Jörgen Lundälv
Biographic Data
| ID | 5823701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jörgen Lundälv |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jörgen |
| FAMILY NAME | Lundälv |
| SIGNATURE | LUNDÄLV J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0552-886X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Jan Jämte, Måns Lundstedt & Magnus Wennerhag (red.), Sociala rörelser i Sverige. Politiska protester och aktivism från 1945 till idag, Studentlitteratur, 2025
Solidarity in social policy – the extent of drain risk
Solidarity is expected to be expressed in concrete action in specific situations. In modern welfare states, however, it has been made abstract in order to appeal to all citizens. Abstraction increases the risk that solidarity is drained of its meaning. Our hypothesis is that the extent of this risk differs between the two dominant political blocs in Sweden, the Social Democratic and the Conservative. It is examined through an analysis of how ofte…
Research knowledge utilisation among Swedish health social workers
Health social workers, like social workers in general, have been found to utilise research knowledge to a low degree. No previous study has made comparisons based on the following: higher education, job tenure and workplace. This article is based on statistical comparisons between 1236 health social workers in Sweden working in various healthcare contexts. The central finding was that higher education was the factor with the largest impact. Workp…
Health social workers and research knowledge utilisation – a Swedish survey study
Previous research has shown that health social workers utilise research knowledge to a low degree. The present study is based on a survey of 1236 health social workers in Sweden working in several different organisations providing health care. The survey included closed and open-ended questions about respondents’ use of and approach to research knowledge. The results show that health social workers primarily refer to non-research literature and, …
A systematic review of literature regarding food insecurity in Sweden
Food insecurity is not a term that is traditionally utilized in relation to Sweden, which has a well‐established welfare state. In fact, the discussion around this issue appears to be predicated on the notion that it is a concept existing outside the country. However, European countries are in no way immune to the issue of food insecurity. The Food and Agricultural Organisation to the United Nations holds data on the levels of food insecurity gat…
The Challenges of Writing Opinion Pieces in Social Work
Social workers have an important role to play and a voice to make heard in the public debate. They can make a difference both by working in preventive social work and by taking part in the shaping of public opinion. Being visible and active in the public debate about social work and social policy is a matter of democracy and participation, and provides many opportunities for social workers to explain different welfare terms, forms of support and …
Injury events sustained in residential environments
The aim is to analyze how age and physical (dis)ability jointly condition the probability of different types of injuries in residential settings, in order to identify injury countermeasures. There is a need to identify risk factors associated with injuries involving disabled people in their homes. The data include 62,674 records of unintentional injuries in the residential settings from Injury Database 2001–2015. Injuries were twice as likely to …
Activation, medicalisation and inter-organisational cooperation in health insurance – implications for frontline social work in Sweden
This paper focuses on tensions between activation principles and medicalisation in the Swedish sickness insurance and its implications for frontline caseworkers in Social Security Agencies and Public Employment Services. The right to sickness cash benefits has become stricter and more conditioned upon the person’s work ability and employability. The paper describes recent policy changes towards activation and stricter entitlement criteria for sic…
Awareness and the Arguments for and against the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health among Representatives of Disability Organisations
Disability organisations have not been engaged in the debate about the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) in Sweden. We wanted to know representatives' attitudes about the ICF. The aim of the study was to elucidate the arguments for and against the ICF among representatives of disability organisations. The study consisted of eighteen representatives (from six disability organisations) that answered electronic…
How do we reduce the risk of deaths and injuries from incidents involving police cars? Understanding injury prevention in the Swedish context
Motor vehicles are an indispensible and daily tool of police work. The risk that police officers face when driving has attracted much academic attention, although in Sweden research in this field has been limited. In this paper, it is our intention to identify risks involving police cars, to review the causes of police car accidents in Sweden, and to give a better understanding of injury prevention in the Swedish police context. We note that, dur…
Occupations and means of living in adults with cerebral palsy or meningomyelocele during two decades in Sweden
The aim of this study was to focus on education, work and means of living during two decades in two groups of people with cerebral palsy (CP) or meningomyelocele (MMC) within the framework of social policies. Two groups of patients at an adult habilitation unit were interviewed by telephone – Group A (n=55) in 1983 and again in 1997 (n=42), and Group B (n=30) in 1997. All but one subject in Group B had attended upper secondary school (1997), comp…
Kaffet, blomman och det tända ljuset
