Solvig Ekblad
Affiliated to Research
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E-mail: solvig.ekblad@ki.se
Telephone: +46852483614
Visiting address: Widerströmska huset, Tomtebodavägen 18A, 17165 Solna
Postal address: C7 Lärande, Informatik, Management och Etik, C7 Övriga FG, 171 77 Stockholm
About me
- -Professor of Multicultural Health and Care Research, Cultural Medicine Unit,
Department of LIME, Karolinska Institututet (KI), since 2015, (20%).
-Licensed psychologist at Academic Primary Health Care Center, Region
Stockholm, since 2014
*Some previous appointments*
-Senior researcher, Dept of LIME (2010-2014)
-PI Section for stress research, KI (1986-94), Head (IPM, migration and
health, 1994-2007), group leader (Stress Research Institute 2007-2010)
-Guest professor, 15%, Malmö University, Faculty of Health and Society
-Adjunct lecturer, 20% Dept of Neurotec, KI, Center for Psychiatric Research
Stocholm
-Clinical psychologist 1974-1985 (psychiatry), community (1986), primary
health care (2014-, 40%)
Graduated as B.A. Psychology, Sociology, Pedagogy, University of Uppsala,
1972 and M.A. Psychology, University of Umeå, 1974
Doctor Medical Sciences, PhD (psychiatry), Karolinska Institutet (KI),
Huddinge university hospital, Dept of psychiatry, Title: Social Determinants
of Aggressive Behaviour in a Sample of Chinese Primary School Children,
supervisor: professor Bengt Jansson, MD, PhD, 1986
Visiting scientists (1 v) prof Michael Rutter, London University 1986 and in
PRChina 1988-1990
Associate Professor in Transcultural Psychology at Karolinska Institutet,
1992, Professor competence 2006 (KI- Dnr 176/05-221)
Licensed psychologist, National Board of Health and Welfare, 1978
Research
- Our increasingly global and multicultural society alongside an egalitarian
and sustainable health care policy places new demands on us all. My research
area is in multicultural health and care research. I give four projects as
examples:
1. Early mental health promotion measures are needed. Events that elicit
stress after arrival in the reception country, “postmigration stress”,
have a negative impact on health-related quality of life among newcomers. An
innovative model, adapted from a Harvard model (professor Richard Mollica) of
culturally tailored health promotion groups for refugees have been performed
by my research group among newcoming refugees and relatives in several
Swedish contexts with promising results. The results are of significance not
only for the individual and his/her relatives but also for healthcare and
society as a whole. We have collaborated before Covid-19 in several
communities, on a small scale. After Covid-19, a pilot study is at present
performed at Röda Korsets folkhögskola, Skärholmen (KI-Stockholm city
agreement). This intervention is also significant for chronic patients as
foreign borns have higher amount of public health disorders (eg diabetes,
heart problems, cancer) than the Swedish borns.
2. Technological progress and changes in health care practices, with an
increased focus on clinical communication and contemplation, have
successively led to the increased use of simulation models (Virtual patients
including Virtual interpreter and Virtual supervisor) as a method of
instruction, learning and clinical interviewing within the field of medicine.
To achieve this, my research group have chosen a strategy of developing
computerised patient simulations in national (SU) and international (Harvard)
collaborations, where medical students and in future psychology students and
resident doctors can practice and provide feedback to a virtual counsellor. A
new project funded by FORTE and ALF-Ped is entitled “Virtual Clinical
Encounters between doctors and refugee patients for medical assessment and
follow-up: To develop, test and evaluate the impact on empathy” (Erica
Rothlind, PhD in 2020). Publications:
Rothlind, E., Fors, U., Salminen, H., Wändell, P., & - Ekblad, S. (2021).
Virtual patients reflecting the clinical reality of primary care - a useful
tool to improve cultural competence. /BMC Med Educ, 21/(1), 270.
doi:10.1186/s12909-021-02701-z
Rothlind, E. (2020). /Overlooking health acculturation: a grounded theory
study illustrating the complexity of intercultural consultation in Swedish
primary care. //Diss./ Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.
