Research
The research at the Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences is conducted by 11 different research groups. For further information, follow the links to each group below.
Research at Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences
research Areas
Publications
- Visualization of painful inflammation in patients with pain after traumatic ankle sprain using [(11)C]-D-deprenyl PET/CT.. 2017
- Regarding the review article by Erlanson-Albertsson and Zetterström, Acta Paediatr 2005;94:1523-31. 2006
- Barnhälsoteam: ett exempel på framgångsfaktorer för god samverkan kring förebyggande arbete för barn. 2010
- Enabling nursing students to focus on the Ottawa Charter and the nurses role in tackling inequalities in health through international exchange. 2010
- Digital society generates new challenges on Child Welfare Services. 2017
- The Global State of the Genetic Counseling Profession. 2019
- Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults.. 2017
- Leadership and management skills of first-line managers of elderly care and their work environment. 2010
- Patient-provider interaction from the perspectives of type 2 diabetes patients in Muscat, Oman: a qualitative study. 2007
- Severe bereavement stress during the prenatal and childhood periods and risk of psychosis in later life: population based cohort study. 2014
- Development and reliability of the General Motor Function Assessment Scale(GMF)-A performance-based measure of function-related dependence, pain andinsecurity.. 2003
- Evaluation and application of the General Motor Function assessment scalein geriatric rehabilitation.. 2003
- Continuity of the self in later life: perceptions of informal caregivers.. 2004
- On loss of activity and independence, adaptation improves lifa satisfaction in old age: - a qualitative study of patients' perceptions. 2005
- Different long-term metabolic effects of enalapril and atenolol in patients with mild hypertension. EGTA Group. 1995
- Principles of nutritional assessment. 2006
- The impact of folate status and folic acid supplementation on the micronucleus frequency in human erythrocytes. 2006
- Rapid amyloid-β oligomer and protofibril accumulation in traumatic brain injury. 2018
- Brain tissue Aβ42 levels are linked to shunt response in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus. 2018
- Maternal and perinatal factors associated with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma among children. 1996
- Påverkan av organisatoriska och miljömässiga faktorer på tillgänglighet till akutsjukvården. 2004
- The impact of physician training level on emergency readmissions within internal medicine. 2004
- Impact of proximity and hospital specialisation on appropriateness of emergency readmissions.
- A Healthy Nordic Diet and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors: Intervention Studies with Special Emphasis on Plasma Lipoproteins. 2013
- Influence of a healthy Nordic diet on serum fatty acid composition and associations with blood lipoproteins: results from the NORDIET study. 2014
- Effects of a healthy Nordic diet on cardiovascular risk factors in hypercholesterolaemic subjects: a randomized controlled trial (NORDIET). 2011
- What is a healthy Nordic diet?: Foods and nutrients in the NORDIET study. 2012
- Role of a prudent breakfast in improving cardiometabolic risk factors in subjects with hypercholesterolemia: a randomized controlled trial.
- Role of a prudent breakfast in improving cardiometabolic risk factors in subjects with hypercholesterolemia: A randomized controlled trial. 2015
- Implementing empowerment group education in diabetes. 2004
- Exploring changes over time in habilitation professionals' perceptions and applications of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, version for Children and Youth (ICF-CY).. 2010
- Professionals' views of children's everyday life situations and the relation to participation. 2012
- Identifying child functioning from an ICF-CY perspective: everyday life situations explored in measures of participation. 2011
- How people with cognitive disabilities experience electronic planning devices. 2015
- Perception of the influence of environmental factors in the use of electronic planning devices in adults with cognitive disabilities. 2016
- Different sets of risk factors for the development of albuminuria and renal impairment in type 2 diabetes: the Swedish National Diabetes register (NDR). 2009
- The majority of type 2 diabetic patients with renal impairment have non-albuminuric renal disease: the Swedish National Diabetes register (NDR). 2010
- Risk factors for the development of albuminuria and renal impairment in type 2 diabetes—the Swedish National Diabetes Register (NDR). 2010
- Type 2 diabetes incidence and socio-economic position: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 2011
- Burden of type 2 diabetes attributed to lower educational levels in Sweden. 2011
- Psychosocial aspects before and up to 2years after heart orlung transplantation: Experience of patients and their nextof kin. 2017
- Allmänmedicin och traumatologi - de många kontaktytornas konst. 1996
- Dyspepsi - duger anamnesen?. 1996
- Dyspepsivårdprogram ovetenskapliga. 1997
- Risken för allvarlig komplikation mycket liten (replik). 1996
- Rome? Manning? Who cares?. 2000
- The epidemiology of functional gastrointestinal disorders. 1998
- Vad håller Amalgamenheten i Uppsala på med?. 1996
- Dyspepsi - kan vi ha dogmatiska riktlinjer i en nyanserad verklighet?. 1999
- [Do dare to make priorities! For example gastroscopy in dyspepsia]. 2000
- Helicobacter pylori seropositivity among Swedish adults with and without abdominal symptoms. A population-based epidemiologic study. 1995
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Dyspepsia in the General Population: Overlap and Lack of Stability Over Time. 1995
- Natural history of gastroesophageal reflux disease and functionalabdominal disorders: a population-based study.. 2001
- Endomysium antibodies are superior to gliadin antibodies in screening forcoeliac disease in patients presenting supposed functionalgastrointestinal symptoms . 2000
- Challenges in managing dyspepsia in general practice. 1997
- Dyspepsia: current understanding and management.. 1998
- Working conditions and family situation in relation to functional gastrointestinal disorders [letter; comment]. 1998
