Signild Vallgårda
Biographic Data
| ID | 2058997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Signild Vallgårda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Signild |
| FAMILY NAME | Vallgårda |
| SIGNATURE | VALLGÅRDA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7682-9558 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Response to Stender et al
Meet the local policy workers: Implementation of health promotion guidelines in Denmark
Reporting on an interview and observation-based study in Danish municipalities, this article deals with local policy workers and takes it's departure in the great variation we observed in implementation of centrally issued health promotion guidelines. We present five types of local policy workers, each of whom we found typified a specific way of reasoning and implementing the guidelines. This typology illustrates the diversity found within a grou…
The Danish trans-fatty acids ban: Alliances, mental maps and co-production of policies and research
In 2003 an executive order was issued banning industrially produced trans-fatty acids above a low level in food items in Denmark. To date, only a few other countries have followed Denmark’s example. The way health consequences of trans fats were translated by the different actors enabled the creation of alliances between researchers, politicians, administration and industry. Danish researchers interpreted the research in a way to suit their ‘ment…
Governing obesity policies from England, France, Germany and Scotland
Dette nummers samlede anmeldelser
I dette nummer er følgnde bøger blevet anmeldt:Mühleisen, Wencke og Åse Røthing (red.): Norske seksualiteter. Cappelen Akademisk Forlag, 2009.Gabriella Nilsson: Könsmakt eller häxjakt? Lunds Universitet. Avdelingen för etnologi med folklivsarkivet. Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper, 2009.Christina Jansson: Maktfyllda möten i medicinska rum. Debatt, kunskap och praktik i svensk förlossningsvård 1960-1985. Sekel Bokförlag, 2008.Lise Busk Jensen: …
Is the focus on health-related behaviours a new phenomenon
In his article ‘Origins of the Problem of Health-related Behaviours: A Genealogical Study’, David Armstrong claims that the idea about ‘changeable behaviour is a relatively recent phenomenon’. In this paper it is argued that this conclusion is not valid. One concern is whether his sources sufficiently document the ideas. Another concern is whether David Armstrong overlooked the focus on health-promoting and health-damaging behaviours by including…
Tackling social inequalities in health in the Nordic countries: Targeting a residuum or the whole population
The Nordic countries are often pictured as similar inasmuch as they are egalitarian welfare states with a universal approach to welfare policies. Here, the policies of four Nordic countries towards social inequalities in health are analysed by focusing on how they suggest the inequalities should be tackled. Two types of approach can be identified1: universal policies, which target the whole population, benefits and services being offered to every…
Why did the stillbirth rate decline in Denmark after 1940
Stillbirth rates began declining in several industrialized countries simultaneously at the beginning of the 1940s. The reasons for this sudden decline have been discussed ever since. Changes in obstetric care, in risk factors, and in the composition of the population at risk have been suggested. One hypothesis is that it reflects a cohort effect of improved reproductive health status among women born during the first decades of the twentieth cent…
Widening the scope, targeting interventions, creating risk groups: Maternal and child health in Denmark and Sweden from 1930s and onwards
The subject of this article is the health checks for pregnant women and children in Denmark and Sweden introduced in the 1930s and 1940s. It focuses on how political goals and means have changed up until today. The questions addressed are: Which health issues did the politicians and authorities find relevant to deal with? How should they be dealt with? Who were the interventions targeted towards? It is shown that from the 1970s changes gradually …
Health inequalities: Political problematizations in Denmark and Sweden
Problematisation is a crucial step in any political process. By defining the nature of a problem, pointing to reasons for dealing with it and identifying its causes as well as its possible solutions, problematisation frames an issue as relevant and accessible to political action. Through a study of political documents in the field of public health policies from Denmark and Sweden published during the previous decades, this article analyses the pr…
Fortiden som idealtype
af Signild Vallgrda
Governing people's lives: Strategies for improving the health of the nations in England, Denmark, Norway and Sweden
Public health strategies reflect governments' wish to make people's lives longer and healthier. This can either be achieved by influencing the frames of people's lives and activities or the way they behave, i.e. to try to 'conduct their conduct'. In this paper the motivations for and methods of four national public health strategies are analysed. They are the English, the Norwegian, the Danish and the Swedish. Four questions are addressed: i) how…
The History of Medicine in Denmark
Medical history in Denmark has during the last decade received increasing interest from historians and other researchers outside medicine. Three main areas have been investigated: history of medical science and ideas, history of health services, and historical epidemiology. The area is in rapid growth and characterized by a high degree of interdisciplinarity
Increased obstetric activity: "A new meaning to "induced labour
This study examines the possible reasons for increased obstetric activity in Denmark over the past 25 years. Since 1960 there has been a substantial increase in the average number of hospital admissions (from 10 to 32 per 100 deliveries), in deliveries diagnosed as complicated (from 15 to 49%), and above all in major interventions at delivery (from 4 to 22%). In spite of this increase in activity there is no evidence that the postwar trend of dec…
Hospitals and the Poor in Denmark, 1750–1880
Governing obesity policies from England, France, Germany and Scotland
Meet the local policy workers: Implementation of health promotion guidelines in Denmark
Reporting on an interview and observation-based study in Danish municipalities, this article deals with local policy workers and takes it's departure in the great variation we observed in implementation of centrally issued health promotion guidelines. We present five types of local policy workers, each of whom we found typified a specific way of reasoning and implementing the guidelines. This typology illustrates the diversity found within a grou…
Tackling social inequalities in health in the Nordic countries: Targeting a residuum or the whole population
