F Jonsson
Biographic Data
| ID | 50161 |
|---|---|
| NAME | F Jonsson |
| GIVEN NAMES | F |
| FAMILY NAME | Jonsson |
| SIGNATURE | JONSSON F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Umeå University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5902-3798 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Unpacking the early implementation of social prescribing in Swedish primary care
Social prescribing has gained attention internationally as a health-promoting way to address patients’ nonmedical needs, yet research in the Nordic healthcare context remains limited. This theory-informed process evaluation set out to unpack the early implementation of a social prescribing model in Swedish primary care, developed to reduce loneliness and promote health among older adults. Guided by Normalization Process Theory (NPT) and the Conso…
Mattering on the margins
This article explores how senses of mattering among young people who are not in employment, education or training (NEET) is formed, disrupted, and partially repaired through encounters with the Swedish welfare system and local support initiatives. Drawing on interviews with 39 participants across eight initiatives, the study uses an abductive, reflexive thematic analysis informed by the Mattering, Wellness, Fairness model to explore how structura…
The Paradox of Meeting Complex Needs in a Fragmented System
Young people not in employment, education, or training (NEET) often face complex and overlapping challenges, yet the welfare services intended to support them are fragmented across organisational boundaries. This article contributes to the literature by exploring how street‐level bureaucrats in a Swedish municipality understand and navigate this paradox, using a qualitative case study informed by wicked problems theory. The findings show how stru…
Local government planning for community sustainability in municipal peripheries
This paper investigates municipal government initiatives targeting ‘local development’ and community sustainability in municipal peripheries in rural Västerbotten, Sweden. Analysing planning documents, we identify 142 initiatives from 2022 to 2023 using a social determinants of health (SDH) framework, particularly focusing on labour, business development, technology adoption, municipality-business collaboration, supporting village associations, a…
The practice of public health coordination in Sweden
In response to increasingly complex and cross-sectoral public health challenges, coordination has emerged as a key strategy for aligning efforts across fragmented systems. However, despite its widespread endorsement, coordination remains conceptually ambiguous and difficult to operationalise in practice. This qualitative study explores how public health coordination is enacted at the local level in Sweden, where municipalities employ public healt…
Exploring the Health System Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Cochabamba, Bolivia
Views and experiences on writing certificates for assisted dying
Participants were concerned with the underlying reasons for patients pursuing AD, hoping to address them. Interestingly, although many of the participants expressed skepticism towards AD and its legalization in Sweden, they still supported writing a medical certificate enabling AD in Switzerland
Did the Covid-19 quarantine policies applied in Cochabamba, Bolivia mitigated cases successfully? an interrupted time series analysis
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic prompted varied policy responses globally, with Latin America facing unique challenges. A detailed examination of these policies' impacts on health systems is crucial, particularly in Bolivia, where information about policy implementation and outcomes is limited. OBJECTIVE: To describe the COVID-19 testing trends and evaluate the effects of quarantine measures on these trends in Cochabamba, Bolivia. METHODS: Util…
How and why does relational welfare work to support young people not in employment, education or training (Neet)? A realist evaluation
The aim of this study was to understand how and why relational welfare works to support young people who are not in employment, education or training (NEET). It builds on research discussing the limitations of work-first and human capital strategies in social policy while responding to calls for theory-driven insights into initiatives that move beyond employability and rapid employment. The material for this realist evaluation includes programme …
Exploring the Experiences of Neet-Situated Young People Within the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic Using Resonance Theory
This study explores the experiences of young people who are not in education, employment, or training (NEET) within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden, using resonance theory as an analytical lens. It contributes knowledge about the importance of school and work (or lack thereof) for these youths during a time of uncertainty and gives insight into their quality of life and well-being from a social and relational perspective. The findi…
The Promise of Belonging
This article analyses how youth subject positions of the ‘racialized other’ are produced, and how these positions interconnect with the concept of belonging to the rural community. We do this by analysing 15 group discussions with 63 young people living in rural areas in northern Sweden taking a discursive psychology approach, and focusing on how discourses produce certain subject positions of ‘the racialized other’. Drawing on the concepts of th…
Representing a Fading Welfare System that Is Failing Young People in ‘Neet’ Situations
The situation of young people who are neither in employment, education nor training (referred to in political, scientific and public discourses as ‘NEETs’) has received widespread attention during the last decade. However, while policy responses to young people’s work- and school-related marginalisation have been analysed by international scholars in a variety of contexts, to the best of our knowledge, no study to date has scrutinised problem rep…
Conducting research with young people at the margins – lessons learnt and shared through case studies in Cambodia, India, Sweden and Zambia
Building on the value of engaging with and enabling the participation of marginalised young people in research, the aim of this article was to profile practical and procedural issues faced when conducting studies with young people who experience some form of marginalisation. Drawing on observations and research experiences from four diverse case studies involving young people who were either imprisoned in Cambodia, living in informal urban commun…
Collective imaginaries of caring landscapes for rural youth
The findings can be viewed as an imaginary reconstitution of communities in rural northern Sweden, but also as hypothetical building blocks to be used for developing caring landscapes and a 'good countryside' where young people have the possibility to live a good life in decent health
