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.
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.
The First Stockholm Insurance Medicine Lecture and Inauguration Lecture
The First Stockholm Insurance Medicine Lecture and Inauguration Lecture
We have started with a new lecture series called Stockholm Insurance Medicine lectures. Professor Simon Øverland from Bergen University, Norway was the first invited speaker. He is an international expert regarding intervention studies with the aim to improve work participation in individuals with mental disorders. Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz has been appointed as KIs first professor in Insurance Medicine and gave her inauguration lecture.
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.
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).
Cochrane Insurance Medicine
Cochrane Insurance Medicine
Now Cochrane Insurance Medicine (CIM) is 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, since many years worked to establish this as a field within Cochrane.