Thomas Karlsson
Biographic Data
| ID | 6094573 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Karlsson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Karlsson |
| SIGNATURE | KARLSSON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-5205-3517 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Comparing alcohol policy environments in high‐income jurisdictions with the International Alcohol Control Policy Index
Assessing alcohol industry penetration and government safeguards
BACKGROUND: The alcohol industry uses many of the tobacco industry's strategies to influence policy-making, yet unlike the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, there is no intergovernmental guidance on protecting policies from alcohol industry influence. Systematic assessment of alcohol industry penetration and government safeguards is also lacking. Here, we aimed to identify the nature and extent of industry penetration in a cross-section of…
Alcohol control policy and alcohol‐attributable disease burden in Finland and the Baltic countries
Better than Doing Nothing’ – constructing support for biodiversity offsetting in Finland
Despite widely covered controversies, biodiversity offsetting continues to be introduced in novel places as a solution to counter biodiversity loss. As previous studies have focused on contestation around offsetting, there is a lack of studies analyzing how actors generate consensus while constructing biodiversity offsetting policies. To assess this, we analyze the early phases of policy construction in Finland, a country that until recently did …
Metal och satanism i Mellanöstern
The Road to the Alcohol Act 2018 in Finland
Finnish alcohol policy has aimed for decades years to mitigate alcohol-related harm by using high taxation and restrictions on the physical availability of alcohol. The state monopoly on the retail of alcohol has played a central role in reducing the availability of alcohol. In 2011, preparations began for a comprehensive reform of the Alcohol Act 1994. Over time, the issue became highly politicised, lobbied and divisive. It took intense work of …
Trends in Alcohol Consumption and Violence in the Nordic Countries 1960–2000
Patterns of drinking, especially drinking to intoxication, play an important role in violent offenses, and there are studies that indicate a causal relationship between alcohol consumption and violence. The strength of this relationship is, however, culturally dependent, and the amount of alcohol drunk and patterns of drinking are not the only factors affecting violence rates. This article examines if increases in alcohol consumption in the Nordi…
Kabbalah in Sweden
This article examines the history of Kabbalah in Sweden. The reader is presented with an overall view to Kabbalah in Sweden: first, the Johannes Bureus and the Nordic Kabbalah, Kabbalah after Bureus, Kabbalistic literature, and last, Kabbalah in Sweden today. When the Kabbalah reached Sweden it was mainly the non-Jewish Kabbalah that gained influence, even if its Jewish roots were acknowledged. Johannes Bureus unites, in a similar fashion as do t…
Moral Regulation of Public Space and Drinking in the Media and Legislation in Finland
At the beginning of 1995, well-mannered public drinking was permitted in Finland. Contrary to expectations, this liberalization did not result in the civilizing of drinking habits. It brought public boozing, public urination, and street violence. In the article we examine to what extent public drinking has been perceived as a threat to public order in the media and in the parliamentary debate on the Act on Public Order (612/2003). The regulation …
Relief of symptoms and improvement of quality of life five years after coronary artery bypass grafting in relation to preoperative ejection fraction
A Tax Paradise in the Making? Alcohol Regulations in the Åland Islands
When the European Union decided to end tax-free sales within the EU, it was considered such a serious threat to the welfare of the Åland Islands that its continuation was set as a precondition for a membership in the EU. To enable the continuation of tax-free sales a tax border was set, allowing tax-free sales on boat and air traffic between Åland and continental Finland. Tax-free alcohol has also to a large extent influenced the drinking habits …
Better than Doing Nothing’ – constructing support for biodiversity offsetting in Finland
Despite widely covered controversies, biodiversity offsetting continues to be introduced in novel places as a solution to counter biodiversity loss. As previous studies have focused on contestation around offsetting, there is a lack of studies analyzing how actors generate consensus while constructing biodiversity offsetting policies. To assess this, we analyze the early phases of policy construction in Finland, a country that until recently did …
A Tax Paradise in the Making? Alcohol Regulations in the Åland Islands
When the European Union decided to end tax-free sales within the EU, it was considered such a serious threat to the welfare of the Åland Islands that its continuation was set as a precondition for a membership in the EU. To enable the continuation of tax-free sales a tax border was set, allowing tax-free sales on boat and air traffic between Åland and continental Finland. Tax-free alcohol has also to a large extent influenced the drinking habits …
Relief of symptoms and improvement of quality of life five years after coronary artery bypass grafting in relation to preoperative ejection fraction
Moral Regulation of Public Space and Drinking in the Media and Legislation in Finland
At the beginning of 1995, well-mannered public drinking was permitted in Finland. Contrary to expectations, this liberalization did not result in the civilizing of drinking habits. It brought public boozing, public urination, and street violence. In the article we examine to what extent public drinking has been perceived as a threat to public order in the media and in the parliamentary debate on the Act on Public Order (612/2003). The regulation …
Kabbalah in Sweden
This article examines the history of Kabbalah in Sweden. The reader is presented with an overall view to Kabbalah in Sweden: first, the Johannes Bureus and the Nordic Kabbalah, Kabbalah after Bureus, Kabbalistic literature, and last, Kabbalah in Sweden today. When the Kabbalah reached Sweden it was mainly the non-Jewish Kabbalah that gained influence, even if its Jewish roots were acknowledged. Johannes Bureus unites, in a similar fashion as do t…
Trends in Alcohol Consumption and Violence in the Nordic Countries 1960–2000
Patterns of drinking, especially drinking to intoxication, play an important role in violent offenses, and there are studies that indicate a causal relationship between alcohol consumption and violence. The strength of this relationship is, however, culturally dependent, and the amount of alcohol drunk and patterns of drinking are not the only factors affecting violence rates. This article examines if increases in alcohol consumption in the Nordi…
The Road to the Alcohol Act 2018 in Finland
Finnish alcohol policy has aimed for decades years to mitigate alcohol-related harm by using high taxation and restrictions on the physical availability of alcohol. The state monopoly on the retail of alcohol has played a central role in reducing the availability of alcohol. In 2011, preparations began for a comprehensive reform of the Alcohol Act 1994. Over time, the issue became highly politicised, lobbied and divisive. It took intense work of …
Metal och satanism i Mellanöstern
Better than Doing Nothing’ – constructing support for biodiversity offsetting in Finland
Despite widely covered controversies, biodiversity offsetting continues to be introduced in novel places as a solution to counter biodiversity loss. As previous studies have focused on contestation around offsetting, there is a lack of studies analyzing how actors generate consensus while constructing biodiversity offsetting policies. To assess this, we analyze the early phases of policy construction in Finland, a country that until recently did …
Assessing alcohol industry penetration and government safeguards
BACKGROUND: The alcohol industry uses many of the tobacco industry's strategies to influence policy-making, yet unlike the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, there is no intergovernmental guidance on protecting policies from alcohol industry influence. Systematic assessment of alcohol industry penetration and government safeguards is also lacking. Here, we aimed to identify the nature and extent of industry penetration in a cross-section of…
Alcohol control policy and alcohol‐attributable disease burden in Finland and the Baltic countries
Comparing alcohol policy environments in high‐income jurisdictions with the International Alcohol Control Policy Index
Business (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Alcohol (3 works) · Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects (3 works) · Environmental health (3 works)