Bo Burström
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 217297 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Bo Burström |
| PRENOMES | Bo |
| SOBRENOME | Burström |
| ASSINATURA | BURSTRÖM B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Karolinska Institutet |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5770-9422 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 77 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 421 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Intersectional Inequalities in Covid-19 Hospitalisation and Mortality
(250/250 words) Background COVID-19 has been described as a syndemic shaped by interactions between viral exposure, co-morbidities, and social inequalities. However, much of the literature relies on single-axis analyses and restricted time horizons, obscuring how health inequalities shifted across pandemic phases. Intersectionality theory conceptualises how social positions intersect within systems of power to produce context-dependent inequaliti…
More or less equal? Trends in horizontal equity in mental health care utilization in Stockholm county, Sweden (2006–2022). Repeated survey-registry linked studies
Magnitude and determinants of excess total, age-specific and sex-specific all-cause mortality in 24 countries worldwide during 2020 and 2021
INTRODUCTION: To examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality, we estimated excess all-cause mortality in 24 countries for 2020 and 2021, overall and stratified by sex and age. METHODS: Total, age-specific and sex-specific weekly all-cause mortality was collected for 2015-2021 and excess mortality for 2020 and 2021 was calculated by comparing weekly 2020 and 2021 age-standardised mortality rates against expected mortality, estimated b…
They didn’t look at me with good eyes' – experiences of the socioeconomic impact of tuberculosis and support needs among adults in a semi-rural area in Mozambique
Tuberculosis is recognised as a disease of the economically disadvantaged people due to its association with financial vulnerability. Mozambique still faces the challenge of the high burden of TB and associated costs. We aimed to understand the social and economic impacts of TB and the need for social support among people with TB in Mozambique. We conducted a qualitative study using a phenomenological approach focusing on the lived experiences an…
Differences in Covid-19 mortality among persons 70 years and older in an integrated care setting in region Stockholm
Integrated care in Norrtälje may have facilitated a more coordinated response during period 1, compared to municipalities with usual care. In the future, integrated care should be considered as an approach to better protect and meet the care needs of older people during emergency situations
The impact of residency training in family medicine on hospital admissions due to Ambulatory-care Sensitive Conditions in Rio de Janeiro
Lack of skilled human resources in primary care remains a major concern for policymakers in low- and middle-income countries. There is little evidence supporting the impact of residency training in family medicine in the quality of care, and it perpetuates misconceptions among policymakers that the provision of primary care can be easily done by any physician without special training. This article compares the risk of patients being hospitalized …
Do early life factors explain the educational differences in early labour market exit? A register-based cohort study
The association between education and early exit due to disability pension, long-term sickness absence and long-term unemployment was to a large part explained by factors from early life. However, this was not seen for early old-age retirement. These results indicate the importance of taking a life-course perspective when examining labour market participation in later working life
Premature mortality attributable to Covid-19
Our results highlight the role of PYLL as a tool to understand the impact of COVID-19 on demographic groups within and across countries, guiding preventive measures to protect these groups under the ongoing pandemic. Continuous monitoring of PYLL is therefore needed to better understand the burden of COVID-19 in terms of premature mortality
Towards health equity
The study was retrospectively registered on 11/08/2016 in the ISRCTN registry ( ISRCTN11832097 )
Psychometric qualities of the HLS-EU-Q16 instrument for parental health literacy in Swedish multicultural settings
The study was retrospectively registered (18 February 2020) in the ISRCTN registry ( ISRCTN10336603 )
Performing Through Privatization
Background: In 2010, Sweden opened up for establishment of privately owned primary health care providers, as part of a national Free Choice in Primary Health Care reform. The reform has been highly debated, and evidence on its effects is scarce. The present study therefore sought to evaluate whether the reform have impacted on primary health care service performance. Methods: This ecological register-based study used a natural experimental approa…
EQ-5D-3L Health Status Among Homeless People in Stockholm, Sweden, 2006 and 2018
Background: Homeless people are a socially excluded group whose health reflects exposures to intersecting social determinants of health. The aim of this study was to describe and compare the demographic composition, certain social determinants of health, and self-reported health among homeless people in Stockholm, Sweden, in 2006 and 2018. Methods: Analysis of data from face-to-face interviews with homeless people in Stockholm 2006 ( n = 155) and…
