SWECOV is the Swedish Register-based Research Project on COVID-19. It’s official name is Ett forskningsprogram om covid-19 i Sverige: Smittspridning, bekämpning och effekter på individer och samhälle. SWECOV is a multidisciplinary research collaboration focused on using quantitative methods and comprehensive register data about the whole Swedish population to answer important questions about the consequences of the pandemic.
Read about our ongoing and finished studies below. For more information about the project, and how to apply to participate, look under the About us and Participation pages respectively.
SWECOV studies
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Ongoing
Was residential nature access a protective factor for the development of mental health problems in the population during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Olof Östergren, Cecilia Stenfors, and Yan Ma
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Ongoing
The Impact of COVID-19 Vaccinations and COVID-19 infections on Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases in Sweden
Ulf. O. Gustafsson, Emily Maresch, Helena Nordenstedt, Maxim Kan, and Anna Mia Ekström
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Ongoing
Socio-economic differences in Type-1-Diabetes incidence trends during the COVID-19 pandemic
Dominik Dietler, Elsa Palmqvist, Annelie Carlsson, Jonas Björk, and Olof Östergren
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Ongoing
Did community testing protect vulnerable groups from severe COVID-19 outcomes? Evidence from Sweden during the first year of the pandemic.
Jonas Björk, Olof Östergren, Matilda Almgren, Carl Bonander, and Tove Fall
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Ongoing
The effects of COVID-19 vaccination on cardiovascular outcomes: an analysis exploiting temporal variation in vaccination eligibility
Anton Nilsson, Carl Bonander, Jonas Björk, Dominik Dietler, and Tove Fall
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Ongoing
The Lockdown Cohort -effect: The COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on the socioeconomic composition of parents and social inequalities in perinatal health
Olof Östergren, and Moritz Oberndorfer
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Ongoing
Vaccine effectiveness identified from age cutoffs
Adam Altmejd, Dominik Dietler, Tove Fall, Torsten Persson, and Olof Östergren
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Ongoing
COVID-19 and type 2 diabetes incidence and severity across migration status
Louise Bennet, Dominik Dietler, and Annelie Carlsson
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Ongoing
Surveillance of disease outbreaks using health counselling data linked with registers
Jonas Björk, Dominik Dietler, Tove Fall, Mattias Ohlsson, Atiye Sadat Hashemi, Thomas Eriksson, and Mirfarid Musavian Ghazani
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Ongoing
Incidence of Type-1-Diabetes before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
Annelie Carlsson, Dominik Dietler, Elsa Palmqvist, Louise Bennet, and Magnus Jöud
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Ongoing
Social inequalities in use of mental health care services among young persons during the different phases of the pandemic
Olof Östergren, Peter Larm, Stefanie Möllborn, Fabrizia Giannotta, Jonas Vlachos, and Helena Svaleryd
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Ongoing
Utility of real-world mobility data for surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 transmission during the first wave of the pandemic in Sweden
Dominik Dietler, Thomas Eriksson, Jonas Björk, Joacim Rocklöv, and Henrik Sjödin
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Ongoing
Effect of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on population frailty
Dominik Dietler, Jonas Björk, and Anton Nilsson
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Ongoing
How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect learning disparities between immigrants and natives?
Adam Altmejd, Carina Mood, Jan Jonsson, and Andreas Gustafsson
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Ongoing
Do migrants have a mortality disadvantage in the care setting? Living arrangement and mortality among elderly migrants in Sweden before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
Eleonora Mussino, Sol Juarez, Anna Meyer, Gunnar Andersson, Karin Modig, and Sven Drefahl
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Remote Instruction and Student Mental Health. Swedish Evidence from the Pandemic
Evelina Björkegren, Helena Svaleryd , and Jonas Vlachos
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Ongoing
Civic Capital, Crisis, and Health Behaviours during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Sweden
Olof Östergren, and Bartholomew Konechni
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COVID-19 Mortality and the Structural Characteristics of Long-Term Care Facilities: Evidence from Sweden
Rasmus Broms, Carl Dahlström, Jenna Najar, and Marina Nistotskaya
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Earnings Losses and the Role of the Welfare State During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Sweden
Adrian Adermon, Lisa Laun, Patrik Lind, Martin Olsson, Jan Sauermann, and Anna Sjögren
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Ongoing
The impact of private and public providers of vaccination
Helena Svaleryd, Jonas Vlachos, and Jaroslav Yakymovych
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Ongoing
Exploring Health System Resilience of Essential Health Services During COVID-19 in Sweden: A Cross-Regional Analysis within Socioeconomic Context
Helena Nordenstedt, Emily Maresch, My Fridell, and Anna Mia Ekström
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Inequality and COVID-19 in Sweden: Relative risks of nine bad life events, by four social gradients, in pandemic vs. prepandemic years
Adam Altmejd, Evelina Björkegren, Torsten Persson, and Olof Östergren
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Ongoing
Heterogeneous impacts of COVID-19 on incomes
Adrian Adermon, Lisa Laun, Costanza Naguib, Martin Olsson, Jan Sauermann, and Anna Sjögren
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Ongoing
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Surgical Treatment of Colorectal Cancer Patients in Sweden
Anders Hansson Elliot, AnnaMia Ekström, and Ulf Gustafsson
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Ongoing
Did COVID-19 have lasting effects on the spatial allocation of local services?
Oskar Nordström Skans, Adam Gill, and Lena Hensvik
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Ongoing
Age at migration and COVID-19
Oskar Nordström Skans, Olof Åslund, Erik Grönqvist, and Tram Pham
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Ongoing
Inequalities in mortality going in and out of the pandmic: The contribution of age and cause of death to changes in life expectancy by education during 2015-2022.
Olle Lundberg, Olof Östergren, Adam Altmejd, Marcus Ebeling, and Karin Modig
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Ongoing
Medical scandals and vaccine hesitancy
Svenja Miltner, and Jonatan Riberth
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Ongoing
Individual and aggregate consequences of post-covid conditions
Adam Altmejd, Torsten Persson, Olof Östergren, Anna Mia Ekström, Oskar Nordström Skans, Maxim Kan, and Nicola Orsini
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Ongoing
Pre-Booked Appointment Letters for Increasing Vaccination Coverage in Target Populations
Tove Fall, Georgios Varotsis, Carl Bonander, Anna Sarkadi, Helena Svaleryd, and Ulf Hammar