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- Isaksson, Johan, et al.
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KRAS G12C mutant non-small cell lung cancer linked to female sex and high risk of CNS metastasis : Population-based demographics and survival data from the National Swedish Lung Cancer Registry
- 2023
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Ingår i: Clinical Lung Cancer. - : Elsevier. - 1525-7304 .- 1938-0690. ; 24:6, s. 507-518
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BackgroundReal-world data on demographics related to KRAS mutation subtypes are crucial as targeted drugs against the p.G12C variant have been approved.MethodWe identified 6183 NSCLC patients with reported NGS-based KRAS status in the Swedish national lung cancer registry between 2016 and 2019. Following exclusion of other targetable drivers, three cohorts were studied: KRAS-G12C (n = 848), KRAS-other (n = 1161), and driver negative KRAS-wild-type (wt) (n = 3349).ResultsThe prevalence of KRAS mutations and the p.G12C variant respectively was 38%/16% in adenocarcinoma, 28%/13% in NSCLC-NOS and 6%/2% in squamous cell carcinoma. Women were enriched in the KRAS-G12C (65%) and KRAS-other (59%) cohorts versus KRAS-wt (48%). A high proportion of KRAS-G12C patients in stage IV (28%) presented with CNS metastasis (vs. KRAS-other [19%] and KRAS-wt [18%]). No difference in survival between the mutation cohorts was seen in stage I-IIIA. In stage IV, median overall survival (mOS) from date of diagnosis was shorter for KRAS-G12C and KRAS-other (5.8 months/5.2 months) vs. KRAS wt (6.4 months). Women had better outcome in the stage IV cohorts, except in KRAS-G12C subgroup where mOS was similar between men and women. Notably, CNS metastasis did not impact survival in stage IV KRAS-G12C, but was associated with poorer survival, as expected, in KRAS-other and KRAS-wt.ConclusionThe KRAS p.G12C variant is a prevalent targetable driver in Sweden and significantly associated with female sex and presence of CNS metastasis. We show novel survival effects linked to KRAS p.G12C mutations in these subgroups with implications for clinical practice.
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- Agardh, Emilie E, et al.
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Work stress and low sense of coherence is associated with type 2 diabetes in middle-aged Swedish women.
- 2003
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Ingår i: Diabetes Care. - : American Diabetes Association. - 0149-5992 .- 1935-5548. ; 26:3, s. 719-24
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- OBJECTIVE: The risk of type 2 diabetes is suggested to be increased for individuals exposed to stress. We analyzed the association of work stress by high demands, low decision latitude, and job strain (combination of high demands and low decision latitude) with type 2 diabetes. We also studied low sense of coherence (SOC) (a factor for successful coping with stressors) in association with type 2 diabetes. Finally, we investigated the combination of SOC and demands or SOC and decision latitude in association with the disease. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: This cross-sectional study recruited 4821 healthy Swedish women (aged 35-56 years) residing in five municipalities in the Stockholm area. An oral glucose tolerance test identified 52 women with type 2 diabetes. Relative risks (RRs) with 95% CIs were estimated in a logistic multiple regression analysis. RESULTS: No association was found between high demands and type 2 diabetes (RR 1.1 [CI 0.5-2.2]). Low decision latitude was associated with type 2 diabetes with a RR of 2.2 (1.0-4.8). The RR of type 2 diabetes with low SOC was 3.7 (1.2-11.2). The combination of low SOC and low decision latitude was associated with type 2 diabetes with a RR of 2.6 (1.2-5.7). Homeostasis model assessment revealed an association of 4.2 (1.2-15.0) between low SOC and insulin resistance. CONCLUSIONS: This study provided new evidence that stress factors such as low decision latitude at work and low SOC were associated with type 2 diabetes in middle-aged Swedish women.
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- Helgeson, Bo, et al.
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Innovation for future mobile services
- 2003
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The mobile telecom industry has developed a substantial amount of mobile services that have attracted few end-users. The new mobile telephony systems will offer even more possibilities to develop mobile services, and frequent use of mobile services is necessary to warrant the high investment cost in those systems. But how do we then meet users and their needs with continued development of mobile services and prod-ucts? In this project we have started a work to find new ways to identify and screen new possible mobile services. The approach is based on ethnographic studies and economic modeling of everyday work. The project has resulted in a “prototype” method where Work Practice studies are combined with a fairly simple economical screening model. In a pilot study like this it is not possible to solve the fundamental problems of the mobile industry, but it could be seen as a beginning of a work of reconnaissance. We have identified some exciting possibilities, but also some considerable problems. In or-der to be successful, the innovation process needs to be accompanied by a parallel de-velopment of new business models that supports the development of services that ad-dresses the end-users needs. There is also a need for research to understand how inno-vations from “outside” are received and processed in organizations and together with industry increase the effectiveness of the whole innovation process. This pilot study has produced valuable experiences for a continued work. The pro-ject have also resulted in a long list of suggestions for new or refined mobile services. Most of the suggestions could be seen as derivatives of existing services. In one way you could therefore question the “innovation effectiveness” of the method. But the used methods could be seen as a starting point for further development in order to address the question of how to organize environments and processes for real innovation.
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- Hergens, Maria-Pia, et al.
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Use of Scandinavian Moist Smokeless Tobacco (Snus) and the Risk of Atrial Fibrillation
- 2014
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Ingår i: Epidemiology. - 1044-3983 .- 1531-5487. ; 25:6, s. 872-876
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND: Snus is a smokeless tobacco product, widely used among Swedish men and increasingly so elsewhere. There is debate as to whether snus is an acceptable "harm-reduction" tobacco product. Since snus use delivers a dose of nicotine equivalent to cigarettes, and has been implicated in cardiac arrhythmia because of associations with sudden cardiovascular death, a relation with atrial fibrillation is plausible and important to investigate.METHODS:: To assess the relation between use of snus and risk of atrial fibrillation, we carried out a pooled analysis of 7 prospective Swedish cohort studies. In total, 274,882 men, recruited between 1978 and 2004, were followed via the National Patient Register for atrial fibrillation. Primary analyses were restricted to 127,907 never-smokers. Relative risks were estimated using Cox proportional hazard regression.RESULTS:: The prevalence of snus use was 25% among never-smokers. During follow-up, 3,069 cases of atrial fibrillation were identified. The pooled relative risk of atrial fibrillation was 1.07 (95% confidence interval = 0.97-1.19) in current snus users, compared with nonusers.CONCLUSION:: Findings from this large national pooling project indicate that snus use is unlikely to confer any important increase in risk of atrial fibrillation.
