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Anders Hjern is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and has contributed extensively to research in social sciences, psychology, and health professions. Their work spans several subfields including clinical psychology, general health professions, sociology and political science, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, and safety research.

Their primary research topics include:

  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Child and Adolescent Health
  • Child Welfare and Adoption
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
  • Dental Health and Care Utilization

Hjern has published frequently in several academic venues, with notable contributions to:

  • Acta Paediatrica
  • BMJ Paediatrics Open
  • BMC Public Health
  • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
  • PLoS ONE

Representative recent papers include:

  • Impact of lockdown and school closure on children's health and well-being during the first wave of COVID-19: a narrative review, 2021, BMJ Paediatrics Open
  • A systematic review of prevention and treatment of infant behavioural sleep problems, 2020, Acta Paediatrica
  • Austerity policy and child health in European countries: a systematic literature review, 2020, BMC Public Health
  • Outcomes in Adulthood After Long-Term Foster Care: A Sibling Approach, 2020, Child Maltreatment
  • Climate Change and Child Health Inequality: A Review of Reviews, 2021, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Their collaborations include frequent co-authorship with other researchers such as Bo Vinnerljung, Malin Bergström, Lisa Berg, Geir Gunnlaugsson, and Annika Julihn.

In addition to journal articles, Hjern has contributed to book publications, including a work published by the Nordic Council of Ministers eBooks titled How are young refugees doing in the Nordic welfare societies? Coming of Age in Exile - CAGE (2021).

Best Publications

  • Schizophrenia, substance abuse, and violent crime.

    Seena Fazel;Niklas Långström;Anders Hjern;Martin Grann

  • Mortality, severe morbidity, and injury in children living with single parents in Sweden: a population-based study

    Gunilla Ringbäck Weitoft;Gunilla Ringbäck Weitoft;Anders Hjern;Anders Hjern;Bengt Haglund;Måns Rosén;Måns Rosén

  • Suicide, psychiatric illness, and social maladjustment in intercountry adoptees in Sweden: a cohort study.

    Anders Hjern;Frank Lindblad;Bo Vinnerljung

  • Preterm Birth and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Schoolchildren

    Karolina Lindström;Frank Lindblad;Frank Lindblad;Anders Hjern

  • Challenges in administrative data linkage for research.

    Katie Harron;Chris Dibben;James Boyd;Anders Hjern

  • School performance in primary school and psychosocial problems in young adulthood among care leavers from long term foster care

    Marie Berlin;Bo Vinnerljung;Anders Hjern

  • Preterm infants as young adults: a Swedish national cohort study.

    Karolina Lindström;Birger Winbladh;Bengt Haglund;Bengt Haglund;Anders Hjern;Anders Hjern

  • Suicide Attempts and Severe Psychiatric Morbidity among Former Child Welfare Clients--A National Cohort Study.

    Bo Vinnerljung;Bo Vinnerljung;Anders Hjern;Anders Hjern;Frank Lindblad

  • Social Adversity in Childhood and the Risk of Developing Psychosis: A National Cohort Study

    Susanne Wicks;Anders Hjern;David Gunnell;Glyn Lewis

  • School stressors, psychological complaints and psychosomatic pain

    Anders Hjern;Anders Hjern;Gösta Alfven;Viveca Östberg

  • Trends in asthma, allergic rhinitis and eczema among Swedish conscripts from farming and non‐farming environments. A nationwide study over three decades

    L. Bråbäck;A. Hjern;A. Hjern;F. Rasmussen

  • Parental death during childhood and depression in young adults - a national cohort study

    Lisa Berg;Mikael Rostila;Anders Hjern

  • Psychiatric morbidity in adolescents and young adults born preterm: A Swedish national cohort study.

    Karolina Lindström;Frank Lindblad;Anders Hjern

  • Suicide in first- and second-generation immigrants in Sweden: a comparative study.

    Anders Hjern;Peter Allebeck

  • Social inequality in oral health and use of dental care in Sweden.

    A Hjern;M Grindefjord;H Sundberg;M Rośen;M Rośen

  • Intercountry adopted children as young adults--a Swedish cohort study.

    Frank Lindblad;Anders Hjern;B. Vinnerljung

  • Cognitive, educational and self-support outcomes of long-term foster care versus adoption : A Swedish national cohort study

    Bo Vinnerljung;Bo Vinnerljung;Anders Hjern

  • Bullying and attention-deficit- hyperactivity disorder in 10-year-olds in a Swedish community.

    Kirsten Holmberg;Anders Hjern

  • Social adversity contributes to high morbidity in psychoses in immigrants--a national cohort study in two generations of Swedish residents.

    A. Hjern;S. Wicks;C. Dalman

  • Impact of the 2008 economic and financial crisis on child health: a systematic review.

    Luis Rajmil;Maria-Jose Fernandez de Sanmamed;Imti Choonara;Tomas Faresjö

Frequent Co-Authors

Bo Vinnerljung
Bo Vinnerljung Stockholm University
Finn Rasmussen
Finn Rasmussen Aarhus University Hospital
Mikael Rostila
Mikael Rostila Stockholm University
Marie Norredam
Marie Norredam University of Copenhagen
Adrian J. Lowe
Adrian J. Lowe University of Melbourne
Sven Cnattingius
Sven Cnattingius Karolinska Institute
Luis Rajmil
Luis Rajmil Government of Catalonia
Gunilla Hedlin
Gunilla Hedlin Karolinska Institute
Mika Gissler
Mika Gissler Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Niklas Långström
Niklas Långström Karolinska Institute

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