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- Bonde, J. P. E., et al.
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COVID-19-related hospital admission in spouses of partners in at-risk occupations
- 2023
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health. - : Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health. - 0355-3140 .- 1795-990X. ; 49:3, s. 193-200
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objective This study aimed to quantify the risk of COVID-19-related hospital admission in spouses living with partners in at-risk occupations in Denmark during 2020-21.Methods Within a registry-based cohort of all Danish employees (N=2 451 542), we identified cohabiting couples, in which at least one member (spouse) held a job that according to a job exposure matrix entailed low risk of occupational exposure to SARS-CoV-2 (N=192 807 employees, 316 COVID-19 hospital admissions). Risk of COVID-19-related hospital admission in such spouses was assessed according to whether their partners were in jobs with low, intermediate or high risk for infection. Overall and sex-specific incidence rate ratios (IRR) of COVID-19-related hospital admission were computed by Poisson regression with adjustment for relevant covariates.Results The risk of COVID-19-related hospital admission was increased among spouses with partners in highrisk occupations [adjusted IRR (IRRadj)1.59, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.1-2.2], but not intermediate-risk occupations (IRRadj 0.97 95% 0.8-1.3). IRR for having a partner in a high-risk job was elevated during the first three pandemic waves but not in the fourth (IRRadj 0.48 95% CI 0.2-1.5). Sex did not modify the risk of hospital admission.Conclusions SARS-CoV-2 transmission at the workplace may pose an increased risk of severe COVID-19 among spouses in low-risk jobs living with partners in high-risk jobs, which emphasizes the need for preventive measures at the workplace in future outbreaks of epidemic contagious disease. When available, effective vaccines seem essential.
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- Bonde, J. P. E., et al.
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Occupational risk of COVID-19 across pandemic waves: a two-year national follow-up study of hospital admissions
- 2022
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health. - : Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health. - 0355-3140 .- 1795-990X. ; 48:8, s. 672-677
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objective Assuming that preventive measures to mitigate viral transmission of SARS-CoV-2 at the workplace may have been improved in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, we examined the occupational risk of COVID-19 related hospital admission across the four pandemic waves in Denmark between week 8, 2020, and week 50, 2021. Methods The study included 4416 cases of COVID-19 related hospital admissions among 2.4 million Danish employees aged 20-69 with follow-up in 2020 through 2021. At-risk industrial sectors and a reference population were defined a priory by a job-exposure matrix on occupational risk for COVID-19. Incidence rate ratios (IRR) and potential effect modification by pandemic wave were computed with Poisson regression adjusted for demographic, social and health factors including completed COVID-19 vaccination. Results We observed an overall elevated relative risk in four of six at-risk industrial sectors, but the pandemic wave only modified the risk among healthcare employees, where the excess risk from a high initial level declined to background levels during the latest waves in models not adjusting for COVID-19 vaccination. In social care, education and transport, the elevated risk was not modified by pandemic wave. Conclusion Danish healthcare employees were to some extent protected against occupational transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during the two last pandemic waves even though the absolute risk conferred by occupation may not have been eliminated. Early vaccination of this group seems not to be the only explanation. The risk in other sectors remained elevated indicating a need to revisit preventive measures.
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- Bonde, J P E, et al.
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Occupational risk of COVID-19 in foreign-born employees in Denmark
- 2023
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Ingår i: Occupational Medicine. - : Oxford University Press. - 0962-7480 .- 1471-8405.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND: Foreign-born workers in high-income countries experience higher rates of COVID-19 but the causes are only partially known. AIMS: To examine if the occupational risk of COVID-19 in foreign-born workers deviates from the risk in native-born employees in Denmark. METHODS: Within a registry-based cohort of all residents employed in Denmark (n = 2 451 542), we identified four-digit DISCO-08 occupations associated with an increased incidence of COVID-19-related hospital admission during 2020-21 (at-risk occupations). The sex-specific prevalence of at-risk employment in foreign born was compared with the prevalence in native born. Moreover, we examined if the country of birth modified the risk of a positive SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test and COVID-19-related hospital admission in at-risk occupations. RESULTS: Workers born in low-income countries and male workers from Eastern Europe more often worked in at-risk occupations (relative risks between 1.16 [95% confidence interval {CI} 1.14-1.17] and 1.87 [95% CI 1.82-1.90]). Being foreign-born modified the adjusted risk of PCR test positivity (test for interaction P < 0.0001), primarily because of higher risk in at-risk occupations among men born in Eastern European countries (incidence rate ratio [IRR] 2.39 [95% CI 2.09-2.72] versus IRR 1.19 [95% CI 1.14-1.23] in native-born men). For COVID-19-related hospital admission, no overall interaction was seen, and in women, country of birth did not consistently modify the occupational risk. CONCLUSIONS: Workplace viral transmission may contribute to an excess risk of COVID-19 in male workers born in Eastern Europe, but most foreign-born employees in at-risk occupations seem not to be at higher occupational risk than native born.
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- Beck, Ingela, et al.
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Utveckling och pilottestning av en portfolio för programexamination i färdighet att samtala personcentrerat
- 2024
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Samtal på personcentrerad grund är en generisk färdighet som relationsinriktade professioner behöver. Färdigheter som riskerar hamna i skymundan till förmån för faktakunskaper och rådande normer och värderingar i verksamheten. För att stödja studentens lärande och professionella utveckling har en programportfolio utvecklats. Vi kommer att berätta om utvecklingen och upplägget av portfolion samt preliminära resultat av genomförandet färdighetsträningen i samtal på personcentrerad grund för att uppmärksamma känslomässiga och existentiella frågor.
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- Nilsson, D., et al.
