Network within Insurance Medicine
We collaborate in different local as well as European networks in order to promote research on different aspects of sickness absence.
NorTwinDiSa – Nordic Twin study of Disability pension and Sickness absence
This network was established in 2012 and aims at promoting research collaboration and competence regarding sickness absence research using twin settings. Research teams from the following research settings are involved: Division of Insurance Medicine, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden (team leader: associate professor Pia Svedberg); Department of Global Public Health, University of Helsinki and Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH), Helsinki, Finland (team leader: associate professor Annina Ropponen, FIOH); University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark (team leader: professor Jacob von Bornemann Hjelmborg); and Division of Mental Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI), Oslo, Norway (team leader: associate professor/senior researcher Ragnhild E. Ørstavik).
Contact: Pia Svedberg
The Section of Social Security, Work and Health
Within the European Public Health Association; EUPHA, aiming at promoting research and research collaboration regarding different aspects of sickness absence and disability pension. You are very welcome to become a member of this section.
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Integrated Datasets in Europe for Ageing Research (IDEAR)
IDEAR network brings together leading occupational cohort and ageing studies from five European countries to explore the impact of working conditions on health and well-being in later life.
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The Cancer and Work Network
This network was established in 2013 and aims at promoting research collaboration and competence regarding work and sickness absence among people with cancer.
Training school for research on cancer and work
The Division of Insurance Medicine arranged an international Training School for junior researchers, with lecturers from several countries in May 2014. The training school was the first one of the newly started research network Cancer and Work (CANWON). The focus during this first training school was how to use register data in this type of research and to promote networking and collaboration among junior researchers in this area.
Sickness Absence Research Collaboration
We have since many years collaborated with researchers from other European countries on these aspects.
Resiliency, Mental Health and Social Participation among Refugees (RMSR)
RMSR is financed by the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare and primarily based at the Swedish Red Cross University College with very close collaboration with Karolinska Institutet.
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Stockholm Stress Collaborative
SSC has been started as a new informal research network as a reconstruction of the former Stockholm Stress Centre, which ended in 2019. This initiative is in its first stages.
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