Public health programme area
In addition, there are huge developments in health technologies that allow us all to check sleep, blood sugar levels, blood pressure, reactions to different nutrients, map genes, get full hormone, vitamin and blood analyses without much effort or cost.
Rather than harnessing the power of new technologies and people's engagement, public health policy is often reduced to demands for new regulations and restrictions.
At EPHI, we have a different idea. We believe in the capabilities of the individual and we believe in new technologies and developments. We also believe that public health is created from the bottom up and from the inside out, not the other way round.
Current projects
- Healthier and greener food
- Prevalence and organisation of vaccine resistance
- Harm minimisation in STD policy
- Effective measures against antibiotic resistance
News
Ephi organises seminar in Parliament with Astrid Kander
On 31 January 2024, Ephi is organising a seminar in the Swedish Parliament on Astrid Kander's report on the topic of climate-impacting emissions and exports. Place: Riksdag Date: 31/1 2024 The seminar is organised together with Rickard Nordin from the Centre Party. Read Astrid Kander's report...
Ephi launches new report on obesity and medicines
Doctor Vincent Flink Amble-Naess will soon publish a report on obesity and medicines at Ephi. Flink Amble-Naess notes that effective medical treatment for weight loss is currently available. The only question is who should receive it and how it should be funded....
Epidemiologist Måns Rosén criticises the National Board of Health and Welfare's advice on alcohol.
According to new recommendations from the National Board of Health and Welfare, health services should offer support to people who drink ten standard glasses or more per week, or four standard glasses or more per occasion once a month or more often. Ephi spoke to epidemiologist Måns...
Taste of nicotine
In Sweden, we have almost reached the WHO goal of being smoke-free, defined as less than 5 per cent daily smokers. One contributing factor is the availability of a different way to use nicotine than smoking - snus. In our essay series TEMA HÄLSA, Professor Fredrik H...
Obligation to exercise?
In our essay series HEALTH, Dagens Industri's political editor PM Nilsson argues that liberalism is a good desk pad and a foundation for any successful society, but often a failed starting point in public health work. The essay Exercise obligation? and related ...
Publications
Taste of nicotine
Taste of nicotine Professor Fredrik H Nyström teaches future doctors at the University of Linköping and has long been a very productive researcher. A researcher who manages to combine his own research with the writing of more accessible popular science texts. In the...
Taste of nicotine
Taste of nicotine Professor Fredrik H Nyström teaches future doctors at Linköping University and has long been a very productive researcher. A researcher who manages to combine his own research with the writing of more accessible popular science....
Obligation to exercise?
Mandatory exercise? Despite the fact that daily physical activity is probably one of the best things you can do to stay healthy, it is considered to be something you can do at your own discretion. This applies to adults, children and pensioners alike. Is it really reasonable to...
The idea was a good one - about political reforms that don't get the results those in power intended.
The idea was good - about political reforms that don't get the results those in power intended Political decisions that are made with good intentions often have unforeseen consequences. Government investigators are proposing that all flavours in e-cigarettes and e-liquids...
Spruträdd - Vaccine resistance in Sweden during the coronavirus pandemic
Spruträdd - Vaccine resistance in Sweden during the coronavirus pandemic The willingness to vaccinate is high in Sweden, but at the same time there are many who have chosen not to be vaccinated. What is the impact of the so-called anti-vaccination movement? And how does it work? In order to...
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