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- Sundström, Johan, Professor, 1971-, et al.
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Risk factors for subarachnoid haemorrhage : a nationwide cohort of 950 000 adults
- 2019
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Ingår i: International Journal of Epidemiology. - : Oxford University Press. - 0300-5771 .- 1464-3685. ; 48:6, s. 2018-2025
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND: Subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) is a devastating disease, with high mortality rate and substantial disability among survivors. Its causes are poorly understood. We aimed to investigate risk factors for SAH using a novel nationwide cohort consortium.METHODS: We obtained individual participant data of 949 683 persons (330 334 women) between 25 and 90 years old, with no history of SAH at baseline, from 21 population-based cohorts. Outcomes were obtained from the Swedish Patient and Causes of Death Registries.RESULTS: During 13 704 959 person-years of follow-up, 2659 cases of first-ever fatal or non-fatal SAH occurred, with an age-standardized incidence rate of 9.0 [95% confidence interval (CI) (7.4-10.6)/100 000 person-years] in men and 13.8 [(11.4-16.2)/100 000 person-years] in women. The incidence rate increased exponentially with higher age. In multivariable-adjusted Poisson models, marked sex interactions for current smoking and body mass index (BMI) were observed. Current smoking conferred a rate ratio (RR) of 2.24 (95% CI 1.95-2.57) in women and 1.62 (1.47-1.79) in men. One standard deviation higher BMI was associated with an RR of 0.86 (0.81-0.92) in women and 1.02 (0.96-1.08) in men. Higher blood pressure and lower education level were also associated with higher risk of SAH.CONCLUSIONS: The risk of SAH is 45% higher in women than in men, with substantial sex differences in risk factor strengths. In particular, a markedly stronger adverse effect of smoking in women may motivate targeted public health initiatives.
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- Agardh, Emilie E, et al.
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Explanations of socioeconomic differences in excess risk of type 2 diabetes in Swedish men and women.
- 2004
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Ingår i: Diabetes Care. - : American Diabetes Association. - 0149-5992 .- 1935-5548. ; 27:3, s. 716-21
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- OBJECTIVE: We investigated to what extent socioeconomic differences in type 2 diabetes risk could be explained by established risk factors (obesity, physical inactivity, smoking, and heredity) and psychosocial factors (low decision latitude at work and low sense of coherence). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: This cross-sectional study comprised 3,128 healthy Swedish men and 4,821 women, aged 35-56 years, living in the Stockholm area. An oral glucose tolerance test identified 55 men and 52 women with type 2 diabetes. The relative contribution of established and psychosocial factors to socioeconomic differences in diabetes risk was assessed by comparing analyses with adjustment for different sets of these factors. RESULTS: The relative risks (RRs) for type 2 diabetes in middle and low socioeconomic groups in men were 2.4 (95% CI 1.0-5.3) and 2.9 (1.5-5.7), respectively, and in women 3.2 (1.5-6.6) and 2.7 (1.3-5.9), respectively. In men, the RRs decreased to 1.9 (0.8-4.4) and 2.1 (1.0-4.2) after adjustment for established risk factors; no further change was found when psychosocial factors were included. In women, the RRs changed to 2.4 (1.1-5.2) and 1.6 (0.7-3.8) by including established risk factors and to 2.3 (1.0-5.1) and 1.9 (0.8-4.3) by inclusion of psychosocial factors. After adjustment for both established and psychosocial factors, the RRs were 1.4 (0.6-3.6) and 1.0 (0.4-2.5), respectively. CONCLUSIONS: In men, the excess risk of type 2 diabetes was partly explained by established risk factors (36-42%), whereas psychosocial factors had no effect. In women, most of the socioeconomic differences in type 2 diabetes were explained by simultaneous adjustment for established risk factors and psychosocial factors (81-100%).
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- Ahlbom, Anders, et al.
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Occupational magnetic field exposure and myocardial infarction incidence.
- 2004
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Ingår i: Epidemiology. - : Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health). - 1044-3983 .- 1531-5487. ; 15:4, s. 403-8
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND: Studies on healthy volunteers have seen reduced heart rate variability after exposure to extremely low-frequency electric and magnetic fields (EMF). Because reduced heart rate variability has been linked to cardiovascular disease risk, it has been hypothesized that exposure to EMF might increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. One epidemiologic study has shown increased mortality from cardiovascular conditions in utility workers with elevated exposure to magnetic fields, but several other epidemiologic studies have failed to confirm this result. We tested the hypothesis that occupational EMF exposure increases the risk of myocardial infarction in a large population-based case-control study of myocardial infarction, with detailed information on potential confounders. METHODS: We used data from the SHEEP study, which is a population-based case-control study of acute myocardial infarction in Stockholm. Occupational EMF exposure was based on job titles 1, 5, and 10 years before diagnosis. We used 2 approaches to classify exposure: first, specific individual job titles with presumed elevated EMF exposure, and second, classification of subjects according to a job-exposure matrix. RESULTS: We found no increased risk of myocardial infarction in subjects classified as having elevated EMF exposure. For the highest exposure category of > or = 0.3 microT according to the job-exposure matrix, the adjusted relative risk was = 0.57 (95% confidence interval = 0.36-0.89). CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study do not support the hypothesis that occupational EMF exposure increases the risk of myocardial infarction.
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- Alfredsson, Lars, et al.
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Job strain and major risk factors for coronary heart disease. : Baseline results from the WOLF Study
- 2002
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health. - 0355-3140. ; 28:4, s. 238-248
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The results do not support the hypothesis that job strain has an adverse impact on serum total cholesterol and plasma fibrinogen levels. They suggest that an increased risk of coronary heart disease in association with job strain, if causal, is mediated by other factors, possibly partly by hypertension and low levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol.
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- Andersson, Per, Professor, 1964-, et al.