Two-year impact of an educational intervention in primary care on blood glucose control and diabetes knowledge among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
Background: Type 2 diabetes mellitus is increasing in rural China and should be managed in primary health care, but knowledge is lacking. Educational interventions have been implemented but not followed up long-term.Objective: The study aimed to assess the long-term impact of an educational intervention on patients’ diabetes knowledge and fasting blood glucose (FBG) level, and whether these outcomes differed between two rural counties.Methods: Th…
Contributions of Preventive Social Services in Early Childhood Home Visiting in a Disadvantaged Area of Sweden
Early childhood home visiting to improve health and development is commonly delivered by child health care (CHC) whereas home visitors from the social services are rare. We applied a constructivist grounded theory approach to explore the practice and contributions of parental advisors from the preventive social services in a home visiting collaboration with CHC in a socioeconomically disadvantaged area of Sweden. The analysis rendered a conceptua…
History lessons for tackling inequalities in health
Cultural adaptation and validation of the Attribution Questionnaire for stigma towards disability pension applicants for use among psychiatrists and general practitioners in Sweden
Findings show that the AQ-S is comparable to the other versions of the AQ and is a reliable measure to assess and monitor stigma among physicians in the Swedish setting. Our study shows that cultural translation does not significantly impact the validity of the questionnaire
Rural–Urban Inequalities in Poor Self-Rated Health, Self-Reported Functional Disabilities, and Depression among Chinese Older Adults
The household registration system (Hukou) in China classifies persons into rural or urban citizens and determines eligibility for state-provided services and welfare. Not taking actual residence into account may underestimate rural-urban differences. This study investigates rural-urban inequalities in self-reported health outcomes among older adults aged 60+, taking into account both Hukou and actual residence, adjusting for sociodemographic dete…
Covid-19 and pathways to health inequities for families in a socioeconomically disadvantaged area of Sweden – qualitative analysis of home visitors’ observations
The study was retrospectively registered (11 August 2016) in the ISRCTN registry ( ISRCTN11832097 )
Validation of the patient-reported experience measure for care in Chinese hospitals (PREM-CCH)
The PREM-CCH is one of the first validated instruments capturing patient experience of care in the context of Chinese public hospitals. It performed well in the psychometric evaluation. It consists of a basic set of items important to patients that could be applicable to public hospitals in China and actionable to inform quality improvement initiatives
Impact of Integrated Care on the Rate of Hospitalization for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions among Older Adults in Stockholm County
Introducing IC in Norrtälje may have had positive impact on admissions for ACSC for older people living in Norrtälje; however, the interpretation of the impact of IC on admissions for ACSC is complicated by intervening policy changes in health and social care during the study period
Association between neighbourhood characteristics and antidepressant use at older ages
Background Research evidence on the association between neighbourhood characteristics and individual mental health at older ages is inconsistent, possibly due to heterogeneity in the measurement of mental-health outcomes, neighbourhood characteristics and confounders. Register-based data enabled us to avoid these problems in this longitudinal study on the associations between socioeconomic and physical neighbourhood characteristics and individual…
Social determinants of health and inequalities in Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting populations worldwide. Although everyone is susceptible to the virus, there are numerous accounts of the pandemic having a greater impact on lower socioeconomic groups and minorities.1,2 Also, in Stockholm, Sweden, the infection rate is 3–4 times higher in some socioeconomically disadvantaged residential areas compared to the regional average. Scientific studies of inequalities in Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID…
What is precarious employment? A systematic review of definitions and operationalizations from quantitative and qualitative studies
Effect of the recent economic crisis on socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in nine urban areas in Europe
To analyse socioeconomic inequalities in all-cause mortality among men and women in nine European urban areas during the recent economic crisis, and to compare the results to those from two periods before the crisis. This is an ecological study of trends based on three time periods (2000-2003, 2004-2008 and 2009-2014). The units of analysis were the small areas of nine European urban areas. We used a composite deprivation index as a socioeconomic…
Sweden--Recent Changes in Welfare State Arrangements.