What is gift-giving? This article presents a brief theoretical overview concerning the concept of gift-giving in the modern society. The concept of gift is an old social and cultural phenomenon. In this article we compare the concept of gift and gift-giving with the concept of recognition. The recognition of the identity is a continuously ongoing process in the society. The aim of the article is to discuss some interesting perspectives of gift-gi…
Den ironiska höghastighetskulturen
Ambulance crashes (Emergency Medical Vehicle Collision — EMVC) in our welfare state is ironically a social and culture phenomenon. Ambulance crashes as injury phenomenon is a complicated research area. Unfortunately this phenomenon has not been detected by researchers in a multidisciplinary perspective. This article claims that prospective qualitative studies is an interesting field for research concerning ambulance work and injury event. The aim…
Offerkastet som gårdagens och morgondagens källa för skuld, sorg och skadeprevention
Concepts such as victim-blaming, grief and injury prevention have become important in our risk society. To remember victims in traffic accidents (e.g. injury events in traffic environments), family members and members from the victim's social network, put flowers, photography, decoration, candle wax at the scene of the accident. If mass media reported this signs from the traffic environments when the injury prevention should be better in the futu…
Knallepulver, sockerbitar och mjältbrand
Concepts such as horror, threat and anxiety have become important in media history and in the risk society. This study deals with arsenic poisoning, anthrax attacks and trading with poison in the old and the modern society. Terrorism has developed in society and affects individuals' lives and welfare. Terrorism has also become a part of the media coverage and crisis journalism. The horror of poisoning is a part of history and will continue to be …
Health social workers and research knowledge utilisation – a Swedish survey study
Previous research has shown that health social workers utilise research knowledge to a low degree. The present study is based on a survey of 1236 health social workers in Sweden working in several different organisations providing health care. The survey included closed and open-ended questions about respondents’ use of and approach to research knowledge. The results show that health social workers primarily refer to non-research literature and, …
Research knowledge utilisation among Swedish health social workers
Health social workers, like social workers in general, have been found to utilise research knowledge to a low degree. No previous study has made comparisons based on the following: higher education, job tenure and workplace. This article is based on statistical comparisons between 1236 health social workers in Sweden working in various healthcare contexts. The central finding was that higher education was the factor with the largest impact. Workp…
Activation, medicalisation and inter-organisational cooperation in health insurance – implications for frontline social work in Sweden
This paper focuses on tensions between activation principles and medicalisation in the Swedish sickness insurance and its implications for frontline caseworkers in Social Security Agencies and Public Employment Services. The right to sickness cash benefits has become stricter and more conditioned upon the person’s work ability and employability. The paper describes recent policy changes towards activation and stricter entitlement criteria for sic…
Injury events sustained in residential environments
The aim is to analyze how age and physical (dis)ability jointly condition the probability of different types of injuries in residential settings, in order to identify injury countermeasures. There is a need to identify risk factors associated with injuries involving disabled people in their homes. The data include 62,674 records of unintentional injuries in the residential settings from Injury Database 2001–2015. Injuries were twice as likely to …
Occupations and means of living in adults with cerebral palsy or meningomyelocele during two decades in Sweden
The aim of this study was to focus on education, work and means of living during two decades in two groups of people with cerebral palsy (CP) or meningomyelocele (MMC) within the framework of social policies. Two groups of patients at an adult habilitation unit were interviewed by telephone – Group A (n=55) in 1983 and again in 1997 (n=42), and Group B (n=30) in 1997. All but one subject in Group B had attended upper secondary school (1997), comp…
Knallepulver, sockerbitar och mjältbrand
Concepts such as horror, threat and anxiety have become important in media history and in the risk society. This study deals with arsenic poisoning, anthrax attacks and trading with poison in the old and the modern society. Terrorism has developed in society and affects individuals' lives and welfare. Terrorism has also become a part of the media coverage and crisis journalism. The horror of poisoning is a part of history and will continue to be …
Offerkastet som gårdagens och morgondagens källa för skuld, sorg och skadeprevention
Concepts such as victim-blaming, grief and injury prevention have become important in our risk society. To remember victims in traffic accidents (e.g. injury events in traffic environments), family members and members from the victim's social network, put flowers, photography, decoration, candle wax at the scene of the accident. If mass media reported this signs from the traffic environments when the injury prevention should be better in the futu…
Den ironiska höghastighetskulturen
Ambulance crashes (Emergency Medical Vehicle Collision — EMVC) in our welfare state is ironically a social and culture phenomenon. Ambulance crashes as injury phenomenon is a complicated research area. Unfortunately this phenomenon has not been detected by researchers in a multidisciplinary perspective. This article claims that prospective qualitative studies is an interesting field for research concerning ambulance work and injury event. The aim…
Kaffet, blomman och det tända ljuset
