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Veronica Svärd

@veronicasvard.bsky.social

Associate professor in health social work, with a passion for social rights, climate justice, health equity and social determinants of health.

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So nice conference in Finland on #healthsocialwork: Terveyssosiaalityön päivät events.tuni.fi/tst-paivat/o...
I gave a keynote speech about social determinants of health and how to apply it in practice. We have established important contacts to strengthen the cooperation between our countries!

07.11.2025 15:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sverige kommer alltså att missa alla klimatmål, på grund av regeringens politik. Vi missar EU-målen. Vi missar de nationella målen. Med rejäl marginal. I decennier var vi en förebild, som drev på utvecklingen mot ett hållbart samhälle. På bara tre år har allt slagits sönder

omni.se/regeringen-m...

19.09.2025 07:29 — 👍 166    🔁 77    💬 13    📌 5
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I've had a very intense start to the semester with a new group of health social worker students. Coordinating the three study locations on the east coast of Sweden require a lot of organization! #AcademicSky #socialwork #health

09.09.2025 21:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Receiving Return-To-Work Coordination at Swedish Primary Healthcare Clinics: A Register-Based Study Among People on Sickness Absence - Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation Purpose This study investigates factors associated with receiving return-to-work (RTW) coordination within primary healthcare and the association between received RTW coordination and the amount of si...

"Does return-to-work coordination shorten sick leave?" That's a common question! Our registry study in primary care points to 5 fewer sick leave days in a 10-month follow-up among patients on sick leave who received coordination compare to those who did not. #academicsky
doi.org/10.1007/s109...

03.09.2025 22:14 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Peer reviewers more likely to approve articles that cite their own work Preprint examines how citations can influence the review process.

#AcademicSky no surprises “Reviewers are more likely to approve a manuscript if their own work is cited in subsequent versions than are reviewers who are not cited, according to an analysis of 18,400 articles from four open-access publications.”

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

22.08.2025 19:59 — 👍 9    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 0
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Yesterday my doctoral student Jenny Aspling defended her doctoral thesis in social work in an excellent way! A longitudinal study showing that the Active Support staff approach can improve everyday life for people with intellectual disabilities in group homes. esh.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...

24.05.2025 09:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“People Are Starving to Death”: Oxfam Warns Israel’s Blockade on Gaza Is Catastrophic “People are starving to death, and this is a fact that we are witnessing and experiencing nowadays,” says Oxfam’s food security coordinator in Gaza, Mahmoud Alsaqqa. More than 10 weeks after Israel...

"People Are Starving to Death": Oxfam Warns Israel's Blockade on Gaza Is Catastrophic

13.05.2025 17:15 — 👍 359    🔁 247    💬 34    📌 10
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US tells European companies to comply with Donald Trump’s anti-diversity order Move signals push by American president to widen his ideological campaign abroad

Trump continues the attacks against discriminated groups, now also in the EU. Ignore that, please!

29.03.2025 19:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Chockrapporten från SMHI: Sverige kan värmas 6,5 grader

En ny rapport från SMHI, som gått helt under radarn, visar att Sverige står inför en dramatisk temperaturökning. Medeltemperaturen har redan har stigit med 1,9 grader, och kan öka med 6,5 grader innan seklets slut.

04.03.2025 15:04 — 👍 74    🔁 35    💬 8    📌 6
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Opinion | Most Trump Supporters Also Back Ukraine Our poll found that 69% of Republican voters say Russia is the aggressor and 83% disapprove of Putin.

"69% of Republican voters say Russia is the aggressor and 83% disapprove of Putin"

www.wsj.com/opinion/most...

01.03.2025 08:25 — 👍 5130    🔁 1315    💬 306    📌 117

Can confirm. Former USAID here, and I’ve been approached twice in the last 30 days.

01.03.2025 16:52 — 👍 13416    🔁 4759    💬 331    📌 235

Alla måste förstå att vi inte kan stå naiva inför den ordning som MAGA-rörelsen i rasande fart implementerar just nu. Lyssna på detta viktiga avsnitt.

01.03.2025 15:33 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Plants losing appetite for carbon dioxide amid effects of warming climate Earth’s plants and soils reached peak carbon dioxide sequestration in 2008 but proportion absorbed has been declining since, study finds

Not good news for the 'CO2 is a plant nutrient' climate denial mantra...

Plants losing appetite for carbon dioxide amid effects of warming climate

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

26.02.2025 10:53 — 👍 13    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 1
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Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all?

Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.

