AIM This article compares adolescent alcohol and illicit drug use among first- and second-generation immigrants from Nordic, non-Nordic European and non-European countries with that of the native Swedish majority population. METHODS Using data from a 2005 survey, multilevel logistic regression analysis was performed on a sample of 13,070 adolescents. The survey was conducted in three Swedish ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to map and evaluate the available resources and the premises of traumatic head injury management in the Nordic countries, before the implementation of a Nordic adaption of the Brain Trauma Foundation guidelines for prehospital management. METHODS The study is a synthesis of two cross-sectional surveys. Questionnaires were used to collect data on the annual n...

The META-NORD project has contributed to an open infrastructure for language resources (data and tools) under the META-NET umbrella. This paper presents the key objectives of META-NORD and reports on the results achieved in the first year of the project. META-NORD has mapped and described the national language technology landscape in the Nordic and Baltic countries in terms of language use, lan...

There is considerate interest in Business Intelligence (BI) from many perspectives, but little research describing design and use of BI in real companies is available (Granlund, 2011; Jourdan, Rainer & Marshall, 2008). The aim of this article is to add empirical evidence to the knowledge of BI practices, addressing calls for research. BI practices are reported from 193 large Nordic organization...

Researchers often overlook the relation between Russian and Nordic investment capital; and even less attention is paid to studying the competition between the two. Yet this subject can be of particular relevance to the areas that are geographically, historically and culturally close to both Russia and the Nordic countries. Thus, the aim of this article is to analyze how the competition between ...

The Nordic welfare states aim at providing equality of the highest standards for all their citizens. However, numerous studies have demonstrated that socioeconomic inequalities in morbidity and mortality are not among the smallest in these countries as compared with other European regions. Recently, this has spurred health researchers to evaluate the extent to which the Nordic welfare regime is...

There is a long tradition of close cooperation and short term power exchanges between the major power companies in the Nordic countries, i.e. Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The main economic rationale of the short term power trade is the differences in terms of hydro power resource endowments between the countries and the resulting variations in short term relative cost conditions. Howeve...

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The field of public mental health has been defined by an expert group convened by the Nordic School of Public Health (NHV) as encompassing the experience, occurrence, distribution and trajectories of positive mental health and mental health problems and their determinants; mental health promotion and prevention of mental disorders; as well as mental health system policies, governance and organi...