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This report present a short description of a framework for how the reformulated public health strategy will be implemented.

Antibiotikaresistens är ett komplext problem som kräver nya lösningar. Därför behövs samverkan och sambarbete inom forskning, myndigheter och industri.

The Public Health Agency of Sweden has, on behalf of the government, developed a national strategy for sexual and reproductive health and rights. The overall objective of the strategy is to achieve good, fair, and equal sexual and reproductive health in the entire population. The strategy also contains four long-term sub-targets and seven areas of action. Combined, they will contribute to attaining…

This strategy describes what needs to be done, and at what level of society. We need to work together across government agencies, regions, municipalities, civil society, the business community, academia and the general public.

Together with the public health authorities in the Nordic countries including Åland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland, the authority has gathered knowledge and experience from working with the pandemic. The report will be an important basis for continued updates of pandemic plans and for increased cooperation…

This report is a compilation of existing knowledge about the harmful effects of tobacco and nicotine products in terms of the extent of their use, the health risks and the social costs.

The report is mainly intended for employees and decision-makers within county councils, municipalities, civil society organisations as well as relevant authorities and professional associations. The report aims to contribute with knowledge for health promotion and disease prevention work.

The report presents results from a pilot test of Tailoring Immunization Programmes (TIP), a method developed by WHO/Europe to identify barriers and motivating factors to MMR vaccination in communities with low coverage in Sweden.

The proportion of school children with overweight or obesity has doubled over the past 30 years according to the results from Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC), a survey of 11–15-year-olds.

This report is about implementation, i.e. how new methods can be disseminated and implemented. When new health-promoting methods have been presented, it often takes a long time for them to come into daily use.

This brochure is published by the agencies and organisations included in the Intersectoral Coordinating Mechanism, ICM. The ICM engages governmental agencies and organisations working in human health, animal health, food, environment, research, trade and civil contingency planning and is jointly run by the Public Health Agency of Sweden and the Swedish Board of Agriculture.

The prevalence of overweight and obesity among children 6–9 years old is high and increases with age. These results were obtained from a survey of a representative sample in Sweden.

This report highlights how the changing climate affects health in several ways, from heatwaves and spread of infectious diseases to deteriorating water and air quality. The report can provide useful knowledge support for national authorities and county administrative boards affected by the Ordinance on government agencies’ climate adaptation. It may also provide support to other national and international stakeholders involved in actions to protect health from the conseqeuneces of climate change.

The results show that the sexual health in Sweden is good, 58% of the population report being satisfied with their sex life. Men to a higher extent than women (28% versus 18%) think they do not have sex often enough. More women than men (20% versus 10%) report having felt too tired or stressed to have sex.

I rapporten redovisas hur kommuner, regioner och länsstyrelser arbetar med folkhälsoarbete i Sverige. Det handlar om organisatoriska förutsättningar, hur folkhälsoarbetet styrs, relevanta aktörer och hur de samverkar om folkhälsofrågor, samt vilka behov av stöd som önskas.

Detta är en litteraturöversikt över prioriteringsmodeller inom folkhälsoområdet, kunskap som kan bidra till arbetet med strategisk prioritering av behov inom folkhälsoområdet. Översikten riktar sig till dig som är beslutsfattare eller arbetar med strategiskt förebyggande arbete vid myndigheter,

Denna kartläggande litteraturöversikt sammanställer svenska och internationella hälsoekonomiska utvärderingar av förebyggande insatser inom alkohol, narkotika, dopning, tobak och spel om pengar (ANDTS). En bedömning görs även av kunskapsläget om insatsernas kostnadseffektivitet uttryckt i kostnad

I rapporten redovisas att samtliga åtta folkhälsopolitiska målområden har bäring på hållbar regional utveckling. Det finns även tydliga beröringspunkter mellan målområdena och den regionala utvecklingspolitikens fyra strategiska områden. Jämförelsen visar också att arbetet inom de två

Rapporten är en del av ett regeringsuppdrag om att ta fram förslag på nationella mål, indikatorer och insatsområden som ska ge en inriktning för arbetet med hållbar och hälsosam livsmedelskonsumtion.

Rapporten är en kartläggning av kunskapen inom ANDT-prevention. Syftet är att beskriva effekten av de interventioner som utvärderats i studier av god eller medelgod kvalitet. Översikten visar att det saknas kunskap om många av interventionerna.

In conclusion, closure or not of schools has had little if any impact on the number of laboratory confirmed cases in school aged children in Finland and Sweden. The negative effects of closing schools must be weighed against the positive effects, if any, it might have on the mitigation of the covid

The Communicable Diseases Ordinance contains 13 criteria that form the basis of an investigation of vaccination programmes. This knowledge base is a scientific review based on these criteria. 

Rapporten visar att forskningen inom hälsokommunikation vilar tungt på paradigm från det medicinska vetenskapsområdet och att den uppvisar brister i utvärdering. Hälsokommunikation är komplext och beroende av sin omvärld, inte minst genom möjligheter med interaktiv kommunikation. Både forskning och…

Rapporten visat att individuella och strukturella faktorer spelar en betydande roll när det kommer till tillgång och användning av preventivmedel. Individuella faktorer kan vara språkkunskap, kunskap om preventivmedel, sociala faktorer och mäns inflytande.

This is a report on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and STI prevention among young people and young adults (16-29 years) living with HIV in Sweden. The report is based on a survey conducted in 2018. The starting point is the Public Health Agency of Sweden’s work on the national HIV strategy and the follow-up work on SRHR.