24.02.2025 10:58 — 👍 7913    🔁 1811    💬 418    📌 224

The increase in quality of life since my heavy smoking neighbor moved a month ago is immeasurable, I am so happy! My apartment suddenly feels like my own. I've had as many people over for dinner in a few weeks as I did in a more than a year of living in smoke. #lifeisgood

24.02.2025 22:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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JUST IN:

The UN has adopted Ukraine’s resolution condemning Russian aggression and demanding the immediate withdrawal of Putin’s forces, marking the war’s third anniversary.

The U.S. joined Russia, North Korea, Belarus, and Hungary in opposing the resolution.

24.02.2025 17:04 — 👍 1414    🔁 483    💬 282    📌 197
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Let's remember some of Hannah Arendt's thoughts in these turbulent days!

19.02.2025 21:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Jag får panik av att jorden kan bli obeboelig om 75 år Fler måste inse allvaret – inte bara på ytan – för att systemförändringarna ska komma.

Obs! Bortom 2°C i global temperaturhöjning hamnar planeten i ett läge som inte historiskt varit förenligt med mänskligt liv och som inte förekommit på mer än två miljoner år. Nuvarande utsläppsbanor pekar mot 3,2°C vid sekelskiftet. Läs @anniecroona.bsky.social

www.etc.se/ledare/jag-f...

10.02.2025 08:50 — 👍 90    🔁 44    💬 3    📌 4

The city where I was born 💔

04.02.2025 19:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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For the visual learners...

03.02.2025 00:25 — 👍 35299    🔁 8415    💬 657    📌 393

It's impossible to keep up with all of Trump's devastating decisions regarding international relations right now, but this conversation sums up the seriousness of the situation. The world order is changing rapidly.
youtube.com/watch?v=U0fd...

02.02.2025 10:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh no 💔

30.01.2025 18:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Reading and examining students' exam papers can be weeks of tedious work, but every now and then a text grabs you, and leaves you with a ’Wow, you're going to be a wonderful social worker, and a researcher to if you like to!’ It happened twice today, and it made my day. #LifeAsALecturer #SocialWork

30.01.2025 18:01 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A fire fighting helicopter drops water as the Palisades fire grows near the Mandeville Canyon neighborhood and Encino, California. Copyright: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images.

A fire fighting helicopter drops water as the Palisades fire grows near the Mandeville Canyon neighborhood and Encino, California. Copyright: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images.

The evidence is clear on the increasing risk of wildfires due to climate change.

However, science can only get us so far. Politicians must act on this evidence.

Will the California wildfires make them face reality?

Our Editorial: tinyurl.com/2w4se6k6

24.01.2025 15:38 — 👍 32    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0
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Joint Statement: Why carbon offsetting undermines climate targets We call for scientific, ambitious, equitable, robust, credible and transparent rules around carbon accounting and corporate climate target setting. Voluntary and regulatory frameworks on climate trans...

📢 The science is clear: carbon #offsetting is not a reliable tool for tackling the climate crisis.

Today, 80+ civil society organisations are calling on climate target-setting bodies, incl. Science-based Targets initiative, to stick to science.

Our joint statement 🔗 newclimate.org/news/joint-s...

02.07.2024 11:16 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

87,2% punktlighet för tåg är rekorddåligt.
81,4% punktlighet för SAS är rekordbra.
Tåg räknas som i tid om det är max 3 mln (regionalt) eller 5 min sent (fjärrtåg)
Flyg räknas som i tid om det är max 15 minuter skickat.
Så varför tar folk flyg med argumentet att tåg ofta är försenade?!

17.01.2025 23:40 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Hi Gavin! I would like to use this figure in teaching. Where do I find the source, is it yours?

11.01.2025 09:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
five time series of global mean surface temperature changes starting low and noisy in the 1850s - rising clearly since the 1960s - and showing 2024 was clearly the warmest.

five time series of global mean surface temperature changes starting low and noisy in the 1850s - rising clearly since the 1960s - and showing 2024 was clearly the warmest.

All surface temperature products for 2024 are now live.

All show 2024 is the warmest year (very clearly).

The estimates of the change since the pre-industrial (1850-1900) are more uncertain but range from 1.46 to 1.62ºC.

It is therefore *likely* this was the first year that exceeded 1.5ºC.

10.01.2025 16:10 — 👍 512    🔁 240    💬 21    📌 25
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Unga kvinnor säljer sex – för att betala skulder - P4 Värmland Runt om i Sverige ser polisen och socialtjänsten att unga svenska tjejer säljer sexuella tjänster för att kunna betala sina skulder.Samtidigt ökar antalet ...

Vilket mörker

sverigesradio.se/artikel/unga...

09.01.2025 20:40 — 👍 2    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0