Intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) is a major public health problem in
countries around the world, including the Nordic region. Contrary to what would be …

The discipline of epidemiology, which holds major influence on public health policy as well
as on clinical medical practice, has in recent decades to a large extent been concerned with …

Socioeconomic, ethnic and gender disparities in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
(COPD) risk are well established but no studies have applied multilevel analysis of …

Modern medicine is overwhelmed by a plethora of both established risk factors and novel
biomarkers for diseases. The majority of this information is expressed by probabilistic …

Intersectionality theory can contribute to epidemiology and public health by furthering
understanding of power dynamics driving production of health disparities, and increasing …

Background Intersectionality theory combined with an analysis of individual heterogeneity
and discriminatory accuracy (AIHDA) can facilitate our understanding of health disparities …

Background In light of the opioid epidemic in the United States, there is growing concern
about the use of opioids in Sweden as it may lead to misuse and overuse and, in turn …

Despite being rated as some of the world's most gender equal countries, Sweden and
neighboring Nordic nations show high rates of intimate partner violence against women …

Dominant narratives of prescription opioid misuse (POM) in the US have portrayed it as an
issue primarily affecting White communities. In this study we explore POM as reported in …

Background While HPV vaccination uptake in Sweden is quite high, at around 80%, vaccine
hesitancy remains an issue in countries throughout Europe. The latter can be related to a …