The Swedish welfare state, once developed to create a new society based on social equality and universal rights, has taken on a partly new direction. Extensive choice reforms have been implemented in social services and an increasing proportion of tax-funded social services, including child day care, primary and secondary schools, health care, and care of the elderly, is provided by private entrepreneurs, although funded by taxes. Private equity …
Self rated health
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To analyse the predictive power of self rated health for mortality in different socioeconomic groups. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS: Analysis of mortality rates and risk ratios of death during follow up among 170 223 respondents aged 16 years and above in the Swedish Survey of Living Conditions 1975-1997, in relation to self rated health stated at the interview, by age, sex, socioeconomic group, chronic illness and over time. MAI…
Social policies and the pathways to inequalities in health
Exploring relative deprivation
Health inequalities between lone and couple mothers and policy under different welfare regimes - The example of Italy, Sweden and Britain
Tales of the unexpected? Hidden resilience in poor households in Britain
Premature mortality among lone fathers and childless men
From macro to micro
Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in self-assessed health in 17 European countries between 1990 and 2010
BACKGROUND: Between the 1990s and 2000s, relative inequalities in all-cause mortality increased, whereas absolute inequalities decreased in many European countries. Whether similar trends can be observed for inequalities in other health outcomes is unknown. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive overview of trends in socioeconomic inequalities in self-assessed health (SAH) in Europe between 1990 and 2010. METHODS: Data were obtained from nati…
Lone mothers in Sweden
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To study trends in the health and socioeconomic circumstances of lone mothers in Sweden over the years 1979-1995, and to make comparisons with couple mothers over the same period. DESIGN: Analysis of data from the annual Survey of Living Conditions (ULF), conducted by Statistics Sweden from 1979-1995. Comparison of demographic, socioeconomic and health status of lone and couple mothers and how these have varied over the 17 years …
Controlled and dependent
Marttila A, Whitehead M, Canvin K, Burström B. Controlled and dependent: experiences of living on social assistance in Sweden Int J Soc Welfare 2010: 19: 142–151 © 2009 The Author(s), Journal compilation © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare. This study explored experiences of people receiving social assistance in 21st‐century Sweden, based on 33 in‐depth interviews conducted in 2005 and 2006. Two overarc…
Comparison or consumption? Distinguishing between different effects of income on health in Nordic welfare states
Inequalities in child mortality in Mozambique
Can I risk using public services? Perceived consequences of seeking help and health care among households living in poverty
OBJECTIVES: To improve understanding of how families living in adverse conditions perceive their encounters with public services and how past experiences influence current and future attempts to seek help. DESIGN: Qualitative interviews with adult members of households living in poverty in deprived areas, plus observations conducted in the surrounding neighbourhoods and service settings. PARTICIPANTS: Purposive sample of 25 adults living in a dep…
Socioeconomic inequalities in injury mortality in small areas of 15 European cities
Equitable Child Health Interventions
Today, many of the 10 million childhood deaths each year are caused by diseases of poverty—diarrhea and pneumonia, for example, which were previously major causes of childhood death in many European countries. Specific analyses of the historical decline of child mortality may shed light on the potential equity impact of interventions to reduce child mortality. In our study of the impact of improved water and sanitation in Stockholm from 1878 to 1…
Pioneers and laggards - Is the effect of gender equality on health dependent on context
A comparative study of the patterning of women's health by family status and employment status in Finland and Sweden
Delayed and differential effects of the economic crisis in Sweden in the 1990s on health-related exclusion from the labour market
Association between income trajectories in childhood and psychiatric disorder
BACKGROUND: Childhood family income variation is an understudied aspect of households' economic context that may have distinct consequences for children. We identified trajectories of childhood family income over a 12-year period, and examined associations between these trajectories and later psychiatric disorders, among individuals born in Sweden between 1987 and 1991 (n=534 294). METHODS: We used annual income data between the ages of 3-14 year…