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Formell meritering och levd kunskap på folkhögskolans yrkeskurser
- 2023
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I detta paper redovisas resultat från ett forskningsprojekt om folkhögskolans yrkesutbildningar. I papret diskuteras yrkeskursernas potential att medverka till att deltagarna blir verksamma i ett yrke, genom att stärka deras formella meriter, reella yrkeskunnande och deras relation till möjliga arbetsgivare eller uppdragsgivare. Resultaten visar hur det reella kunnandet i stor utsträckning står i fokus, även om utbildningarna även ger vissa formella meriter, och hur dessa delar tillsammans bidrar till relationerna med arbetslivet. Reslutaten diskuteras i termer av ett möte mellan en informell och en formell kunskapskultur.
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- Björkenstam, C., et al.
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School grades, parental education and suicide : a national register-based cohort study
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. - : BMJ. - 0143-005X .- 1470-2738.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background To investigate whether school performance is a risk factor for suicide death later in life and, if so, to what extent this is explained by intergenerational effects of parental education. Methods This population-based cohort study comprises national birth cohorts between 1972 and 1981 in Sweden. We followed 898 342 students, graduating between 1988 and 1997 from the 9 years of compulsory school, equivalent to junior high school, until 31 December 2006, generating 11 148 758 person-years and 1490 suicides. Final school grades, in six categories, and risk of suicide were analysed with Poisson regression. Results The incidence rate ratio (RR) for suicide death for students with the lowest grades was 4.57 (95% CI 2.82 to 7.40) for men and 2.67 (1.42 to 5.01) for women compared to those with highest grades after adjustment for a number of sociodemographic and parental morbidity variables, such as year of graduation, parental education, lone parenthood, household receiving social welfare or disability pension, place of schooling, adoption, maternal age and parent's mental illness. Students with grades in the middle categories had RRs in between. These relationships were not modified by parental education. Conclusions The strong association between low school grades and suicide in youth and young adulthood emphasises the importance of both primary and secondary prevention in schools.
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- Björkenstam, E., et al.
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Multi-Exposure and Clustering of Adverse Childhood Experiences, Socioeconomic Differences and Psychotropic Medication in Young Adults
- 2013
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Ingår i: PLOS ONE. - : Public Library of Science (PLoS). - 1932-6203. ; 8:1, s. e53551-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: Stressful childhood experiences have negative long-term health consequences. The present study examines the association between adverse childhood experiences, socioeconomic position, and risk of psychotropic medication in young adulthood. Methods: This register-based cohort study comprises the birth cohorts between 1985 and 1988 in Sweden. We followed 362 663 individuals for use of psychotropic medication from January 2006 until December 2008. Adverse childhood experiences were severe criminality among parents, parental alcohol or drug abuse, social assistance recipiency, parental separation or single household, child welfare intervention before the age of 12, mentally ill or suicidal parents, familial death, and number of changes in place of residency. Estimates of risk of psychotropic medication were calculated as odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) using logistic regression analysis. Results: Adverse childhood experiences were associated with increased risks of psychotropic medication. The OR for more than three adverse childhood experiences and risk of psychotropic medication was for women 2.4 (95% CI 2.3-2.5) and for men 3.1 (95% CI 2.9-3.2). The risk of psychotropic medication increased with a higher rate of adverse childhood experiences, a relationship similar in all socioeconomic groups. Conclusions: Accumulation of adverse childhood experiences increases the risk of psychotropic medication in young adults. Parental educational level is of less importance when adjusting for adverse childhood experiences. The higher risk for future mental health problems among children from lower socioeconomic groups, compared to peers from more advantaged backgrounds, seems to be linked to a higher rate of exposure to adverse childhood experiences.
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- Brandt, S. Anders, 1970-, et al.
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Harmonization of GI educations in Sweden and the Bologna process : viewpoints of University of Gävle
- 2006
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Ingår i: Fifth European GIS Education Seminar (EUGISES 2006). ; , s. 10-
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- With the implementation of the Bologna declaration, many study programmes and course curricula needs to be updated and revised. This paper describes the current situation in Sweden regarding GIT educations and courses and whether a harmonization is needed. A survey was made to see which GIT courses that are given and at which level they are given at the various universities. For some universities, interviews were conducted about their courses’ contents and their strategies for determining course levels. Discussions were also made about harmonization of courses between Swedish universities. Some problems due to lack of harmonization was noted, which probably will be more severe in the future due to increased student mobility. To harmonize courses, Bloom’s revised taxonomy is put forward as a tool which is used to clearly state the level of the course in relation to learning objectives.
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- Colliander, Helena, Filosofie doktor, 1977-, et al.
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Teaching with a mission : Dimensions of professional identity among folk high school teachers in Sweden
- 2023
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Ingår i: The Nordic folk high school teacher. - Zürich : LIT Verlag. - 9783643912404 - 9783643962409 ; , s. 35-59
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter aims at describing the ways in which folk high school teachers in Sweden understand and claim themselves and their mission. Besides existing literature on the subject, the analysis is based on interviews with 12 teachers, located at different folk high schools and working with different courses and subjects.
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- Engström, Karin, et al.
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Contextual social capital as a risk factor for poor self-rated health : a multilevel analysis
- 2008
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Ingår i: Social Science and Medicine. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-9536 .- 1873-5347. ; 66:11, s. 2268-2280
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this study, we critically examine whether contextual social capital (CSC) is associated with self-rated health, with an emphasis on the problem of confounding. We also examine different components of CSC and their association with self-rated health. Finally, we look at differences in susceptibility between different socio-demographic groups. We use the cross-sectional base line study of the Stockholm Public Health Cohort, conducted in 2002. A postal questionnaire was answered by 31,182 randomly selected citizens, 18-84 years old, in Stockholm County. We used four measures of social capital: horizontal (civic trust and participation), vertical (political trust and participation), cognitive (civic and political trust) and structural (civic and political participation). CSC was measured at parish level from aggregated individual data, and multilevel regression procedures were employed. We show a twofold greater risk of poor self-rated health in areas with very low CSC compared with areas with very high CSC. Adjustments for individual socio-demographic factors, contextual economic factors and individual social capital lowered the excess risk. Simultaneous adjustment for all three forms of confounding further weakened the association and rendered it insignificant. Cognitive and structural social capital show relatively similar associations with self-rated health, while horizontal CSC seems to be more strongly related to self-rated health than vertical CSC. In conclusion, whether there is none or a moderate association between CSC and self-rated health, depends on the extent to which individual social capital is seen as a mediator or confounder. The association with self-rated health is similar independent of the measure of CSC used. It is also similar in different socio-demographic groups.
