Research projects
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Disability and Disease during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic: Implications for Preparedness Policies
A global influenza pandemic is imminent and public health preparedness plans that address the needs of vulnerable populations are indispensable.
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Early COVID-19 wave in Norway: Social inequality in morbidity, compliance to non-pharmaceutical interventions and labour marked consequences (CorRisk)
Pandemics like COVID-19 are among the most pressing global threats to human life and economic security. The core idea of CorRisk is that infectious disease pandemics created by influenza or corona-viruses have always been more than just a medical problem and that their epidemiology and impact are profoundly shaped by social and economic structures. While the state of the art mainly studies medical risk factors, this project proposes to study the "forgotten" socioeconomic risk factors for unequal morbidity, compliance to the NPIs and labor market consequences.
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Socioeconomic risk groups, vaccination and pandemic influenza (PANRISK)
This project proposes to study the “forgotten” socioeconomic risk factors for unequal influenza outcomes and consequences. It will bear important implications for health.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Mamelund, Svenn-Erik; Dimka, Jessica (2021). Not the great equalizers: COVID-19, 1918 influenza and the need for a paradigm shift in pandemic preparedness. Population Studies .
Mamelund, Svenn-Erik; Dimka, Jessica
(2021).
Commentary: Social inequalities in infectious diseases.
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/140349482...
Mamelund, Svenn-Erik; Dimka, Jessica; Bakkeli, Nan Zou
(2021).
Social disparities in adopting non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19.
Journal of Developing Societies
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Vol. 37.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0169796X21996858
Dimka, Jessica; Sattenspiel, Lisa (2020). “We didn't get much schooling because we were fishing all the time”: Potential impacts of irregular school attendance on the spread of epidemics. American Journal of Human Biology .
Gutierrez, Helen; Lee, Gwenyth O.; Corozo Angulo, Betty; Dimka, Jessica; Eisenberg, Joseph N.S.; Trostle, James A.; Hardin, Rebecca (2020). Perceptions of local vulnerability and the relative importance of climate change in rural ecuador. Ekologiya Cheloveka .
Dimka, Jessica; Mamelund, Svenn-Erik
(2020).
1918 Influenza Outcomes among Institutionalized Norwegian Populations: Implications for Disability-Inclusive Pandemic Preparedness.
Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research
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Vol. 22.
https://www.sjdr.se/articles/10.16993/sjdr.725/