The Nordic countries are often pictured as similar inasmuch as they are egalitarian welfare states with a universal approach to welfare policies. Here, the policies of four Nordic countries towards social inequalities in health are analysed by focusing on how they suggest the inequalities should be tackled. Two types of approach can be identified1: universal policies, which target the whole population, benefits and services being offered to every…
The History of Medicine in Denmark
Medical history in Denmark has during the last decade received increasing interest from historians and other researchers outside medicine. Three main areas have been investigated: history of medical science and ideas, history of health services, and historical epidemiology. The area is in rapid growth and characterized by a high degree of interdisciplinarity
Hospitals and the Poor in Denmark, 1750–1880
Hospitals and the Poor in Denmark, 1750–1880
Increased obstetric activity: "A new meaning to "induced labour
This study examines the possible reasons for increased obstetric activity in Denmark over the past 25 years. Since 1960 there has been a substantial increase in the average number of hospital admissions (from 10 to 32 per 100 deliveries), in deliveries diagnosed as complicated (from 15 to 49%), and above all in major interventions at delivery (from 4 to 22%). In spite of this increase in activity there is no evidence that the postwar trend of dec…
The History of Medicine in Denmark
Medical history in Denmark has during the last decade received increasing interest from historians and other researchers outside medicine. Three main areas have been investigated: history of medical science and ideas, history of health services, and historical epidemiology. The area is in rapid growth and characterized by a high degree of interdisciplinarity
Governing people's lives: Strategies for improving the health of the nations in England, Denmark, Norway and Sweden
Public health strategies reflect governments' wish to make people's lives longer and healthier. This can either be achieved by influencing the frames of people's lives and activities or the way they behave, i.e. to try to 'conduct their conduct'. In this paper the motivations for and methods of four national public health strategies are analysed. They are the English, the Norwegian, the Danish and the Swedish. Four questions are addressed: i) how…
Fortiden som idealtype
af Signild Vallgrda
Health inequalities: Political problematizations in Denmark and Sweden
Problematisation is a crucial step in any political process. By defining the nature of a problem, pointing to reasons for dealing with it and identifying its causes as well as its possible solutions, problematisation frames an issue as relevant and accessible to political action. Through a study of political documents in the field of public health policies from Denmark and Sweden published during the previous decades, this article analyses the pr…
Widening the scope, targeting interventions, creating risk groups: Maternal and child health in Denmark and Sweden from 1930s and onwards
The subject of this article is the health checks for pregnant women and children in Denmark and Sweden introduced in the 1930s and 1940s. It focuses on how political goals and means have changed up until today. The questions addressed are: Which health issues did the politicians and authorities find relevant to deal with? How should they be dealt with? Who were the interventions targeted towards? It is shown that from the 1970s changes gradually …
Is the focus on health-related behaviours a new phenomenon
In his article ‘Origins of the Problem of Health-related Behaviours: A Genealogical Study’, David Armstrong claims that the idea about ‘changeable behaviour is a relatively recent phenomenon’. In this paper it is argued that this conclusion is not valid. One concern is whether his sources sufficiently document the ideas. Another concern is whether David Armstrong overlooked the focus on health-promoting and health-damaging behaviours by including…
Tackling social inequalities in health in the Nordic countries: Targeting a residuum or the whole population
The Nordic countries are often pictured as similar inasmuch as they are egalitarian welfare states with a universal approach to welfare policies. Here, the policies of four Nordic countries towards social inequalities in health are analysed by focusing on how they suggest the inequalities should be tackled. Two types of approach can be identified1: universal policies, which target the whole population, benefits and services being offered to every…
Why did the stillbirth rate decline in Denmark after 1940
Stillbirth rates began declining in several industrialized countries simultaneously at the beginning of the 1940s. The reasons for this sudden decline have been discussed ever since. Changes in obstetric care, in risk factors, and in the composition of the population at risk have been suggested. One hypothesis is that it reflects a cohort effect of improved reproductive health status among women born during the first decades of the twentieth cent…
Dette nummers samlede anmeldelser
I dette nummer er følgnde bøger blevet anmeldt:Mühleisen, Wencke og Åse Røthing (red.): Norske seksualiteter. Cappelen Akademisk Forlag, 2009.Gabriella Nilsson: Könsmakt eller häxjakt? Lunds Universitet. Avdelingen för etnologi med folklivsarkivet. Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper, 2009.Christina Jansson: Maktfyllda möten i medicinska rum. Debatt, kunskap och praktik i svensk förlossningsvård 1960-1985. Sekel Bokförlag, 2008.Lise Busk Jensen: …
Governing obesity policies from England, France, Germany and Scotland
The Danish trans-fatty acids ban: Alliances, mental maps and co-production of policies and research
In 2003 an executive order was issued banning industrially produced trans-fatty acids above a low level in food items in Denmark. To date, only a few other countries have followed Denmark’s example. The way health consequences of trans fats were translated by the different actors enabled the creation of alliances between researchers, politicians, administration and industry. Danish researchers interpreted the research in a way to suit their ‘ment…
Response to Stender et al
Meet the local policy workers: Implementation of health promotion guidelines in Denmark
Reporting on an interview and observation-based study in Danish municipalities, this article deals with local policy workers and takes it's departure in the great variation we observed in implementation of centrally issued health promotion guidelines. We present five types of local policy workers, each of whom we found typified a specific way of reasoning and implementing the guidelines. This typology illustrates the diversity found within a grou…
Political science (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention (3 works) · Inequality (3 works)