Division of Insurance Medicine
Sickness absence affects individuals, health care, insurance organizations, employers, and society. Nevertheless, the scientific knowledge base is very limited. We conduct research, systematic literature reviews, post graduate training, and networking regarding sickness absence, work disability, health, and living conditions.
New report on psychosocial work environment
New report on psychosocial work environment
Per Lytsy and Emilie Friberg have compiled a new report that contains two systematic literature reviews on the existing research on the factors which create healthy and vital workplaces.
Jurgita Narusyte has been granted 4.9 million SEK
Jurgita Narusyte has been granted 4.9 million SEK
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.
Magnus Helgesson has been granted 4.9 million SEK
Magnus Helgesson has been granted 4.9 million SEK
Magnus Helgesson has been granted 4.9 million SEK from AFA Insurance in order to investigate if drug- and psychotherapy can increase the potential for employees with common mental disorders to continue working despite their illness, and which psychosocial and organizational workplace factors can prevent sickness absence among people with these diagnoses.
New licentiate thesis
New licentiate thesis
Linnea Kjeldgård has defended her licentiate thesis entitled Sickness absence and disability pension among individuals injured in a bicycle crash.
New doctoral thesis
New doctoral thesis
Mirkka Söderman has defended her thesis entitled Healthcare professionals’ work with sickness absence : with focus on oncology.
New doctoral thesis
New doctoral thesis
Rasmus Elrud has defended his thesis entitled Sickness absence, disability pension, and permanent medical impairment among car occupants injured in a crash.
People with cluster headache have twice as many sick-leave days as those without
People with cluster headache have twice as many sick-leave days as those without
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.
New study shows that long-term medication for schizophrenia is safe
New study shows that long-term medication for schizophrenia is safe
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.
New grant to the Division of Insurance Medicine
New grant to the Division of Insurance Medicine
Jurgita Narusyte has been granted 4.9 million SEK from AFA Insurance within the research program “Living and working with mental ill-health”. The overall purpose of the funded project is to investigate the associations between mental ill-health and sickness absence among individuals employed in the private sector.
Jurgita Narusyte has been granted 2.4 million SEK
Jurgita Narusyte has been granted 2.4 million SEK
Jurgita Narusyte has been granted 2.4 million SEK from the Swedish Research Council for a project on the associations between mental health problems in emerging adulthood and future sickness absence among those working in public and private sectors.
Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz was inaugurated as a professor
Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz was inaugurated as a professor
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.
Kristin Farrants has been granted 1.8 milllion SEK
Kristin Farrants has been granted 1.8 milllion SEK
Kristin Farrants has been granted 1.8 million SEK from Handelsrådet for a project regarding sickness absence and disability pension among white-collar workers in trade. The project will consist of cohort studies with a 5-year follow-up based on linked register data.
EUMASS congress 2021
EUMASS congress 2021
The EUMASS Congress is one of the major international research and learning events in Insurance medicine in Europe.
The congress has been postponed to 16-18 September 2021.
Annina Ropponen has been granted 4.7 million SEK
Annina Ropponen has been granted 4.7 million SEK
Annina Ropponen has been granted 4.7 million SEK from Forte for a research project regarding the associations between early life factors and sustainable working life using twin design.
Emilie Friberg has been granted 5 million SEK
Emilie Friberg has been granted 5 million SEK
Emilie Friberg has been granted 5 million SEK for a project about multiple sclerosis (MS), gainful employment and sick leave from Försäkringskassan.
The project is expected to generate important knowledge that is often requested by doctors and patients about strategies for being able to work as long as possible.
Karolinska Institutet has now a professor in Insurance Medicine!
Karolinska Institutet has now a professor in Insurance Medicine!
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.
New VR grant to the Division of Insurance Medicine
New VR grant to the Division of Insurance Medicine
Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz, Professor and Head of the Division of Insurance Medicine has been granted 25,000,000 SEK by the Swedish Research Council for a research environment called REMAIN (”Refugee Minors And INtegration”). Five research groups from four different countries are involved in the research environment. The aim is to establish knowledge and find strategies to improve the social integration of refugees minors with mental disorders.
Celebrating 5 years!
Celebrating 5 years!
The field of Cochrane Insurance Medicine (CIM) was created by researchers from Switzerland, the Netherlands, Sweden and Canada for five years ago. Since then research in this field had increased in number of countries stimulated by the recognition of insurance medicine (IM) as a specialty with particular broad research needs. The aim of CIM is to make IM more evidence-based, promoting the production and use of scientific evidence to support IM practice. CIM has also become a platform for IM researchers and professionals to connect and collaborate.
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Cochrane Insurance Medicine
Cochrane Insurance Medicine
Cochrane Insurance Medicine (CIM) has been established as a field within Cochrane.
CIM aims to establish and make evidence based knowledge regarding insurance medicine available for professionals and users.
The Division of Insurance Medicine has, together with groups from three other countries, worked since many years to establish this as a field within Cochrane.
Agreement on the new European Data Protection Legislation good for research
Agreement on the new European Data Protection Legislation good for research
The European parliament, the Council of Ministers, and the European Commission have agreed on a common text which will replace national legislations on data protection by 2018 (PUL in Sweden).