Publications - Public health
The Environment and Public Health Institute is a non-profit think tank that addresses the environmental and health threats of our time. When others look to politicians for solutions, we look to engineers and entrepreneurs for answers.
Some of our work is presented in reports, essays and briefing papers covering topical issues. You can access all publications here.
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Report: Who Gets to Talk to Brussels?
The WHO wants to limit contact between politicians and companies in the alcohol and food sectors, just as has already been done with the tobacco industry. Will this protect decision-making from undue influence, or does it risk excluding large parts of the business community from...
Report: From healthcare to health care
Sweden spends enormous resources on treating diseases once they have already occurred, but very little on keeping people healthy in the first place. The average Swede spends the last ten years of his or her life in poor health, and if we can reduce that time, there are huge...
Report: A final round - 50 years of the total consumption model
Just in time for midsummer, EPHI is releasing the report En sista runda (A final round), in which we review the background to Swedish alcohol policy. The aim of the report is to review the conceptual model that forms the basis for the state's monopoly on the sale of alcohol. The idea is based on the notion...
EPHI in Almedalen - Is slim a choice?
Doctor Vincent Flink Amble-Naess has written a report for Ephi on obesity and medicines. Flink Amble-Naess notes that there is currently effective medical treatment for weight loss. The question is who should get it, how the treatment should be financed and how we...
EPHI in Almedalen - A modern public health policy
Economist David Sundén meets psychiatrist David Eberhard, moderated by Henrik Jönsson, to discuss nicotine and public health. Both David Sundén and David Eberhard have each published a report on nicotine and public health. Now they are meeting to...
Nicotine and the brain
Doctor David Eberhard has written a report for EPHI on nicotine, the brain and addiction. Eberhard asks whether addiction itself is really dangerous and how we distinguish between an addiction and a habit. The report is available in both English and Swedish. Watch the call from Brussels...
Is slim a choice?
Doctor Vincent Flink Amble-Naess has written a report for Ephi on obesity and medicines. Flink Amble-Naess notes that there is currently effective medical treatment for weight loss. The question is who should get it, how the treatment should be financed and how we...
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...
Duty to exercise?
Despite the fact that daily physical activity is probably one of the best things you can do to stay healthy, it is considered a matter of personal choice. This applies to adults, children and pensioners alike. Is it really fair that this should be the case?
The idea was a good one - about political reforms that don't get the results intended by those in power
Political decisions made with good intentions often have unforeseen consequences. Government investigators are proposing to ban all flavors in e-cigarettes and e-liquids from May 2022. There are many indications that the proposal, which was made with good intentions, will not lead to any health benefits. You can read about this and other examples of unintended consequences in Stefan Mathisson's report.