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Financial support for gender equality and women’s integrity among national minorities
2010-09-01
The Swedish National Institute of Public Health now announces funds for financial support for projects dealing with gender equality, women's integrity and collaboration among the national minorities - Jews, Romanies, Saamis, Finns and people from Tornedalen speaking Meänkieli. For this announcement, which is part of a government commission, one million Swedish crowns are set aside.
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Heat waves and mortality among vulnerable groups
2010-08-26
It is estimated that climate change poses different types of health threats worldwide. The heat wave in Europe in 2003 had consequences for public health due to the large increase in the number of deaths that occurred. Because preventive measures must be directed at relevant groups in order to be successful at a reasonable cost, it is important to find out more about the effects of heat waves on mortality in different vulnerable groups.
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Greater focus on people’s living conditions reduces health disparities
2010-06-24
Health on equal terms is a concept that needs clarification. This is one of the conclusions of a study by the Swedish National Institute of Public Health done as a part of the EU project, DETERMINE. The objective of the project was to increase knowledge among decision-makers at all levels so that they take health equality into account when decisions are made.
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Gambling problems can be prevented!
2010-06-16
The results from the report “Att förebygga spelproblem" (To prevent problem gambling) produced by the National Institute of Public Health shows that by using certain measures it is possible to reduce gambling and problem gambling.
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Celebrating five years of smoke-free restaurants
2010-06-09
On the 1st June 2010 Sweden celebrated five years of the non-smoking policy in bars and restaurants. During the five year period it has become a public health success.
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World No Tobacco Day
2010-05-31
All around the world, 5,4 million people dies each year from tobacco-related deceases. This makes smoking the world’s single largest cause of illness and premature death. The World Health Organization (WHO) describes smoking as a global epidemic and has chosen May 31st as the World No Tobacco Day, to emphasize the damage caused by tobacco.
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Continued need for training in Physical Activity for the prevention and treatment of disease
2010-05-21
The Swedish National Public Health Institute received a government assignment in 2008 to spread the knowledge about the book FYSS, as well as support the development of training and education in the field of physical activity for disease prevention and treatment.
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Nine out of ten health centers are prescribing exercise
2010-05-21
A national evaluation of physical activity on prescription showed that 17 000 prescriptions of physical activity were written in the year of 2007.
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The teenage phrase-book – a parental guide to teenage alcohol use
2010-05-06
Surely everyone knows that talking to your teenagers about matters such as alcohol is a good thing? It is just a question of how. The teenage phrase-book has advice, arguments and facts that parents could use. Should I wait up for them to come home at night? Is it OK to “poke around” in their room if I’m worried? Should I buy them a bottle of champagne when they leave school?
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Unique study of schoolchildrens’ mental health
2010-05-03
The mental health situation for Swedish schoolchildren has for the first time been examined via a countrywide, all-encompassing survey. Over 170,000 children in grades 6 and 9 answered questions about their own mental health. The results were recently presented for each municipality and for each participating school.