What is gift-giving? This article presents a brief theoretical overview concerning the concept of gift-giving in the modern society. The concept of gift is an old social and cultural phenomenon. In this article we compare the concept of gift and gift-giving with the concept of recognition. The recognition of the identity is a continuously ongoing process in the society. The aim of the article is to discuss some interesting perspectives of gift-gi…
How do we reduce the risk of deaths and injuries from incidents involving police cars? Understanding injury prevention in the Swedish context
Motor vehicles are an indispensible and daily tool of police work. The risk that police officers face when driving has attracted much academic attention, although in Sweden research in this field has been limited. In this paper, it is our intention to identify risks involving police cars, to review the causes of police car accidents in Sweden, and to give a better understanding of injury prevention in the Swedish police context. We note that, dur…
Occupations and means of living in adults with cerebral palsy or meningomyelocele during two decades in Sweden
The aim of this study was to focus on education, work and means of living during two decades in two groups of people with cerebral palsy (CP) or meningomyelocele (MMC) within the framework of social policies. Two groups of patients at an adult habilitation unit were interviewed by telephone – Group A (n=55) in 1983 and again in 1997 (n=42), and Group B (n=30) in 1997. All but one subject in Group B had attended upper secondary school (1997), comp…
Awareness and the Arguments for and against the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health among Representatives of Disability Organisations
Disability organisations have not been engaged in the debate about the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) in Sweden. We wanted to know representatives' attitudes about the ICF. The aim of the study was to elucidate the arguments for and against the ICF among representatives of disability organisations. The study consisted of eighteen representatives (from six disability organisations) that answered electronic…
Injury events sustained in residential environments
The aim is to analyze how age and physical (dis)ability jointly condition the probability of different types of injuries in residential settings, in order to identify injury countermeasures. There is a need to identify risk factors associated with injuries involving disabled people in their homes. The data include 62,674 records of unintentional injuries in the residential settings from Injury Database 2001–2015. Injuries were twice as likely to …
Activation, medicalisation and inter-organisational cooperation in health insurance – implications for frontline social work in Sweden
This paper focuses on tensions between activation principles and medicalisation in the Swedish sickness insurance and its implications for frontline caseworkers in Social Security Agencies and Public Employment Services. The right to sickness cash benefits has become stricter and more conditioned upon the person’s work ability and employability. The paper describes recent policy changes towards activation and stricter entitlement criteria for sic…
The Challenges of Writing Opinion Pieces in Social Work
Social workers have an important role to play and a voice to make heard in the public debate. They can make a difference both by working in preventive social work and by taking part in the shaping of public opinion. Being visible and active in the public debate about social work and social policy is a matter of democracy and participation, and provides many opportunities for social workers to explain different welfare terms, forms of support and …
A systematic review of literature regarding food insecurity in Sweden
Food insecurity is not a term that is traditionally utilized in relation to Sweden, which has a well‐established welfare state. In fact, the discussion around this issue appears to be predicated on the notion that it is a concept existing outside the country. However, European countries are in no way immune to the issue of food insecurity. The Food and Agricultural Organisation to the United Nations holds data on the levels of food insecurity gat…
Health social workers and research knowledge utilisation – a Swedish survey study
Previous research has shown that health social workers utilise research knowledge to a low degree. The present study is based on a survey of 1236 health social workers in Sweden working in several different organisations providing health care. The survey included closed and open-ended questions about respondents’ use of and approach to research knowledge. The results show that health social workers primarily refer to non-research literature and, …
Solidarity in social policy – the extent of drain risk
Solidarity is expected to be expressed in concrete action in specific situations. In modern welfare states, however, it has been made abstract in order to appeal to all citizens. Abstraction increases the risk that solidarity is drained of its meaning. Our hypothesis is that the extent of this risk differs between the two dominant political blocs in Sweden, the Social Democratic and the Conservative. It is examined through an analysis of how ofte…
Research knowledge utilisation among Swedish health social workers
Health social workers, like social workers in general, have been found to utilise research knowledge to a low degree. No previous study has made comparisons based on the following: higher education, job tenure and workplace. This article is based on statistical comparisons between 1236 health social workers in Sweden working in various healthcare contexts. The central finding was that higher education was the factor with the largest impact. Workp…
Jan Jämte, Måns Lundstedt & Magnus Wennerhag (red.), Sociala rörelser i Sverige. Politiska protester och aktivism från 1945 till idag, Studentlitteratur, 2025
Political science (8 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Social Work (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (3 works)