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- Fröberg, Frida, 1973-, et al.
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Psychosocial health and gambling problems among men and women aged 16–24 years in the Swedish National Public Health Survey
- 2013
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Ingår i: European Journal of Public Health. - : Oxford University Press. - 1101-1262 .- 1464-360X. ; 23:3, s. 427-433
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: This study aimed to explore the association between psychosocial health, gambling and gambling problems in a nationally representative sample of Swedish youth aged 16–24 years. Another aim was to examine whether these associations were different between young men and women.Methods: Data were from the cross-sectional Swedish National Public Health Survey in 2004–07. With a response rate of 60.1%, the sample consisted of 19 016 youth. Using a sex-stratified multinomial logistic regression, we estimated associations between psychosocial health variables and gambling and gambling problems.Results: Among males, we found that the higher the alcohol consumption, the higher the likelihood of gambling and gambling problems. Men with high alcohol consumption had an almost four times higher likelihood of gambling problems than men with no or low alcohol consumption (OR 3.94, 95% CI: 2.17–7.14). Moreover, young male victims of violence were more than twice as likely to have gambling problems than non-victims (OR 2.35, 95% CI: 1.39–3.99). Among young women, we found an inverse association between high alcohol consumption and gambling problems (OR 0.15, 95% CI: 0.05–0.44), opposite that of the young men. Furthermore, psychological distress (OR 6.15, 95% CI: 2.15–17.60) and suicidality (OR 2.88, 95% CI: 1.16–7.17) were associated with higher probabilities of gambling problems among young women.Conclusion: Alcohol use, violence victimization and poor mental health are associated with gambling problems among Swedish youth, however, with important sex differences. Prevention of youth gambling should consider sex differences and psychosocial health in addition to gambling.
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- Fröberg, Frida, 1973-, et al.
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The Association Between Compulsory School Achievement and Problem Gambling Among Swedish Young People
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Adolescent Health. - : Elsevier. - 1054-139X .- 1879-1972. ; 56:4, s. 420-428
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose We aimed to examine the association between school grades at the age of 16 years and problem gambling at the age of 17–25 years among Swedish females and males. Methods In a cohort design, we followed the 16- to 24-year-old participants in the representative Swedish Longitudinal Gambling Study for 2 years, 2008/2009 and 2009/2010, generating 3,816 person-years of follow-up time. The outcome, incidence of mild and moderate/severe gambling problems, was measured by the Problem Gambling Severity Index in telephone interviews. The exposure was register-linked information about final grades in compulsory school. The association between school grades and problem gambling was estimated in multinomial logistic regressions. Results Low and average school grades were associated with increased incidence of mild and moderate/severe problem gambling compared to high grades, adjusted for sociodemographic characteristics, psychological distress, and alcohol use. Low grades, compared to high grades, were associated with a higher risk of mild gambling problems for adolescent males, whereas the incidence proportion of moderate/severe problem gambling was high for males aged 20–25 years with low grades, among whom unemployment was also very high. Furthermore, we found a strong and graded association between school grades and moderate/severe problem gambling for women in both age groups, despite a low prevalence of gambling participation among females compared to males. Conclusions Our findings show that Swedish youth with low school achievement have an increased risk of gambling problems up to 8 years after school graduation, after control for confounding from sociodemographic characteristics, psychological distress, and alcohol use, and that this association is stronger for females than males.
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- Fröberg, Frida, 1973-, et al.
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The Incidence of Problem Gambling in a Representative Cohort of Swedish Female and Male 16-24 Year-Olds by Socio-demographic Characteristics, in Comparison with 25-44 Year-Olds
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Gambling Studies. - : Springer Nature. - 1050-5350 .- 1573-3602. ; 31:3, s. 621-641
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- We aimed to estimate the incidence of a first episode of problem gambling among Swedish 16-24 year-olds by demographic and socio-economic characteristics, and to compare the incidence between 16-24 and 25-44 year-olds, and between young women and men. Other aims were to estimate the proportions of recovery and incidence in recurrent problem gambling, and prevalence of problem gambling among 16-44 year-olds in Sweden. We selected 4,358 participants aged 16-44 from the nationally representative Swedish Longitudinal Gambling Study in 2008/2009 and 2009/2010. The primary outcome measure was a first episode of problem gambling during 12 months before the follow-up as measured by the Problem Gambling Severity Index among participants without a history of problem gambling at baseline. The incidence proportion of a first episode of problem gambling among 16-24 year-olds was 2.26% (95% confidence interval 1.52-3.36); three times lower among females (1.14; 0.42-3.07%) than males (3.32; 2.19-5.01%). Young age and household financial problems were associated with first episode problem gambling among young women. Among 25-44 year-olds, the incidence proportion of a first episode of problem gambling was 0.81% (0.41-1.56). Recovery from problem gambling was high, in particular among females. Individual transitions from problem gambling to recovery and to recurrent problem gambling, between baseline and follow-up, were common regardless of age. This study adds further evidence to research suggesting that there is a high mobility in and out of problem gambling over time on an individual level. The high incidence of first episode problem gambling among youth in Sweden stresses the importance of prevention of problem gambling at an early age.
