ISAC
ISAC - Injuries' Social Aetiology and Consequences
The ISAC group is concerned with the mechanisms underlying the social patterning of injuries between groups and geographic areas and also with the short and long term consequences of injury events. Emphasis is placed on injuries among the young and the elderly. Both intentional and unintentional injuries, in particular in the traffic environment, are considered.
Studies are conducted in Sweden and in other parts of the world.
Doctoral defences during 2011
Klara Johansson
Doctoral thesis: Adolescents' encounters with public space. Safety and mobility in relation to individual and contextual factors in Sweden.
Time: 9.30, Friday 4th of February 2011
Place: CMB lecture hall, Berzelius väg 21
WHO report and policy briefing on social difference in injury
Addressing the socioeconomic safety divide: a policy briefing
The policy briefing summarizes evidence on the socioeconomic safety divide from a large systematic review and provides messages for policy-makers, researchers and public health advocates and safety planners on how to address health inequity from injuries and violence.
Socioeconomic differences in injury risks - A review of findings and a discussion of potential countermeasures
This overview of the current state of knowledge on socioeconomic differences in injury risks is based on a review of mortality and morbidity studies from inside and outside the WHO European Region.
A great loss
The ISAC group has lost a colleague and friend. Anne-Mari Reimers passed away on the 31st of August 2008. Our thoughts and deepest sympathies go to her family.
Anne should have defended her doctoral thesis at the Karolinska Institutet on December 5 this year.
To make her work visible and better known, the Center for Public Health of the Stockholm County Council, where she was employed, has released a collection of her articles in the field of social inequalities in injuries in the County. Those articles were supposed to form part of her doctoral thesis.
