Forskningsprosjekter
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Disability and Disease during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic: Implications for Preparedness Policies
Jessica Dimka ser i sitt prosjekt på funksjonshemming som en risikofaktor under Spanskesyken i 1918.
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Early COVID-19 wave in Norway: Social inequality in morbidity, compliance to non-pharmaceutical interventions and labour marked consequences (CorRisk)
Dette prosjektet skal studere første bølge av pandemien Covid-19 i Norge våren 2020. Det skal spesielt analysere om det er en sammenheng mellom utdanning og inntekt på den ene siden og selvrapportert sykelighet, etterlevelse av smitteverntiltak og arbeidsmarkedskonsekvenser på den andre siden.
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PANRISK: Sosioøkonomiske risikogrupper, vaksinasjon og pandemisk influensa
Hvem får alvorlig influensasykdom, og hvordan kan sosial ulikhet i utdanning og inntekt medføre ulikhet i influensavaksinering, sykelighet og død forårsaket av influensa, og helse og dødelighet senere i livet?
Publikasjoner og forskningsresultater
Vitenskapelige publikasjoner
Dimka, Jessica (2023). An Agent-Based Simulation Model of Epidemic Spread in a Residential School for Children with Disabilities. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research .
Pereira, Margarida; Bakkeli, Nan Zou; Dimka, Jessica; Mamelund, Svenn-Erik
(2022).
Identifying obesity and COVID-19 overlapping risk-factors: Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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Journal of Public Health Research
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Vol. 11.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/227990362...
Diaz Perez, Esperanza; Dimka, Jessica; Mamelund, Svenn-Erik (2022). Disparities in the offer of COVID-19 vaccination to migrants and non-migrants in Norway: a cross sectional survey study. BMC Public Health . Vol. 22.
Alves, Daniele Evelin; Mamelund, Svenn-Erik; Dimka, Jessica; Simonsen, Lone; Ingholt, Mathias Mølbak; Ørskov, Søren; Sattenspiel, Lisa; Tripp, Lianne; Noymer, Andrew; Chowell-Puente, Gerardo; Dahal, Sushma; van Doren, Taylor P.; Wissler, Amanda; Heffernan, Courtney; Short, Kirsty Renfree; Battles, Heather; Baker, Michael G. (2022). Indigenous groups and pandemics. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health . Vol. 50.
Dimka, Jessica; P. van Doren, Taylor; Battles, Heather (2022). Pandemics, past, and present: The role of biological anthropology in interdisciplinary pandemic studies. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology .
Mamelund, Svenn-Erik; Dimka, Jessica
(2021).
Not the great equalizers: Covid-19, 1918–20 influenza, and the need for a paradigm shift in pandemic preparedness.
Population Studies
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Vol. 75.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00324...
Mamelund, Svenn-Erik; Dimka, Jessica
(2021).
Commentary: Social inequalities in infectious diseases.
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
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Vol. 49.
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 .