Rothlind, E., Fors, U., Salminen, H., Wandell, P., & - Ekblad, S. (2020). The
informal curriculum of family medicine - what does it entail and how is it
taught to residents? A systematic review. /BMC Fam Pract, 21/(1), 49.
doi:10.1186/s12875-020-01120-1
Rothlind, E., Fors, U., Salminen, H., Wandell, P., & - Ekblad, S. (2018).
Circling the undefined-A grounded theory study of intercultural consultations
in Swedish primary care. /PLoS One, 13/(8), e0203383.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0203383
Rothlind E, Fors U, Salminen H, Wandell P, Ekblad S. Primary care
consultations on emotional distress – a part of the acculturation process
in patients with refugee backgrounds. A grounded theory approach. /Manuscript
under review with BMC Fam Pract/. 2021:22:138.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-021-01487-9
3. Serious parental illness is a risk factor of ill health in the children of
the family. Health care staff in Sweden is legally obliged to ensure that the
children of seriously ill parents are informed and have received advice and
support regarding their parents’ illness. In primary health care, no method
that can help parents communicate information about their illness to their
children exists. The aim of this doctoral project (Charlotte Oja) was to test
the safety and effects of the psycho-educational method “Let´s Talk about
the Children” for use in primary health care for helping seriously ill
parents to relate information about their illness to their children.
(Charlotte Oja, PhD, 2021), publications:
Oja, S., Edbom, T., Nager, A., Månsson, J., Ekblad, S. Awareness of parental
illness: a grounded theory of upholding family equilibrium in parents on
long-term sick-leave in primary health care. Scandinavian Journal of Primary
Health Care.Published online: 21 Jun 2021.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02813432.2021.1928835
Oja, S., Edbom, T., Nager, A., Månsson, J., Ekblad, S. Informing children of
their parent’s illness: A systematic review of intervention programs with
child outcomes in all health care settings globally from Inception to 2019.
PLOS ONE, PPS-2019-10-9, accepted May 11, published May 26.
2020:15(5):e0233696. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone [1] 0233696
Oja, C., Edbom, T., Nager, A., Månsson J., Ekblad, S. Alone Making Life Work
for Both of Us- How Children Aged 11–16 View Themselves in Relation to
Their Chronically Ill Parents in a Primary Health Care Context, International
Journal of Adolescence and Youth,
https://doi.org/10.1080/02673843.2018.1548360 [2] (No 27, 2018)
Oja, C./ Upholding family relationships in a context of increasing awareness
of parental illness./ Inst för neurobiologi, vårdvetenskap och samhälle /
Dept of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society - Dissertation KI, 2021.
4. Translation/backtranslation and validation of General Medical Council
Multi-Source Feedback Questionnaires for evaluation clinical competence among
residence doctors in family medicine a pilot project and supervisor in
VESTA (residence doctors in Family Medicine (AT/ST unit at APC).
Publications:
Olsson, J-E, Ekblad, S., Bertilson, BC., Toth-Pal, E. Swedish adaptation of
the General Medical Council's Multi Source Feedback Questionnaires – A
qualitative study. International Journal of Medical Education, 2018 - 9:161-169
doi:10.5116/ijme.5af6.c209
Olsson, J-E., Wallentin, V.Y., Toth-Pal, E., Ekblad, S., Bertilson, BC.
