Summaries

These are our Swedish publications which have summaries in English.

• Individually Adapted, Written Prescription of Physical Activity – FaR 2012-01-23

  This textbook illustrates why it is important to promote physical activity in the population. There is strong scientific evidence that physical activity promotes health and can be used to both prevent and treat many widespread diseases.

• Significance of the built environment to physical activity in rural areas 2011-12-20

  It is well established that rural residents, compared to their urban counterparts, carry a higher burden of poor health and chronic diseases. There is, according to the review, a great need for additional research on the effects of the built environment on physical activity in rural settings to improve knowledge of possible effective interventions/strategies.
  

• Local and regional public health work 2011-12-16

  This report provides a knowledge base for the Public Health Policy Report 2010: Public health of the future – everyone’s responsibility. The objective of the report is to describe public health work at the regional and local levels

• Objective domain 1: Participation and influence in society 2011-12-13

  Individuals and groups must feel that they can influence their own living conditions and the development of society, otherwise exclusion and feelings of powerlessness arise. A lack of power and opportunities to influence matters is strongly related to illness. This report, a knowledge base for the Public Health Policy Report 2010, shows the development of various factors that affect health in objective domain 1, focusing on the period 2004-2009.

• Objective domain 6. Health-promoting health services 2011-11-30

  This report is to form a knowledge base for the public health objective domain of “health-promoting health services” which describes the importance of early and preventative measures to create good living conditions, living environments and health behaviour.

• Tobacco, supervision and availability 2011-09-15

  An interview study and systematic literature review regarding availability-limiting methods.

• Objective domain 11. Doping 2011-09-01

  Knowledge base for the Public Health Policy Report 2010.

• Objective domain 11: Alcohol 2011-08-12

  Th is sub-report address es developments concerning alcohol consumption and
  related harms in Sweden with a focus on the period 2004-2009 and discusses the
  measures implemented to reduce hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption. Proposals of future measures are also made.

• Objective domain 11. Gambling. 2011-08-02

  This report is one of 21 sub-reports of the Public Health Policy Report 2010. The objective for the public health policy regarding gambling is to reduce harm from excessive gambling. The development of excessive gambling is measured through the three indicators: underage gambling, risky gambling habits and problem gambling.

• A quality review of the questions in Sweden’s national public health survey “Health on equal terms” 2011-07-15

  This report presents a quality review of the questions in Sweden’s national public health survey “Health on equal terms”.