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The COVID-19 pandemic in Norway and Sweden – threats, trust, and impact on daily life: a comparative survey

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2020
Norway and Sweden have similar populations and health care systems, but different reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic. Norway closed educational institutions, and banned sports and cultural activities; Sweden kept most institutions and training facilities
L. Helsingen   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Misinformation and de-contextualization: international media reporting on Sweden and COVID-19

open access: yesGlobalization and Health, 2020
In the first month of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Sweden took the same strategy as most other countries, working to “flatten the curve,” by slowing transmission so that the healthcare system could cope with the disease.
R. Irwin
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Occupational noise exposure and Raynaud’s phenomenon: a nested case–control study

open access: yesInternational Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2021
The primary aim of this study was to determine if self-reported occupational noise exposure was associated with Raynaud’s phenomenon. In northern Sweden, a nested case–control study was performed on subjects reporting Raynaud’s phenomenon (N=461), and ...
Albin Stjernbrandt   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Seeing Streetscapes as Social Infrastructure: A Paradigmatic Case Study of Hornsbergs Strand, Stockholm

open access: yesUrban Planning, 2022
Urban streets are an integral part of the public realm. Streets are commonly planned following normative design principles focused on the connectivity of road networks and urban morphology.
Jing Jing
doaj   +1 more source

The sustainability of Swedish fiscal policy: a re-examination [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Economics and Development, 2020
Purpose – This study reexamines the sustainability of fiscal policy in Sweden. Design/methodology/approach – To test the sustainability of fiscal policy, two approaches are used; the methodology of Kejriwal and Perron (2010), testing for multiple ...
Arcade Ndoricimpa
doaj   +1 more source

Multi-Channel Ground-Penetrating Radar Array Surveys of the Iron Age and Medieval Ringfort Bårby on the Island of Öland, Sweden

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2020
As a part of the project “The Big Five”, large-scale multi-channel ground-penetrating radar surveys were carried out at Bårby ringfort (Swedish: borg), Öland, Sweden.
Andreas Viberg   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sweden's gamble

open access: yesScience, 2020
The country's pandemic policies came at a high price—and created painful rifts in its scientific community.
openaire   +2 more sources

Swedish School Results, Student Background, Competition and Efficiency

open access: yesВопросы образования, 2020
Sweden’s declining results in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) for 15-year olds and other international tests between 2000 and 2012 have raised concern about the efficiency of the Swedish school system, even though results ...
Christophe André   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

“I Didn’t Come Here to do Housework”: 'Relocating “Swedish” practices and ideologies in the context of the global division of labour: the case of expatriate households in Singapore'

open access: yesNordic Journal of Migration Research, 2012
On the basis of 13 in-depth interviews with Swedish women and one month of ethnographic work in the Swedish community in Singapore in 2009, this article examines how Swedish women, travelling from Sweden to Singapore as “expatriate wives” in the wake of ...
Catrin Lundström
doaj   +1 more source

Refugees from Syria and Iraq in Sweden: resettlement during the migration crisis

open access: yesBaltic Region, 2022
The vast increase in the number of forced migrants during the European migration crisis has compelled the receiving countries to concentrate on the issues of migrant reception and accommodation.
M. M. Agafoshin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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