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Replication of genomewide associations with allergic sensitization And allergic rhinitis
- 2014
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Ingår i: Allergy. - : Wiley. - 1398-9995 .- 0105-4538. ; 69:11, s. 1506-1514
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Three genomewide metastudies have recently reported associations with self-reported allergic rhinitis and allergic sensitization. The three studies together identified a set of 37 loci but showed low concordance. This study investigates the reproducibility of the detected single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) associations in an extensively characterized longitudinal cohort, BAMSE. Methods: Phenotypic evaluation of allergic rhinitis (AR) and allergic sensitization was performed on 2153 children from BAMSE at 8 and 16 years of age. Allele frequencies of 39 SNPs were investigated for association with the exact allergic phenotypes of the metastudies. Odds ratios and false discovery rates were calculated, and the impact of asthma was evaluated. The cases were also evaluated for age at onset effects ( <= or >8 years of age). Results: Association tests of the 39 SNPs identified 12 SNPs with P-values <0.05 and Q-values <0.10. Two of the four loci (TLR6-TLR1 and HLA-DQA1-HLA-DQB1) identified in all three original studies were also identified in this study. Three SNPs located in the TLR6-TLR1 locus had the lowest P-values and Q-values <0.1 when using a well-defined AR phenotype. Two loci showed significant age at onset effects, but the effect of asthma on the associations was very limited. Conclusion: The TLR6-TLR1 locus is likely to have a central role in the development of allergic disease. The association between genetic variation in the SSTR1-MIPOL1 and TSLP-SLC25A46 loci and age at onset is the first report of age at onset effects in allergic rhinitis.
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- Nilsson, David, et al.
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Soldater, veteraner och deras anhöriga : öppet seminarium med David Nilsson och Ann-Margreth Olsson
- 2015
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- David Nilsson, som är doktorand inom sociologi och inskriven vid Lunds Universitet, presenterar delar av sitt pågående avhandlingsarbete som handlar om nära anhörigas berättelser om hur det är att vara tillsammans – gift eller sammanboende -‐ med någon som arbetar inom Försvarsmakten och som deltar i militära insatser utomlands. I avhandlingen fokuserar David på utlandstjänstens konsekvenser för den hemmavarande partnerns personliga och sociala liv. Ann-‐Margreth E. Olsson, som är lektor i socialt arbete och en av David handledare, lägger särskilt fokus på anhöriga och barn och det stöd de kan behöva inom hälso-och sjukvård, socialtjänst, skola, förskola och från Försvarsmaktens sida i form av anhörigssamordnare vid lokala regementen
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- Nilsson, E. J. C., et al.
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Evaluation of cryoanalysis as a tool for analyzing elemental distribution in live tardigrades using micro-PIXE
- 2014
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Ingår i: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B. - : Elsevier BV. - 0168-583X .- 1872-9584. ; 332, s. 181-186
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although heavy on labor and equipment, thus not often applied, cryoanalysis of frozen hydrated biological specimens can provide information that better reflects the living state of the organism, compared with analysis in the freeze-dried state. In this paper we report a study where the cryoanalysis facility with cryosectioning capabilities at Materials Research Department, iThemba LABS, South Africa was employed to evaluate the usefulness of combining three ion beam analytical methods (mu PIXE, RBS and STIM) to analyze a biological target where a better elemental compositional description is needed - the tardigrade. Imaging as well as quantification results are of interest. In a previous study, the element composition and redistribution of elements in the desiccated and active states of two tardigrade species was investigated. This study included analysis of both whole and sectioned tardigrades, and the aim was to analyze each specimen twice; first frozen hydrated and later freeze-dried. The combination of the three analytical techniques proved useful: elements from C to Rb in the tardigrades could be determined and certain differences in distribution of elements between the frozen hydrated and the freeze-dried states were observed. RBS on frozen hydrated specimens provided knowledge of matrix elements.
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- Olsson, Ann-Margreth E.
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Barns deltagande och medskapande i socialautredningar om barns och familjers behov och resurser : "barnavårdsutredningar” och Barnahus
- 2017
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Ingår i: Barnsliga sammanhang. - Kristianstad : Kristianstad University Press. ; , s. 21-33
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I kapitlet belyses, utifrån tre forskningsstudier, hur barns delaktighet och deltagande i sociala utredningar kan utvecklas genom socialsekreterares invitationer. Studierna har bedrivits som dialogisk deltagande aktionforskning där deltagande socialsekreterare och deras ledare deltagit i studien i intervjuande samtal och med reflektioner på återkopplingar av resultat liksom samskapande av nya frågeställningar. I två av studierna har forskaren handlett och coachat socialsekreterarna som en pågående aktion inom forskningsstudien. Kapitlet syftar till att belysa hur barns medskapande kan tas tillvara genom att beakta barns rättigheter till del- aktighet och deltagande inom det sociala arbetets praktik och i synnerhet i utredningsarbete. Den aktuella kontexten handlar om utredningsprocesser inom socialtjänsten. Kontexten innehåller också den institution som i Norden kommit att kallas Barnahus (Johansson, 2012). Inom Barnahusverksamheten samarbetar polis, åklagare, rättsmedicin, barnmedicin liksom barn- och ungdomspsykiatrin samt socialtjänsten när ett barn misstänks vara eller varit utsatt för våld eller övergrepp (Rikspolis- styrelsen, Rättsmedicinalverket, Socialstyrelsen, & Åklagarmyndigheten, 2008). Det kan också handla om att barnet har bevittnat våld i nära relationer (Broberg et al., 2015). På Barnahuset samordnas myndigheternas inledande insatser. Barnet förhörs av polis och för att barnet inte ska behöva upprepa sin berättelse, iakttas förhöret av andra involverade professionella inklusive barnets socialsekreterare genom videokoppling till ett medhörningsrum i närheten av förhörsrummet.
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