Hälsovetenskapens dag arrangeras årligen av Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper och är ett event öppet för alla. I år är eventet en del av Framtidsveckan 2019 vid Lunds universitet, den 14-20 oktober, där forskare från olika fakulteter presenterar populärvetenskaplig forskning under temat Omställningar – Vilka måste vi göra? Vilka vill vi göra? Och vilka vill vi helst slippa? Från Institutionen för

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/halsovetenskapens-dag-2019-omstallningar - 2025-08-29

A position as senior researcher is vacant in the department of Health and Social Context at the National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) in Copenhagen, from October 1, 2019 or as soon as possible thereafter. The position is vacant for a period of 2 years. Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/senior-researcher-epidemiology-and-statistics - 2025-08-29

Do you conduct patient- or population-based research using clinical, survey, registry or biobank data? Then this course is indispensable for you! The course is primarily intended for doctoral students at the Medical Faculty at Lund University, but it is also open for postdoctoral and senior researchers and other applicants if there are available slots. Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/epidemiology-i-introduction-epidemiology - 2025-08-29

Karaktärisering av olika kategorier av knäartros i en populationsbaserad kohort, och en jämförelse av livskvalitet och kostnader mellan de som sökt och de som inte sökt sjukvård Läs mer här.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/malmo-osteoartros-studie-moa-studien - 2025-08-29

Inom denna utlysning kan du ansöka om projektbidrag för verksamhetsnära forskning om psykisk ohälsa. Utlysningen fokuserar på två områden: tidiga insatser mot psykisk ohälsa samt samordnade insatser för personer med svår psykiatrisk problematik. Läs mer här.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/forte-verksamhetsnara-forskning-om-psykisk-ohalsa-2019 - 2025-08-29

Future Faculty lunch seminar with Per Alm from the Royal Physiographic Society of Lund and experienced grant managers Pia Berntsson and Linda Eliasson, Lund University. Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/finding-and-applying-project-grants-young-researchers - 2025-08-29

The workshop will provide an introduction on practical and methodological issues of how to prepare a Cochrane systematic review of the effects of interventions. Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/introduction-cochrane-methodology-workshop - 2025-08-29

Från och med 2019-05-01 gäller ny delegationsordning för beslut om utlämnande av personuppgifter från Region Skånes vårddatabaser och kvalitetsregister där Region Skåne är CPUA. Läs mer här.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/nya-delegationer-vid-utlamnande-av-personuppgifter-forskning - 2025-08-29

Being a technically gifted surgeon is not enough to make you a good aortic valve repair surgeon. An additional requirement is the long-term evaluation of the treatment and comparison of your results to other surgeons. The AVIATOR registry, outlined below, enables surgeons to evaluate their results and fulfill this requirement. New publication in Annals of Cardiothoracic SurgeryRead more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/aviator-registry-importance-evaluating-long-term-patient-outcomes - 2025-08-29

Usage of structured fields in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) to ascertain smoking history is important but fails in capturing the nuances of smoking behaviors. Knowledge of smoking behaviors, such as pack year history and most recent cessation date, allows care providers to select the best care plan for patients at risk of smoking attributable diseases. New publication in BMC Medical Informatics

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/building-tobacco-user-registry-extracting-multiple-smoking-behaviors-clinical-notes - 2025-08-29

In any field of science, career development is a critical issue for early career professionals, and many attempts have been made to support their development. Networking is considered important for early career researchers because it can help them form collaborations which are good opportunities to start new research, produce highly influential work8 and find jobs. Thus, many networks have emerged

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/networks-early-career-epidemiologists-around-world-current-status-and-future-directions - 2025-08-29

Vetenskapsrådets Forskningsbarometer ger en övergripande bild av tillståndet för svensk forskning och utveckling (FoU) i internationell jämförelse. Särskilt fokus ligger på den forskning som utförs av högskolesektorn i Sverige. Läs mer här.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/forskningsbarometern-2019 - 2025-08-29

Årligen investeras miljarder i medicinsk forskning. Trots det når en stor del av resultaten inte patienterna – som riskerar att behandlas med för­åldrade metoder. Forskningen måste bli ett mer naturligt inslag i hälso- och sjukvårdens dagliga verksamhet. Läs mer här.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/debatt-samarbetet-mellan-vard-och-forskning-maste-bli-battre - 2025-08-29

I höst finns miljontals kronor i forskningsmedel att söka från Europeiska forskningsrådet, ERC. Samtliga utlysningar är öppna för alla ämnesområden. Vetenskapsrådet stödjer forskare och forskningshandläggare vid de svenska universiteten i ansökningsprocessen. Läs mer här.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/sok-medel-fran-erc-i-host - 2025-08-29

In Norway, the Directorate of Health is responsible for two nationwide registries – the Norwegian Patient Registry (NPR) and the Norwegian Registry for Primary Health Care (NRPHC) – which together cover all governmental-funded health care. The NPR (specialist health care) was established in 2008, while the NRPHC (primary health care) was established in 2017. New publication in Scandinavian Journal

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/norwegian-patient-registry-and-norwegian-registry-primary-health-care-research-potential-two - 2025-08-29

The study included 20,487 individuals (61% women) from the Malmö Diet and Cancer cohort, 45–74 years, without diabetes and CVD at baseline (1991–1996) and who did not report dietary changes. Diet was measured with a modified diet history method. During 15 years follow-up, 2206 T2D, 1571 CE and 1332 stroke cases were identified. Data on weight change after 16.7 years were available in 2627 individu

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/food-patterns-relation-weight-change-and-incidence-type-2-diabetes-coronary-events-and-stroke-malmo - 2025-08-29

A modified Delphi study allowed 37 international vascular registry experts to achieve a consensus recommendation for a minimum core and an optimum data set for registries covering patients who undergo ALI revascularisation. Continued global harmonisation of registry infrastructure and definition of items allows international comparisons and global quality improvement. Furthermore, it can help to d

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/editors-choice-recommendations-registry-data-collection-revascularisations-acute-limb-ischaemia - 2025-08-29

The aim of this nationwide follow-up study was to examine whether neighborhood linking social capital is associated with lung cancer, including incident and mortality cases, after adjustment for individual- and familial-level factors. New publication in Cancer EpidemiologyRead more here

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/neighborhood-linking-social-capital-predictor-lung-cancer-swedish-national-cohort-study - 2025-08-29

During a one-day conference, students, teachers, researchers and other higher education professionals are invited to explore how we can take responsibility for, and be inspired by, the Sustainable Development Goals in our educational programs, research, and collaboration with society. Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/rethinking-higher-education - 2025-08-29

Administrative health records (AHRs) and electronic medical records (EMRs) are two key sources of population-based data for disease surveillance, but misclassification errors in the data can bias disease estimates. Methods that combine information from error-prone data sources can build on the strengths of AHRs and EMRs. We compared bias and error for four data-combining methods and applied them t

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/combining-population-based-administrative-health-records-and-electronic-medical-records-disease - 2025-08-29