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- Hallqvist, Anders, 1966-
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Arbetsliv och mobilitet : en forskningsöversikt
- 2005
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- Från både forskare och praktiker framställs idag önskemål om en större rörlighet på den svenska arbetsmarknaden. Ohälsan i arbetslivet skulle kunna mötas med en större rörlighet menar somliga. Andra för fram ekonomiska motiv och förhoppningar om att generativa effekter som innovation och idéutveckling kan följa på en ökad inter- och intraorganisatorisk mobilitet. Därtill kan anföras en värderings- och mentalitetsförändring som skett de senaste decennierna, som innebär att människor tycks värdesätta växling och förändring högre än vad tidigare generationer gjort. Samtidigt tyder statistiska uppgifter på en relativt svag mobilitet. Begreppen -yrkesinlåsning- och -arbetsplatsinlåsning- myntas som redskap för att förstå det förhållande att människor som säger sig vilja byta yrke eller arbetsplats ändå förblir vid sin läst. Att frågor som rör arbetsliv och mobilitet tas upp till behandling är av betydelse ur både individ- och samhällsperspektiv. Det handlar om den enskildes livskvalitet, samhällets önskan att ge förutsättningar för livslångt lärande, ett hållbart arbetsliv och dess möjligheter att sörja för personalbehovet på en föränderlig arbetsmarknad. Inte minst tycks det angeläget att adressera frågor om hur människor bemästrar yrkesmässiga omställningsprocesser och hur dylika processer kan stödjas och uppmuntras inom institutionella ramar och med pedagogiska incitament. Föreliggande forskningsöversikt behandlar dessa frågor med utgångspunkt i framför allt amerikansk och utomnordisk europeisk forskning, med syftet att presentera, diskutera och generera kunskaper om några av mobilitetens förutsättningar. Avsikten är att med hjälp av befintliga forskningsarbeten beskriva kunskapsläget, tydliggöra, analysera och diskutera problemet samt identifiera områden som bedöms vara angelägna att utsätta för ytterligare forskningsinsatser.
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- Hallqvist, Anders, 1966-, et al.
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Becoming a folk high school teacher in Sweden
- 2023
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Ingår i: The Nordic folk high school teacher. - Zürich : LIT Verlag. - 9783643912404 - 9783643962409 ; , s. 239-255
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The educational pathways among the 4000 Swedish folk high school teachers are many and diverse. Drawing on existing literature and five authentic cases that exemplify folk high school teachers’ career trajectories, this chapter describes and discusses this diversity of teachers’ educational pathways.
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- Hallqvist, Anders
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Biographical learning : two decades of research and discussion
- 2014
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Ingår i: Educational review (Birmingham). - : Taylor & Francis. - 0013-1911 .- 1465-3397. ; 66:4, s. 497-513
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article discusses the concept of biographical learning and reviews previous research on the subject. Several tensions between different versions of the concept are recognized, and a wide range of research areas in which the concept has been used are identified and presented. The general idea in the biographical learning tradition regarding the occurrence of general conceptions of one’s biography, as well as the idea of narrative coherence, is discussed critically. New areas of research are suggested.
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- Hallqvist, Anders, 1966-
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Biographical learning and midlife career transitions
- 2022
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Ingår i: The SAGE handbook of learning and work. - London : Sage Publications. - 9781529757217 - 9781529762051 - 9781526491114 ; , s. 362-375
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- Hallqvist, Anders, et al.
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End of journey, end of story? A longitudinal study of involuntary work transitions among laid-off workers
- 2014
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Ingår i: Studies in Continuing Education. - : Routledge. - 0158-037X .- 1470-126X. ; 36:2, s. 201-217
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this study is to increase knowledge regarding involuntary work transitions among laid-off workers. It is part of an ongoing cooperation with two outplacement agencies enrolling white-collar workers. The particular arrangements, which are based on collective agreements, include relatively generous support, both economically and regarding the educational and counselling arrangements offered. A narrative research approach is used and the analysis is based on interviews with 15 people, conducted on two occasions with about a year in between. Conceptualizing the transition as a biographical learning process, the findings point out a great variety within and between cases. While the basic distinction is drawn between people who have changed their status and those who have not, a number of rhetorical varieties are identified, pointing to different modes of biographical learning. The originality of the paper lies in its narrative approach and the particular conceptual framework showing that biographical learning is a vital part of enforced work transitions.
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- Hallqvist, Anders, et al.
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Learning in occupational transitions : a study of the process following job loss
- 2012
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Ingår i: Work. - 1051-9815 .- 1875-9270. ; 43:3, s. 331-343
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objective: This article examines how workers supported by outplacement services engage with an occupational transition through problem solving and learning.Participants: The participants were 23 mid-life redundant white collar workers with at least eight years in their sector, organization or occupation. The selected interviewees either participated in training to broaden their professional competence or did not make any such ‘expansive’ efforts.Methods: The study was based on narrative interviews, which enabled a detailed cross case examination of individuals’ actions and choices and how the process unfolds over time.Results: The results showed that people treat their job loss as a practical problem to be solved using various strategies. This problemsolving process is structured, with people passing similar crossroads defining particular challenges and opportunities giving people limited sets of choices.Conclusion: The results point to the significance of creativity and learning in occupational transitions.
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- Hallqvist, Anders
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Occupational transitions as a relational project
- 2012
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Ingår i: Studies in Continuing Education. - 0158-037X .- 1470-126X. ; 34:2, s. 83-98
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Looking at ‘biographical learning’ as part of a work transition, the aim of this paper is to investigate how social relations enable and constrain such a learning process in outplacement clients. To examine the process, its character and social conditions, the study draws on interviews with workers who had been made redundant and were enrolled at an outplacement agency. The interviews were analysed using a comparative cross-case analysis. A distinction was made between ‘strong’ (long-term and intimate), ‘weak’ (short-term and non-intimate) and ‘formal’ (e.g., professional counsellors) relations. Findings showed that strong and formal relations were rather influential on people's engagement in biographical learning while weak relations were important to the straightforward career. Since transitions in late modern society has become not only a passage but also a learning option, the different sources and functions of social relations should be considered a vital part of outplacement counselling. Future research should examine more closely both parties in strong relationships and the (joint) process of career decision-making inherent in occupational transitions.