Psychometric analysis of the Swedish version of the General Medical
Council’s multi-source feedback questionnaires. International Journal of
Medical Education 2017 - 8:252-261 https://www.ijme.net/ [3] DOI:
10.5116/ijme.5948.0bb6
•155 Abstracts for presentation on international conferences, 150 in
Swedish
•1 book (co-editor, APA), 1 book (Swedish), 1 book (co-author, Swedish) and
1 manus
Number of publications since 1984: 101 articles in international scientific
journals, 55 in Swedish scientific journals, 101 book chapters (53 In
English), 1 book, 1 book (co-editor, APA), 21 Stress Research Reports, 2
invited commentaries, 5 guest editorials (Swedish), more than 155 abstracts
at international scientific conferences and 150 in Swedish
*Research cooperation outside KI:*
Internationally with researchers from universities in Copenhagen, Denmark,
London, UK, Harvard, USA
Supervision: Supervised (in transcultural psychiary and psychology, public
health and pediatric care, medical education) 12 PhDs to dissertation (1 of
them as a co-supervisor), 2 licentiats
Supervisor of postdocs and previously of 1 postdocs
Undergraduate level: total 65 - 34 (D-level in medicine, psychology, public
health 20 weeks/30 ECT), 31 (C-level 10 weeks/15 ECT), 32 medical students T7
or T11, own project, 7, 5 hp, 1 CHESS traineship (7, 5hp)
•56 VESTA (CeFam, residence doctors in family medicine), 1 KVAST, 1
ST-psychiatry, 6 ongoing VESTA
•International Federation of Medical Students’ Association, research
exchange, supervision of Shichao Zhang, Medical Student, T6, PT China July
13-August 7, 2015
*External funding from e.g.*
Ekblad: Intervention programs for new-coming asylum seekers and Refugees, HSN
0803-0349 (Folkhälsoanslaget), KI, 2, 000 000 SEK (2008-11)
Ekblad: FAS-2009-1482, A scientific national and international network in
migration, social medicine and global mental health, KI, 300 000 SEK
(2009-13)
Ekblad: FAS-2007-1961, Immigrant women’s health, KI, 2 850 000 SEK + KID
(2008-12)
Ekblad: scientific leader, Socialstyrelsen, Platform between Södertälje
community and Stockholm county council regarding needs and care of new-coming
refugees, KI, 960 000 (Carlén, M, PI, Psykiatricenter Södertälje) (2010),
approved continuation 2011, 998 000 SEK and approved continueation 2012, 998
000 SEK (Hägglöf, C, PI, Södertälje municipality)
Ekblad: PI, Tailored interactive training with virtual advisor encounters to
improve under-standing and retention of basic statistics in doctoral students
– an individualised and inter-cultural collaborative learning framework.
KI, Dnr 3532/10-509, (2011) 200 000 SEK
Ekblad: project partner, NIH Grant (Richard Mollica: PI, Harvard and foreign
adjunct professor in psychiatry at KI, ) Virtual encounters-an innovative
research and collaborative education program in the field of caring for
traumatized patients (pilot study 2011-2012) 89 000 US$, plan to apply for
the main RCT study Spring 2014
Ekblad: PI, Webbased Health School for students and patients in Stockholm’s
multicultural primary health care (Verktyg för att förbättra
interkulturell kompetens över professionsgränser på verksamhetsförlagd
utbildning i primärvården). ALF-ped Diarienr SLL20110292 (2012) 300 000
SEK- Diarienr SLL20130186, 2014-2015, 350 000 SEK/year
1.6miljonerklubben (PI) (Ekblad, KI partner - L-O Larsson Angereds närsjukhus
partner) Lifestyle course – for female new-comers as third country
nationals Integrationsfonden, 2012-2014 (june), 2 706 087 SEK
Ekblad, S (PI) Virtual Clinical Encounters between doctors and refugee
patients for medical assesment and follow-up: To develop, test and evaluate
the impact on empathy , 2014-0853FORTE, Approved 2014-09-25 2 580 000 SEK
2015-2017
Main supervisor project Primary health clinics facilities to detect and
prevent health problems in children and young people whose parents are on
long term sick leave (Primärvårdens möjligheter att upptäcka och
förebygga ohälsa hos barn och unga vars föräldrar är långvarigt
sjukskrivna). Sponsor: Capio
Expert “Health/lifestyle course to newcoming women”, to Växjö
municipality by primary health care and Rehab centre and Public health unit,
Landstinget Kronoberg (contacgt person: Erica Ericsson), 1/8 2014-juni
2015, total 680 000 SEK
*Some current commissions:*
Mentor at KI: 1 female PhD (2010-), 1 female PhD (2012-)
Program Co-Director (2012-) - Member of intl Faculty in Master Program
“Global Mental Health – Trauma and Recovery”. 2 weeks on site and 5
months web-based learning. Yearly 50 international students. 350 participants
in the alumini network (www.hprt-cambridge.org)
(2006-) “Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma – 2014 ad Oriveto Porano,
Italy, 11, 20 minutes, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EevQqD8vK-g
Member, Examination Board at KI, 18 halfway control seminars, 22 dissertation
seminars 1994-2015
KID evaluator, Karolinska Institutet, Sept 3, 2013, 2014, 2015 (global
health, qualitative methods)
Member of Rätt till vård initiative (vårdetiskt nätver/careethical
network) Member of right to care (http://www.vårdpapperslosa.se, 2012-
Adjunct professor at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology,
lectures in their Global Mental Health II seminar, Spring 2013 – ongoing
(video-conference)
Project expert in ”Health promoting interventions by taobacco prevention on
receipt in the
primary health care in Stockholm County Council” (PI=Tanja Tomson),
LIME/KI, Sep 2013-