Let’s Try Social Prescribing in Sweden (SPiS) – an Interventional Project Targeting Loneliness among Older Adults Using a Model for Integrated Care
Developing, implementing and evaluating such a complex program needs systematic and close evaluation
“We believe in you, like really believe in you”
Due to a scarcity of rigorous evaluations and to commence a realist study addressing the lack of knowledge about the workings of interventions directed towards "NEET" youth, this research aimed to understand how and under what circumstances (re)engagement initiatives are expected to facilitate the social integration of young people who are in a situation that prevents them from entering into studies or work. By conducting the first phase in reali…
Landscapes of care and despair for rural youth – a qualitative study in the northern Swedish ‘periphery’
To gain a more comprehensive understanding about the health of rural youth, this study highlights the benefits investigating 'care-ful' and 'uncaring' aspects bounded up in dynamic and multi-layered landscapes
Widespread and widely widening? Examining absolute socioeconomic health inequalities in northern Sweden across twelve health indicators
Patterns of absolute socioeconomic inequalities in health vary by health and socioeconomic indicator, as well as between men and women. Overall, trends appear more stagnant in men while they fluctuate in women. Income inequalities seem to be generally greater than educational inequalities when looking across several different health indicators, a message that can only be derived from this type of outcome-wide study. These disparate findings sugge…
Are neighbourhood inequalities in adult health explained by socio-economic and psychosocial determinants in adolescence and the subsequent life course in northern Sweden? A decomposition analysis
This study explains neighbourhood deprivation inequalities in adult health for a northern Swedish cohort by examining the contribution of socio-economic and psychosocial determinants from adolescence (age 16), young adulthood (age 21) and midlife (age 42) to the disparity. Self-reported information from 873 participants was drawn from questionnaires, with complementary neighbourhood register data. The concentration index was used to estimate the …
Intragenerational social mobility and functional somatic symptoms in a northern Swedish context
The current study did not find unanimous support for any of the theories. Nevertheless, it sheds light on the possibility that upward mobility may be beneficial to reduce stress-related health problems in mid-life over and above the exposure to prior and current class, while downward mobility can be of less importance for middle-age health complaints
Exploring the Experiences of Neet-Situated Young People Within the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic Using Resonance Theory
This study explores the experiences of young people who are not in education, employment, or training (NEET) within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden, using resonance theory as an analytical lens. It contributes knowledge about the importance of school and work (or lack thereof) for these youths during a time of uncertainty and gives insight into their quality of life and well-being from a social and relational perspective. The findi…
How and why does relational welfare work to support young people not in employment, education or training (Neet)? A realist evaluation
The aim of this study was to understand how and why relational welfare works to support young people who are not in employment, education or training (NEET). It builds on research discussing the limitations of work-first and human capital strategies in social policy while responding to calls for theory-driven insights into initiatives that move beyond employability and rapid employment. The material for this realist evaluation includes programme …
Let’s Try Social Prescribing in Sweden (SPiS) – an Interventional Project Targeting Loneliness among Older Adults Using a Model for Integrated Care
Developing, implementing and evaluating such a complex program needs systematic and close evaluation
Intragenerational social mobility and functional somatic symptoms in a northern Swedish context
The current study did not find unanimous support for any of the theories. Nevertheless, it sheds light on the possibility that upward mobility may be beneficial to reduce stress-related health problems in mid-life over and above the exposure to prior and current class, while downward mobility can be of less importance for middle-age health complaints
Are neighbourhood inequalities in adult health explained by socio-economic and psychosocial determinants in adolescence and the subsequent life course in northern Sweden? A decomposition analysis
This study explains neighbourhood deprivation inequalities in adult health for a northern Swedish cohort by examining the contribution of socio-economic and psychosocial determinants from adolescence (age 16), young adulthood (age 21) and midlife (age 42) to the disparity. Self-reported information from 873 participants was drawn from questionnaires, with complementary neighbourhood register data. The concentration index was used to estimate the …
Widespread and widely widening? Examining absolute socioeconomic health inequalities in northern Sweden across twelve health indicators
Patterns of absolute socioeconomic inequalities in health vary by health and socioeconomic indicator, as well as between men and women. Overall, trends appear more stagnant in men while they fluctuate in women. Income inequalities seem to be generally greater than educational inequalities when looking across several different health indicators, a message that can only be derived from this type of outcome-wide study. These disparate findings sugge…
“We believe in you, like really believe in you”
Due to a scarcity of rigorous evaluations and to commence a realist study addressing the lack of knowledge about the workings of interventions directed towards "NEET" youth, this research aimed to understand how and under what circumstances (re)engagement initiatives are expected to facilitate the social integration of young people who are in a situation that prevents them from entering into studies or work. By conducting the first phase in reali…
Landscapes of care and despair for rural youth – a qualitative study in the northern Swedish ‘periphery’
To gain a more comprehensive understanding about the health of rural youth, this study highlights the benefits investigating 'care-ful' and 'uncaring' aspects bounded up in dynamic and multi-layered landscapes
Collective imaginaries of caring landscapes for rural youth
The findings can be viewed as an imaginary reconstitution of communities in rural northern Sweden, but also as hypothetical building blocks to be used for developing caring landscapes and a 'good countryside' where young people have the possibility to live a good life in decent health