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- Hallqvist, Anders, 1966-
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Pragmatism and the challenge of work life transitions
- 2007
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Ingår i: 5th ESREA European Research Conference, 2007.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this study is to outline how to make use of a number of perspectives in the tradition of pragmatism1 to understand agency in work-life transitions. It will focus on the interplay of cultural conditions, educational praxis in the field of career development and human action. The intention is also to develop theoretical resources that will be used in a forthcoming empirical study. The research question to be examined is how agency arises or emerges in occupational transitions; the main proposal is that pragmatism holds valuable insights that may be harnessed in this particular field of research.The paper begins by introducing the tradition of pragmatism. This is viewed in relation to the basic cultural and philosophical conditions known as modernity and enlightenment; it is characterized as modern but at the same time a departure from the rationalist-modernist era. Although this discussion will be preoccupied to some extent with the epistemological question, I will keep in mind the issue of human action and put forward some arguments about the relationship between modernity, pragmatism and action theory. The content draws largely from analyses by the German sociologist Hans Joas.In the second part of the paper, I will make explicit use of Joas’ view of action to understand how agency emerges in work-life transitions. Three action-related phenomena are examined. The first is goal setting. The dynamic and elastic character of human intentionality as well as the ‘pre-reflective’ sources of agency will be emphasized. Consequently, career planning as some kind of instrumental, rationalist endeavour will be investigated. Secondly, the power of the situation will be examined and highlighted as a force that may produce reflection and creativity in work-life transitions. However, agency presupposes an ability to take different perspectives of the actual situation in order to find an appropriate line of action. Third, I will explore the importance of imagination further, in relation to goal setting. Emotional power and creative imagination are supposed to be latent in our wishes, but they need to be cultivated in imaginative interplay with the current conditions and in moments of ‘reality testing’. Creative imagination, however, presupposes confidence and ‘the capacity to be alone’. For that very reason, it is argued, insecurity and risk in work-life transitions need to be balanced by trust in order to release the crucial imaginative processes.
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- Hallqvist, Anders, et al.
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The many faces of biographical learning
- 2012
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Ingår i: Studies in the Education of Adults. - 0266-0830 .- 1478-9833. ; 44:1, s. 70-84
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Our aim in this article is to look for more diversity within the concept of biographical leaning. As a conceptual tool for investigating learning in life transitions, biographical learning has gained some recognition over recent years. The concept centres on people’s abilities and possibilities to cope with change in a rapidly changing environment. As transitions have become more common, ‘learning processes within transition’ has become an important area for educational research. The development of the concept of biographical learning is related to this trend, since biographical learning processes appear to be more explicitly triggered when a person’s life course is changing and people are faced with transitions in it. In this article, biographical learning will be discussed in relation to research on restructuring, job loss and enforced work transitions. The article will suggest that such transitions may be understood in terms of biographical learning, acknowledging that learning in work transitions is not only about ensuring one’s ‘professional competence’ or ‘employability’ but includes identity issues and decision-making that affect one’s biography. Alheit and Dausien portray biographical learning as a certain perspective on lifelong learning, suggesting a ‘shift in analytic perspective’ and a departure from the policy-focused view in which lifelong learning is framed by political and economic precepts. Acknowledging the inner tensions between the ‘instrumentalist’ and ‘emancipative’ power of lifelong learning, the authors place some confidence in the latter, calling for an outlook in which the learning individual ‘is taken more seriously’. There are empirical reasons for such a preference. Although traditional lifeworlds are eroding, people’s responses are not inevitably a ‘panic’ reaction. Instead, people cope with changes rather creatively by using different action strategies that affect both their own biography and the social world in which they live. The concept of biographical learning is regarded as useful in this context, firstly because it takes account both of social structures and of the individual’s subjectivity. Hence, it recognizes people’s sense of being able to control their own lives interacting with biographical and structural conditions. Even though life chances are unequally distributed and agency is always ‘bounded’, when people face transitions decisions must be made and actions taken that are affected by and affect their biography. Secondly, biographical learning could be considered valuable because its scope is wider than predominant lifelong learning policies and because its aim extends beyond instrumental skills and ‘employability’. Thirdly, biographical learning can be regarded as helpful because it includes not only formal and organized aspects of learning, but also ‘cognitive and reflexive dimensions of learning as much as the emotional, embodied, pre-reflexive and non-cognitive aspects of everyday learning processes and practices’. However, further investigations of the concept are called for, as pointed out by Alheit and Dausien. One possible development concerns challenging its somewhat uniform character. While Alheit has identified three current ‘biographical coping patterns’ (‘patchworking’, ‘networking’ and ‘designing’; Alheit, 1999, p. 75), further analysis will probably reveal new insights and perhaps lead to a more complex description of what biographical learning is. It seems reasonable to assume, for example, that there might be differences between more continuous and more disruptive versions of biographical learning. In order to encompass a wider spectrum of approaches, the aim of this paper is to analyse, explore and expand the notion of biographical learning and to suggest a number of different modes of such learning.
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- Hallqvist, Anders, et al.
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Tillit i intersektoriell organisering? : en interaktiv longitudinell studie
- 2014
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Ingår i: Lärande i arbetslivet. - Linköping : Linköpings universitet. - 9789175192918 ; , s. 119-137
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I det här kapitlet vill vi diskutera hur intersektoriell samverkan mellan offentlig, privat och ideell sektor etableras och utvecklas. Mer specifikt vill vi utforska villkoren för och betydelsen av förtroende och misstroende mellan individer och organisationer över tid, i dylika projekt. Detta gör vi genom att närmare utforska och granska ett lokalt arbetsmarknadsprojekt drivet bland annat av ett arbetsintegrerande socialt företag. Projektet har följts över tre år i en höggradigt interaktiv process. På basis av resultaten diskuteras även intersektoriell rörlighet som en av den interaktive forskarens utmaningar och möjligheter.
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- Hallqvist, Anders, 1966-
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Understanding transitions
- 2007
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Ingår i: Concepts of Learning 2007 Conference of the ESREA Network on Life History and Biography,2007.