Member of Review Panel – International Journal of Migration, Health and
Social Care, March 27 2014-
Medical expert in the medical reference group, 1, 6& - 2, 6miljonerklubben
(www.1.6miljonerklubben.com). 2014-
*Some previous commissions:*
Coordinator. A scientific network for national and international PhD-studies
in the field of migration, social medicine, global mental health, (1993-2011)
(www.fas.se)
Co-chair (prof Derrick Silove, NSW, Australia), Intl Committee for Mental
Health of Migrants and Refugees, World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH)
(1997-2000)
Transcultural psychiatry. Scholarship in the name of prof Bengt Jansson,
KI, 1999
Member of Karolinska Institutet’s Ethical Council, Stockholm (2005-2009)
Majblomman. Queen Sylvia gave the diploma at a ceremony, Castle, Stockholm,
2006
Member of scientific board, DIGNITY (former RCT), Copenhagen, Denmark
(2009-2013)
Member of scientific review group for applications (PhD students and post
doc) to Care Sciences, KI, 2003-2009
Examinator, international PhD, NSW, Australia, 2001, 2002, 2009, 2010, 2012
External faculty opponent, 2006, licentiate, Umeå University
Mentor: 2 female post doc (2002, 2008), 1 male PhD (2009-2014)
Invited member of an Expert Panel Group in the field of Mental Health,
Immigrant Perspective and children to parents with diseases, Evaluation of
applications, The Research Council of Norway, Oslo, 2011, 2013
Erasmusprogram, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), centre for
Psychiatry, August 15-29, 2013
Expert candidate number EX2013D152061 European Comission, November 29, 2013
(http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/page/experts)
International expert for UNHCR at seminar “Mental Health and Psychosocial
Treatment for Victims of Trafficing, Torture and Rape, in Tel Aviv, 10-12
December 2013
Diplom for excellent supervision on the course Master in Medicine Spring 2012
at Karolinska Institutet(Fanny Berger, ceremony June 5, 2014)
[1] https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone
[2] https://doi.org/10.1080/02673843.2018.1548360
[3] https://www.ijme.net/
Articles
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Article: JMIR MEDICAL EDUCATION. 2023;9:e38599
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Article: SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE. 2021;39(3):268-278
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Article: BMC FAMILY PRACTICE. 2021;22(1):138
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Article: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2021;11(1):11344
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Article: BMC MEDICAL EDUCATION. 2021;21(1):270
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Article: PLOS ONE. 2021;16(10):e0257297
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Article: PLOS ONE. 2020;15(9):e0238797
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Article: ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS REPORTS. 2019;9:100183
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Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL EDUCATION. 2018;9:161-169
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Article: PLOS ONE. 2018;13(8):e0203383
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Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL EDUCATION. 2017;8:252-261
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Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY NURSING. 2016;23:1-7
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Article: JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH. 2015;17(2):e46
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Article: PLOS ONE. 2015;10(3):e0119754
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Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH. 2014;11(10):10622-10640
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Article: TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY. 2013;50(6):841-857
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Article: JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH. 2013;67(10):875-881
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Article: BMC MEDICAL EDUCATION. 2013;13:110
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Article: JOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE. 2013;201(8):645-652
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Journal article: SOCIETIES. 2013;3(2):204-216
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Article: EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN HEALTH JOURNAL. 2012;18(11):1166-1169
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Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEMS. 2012;6(1):13
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Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY. 2012;41(4):1153-1161
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Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS (UNITED KINGDOM). 2012;2012:681301-7
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Article: BMC PUBLIC HEALTH. 2011;11:180
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Article: IRANIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 2011;40(3):79-88
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Article: ETHNICITY & HEALTH. 2010;15(5):475-493
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Article: LAKARTIDNINGEN. 2009;106(52):3525-3526
