Nina-Katri GustafssonKarolinska Institutet | KI · Department of Clinical Neuroscience
Nina-Katri Gustafsson
PhD in sociology
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January 2020 - present
May 2018 - December 2019
July 2017 - April 2018
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Publications (27)
Objectives: The aim was to systematically review and synthesise international evidence on changes in health risk behaviours by immigrants’ duration of residence.
Methods: We searched literature databases for peer-reviewed quantitative studies published from 2000 to 2019, examining alcohol, drug and tobacco use; physical inactivity; and dietary habi...
The study explores how social network determinants relate to the prevalence and frequency of alcohol use among peer dyads. It is studied how similar alcohol habits co-exist among persons (egos) and their peers (alters) when socio-demographic similarity (e.g., in ethnic origin), network composition and other socio-cultural aspects were considered. D...
Background: Most first-generation migrants have lower mortality compared to the native population. Finnishborn migrants in Sweden instead have higher mortality; possibly because of health behaviours established before
migration. To increase our understanding of this excess mortality, we compared the cause-specific mortality of
Finnish migrants in S...
Abstract
Introduction International migrants’ health has often been found to deteriorate in new countries, partly due to changes in health risk behaviours such as alcohol consumption, tobacco use, physical inactivity, and poor dietary habits. However, limited efforts have been made to comprehensively evaluate the extent to which migrants adopt unhe...
Background
Children whose parents misuse alcohol have increased risks of own alcohol misuse in adulthood. Though most attain lower school marks, some still perform well in school, which could be an indicator of resilience with protective potential against negative health outcomes. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to examine the processes of m...
Background
The study explores how social network determinants relate to the prevalence and frequency of alcohol use of members of social networks. In a so-called dyadic design we study how similar alcohol habits co-exist among individuals (egos) and their peers (alters), when variables such as ethnic background, network composition, and other socio...
The article first aimed at identifying important theories and research which have been suggested to explain why people use substances. Over the years the research field has become immense and scattered, to some extent divided and specialized, which restrains the potential of knowing what matters most. A second aim was therefore to show how these va...
Introduction
Over the years the research field of substance use has become immense and
to some extent divided and specialized. The interdisciplinary characteristic
of the field increases this distinction. The main aim of this paper will be to
give a short overview of some central aspects in the earlier research, identi�fy some of the shortcoming...
AIMS: The high price of alcohol in the Nordic countries has been a long-standing policy to curb consumption, which has led consumers to importing alcohol from countries with lower prices. This paper seeks to develop a profile of alcohol importers in four Nordic countries.
METHODS: Cross-sectional data from general population surveys in Denmark (2...
Several large changes which were assumed to have a large impact on Swedes drinking have been implemented since 1995. The first studies showed increases in consumption levels. This article discusses the later changes and focuses in particular on men’s and women’s drinking after 2004 and how these were affected by the changes. It was expected that po...
Aims: The study tests the effects of reductions in alcohol taxation and increases in travellers’ allowances on alcohol consumption and related harm in Denmark, Finland, and southern Sweden. In late 2003 and early 2004, taxes on alcoholic beverages were reduced in Denmark and Finland, and the abolition of quantitative quotas on alcohol import for pe...
Anthology of social alcohol and drug research.
Inledningen: ”Syftet med den här boken är att presentera ett urval av aktuell svensk samhällsvetenskaplig alkohol- och drogforskning. Boken behandlar i första hand alkohol, men narkotika har också en given plats i flera av texterna. Vi vill med dessa kapitel dela med oss av våra erfarenheter och hoppa...
Denmark decreased its tax on spirits by 45% on 1 October 2003. Shortly thereafter, on 1 January 2004, Sweden increased its import quotas of privately imported alcohol, allowing travellers to bring in much larger amounts of alcohol from other European Union countries. Although these changes were assumed to increase alcohol-related harm in Sweden, pa...
The aims of this study were to study whether alcohol-related self-reported problems follow the same pattern of changes in alcohol consumption in southern Sweden, assumed to be affected by a decrease in Danish spirits tax and by an increase in Swedish travellers' import quotas, and to study whether the results obtained for southern and northern Swed...
In 2003, Denmark lowered its tax on spirits, and in 2004, Sweden increased its traveller import quotas.
The aim of the study was to determine whether these two changes increased self-reported alcohol consumption in southern Sweden, which is located near Denmark.
Data were collected through telephone interviews with the general population between 20...
European Union travelers' allowances for alcohol import to Denmark, Sweden, and Finland were abolished in 2004. In addition, excise taxes on alcohol were lowered in 2003 and 2005 in Denmark, and in 2004 in Finland. Using northern Sweden as a control site, this study examines whether levels of reported alcohol problems have changed in Denmark, Finla...
This paper examines changes in alcohol consumption in Denmark between 2003 and 2006 after the excise tax on spirits in Denmark was lowered by 45% on October 1, 2003 and travelers' allowances for the import of alcohol were increased on January 1, 2004.
Cross-sectional and panel data from Denmark from 2003 to 2006 were analyzed. Samples were collecte...
Despite the long tradition for asking about the negative social and health consequences of alcohol consumption in surveys, little is known about the dimensionality of these consequences. Analysing cross-sectional and longitudinal data from the Nordic Taxation Study collected for Sweden, Finland, and Denmark in two waves in 2003 and 2004 by means of...
Aim
The aim of this study is to illuminate: 1. If the increases in travellers' allowances in 2002, 2003 and 2004 have been associated with increasing travellers' imports in Sweden? 2. How the (conceivable) effect was distributed during the following year? 3. If there were regional and beverage-specific variations in these effects? 4. How the patter...
The site of drinking, as reported in population surveys in 2003 and 2004, was studied in Denmark, Finland and two areas of Sweden, in the north and the south. The aim of the study is to see whether there were differences in main sites of drinking between the four sites; to examine the effect of changes in price and availability due to major reducti...
The aim of this paper is to study short-term changes in alcohol consumption by subgroups of the population in Denmark, Finland and southern Sweden following large-scale decreases in alcohol taxation in Denmark and Finland and large increases in travellers' allowances in Finland and Sweden.
General population random samples surveyed before and after...
Temporal variations in drinking – analyses of monthly variations in alcohol consumption and binge drinking in Sweden
Aim
To study gender- and age-specific variation in, and co-variation between, alcohol consumption and the frequency of binge drinking.
Method
The analyses were mainly based on self-reported data of alcohol consumption and binge dri...
Projects
Projects (6)
In Stockholm County, about 60 geographical places have been identified where illegal drugs are being sold and causing a nuisance to the authorities and the general public. To counteract these open drug scenes in Stockholm, the police, the municipality, property owners and many more are collaborating, an effort that first started in a few selected places and has now become a County-wide effort. Our group is evaluating the process and effect of this effort.
Growing up with alcohol misusing parents has life-long effects that we have only begun to understand. Based on a 65-year follow-up of a Stockholm cohort born in 1953, this project will apply gender-specific statistical models that can contribute with important insights into the ways in which experiences of parental alcohol misuse influence the development of poor health across the life course. An increased understanding of interactions between risks related to parental alcohol misuse and processes of resilience expanding from the school context, can be useful for the design and implementation of interventions targeting vunerable groups of children and their families. Accordingly, this project can facilitate social and health policies aiming to reduce health inequalities in future cohorts.