Let’s Try Social Prescribing in Sweden (SPiS) – an Interventional Project Targeting Loneliness among Older Adults Using a Model for Integrated Care
Developing, implementing and evaluating such a complex program needs systematic and close evaluation
Representing a Fading Welfare System that Is Failing Young People in ‘Neet’ Situations
The situation of young people who are neither in employment, education nor training (referred to in political, scientific and public discourses as ‘NEETs’) has received widespread attention during the last decade. However, while policy responses to young people’s work- and school-related marginalisation have been analysed by international scholars in a variety of contexts, to the best of our knowledge, no study to date has scrutinised problem rep…
Conducting research with young people at the margins – lessons learnt and shared through case studies in Cambodia, India, Sweden and Zambia
Building on the value of engaging with and enabling the participation of marginalised young people in research, the aim of this article was to profile practical and procedural issues faced when conducting studies with young people who experience some form of marginalisation. Drawing on observations and research experiences from four diverse case studies involving young people who were either imprisoned in Cambodia, living in informal urban commun…
The Promise of Belonging
This article analyses how youth subject positions of the ‘racialized other’ are produced, and how these positions interconnect with the concept of belonging to the rural community. We do this by analysing 15 group discussions with 63 young people living in rural areas in northern Sweden taking a discursive psychology approach, and focusing on how discourses produce certain subject positions of ‘the racialized other’. Drawing on the concepts of th…
Did the Covid-19 quarantine policies applied in Cochabamba, Bolivia mitigated cases successfully? an interrupted time series analysis
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic prompted varied policy responses globally, with Latin America facing unique challenges. A detailed examination of these policies' impacts on health systems is crucial, particularly in Bolivia, where information about policy implementation and outcomes is limited. OBJECTIVE: To describe the COVID-19 testing trends and evaluate the effects of quarantine measures on these trends in Cochabamba, Bolivia. METHODS: Util…
How and why does relational welfare work to support young people not in employment, education or training (Neet)? A realist evaluation
The aim of this study was to understand how and why relational welfare works to support young people who are not in employment, education or training (NEET). It builds on research discussing the limitations of work-first and human capital strategies in social policy while responding to calls for theory-driven insights into initiatives that move beyond employability and rapid employment. The material for this realist evaluation includes programme …
Exploring the Experiences of Neet-Situated Young People Within the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic Using Resonance Theory
This study explores the experiences of young people who are not in education, employment, or training (NEET) within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden, using resonance theory as an analytical lens. It contributes knowledge about the importance of school and work (or lack thereof) for these youths during a time of uncertainty and gives insight into their quality of life and well-being from a social and relational perspective. The findi…
The practice of public health coordination in Sweden
In response to increasingly complex and cross-sectoral public health challenges, coordination has emerged as a key strategy for aligning efforts across fragmented systems. However, despite its widespread endorsement, coordination remains conceptually ambiguous and difficult to operationalise in practice. This qualitative study explores how public health coordination is enacted at the local level in Sweden, where municipalities employ public healt…
Exploring the Health System Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Cochabamba, Bolivia
Views and experiences on writing certificates for assisted dying
Participants were concerned with the underlying reasons for patients pursuing AD, hoping to address them. Interestingly, although many of the participants expressed skepticism towards AD and its legalization in Sweden, they still supported writing a medical certificate enabling AD in Switzerland
Unpacking the early implementation of social prescribing in Swedish primary care
Social prescribing has gained attention internationally as a health-promoting way to address patients’ nonmedical needs, yet research in the Nordic healthcare context remains limited. This theory-informed process evaluation set out to unpack the early implementation of a social prescribing model in Swedish primary care, developed to reduce loneliness and promote health among older adults. Guided by Normalization Process Theory (NPT) and the Conso…
Mattering on the margins
This article explores how senses of mattering among young people who are not in employment, education or training (NEET) is formed, disrupted, and partially repaired through encounters with the Swedish welfare system and local support initiatives. Drawing on interviews with 39 participants across eight initiatives, the study uses an abductive, reflexive thematic analysis informed by the Mattering, Wellness, Fairness model to explore how structura…
The Paradox of Meeting Complex Needs in a Fragmented System
Young people not in employment, education, or training (NEET) often face complex and overlapping challenges, yet the welfare services intended to support them are fragmented across organisational boundaries. This article contributes to the literature by exploring how street‐level bureaucrats in a Swedish municipality understand and navigate this paradox, using a qualitative case study informed by wicked problems theory. The findings show how stru…
Local government planning for community sustainability in municipal peripheries
This paper investigates municipal government initiatives targeting ‘local development’ and community sustainability in municipal peripheries in rural Västerbotten, Sweden. Analysing planning documents, we identify 142 initiatives from 2022 to 2023 using a social determinants of health (SDH) framework, particularly focusing on labour, business development, technology adoption, municipality-business collaboration, supporting village associations, a…
Medicine (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Public health (6 works) · Qualitative research (6 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (4 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (4 works)