Division of Insurance Medicine

We are interested to know how the pandemic affects your mental health and wellbeing. In a large worldwide survey, we are going to assess the effects of the pandemic on mental health globally.

Jurgita Narusyte has been granted 4.9 million SEK from AFA Insurance in order to investigate how depression, anxiety and ADHD in young people relate to sickness absence later in life.

Linnea Kjeldgård has defended her licentiate thesis entitled Sickness absence and disability pension among individuals injured in a bicycle crash.

Mirkka Söderman has defended her thesis entitled Healthcare professionals’ work with sickness absence : with focus on oncology.

Rasmus Elrud has defended his thesis entitled Sickness absence, disability pension, and permanent medical impairment among car occupants injured in a crash.

In a new Swedish study, published in the medical journal Neurology, it was found that people with cluster headache have twice as many sick-leave days as people without. The researchers also found that women with cluster headache had twice as many sick-leave days as men with the same disease. That an episodic disease has some effect on working life was expected, but not that the differences were that large.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and their colleagues in Germany, the USA and Finland have studied the safety of very long-term antipsychotic therapy for schizophrenia. According to the study, which is published in the scientific journal World Psychiatry, mortality was higher during periods when patients were not on medication than when they were.

Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz was inaugurated as KI´s first professor in Insurance Medicine during a ceremony held in Aula Medica.

"We represent many disciplines within medical science, but we are united in the aim of improving people’s health,” said Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz in her professor’s speech.

The EUMASS Congress is one of the major international research and learning events in insurance medicine in Europe.

The congress will take place in Basel in Switzerland 17-19 September 2020.

The theme is “Science and practice in the field of insurance medicine – present and future challenges in the European and Swiss context."

You can submit your abstract the latest on 14 December 2019.

Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz has begun her position as a Professor of Insurance Medicine at the Division of Insurance Medicine, the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet in April this year. The research area of insurance medicine is relatively new, however, it has developed much during the last years. Karolinska Institutet has taken a leading role in this development both nationally and internationally – a role that will be even more pronounced now.