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Article: CHILDRENS GEOGRAPHIES. 2009;7(2):209-228
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Article: PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW. 2009;11(2):191-215
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Article: TORTURE : QUARTERLY JOURNAL ON REHABILITATION OF TORTURE VICTIMS AND PREVENTIONOF TORTURE. 2009;19(3):227-237
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Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEMS. 2008;2(1):16
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Article: LAKARTIDNINGEN. 2008;105(38):2568-2571
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Article: CULTURE MEDICINE AND PSYCHIATRY. 2008;32(3):386-405
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Article: BJPSYCH INTERNATIONAL. 2008;5(3):55-57
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Article: QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH. 2008;18(5):647-657
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Article: GMS PSYCHO-SOCIAL-MEDICINE. 2008;5:Doc04
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Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY NURSING. 2008;12(1):35-43
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Article: SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHIATRIC EPIDEMIOLOGY. 2008;43(2):121-131
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Article: JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY NURSING. 2007;24(6):314-328
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Article: JOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE. 2007;195(11):955-958
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Article: JOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE. 2006;194(5):378-381
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Article: SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE. 2006;62(7):1697-1709
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Article: EUROPEAN PSYCHIATRY. 2006;21(3):152-159
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Article: TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY. 2005;42(3):394-419
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Article: LAKARTIDNINGEN. 2005;102(14):1019-1020
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Article: TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY. 2004;41(1):120-129
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Article: JOURNAL OF ANXIETY DISORDERS. 2004;18(3):357-369
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Article: NORDIC JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY. 2003;57(3):185-189
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Article: LAKARTIDNINGEN. 2002;99(8):818-819
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Article: NORDIC PSYCHOLOGY. 2002;54(1):7-26
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Article: JOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE. 2001;189(12):838-845
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Article: CULTURE MEDICINE AND PSYCHIATRY. 2000;24(4):431-452
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Article: JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING. 2000;31(3):623-630
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Article: LAKARTIDNINGEN. 1998;95(13):1415-1422
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Article: SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WELFARE. 1997;6(4):279-285
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Article: JOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE. 1997;185(2):102-107
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Article: WORLD HEALTH FORUM. 1997;18(3-4):305-310
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All other publications
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Review: BMC FAMILY PRACTICE. 2020;21(1):49
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Other: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 2012;22(6):930
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Other: TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY. 2012;49(3-4):642-644
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Letter: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY. 2012;26(2):135-137
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Published conference paper: AFRICAN HEALTH SCIENCES. 2009;9 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):S16-S22
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Published conference paper: ACTA PSYCHIATRICA SCANDINAVICA, SUPPLEMENT. 2002;(412):30-36
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Other: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 2001;11(1):117
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Editorial comment: LANCET. 2000;355(9214):1548-1549
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Other: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 2000;10(3):236
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Other: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 1999;9(1):73-74
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Published conference paper: APPLIED AND PREVENTIVE PSYCHOLOGY. 1997;6(2):55-67
Employments
- Affiliated to Research, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, 2023-2026
Degrees and Education
- Docent, Karolinska Institutet, 1992