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- Hallqvist, Anders, 1966-
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Uppdrag familjehem : ett svensk-ryskt utvecklingsprojekt utvärderas
- 2006
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Bland socialarbetare i Ryssland pågår ett intensivt och angeläget arbete med hemlösa och föräldralösa barn. Många barn lever utan föräldrars omvård-nad, samtidigt som de ekonomiska resurserna som socialtjänsten förvaltar är knappa. För att höja kvalitén och effektivisera arbetet pågår sedan ett antal år tillbaka ett försök att introducera familjehemmet som samlevnadsform inom den ryska socialtjänsten. Ambitionen är barn ska kunna tas emot i familjer i stället för att placeras på institution. Som ett led i denna omställning genomfördes under 2002-2005 ett svensk-ryskt utvecklingsprojekt som syftade till att utveckla familjehemsverksamhet. Projektet var ett samarbete mellan de sociala myndigheterna i Leningrads län och Kommunförbundet (numera Regionförbundet) Sörmland. Det byggde bland annat på erfarenhetsutbyte mellan ryska och svenska socialarbetare. Mälardalens utvärderingsakademi vid Institutionen för samhälls- och bete-endevetenskap på Mälardalens högskola, har på uppdrag av projektledning-en genomfört en utvärdering av projektet. I föreliggande rapport presenteras resultatet från utvärderingen. Utfallet har bedömts med avseende på de resultat som kunnat iakttas när det gäller (1) expansion av familjehem och minskning av institutionsplacer-ingar, (2) fördjupning av den verksamhet som bedrivs, (3) strategisk program-utveckling samt (4) i vilken utsträckning projektet medverkat till en grundlig analys av det samhällsproblem som ska bemötas. Dessutom har frågor ställts om verksamhetens relevans och hållbarhet. Det empiriska underlaget för be-dömningen utgörs av både enkäter, intervjuer, dokument, ljudupptagningar från seminarier, observationer och informella samtal. Resultaten visar att projektet har medverkat till begränsad expansion och kvalitativ fördjupning av ett angeläget arbete med att utveckla familjehem samt att familjehemsprojektet därmed har angripit ett samhällsproblem som bör ha hög prioritet hos såväl ryska myndigheter som svenska biståndsor-gan. Problemets omfattning är ett skäl till arbetets aktualitet och angelägen-hetsgrad. Dess nära förhållande till en utbredd kriminalitet bland unga är ett annat. Projektet har stärkt de ryska deltagarna i deras dagliga arbete. De har fått uppslag och utvecklat kunskaper om hur arbetet kan utformas. Projektet har också medverkat till att deltagarnas arbete fått större legitimitet från myn-digheter och medborgare i det ryska samhället. Omställningen från ett institutionsbaserat system till ett system som byg-ger på familjen har emellertid inte kunnat fullföljas. Framför allt har de eko-nomiska resurserna saknats. Förklaringen är otillräcklig eftersom familje-hemsverksamhet är mindre kostnadskrävande än institutionsboende. Projektet har blottlagt och kanske förstärkt en intressekonflikt mellan olika myndigheter. Flera av länets kommittéer har de utsatta barnen inom sitt an-svarsområde. Om det samhällsproblem som projektet handlar om ska kunna bemötas fordras samarbete mellan dessa myndigheter. Att systemskiftet inte har kunnat genomföras kan ha sin förklaring i att myndigheterna inte kunnat enas. I mötet mellan svensk och rysk praxis och juridisk tradition har både lik-heter och skillnader länderna emellan blivit uppmärksammade. Familje-hemsmodellen har inte fullt ut kunnat integreras i den ryska socialtjänsten. Lagstiftningen ger inte verksamheten den legitimitet som fordras. Tack vare projektet har emellertid verksamhetens svaga juridiska grund placerats på dagordningen.
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- Hallqvist, Anders
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Uppdrag familjehem : Ett svensk-ryskt utvecklingsprojekt utvärderas
- 2006
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Bland socialarbetare i Ryssland pågår ett intensivt och angeläget arbete med hemlösa och föräldralösa barn. Många barn lever utan föräldrars omvårdnad, samtidigt som de ekonomiska resurserna som socialtjänsten förvaltar är knappa. För att höja kvaliten och effektivisera arbetet pågår sedan ett antal år tillbaka ett försök att introducera familjehemmet som samlevnadsform inom den ryska socialtjänsten. Ambitionen är att barn ska kunna tas emot i familjer i stället för att placeras på institution. Som ett led i denna omställning genomfördes under 2002-2005 ett svensk-ryskt utvecklingsprojekt som syftade till att utveckla familjehenisverksamhet. Projektet var ett samarbete mellan de sociala myndigheterna i Leningrads län och Kommunförbundet (numera Regionförbundet) Sörmland. Det byggde bland annat på erfarenhetsutbyte mellan ryska och svenska socialarbetare. I föreliggande rapport presenteras en utvärdering av familjehemsprojektet. Författaren till utvärderingsrapporten, Anders Hallqvist, är forskarstuderande i pedagogik vid Linköpings universitet.
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- Hallqvist, Anders, 1966-, et al.
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Vad är en folkhögskola?
- 2020. - 1
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Ingår i: Om folkhögskolan. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144133300 ; , s. 47-66
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Vad kännetecknar folkhögskolan? Hur kan folkhögskolornas verksamhet beskrivas? Vilka värderingar vill folkhögskolan arbeta för? Vilka aktuella tendenser kan iakttas och hur bemöter skolorna dessa? I detta kapitel försöker vi ge ett svar på frågan vad en folkhögskola är. Vi säger något om hur den en gång grundades, och hur den utvecklats över tid med avseende på grundläggande idéer, uppdrag och verksamhet. Men framför allt berättar vi om folkhögskolan i dag, hur den är organiserad och vilken verksamhet som äger rum på landets över 150 olika folkhögskolor.
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- Hallqvist, Anders, 1966-, et al.
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Vad är en folkhögskola?
- 2020. - 1
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Ingår i: Om vuxenutbildning och vuxnas studier. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144133294 ; , s. 121-140
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I det här kapitlet ska vi ge ett svar på frågan vad en folkhögskola är. Vi kommer att beskriva skolformen och den verksamhet som bedrivs. Vi kommer att redogöra för hur skolorna är organiserade, hur de styrs och finansieras, vilka olika funktioner folkhögskolan fyller och vilka värderingar den vill arbeta för. Vi kommer också att diskutera några aktuella tendenser och utmaningar, och hur skolorna förhåller sig till dem.
