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Disease prioritarianism: A Flawed Principle
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, May 2015. DOI 10.1007/s11019-015-9649-2 Disease prioritarianism is a principle that is often implicitly or explicitly employed in the realm of healthcare prioritiz
Evidence from 43 countries that disease leaves cultures unchanged in the short-term
Nature, Scientific Reports Abstract Did cultures change shortly after, and in response to, the COVID-19 outbreak? If so, then in what way? We study these questions for a set of macro-cultural dimensions
Workplace Sex Composition and Ischaemic Heart Disease: A Longitudinal Analysis using Swedish Register Data
Forthcoming in Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. Available on internet: http://sjp.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/04/09/1403494814529033.abstract The aim of this study is to follow-up on previous res
Ethical Challenges in Using DALYs to Inform Health Interventions: Some Lessons from Population Ethics
Institute for Futures Studies. Working paper 2025:2 From the introduction The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBDS) is an international and interdisciplinary effort to quantify health losses from a wide
Workshop: Global Health Impact
Every year nine millionpeople are diagnosed with tuberculosis, every day over 13,400 people areinfected with AIDs, and every thirty seconds malaria kills a child. For most ofthe world, critical medica
Human Enhancement and Technological Uncertainty. Essays on the Promise and Peril of Emerging Technology
Doctoral thesis. KTH Royal Institute of Technology.ISBN 978-91 7595-341-0 Abstract Essay I explores brain machine interface (BMI) technologies. These make direct connection between the brain and a machi
Human enhancement and technological uncertainty
It's hard to know where the knowledge we acquire and the technology we develop may take us. Sometimes it is not until after several years that we learn how these skills or technologies can benefit - o
A Weighted Configuration Model and Inhomogeneous Epidemics
2011. Journal of Statistics Physics 145:1368-1384. AbstractA random graph model with prescribed degree distribution and degree dependent edge weights is introduced. Each vertex is independently equipped
Identification of influential spreaders in complex networks
2010. Nature Physics 6:888-893. AbstractNetworks portray a multitude of interactions through which people meet, ideas are spread, and infectious diseases propagate within a society. Identifying the most
Evidence from a long-term experiment that collective risks change social norms and promote cooperation
Nature Communications 12, 5452 AbstractSocial norms can help solve pressing societal challenges, from mitigating climate change to reducing the spread of infectious diseases. Despite their relevance, h