- Identifying dyspepsia and irritable bowel syndrome: the value of pain ordiscomfort, and bowel habit descriptors.. 2000
- GP testing for Helicobacter pylori [letter; comment]. 1997
- Towards a healthy stomach?: Helicobacter pylori prevalence has dramatically decreased over 23 years in adults in a Swedish community. 2016
- Dyspepsi och/eller IBS - kan epidemiologin vägleda?. 1996
- Multitrauma-kurser för glesbygdsdoktorer. 1996
- Predictors and non-predictors of symptom relief in dyspepsia consultations in primary care. 2008
- A Swedish version of the Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) measure. 2017
- Seasonal variations in food quality for pelagic and benthic invertebrates in Lake Erken - the role of fatty acids. 1997
- Imbalance of fatty acids in the base of the Baltic sea food web - a mesocosm study.. 2005
- Fatty acid content of some freshwaterfish in lakes of different trophic levels - a bottom-up effect?. 1996
- Prevalence of antibodies specific to Puumala virus among farmers in Sweden. 1998
- Clustering of diabetes into novel subgroups provides improved prediction of outcome. 2017
- Novel subgroups of adult-onset diabetes and their association with outcomes: a data-driven cluster analysis of six variables. 2018
- Insulin Resistance, a Link between Maternal Overweight and Fetal Macrosomia in Nondiabetic Pregnancies. 2010
- What makes registered nurses remain in work? An ethnographic study. 2019
- Diability and quality of life in individuals with muscular dystrophies. 1996
- Coping with illness-related problems and quality of life in adult individuals with muscular dystrophy.. 1996
- Encounters in close care relations from the perspective of personal assistants working with persons with severe disability.. 2010
- Enjoying work or Burdened by it?: How personal Assistants Experience and Handle Stress at Work. 2012
- Family members' experiences of personal assistance given to a relative with disabilities. 2011
- Perceptions of the transition from receiving the diagnosis recessive limb-girdle muscular dystrophy to becoming in need of human support and using a wheelchair: an interview study. 2019
- Self-rated health in relation to employment status, during times with high- and low levels of unemployment.. 2001
- Ökad skillnad i självskattad hälsa mellan arbetslösa och personer i arbete.. 2000
- Hur är hälsan bland arbetslösa i dagens samhälle?. 2001
- How to deal with sociocultural pressures in daily life: reflections of adolescent girls suffering from eating disorders. 2011
- Perceived expectations in daily life among adolescent girls suffering from an eating disorder: a phenomenographic study. 2010
- Characteristics measured by the Eating Disorder Inventory for children at risk and protective factors for disordered eating in adolescent girls. 2010
- Personal standards, self-evaluation and perceived benefits of thinness in girls and young women with disturbed eating. 2008
- Risk and protective factors for disturbed eating in adolescent girls: aspects of perfectionism and attitudes to eating and weight. 2009
- The effect of smoking cessation on work disability risk: a longitudinal study analysing observational data as non-randomized nested pseudo-trials. 2019
- Association of Long-Term Diet Quality with Hippocampal Volume: Longitudinal Cohort Study. 2018
- Being a close relative of a patient with a left ventricular assist device. 2013
- A 50-Hz electromagnetic field impairs sleep.. 1999
- A national document on clinical nutrition. Developmental work for improvement of medical education (article in Swedish). 1997
- Treatment of protein-energy malnutrition in chronic nonmalignant disorders.. 2001
- Maternal and gestational risk factors for hypospadias. 2008
- Uppsala Longitudinal Adolescent Depression Study (ULADS). 2019
- Functional gastrointestinal disorder is associated with increased non-gastrointestinal healthcare consumption in the general population. 2008
- Low bone mineral density and fat free mass in young and middle-aged patients with a femoral neck fracture. 2015
- Low bone mineral density and fat-free mass in younger patients with a femoral neck fracture. 2015
- Does Rehabilitation Matter in Patients With Femoral Neck Fracture and Cognitive Impairment?: A Prospective Study of 246 Patients. 2010
- Early operation on patients with a hip fracture improved the ability to return to independent living. A prospective study of 850 patients.. 2008
- Exploring the development of a cultural care framework for European caring science. 2011
Research projects
PhysCan - Fysisk träning och cancer. En multicenterstudie som bedrivs av Uppsala universitet, Linköpings universitet och Lunds universitet.
Forskning om Astrocyters roll för Alzheimers och Parkinsons sjukdom
Fokus barn och föräldrar - en studie av 3-5-åringars hälsa i Uppsala län.
Forskning om Astrocyters roll för Alzheimers och Parkinsons sjukdom
Fokus barn och föräldrar - en studie av 3-5-åringars hälsa i Uppsala län.
The Ethics Blog
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Learning from the difficulties
Source: Pär Segerdahl 2019-09-11
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In-depth critique of dynamic consent
Source: Pär Segerdahl 2019-08-28
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How can we set future ethical standards for ICT, Big Data, AI and robotics?
Source: Josepine Fernow 2019-07-11
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Transhumanism purifies human misery
Source: Pär Segerdahl 2019-06-18
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Promoting public health requires responsibility, compassion and humility
Source: jessicanfahlquist 2019-06-10
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Where to publish and not to publish in bioethics – the 2019 list
Source: Stefan 2019-06-03
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People want to be able to influence the risk
Source: Pär Segerdahl 2019-05-27
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Neuroethical reflection in the Human Brain Project
Source: arleensalles 2019-05-15
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How about personally optimized treatment?
Source: Pär Segerdahl 2019-05-06
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Genetic risk information: lines and stage directions
Source: Pär Segerdahl 2019-04-23
Web Resources
Web Resources/Databases at IFV.