Cumulative exposure to childhood stressors and subsequent psychological distress. An analysis of US panel data
Hospitalisation for depressive disorder following unemployment—differentials by gender and immigrant status
BACKGROUND: The association between unemployment and poor mental health in general is explained by both causation and selection. The aim was to study whether experiencing unemployment was a risk factor for hospitalisation for depressive disorder specifically, and whether gender and immigrant status modified the hypothesised risk. METHODS: A register-based prospective cohort study, 2000-2006, of persons aged 18-64 with a strong connection to the S…
Too sick to work, too healthy to qualify
BACKGROUND: Denmark and Sweden have implemented reforms that narrowed disability benefit eligibility criteria. Such reforms in combination with increasing work demands create a pincer movement where in particular those with moderate health problems might be unable to comply with work demands, but still not qualify for permanent disability benefits, ending up with temporary means-tested or no benefits. This paper examines whether this actually hap…
Socioeconomic inequalities in cause-specific mortality in 15 European cities
BACKGROUND: Socioeconomic inequalities are increasingly recognised as an important public health issue, although their role in the leading causes of mortality in urban areas in Europe has not been fully evaluated. In this study, we used data from the INEQ-CITIES study to analyse inequalities in cause-specific mortality in 15 European cities at the beginning of the 21st century. METHODS: A cross-sectional ecological study was carried out to analys…
Sweden - Socioeconomic factors and health
Does non-employment contribute to the health disadvantage among lone mothers in Britain, Italy and Sweden? Synergy effects and the meaning of family policy
Rapid feedback from household surveys in PHC planning
Household surveys are now widely used in the management of primary health care (PHC) programmes. A problem with their use has been that results and survey reports often are only available long after the survey is completed. This article describes how the results of six district surveys in Kenya on the home management of diarrhoea were fed back to implementors within four weeks of the start of the survey. Results were rapidly computed by continuou…
Lone mothers in Sweden
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To study trends in the health and socioeconomic circumstances of lone mothers in Sweden over the years 1979-1995, and to make comparisons with couple mothers over the same period. DESIGN: Analysis of data from the annual Survey of Living Conditions (ULF), conducted by Statistics Sweden from 1979-1995. Comparison of demographic, socioeconomic and health status of lone and couple mothers and how these have varied over the 17 years …
Social policies and the pathways to inequalities in health
Self rated health
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To analyse the predictive power of self rated health for mortality in different socioeconomic groups. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS: Analysis of mortality rates and risk ratios of death during follow up among 170 223 respondents aged 16 years and above in the Swedish Survey of Living Conditions 1975-1997, in relation to self rated health stated at the interview, by age, sex, socioeconomic group, chronic illness and over time. MAI…
Winners and Losers in Flexible Labor Markets
This study compares employment rates among men and women with and without chronic illness in the contrasting policy environments of Britain and Sweden, through analysis of household surveys for 1979–1995. Professional and managerial groups were winners in both countries, including during recession. By the 1990s, employment rates for healthy Swedish women were uniformly high across the social groups and almost comparable with those of their male c…
Exploring relative deprivation
Inequalities in child mortality in Mozambique
Erroneous, blurred, and mistaken—comments on the care need index
Sundquist et al present a care need index for allocation of primary health care resources.1 Unfortunately, their paper rests on an erroneous description of the allocation model presently used in Stockholm, a blurred conception of need, and a mistake in the handling of data. The model used by Stockholm County Council to distribute funds between areas to purchase health care consists of four different components: (1) hospital based care,2 (2) priva…
Premature mortality among lone fathers and childless men
Equitable Child Health Interventions
