109 Population crisis or not?

Author and podcaster Anna Björklund is the guest in this week's episode to discuss the declining birth rate in Sweden. How does it affect public health, and why are fewer people choosing to have children? 

108. Kerstin Hesselgren - Prussian or liberal pioneer?

Journalist and writer Anders Johnson is a guest on the podcast and talks about his book Kerstin Hesselgren - health care apostle and parliamentary pioneer. Kerstin Hesselgren was a prominent social liberal politician in the early 1900s and the first woman in the Riksdag...

107. Is obesity a disease?

Doctor Vincent Flinck Amble-Naess is a guest on the podcast and notes that effective medical treatment for weight loss is now available. The only question is who is entitled to the medicine and who should pay for it? Instead of making it easy to get hold of a medicine...

106. What can you say about food and health?

What role do authorities play in what we eat and drink? What claims are food producers allowed to make on their products and what can you say about health on social media? Marie Söderqvist and Fredrik Torehammar discuss these issues together with Jimmy Sandell,...

105. What is a modern bourgeois drug policy?

Christian Karlsson, chair of the Social Affairs Committee, joins the podcast to explain his views on Swedish drug policy. Why do we have such harsh penalties for cannabis use when other countries decriminalize? Are politicians proud of the snus that has turned Swedes into...