Folkesundhed
26 maj 2025
Public health in a changing world – challenges, opportunities and collaboration in the Nordic countries
On 13–15 May, the public health team at the Nordic Welfare Centre participated in the 14th Nordic Public Health Conference in Gothenburg, [...]
Ældre voksne
4 mar 2025
Kulturellt anpassade diagnosverktyg en nödvändighet i samisk demensvård
Demensvård för samer är ett ämne som fått ökad uppmärksamhet de senaste åren. En av de mest centrala frågorna är behovet av diagno [...]
Folkesundhed
16 jan 2025
New report maps out the use of nicotine products by children and youth in the Nordic region
In recent years, new types of tobacco-free nicotine products have been launched on the market. Many of the products, like electronic cigaret [...]
Folkesundhed
2 sep 2024
“The message is clear: Invest in prevention of dementia”
Currently an estimated 500,000 people in the Nordic countries have dementia, and the numbers are on the rise. The corresponding figure for t [...]
Folkesundhed
7 feb 2023
Remote therapy a solution during Covid-19 for people with deafblindness
Even in normal situations, people with deafblindness constitute a vulnerable group that experience a lot of isolation – and the pandemic h [...]
Folkesundhed
9 maj 2022
NADRA 2022: Q&A with keynote speaker Riikka Perälä
Riikka Perälä, Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Y-Foundation, is one of the keynote speakers at the Nordic Alcohol and Drug Researchers’ [...]
Folkesundhed
2 maj 2022
NADRA 2022: Q&A with keynote speaker Bagga Bjerge
Bagga Bjerge, associate professor at Aarhus University BSS, Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research at the Department of Psychology and Behavio [...]
Folkesundhed
25 apr 2022
NADRA 2022: Q&A with keynote speaker Jenny Cisneros Örnberg
Jenny Cisneros Örnberg, associate Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Public Health Sciences at Stockholm University, is one of [...]
Folkesundhed
14 apr 2021
New report: School achievement and health development in the Nordic countries
Education plays a particularly important role in explaining health outcomes in the Nordic countries. Our new report aims to highlight knowle [...]
Demens
8 mar 2021
Indigenous peoples and legally certain dementia assessment
An incorrect diagnosis in a dementia examination may mean that an individual misses out on the medication and treatment to which they are en [...]
Folkesundhed
1 feb 2021
Nytt mandat för den nordiska folkhälsoarenan
Nordiska folkhälsoarenan, som Nordens välfärdscenter fungerar som sekretariat för, har fått förnyat mandat för åren 2021-2023. - Fol [...]
Folkesundhed
21 jan 2021
First call for abstracts: Nordic Alcohol and Drug Researchers’ Assembly 2021
The Nordic Alcohol and Drug Researchers’ Assembly (NADRA) will take place at Hanaholmen, Espoo, in Finland 8 – 10 September 2021. First [...]
