2.0%) were diagnosed with pyelonephritis during follow-up. In the fully adjusted model, low BMI (<18.5) was associated with pyelonephritis (HR 1.13, 95% CI 1.06-1.21). Parity and certain sociodemographic characteristics were also independently associated with pyelonephritis. Body height <161 cm was associated with pyelonephritis (HR 1.12, 95% CI 1.09-1.16) in all but the fully adjusted model. Conclusion: Low BMI and body height seem to be associated with uncomplicated pyelonephritis. More research is needed to verify these findings and identify possible mechanisms.
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- Li, Xinjun, et al.
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Association Between Neighborhood Deprivation and Heart Failure Among Patients With Diabetes Mellitus : A 10-Year Follow-Up Study in Sweden
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Cardiac Failure. - : Elsevier BV. - 1071-9164. ; 26:3, s. 193-199
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Our aim was to study the potential effect of neighborhood deprivation on incident heart failure (HF) in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). Methods: The study population included adults (n = 434,542) aged 30 years or older with DM followed from 2005 to 2015 in Sweden for incident HF. The association between neighborhood deprivation and the outcome was explored using Cox regression analysis, with hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs). All models were conducted in both men and women and adjusted for age, educational level, family income, employment status, region of residence, immigrant status, marital status, mobility, and comorbidities. DM patients living in neighborhoods with high or moderate levels of deprivation were compared with those living in neighborhoods with low deprivation scores (reference group). Results: There was an association between level of neighborhood deprivation and HF in DM patients. The HRs were 1.27, 95% CI 1.21–1.33, for men and 1.30, 95% CI 1.23–1.37, for women) among DM patients living in high deprivation neighborhoods compared with those from low deprivation neighborhoods. After adjustments for potential confounders, the higher HRs of HF remained significant: 1.11, 95% CI 1.06–1.16, in men and 1.15, 95% CI 1.09–1.21, in women living in high deprivation neighborhoods. Conclusions: Increased incidence rates of HF among DM patients living in deprived neighborhoods raise important clinical and public health concerns. These findings could serve as an aid to policy-makers when allocating resources in primary health-care settings as well as to clinicians who encounter patients in deprived neighborhoods.
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- Oxenswärdh, Anette, phd, 1956-, et al.
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To Lead Change - To Work and Study with Creativity and Structure : A Course Design for Deeper Learning Outcomes within a Course in Quality Technology
- 2019
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Ingår i: Quality Innovation Prosperity. - Kosice, Slovakia : Technical University Kosice. - 1335-1745 .- 1338-984X. ; 23:1, s. 25-42
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: In this paper a new course design as a case study is presented. The course was given at bachelor level at Uppsala university, campus Gotland, within the division of quality technology. The purpose of the case is to give students an opportunity to practice acquired theoretical knowledge by offering them the opportunity to create an organization of their dreams, working in small groups.Methodology/Approach: This paper builds upon a case study approach, combining a literature review, document studies over the performed course and evaluations over the course.Findings: The case study shows that course design can be an important inspiration and a bridge between theory and practice for the students. Course design seems to support students’ learning processes according to evaluations of the course. Course design offers benefits of the collective learning, especially for distance students. It increases independence, understanding of one’s mission and accountability for it. Students are given the opportunity to practice the theoretical knowledge in their education in a creative and inspiring way. Still, there are further demands and challenges left of improvement in the course design.Research Limitation/implication: The research limitation is that this study consists of only one course in Quality Technology.Originality/Value of paper: This study contributes to the discussion about learning at university level through a case study.
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- Forsberg, Per Ola, et al.
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Causal nature of neighborhood deprivation on individual risk of coronary heart disease or ischemic stroke : A prospective national Swedish co-relative control study in men and women
- 2018
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Ingår i: Health and Place. - : Elsevier BV. - 1353-8292. ; 50, s. 1-5
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We studied the association between neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) and incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD) or ischemic stroke in the total population and in full- and half-siblings to determine whether these associations are causal or a result from familial confounding. Data were retrieved from nationwide Swedish registers containing individual clinical data linked to neighborhood of residence. After adjustment for individual SES, the association between neighborhood SES and CHD showed no decrease with increasing genetic resemblance, particularly in women. This indicates that the association between neighborhood SES and CHD incidence is partially causal among women, which represents a novel finding.
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