Today, many of the 10 million childhood deaths each year are caused by diseases of poverty—diarrhea and pneumonia, for example, which were previously major causes of childhood death in many European countries. Specific analyses of the historical decline of child mortality may shed light on the potential equity impact of interventions to reduce child mortality. In our study of the impact of improved water and sanitation in Stockholm from 1878 to 1…
Comparison or consumption? Distinguishing between different effects of income on health in Nordic welfare states
A comparative study of the patterning of women's health by family status and employment status in Finland and Sweden
Studying Social Policy and Resilience to Adversity in Different Welfare States
Is poverty more damaging to health in Britain than in Sweden, and if so, why? Following previous research by the authors that suggested such an effect, a new comparative study is examining whether there are aspects of the social and policy context in Britain that add to and reinforce the health-damaging experience of being poor. Conversely, are there other aspects of living in Sweden that are supportive for people in poverty, which make the exper…
Differentials in overall and cause-specific mortality among infants born in and out of wedlock, Stockholm 1878–1925
This study investigates differentials in the decline of cause-specific infant mortality by marital status of the mother in Stockholm (1878–1925) and factors contributing to the explanation of these differentials using computerized records of individual entries from the Roteman Archives. Included in the analysis were 120,094 children less than 1 year of age who lived in Södermalm during this period. Cause-specific mortality rates were calculated f…
Changes in income in the years before death
A high proportion of lifetime healthcare spending occurs in the last year of life, perhaps as much as one third.1 For the individual, the costs of coping with illness and accessing healthcare are also likely to be high, at a time when their earnings may have fallen because of sickness. Evidence is available for both downward social mobility after the onset of illness, and the impoverishment of bereaved partners.2,3 Changes in financial circumstan…
Can I risk using public services? Perceived consequences of seeking help and health care among households living in poverty
OBJECTIVES: To improve understanding of how families living in adverse conditions perceive their encounters with public services and how past experiences influence current and future attempts to seek help. DESIGN: Qualitative interviews with adult members of households living in poverty in deprived areas, plus observations conducted in the surrounding neighbourhoods and service settings. PARTICIPANTS: Purposive sample of 25 adults living in a dep…
From macro to micro
Controlled and dependent
Marttila A, Whitehead M, Canvin K, Burström B. Controlled and dependent: experiences of living on social assistance in Sweden Int J Soc Welfare 2010: 19: 142–151 © 2009 The Author(s), Journal compilation © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare. This study explored experiences of people receiving social assistance in 21st‐century Sweden, based on 33 in‐depth interviews conducted in 2005 and 2006. Two overarc…
Pioneers and laggards - Is the effect of gender equality on health dependent on context
Tales of the unexpected? Hidden resilience in poor households in Britain
Living on social assistance with chronic illness
From this study it is evident that the way in which individuals on social assistance interact with services and how they are treated by professionals plays an important role in their well-being, in combination with what kind of help and support is available for recipients through the welfare system. In this respect, persons living on social assistance with chronic illness are particularly vulnerable. This study suggests that more effort should be…
To what extent have relaxed eligibility requirements and increased generosity of disability benefits acted as disincentives for employment? A systematic review of evidence from countries with well-dev…
Health inequalities between lone and couple mothers and policy under different welfare regimes - The example of Italy, Sweden and Britain
Gender-related mental health differences between refugees and non-refugee immigrants - a cross-sectional register-based study
Female refugees from low-income countries seem to be a risk group among immigrant women from low-income countries, whereas male refugees had the same risk patterns as non-refugee immigrants from low-income countries. This underlines the need for training of clinicians in order to focus on pre-migration stress and the asylum process, among female newcomers
Does non-employment contribute to the health disadvantage among lone mothers in Britain, Italy and Sweden? Synergy effects and the meaning of family policy
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