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- Hallqvist, Anders
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Work Transitions as Biographical Learning : Exploring the Dynamics of Job Loss
- 2012
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In recent years, researchers have pointed out that individuals understand their lives to a great extent through narratives and narration. In the field of adult education this idea has been taken up for instance in the concept of biographical learning. This thesis discusses the concept of biographical learning in relation to a research project on job loss in mid-life, as it is experienced and handled by whitecollar workers in a Swedish context. While much of the previous research on job loss and unemployment has focused on causes and effects, coping strategies and job search behaviour, this study suggests that an enforced work transition can be thought of as a biographical learning process.It also suggests that a greater diversity in the learning concept can be attained by reconsidering the concept in the framework of a pragmatist’s view of action. Analysing narrative interviews with white-collar workers (n=23), the study finds diversity in biographical learning with respect to the relative weights and characters of creative action and reflexive identity work. Individual’s variety of engagement in a work transition has also been understood by theoretically describing the process as structured by particular choice junctures. The study finds that a job loss during particular circumstances furthers reconsiderations, novel career decisions and ‘horizontal’ career moves.Being a central part of biographical learning, reflexivity is used in moments of evaluation, when people tell stories about the transition. It should be discussed in the plural, as the variety of evaluations implies a variety of reflexive efforts. Furthermore, it emphasizes that a work transition is a relational project, pointing out the significance of strong ties and formal ties to people who consider ‘horizontal’ career moves during a work transition. Altogether, this suggests that practical, existential, rhetorical as well as relational issues are involved in work transitions and biographical learning. Keywords: biographical learning, work transition, job loss, adult learning, adult education, outplacement counselling.
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- Hallqvist, Anders, et al.
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Work transitions as told : a narrative approach to biographical learning
- 2013
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Ingår i: Studies in Continuing Education. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0158-037X .- 1470-126X. ; 35:1, s. 1-16
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, we introduce a narrative approach to biographical learning; that is, an approach that considers autobiographical storytelling as a practice through which claims about life history are performed and negotiated. Using insights from narrative theory, we highlight evaluations in those narratives and suggest their crucial role in promoting self-reflective thought. The research area is unemployment, more specifically, work transitions following company restructuring and redundancy supported by outplacement services. Recognizing the learning potential in autobiographical storytelling, the article examines job-loss narratives told by people made redundant. The analysis focuses on strategies used in moments of evaluation. Our findings point to a variety of rhetorical strategies, different kinds of reflexivity and, in turn, variation in the potential for biographical learning.
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- Hansson, Jenny, et al.
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Use of snus and acute myocardial infarction: pooled analysis of eight prospective observational studies
- 2012
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Ingår i: European Journal of Epidemiology. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1573-7284 .- 0393-2990. ; 27:10, s. 771-779
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The use of snus (also referred to as Scandinavian or Swedish moist smokeless tobacco), which is common in Sweden and increasing elsewhere, is receiving increasing attention since considered a tobacco smoke "potential reduction exposure product". Snus delivers a high dose of nicotine with possible hemodynamic effects, but its impact on cardiovascular morbidity and mortality is uncertain. The aim of this study was to investigate whether snus use is associated with risk of and survival after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Data from eight prospective cohort studies set in Sweden was pooled and reanalysed. The relative risk of first time AMI and 28-day case-fatality was calculated for 130,361 men who never smoked. During 2,262,333 person-years of follow-up, 3,390 incident events of AMI were identified. Current snus use was not associated with risk of AMI (pooled multivariable hazard ratio 1.04, 95 % confidence interval 0.93 to 1.17). The short-term case fatality rate appeared increased in snus users (odds ratio 1.28, 95 % confidence interval 0.99 to 1.68). This study does not support any association between use of snus and development of AMI. Hence, toxic components other than nicotine appear implicated in the pathophysiology of smoking related ischemic heart disease. Case fatality after AMI is seemingly increased among snus users, but this relationship may be due to confounding by socioeconomic or life style factors.
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- Harlin, Eva-Marie, 1954-, et al.
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Utbildningsdesign och kursutveckling inom folkhögskolan : fyra exempel på didaktisk innovation
- 2020. - 1
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Ingår i: Om folkhögskolan. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144133300 ; , s. 161-182
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Ett av folkhögskolans kännetecken är dess förmåga att samspela med sin tid och sin omvärld. Denna förmåga har genom historien bidragit till att den varit innovativ både vad gäller vilka kurser som erbjuds och vilken didaktisk praxis som tillämpas. I detta kapitel försöker vi beskriva och förstå denna folkhögskolans förmåga till didaktisk innovation. Vi kommer att undersöka fyra utbildningars respektive tillkomsthistoria. Frågan om vilka verksamheter som kan rymmas inom folkhögskolan och hur folkhögskolans idé kan nytolkas blir central när folkhögskolor förnyar sin verksamhet. I någon mening handlar kapitlet därmed om folkhögskolornas förnyelse, och hur utbildningsformens egenart är under ständig förhandling.
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- Hermansson, Jonas, et al.
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Case fatality of myocardial infarction among shift workers
- 2015
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Ingår i: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health. - Berlin Heidelberg : Springer Berlin/Heidelberg. - 0340-0131 .- 1432-1246. ; 88:5, s. 599-605
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- PURPOSE: Shift work has been associated with an excess risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and more specifically myocardial infarction (MI). The majority of the studies that found a positive association between shift work and CVD have been based on incidence data. The results from studies on cardiovascular-related mortality among shift workers have shown little or no elevated mortality associated with shift work. None of the previous studies have analysed short-term mortality (case fatality) after MI. Therefore, we investigated whether shift work is associated with increased case fatality after MI compared with day workers.METHODS: Data on incident cases with first MI were obtained from case-control study conducted in two geographical sites in Sweden (Stockholm Heart Epidemiology Program and Västernorrland Heart Epidemiology Program), including 1,542 cases (1,147 men and 395 women) of MI with complete working time information and 65 years or younger. Case fatality was defined as death within 28 days of onset of MI. Risk estimates were calculated using logistic regression.RESULTS: The crude odds ratios for case fatality among male shift workers were 1.63 [95 % confidence interval (CI) 1.12, 2.38] and 0.56 (95 % CI 0.26, 1.18) for female shift workers compared with day workers. Adjustments for established cardiovascular risk factors such as diabetes type II and socio-economic status did not alter the results.CONCLUSION: Shift work was associated with increased risk of case fatality among male shift workers after the first MI.
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