• Riksmaten 1997-98

In 1997-98, the Statistics Sweden in co-operation with the National Food Administration (NFA) carried out the second nationwide Swedish dietary survey, Riksmaten. The study was a follow-up of the previous survey (Hulk) c...

• Children's experiences of visiting av seriously ill/injured relative on an adult intensive care unit

AIM: This paper is a report of a study of children's experiences of visiting a seriously ill/injured relative in an intensive care unit. BACKGROUND: Little attention has been paid to children's experiences and needs whe...

• NordChild - The Nordic Study of Children’s Health and Wellbeing

The NordChild study is a cross-sectional postal study among children aged 2-17 years from the five Nordic countries; Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. A random sample stratified for age and gender was drawn i...

• Umeå SIMSAM Lab: A register-based research program connecting childhood with lifelong health and welfare

The Umea ̊ SIMSAM Lab in a nutshell: 1) The Lab was established for interdisciplinary research from childhood into lifelong health and welfare. It provides individual-level data on an entire nation’s population, coverin...

• Sleep, media habits and lifestyle in adolescents

In the academic year 2008/2009 Pernilla Garmy initiated a longitudinal study regarding sleep, media habits, and lifestyle in school aged children (ages 6–16; n=3011 in collaboration with all the school nurses in the city...

• Swedish Contextual Database for The Swedish Generations and Gender Survey and The International Generations and Gender Programme

The Swedish Contextual Database provides a large number of longitudinal and regional macro-level indicators primarily assembled to facilitate research on the effects of contextual factors on family and fertility behavior...

• Cystatin B, cathepsin L and D related to surrogate markers for cardiovascular disease

Objective: This study investigated potential associations between novel biomarkers for cardiovascular disease and other surrogate markers for health. Methods: Community sample of 170 (92 boys and 78 girls) children aged...

• Generations and Gender Programme (GGP)

The Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) is a Social Science Research Infrastructure that provides micro- and macro-level data which significantly improve the knowledge base for social science. The Infrastructure is ru...

• SWEOLD - Swedish panel study of living conditions of the oldest old

Traditional level of living surveys often excluded the oldest sectors of the population, which has led to insufficient knowledge about elderly people's living conditions. As the population ages, the need for this knowle...

• Y2K − The Swedish Youth 2000 Cohort

411 adolescents born in 1978 or 1979 in two socioeconomically different cities are included in the study. Collection of the material has occurred three times for each youth, at 15, 17 and 20 years of age. 103 boys and 10...