A key goal of public health systems is to reduce existing socioeconomic disparities in health. Photo: Kennet Ruona A key goal of public health systems is to reduce existing socioeconomic disparities in health. Yet, the economic incentives facing healthcare providers sometimes work in the other direction. Specifically, when providers are remunerated by a fixed sum for taking the overall responsibil

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/incentives-care-health-equity - 2025-08-25

Evidence from Maternity Ward Closures Photo: Kennet Ruona Healthcare consolidation is a global trend aimed at increasing efficiency in the face of rising costs and declining rural populations. A recent study examines the effects of maternity ward closures in Sweden from 1990 to 2004 on maternal and neonatal health, as well as the associated birth technology choices and travel distances to wards. T

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/impact-maternity-ward-closures-maternal-and-neonatal-health - 2025-08-25

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/grants-preparing-research-applications-2 - 2025-08-25

During this year's popular science Framtidsdagarna ('Future Days') at Lund University on October 16–17, we had the chance to hear about crucial and decisive issues for the future. This year focused on future cities and 'The Future of Death.' Representing LUSEM, Markus Lahtinen, teacher and researcher at the Department of Informatics, gave a lecture. We took the opportunity to ask Markus why this r

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Since COVID-19 spread to Russia, national authorities have cut off all access to prisons. Based on his recent research, Rustamjon Urinboyev speculates how the everyday lives of transnational Muslim prisoners in Russia are likely to have changed in lockdown. When the coronavirus pandemic hit Russia, all correctional facilities closed to outsiders to protect the vulnerable prison population. The Rus

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/locked-lockdown - 2025-08-25

A €1.8 million EU grant will fund new research into the challenges of promoting good governance and the rule of law in non-Western societies. In May, the European Commission's HORIZON Programme confirmed the funding for Rustamjon Urinboyev's research and training program "The Political Economy of Legal and Governance Reform in Non-Western Societies: Insights from Central Asia". The project starts

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-grant-backs-research-alternative-non-western-legal-and-governance-institutions - 2025-08-25

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, located in the Frescati area in Stockholm The call for applications from young Swedish economists to attend the 8th Lindau meeting of the laureates of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is now open. This information is from the KVA website.8th Lindau meeting in Economic Sciences – kva.seDuring five days Laureates and ab

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/8th-lindau-meeting-economic-sciences - 2025-08-25

During this year's popular science Framtidsdagarna ('Future Days') at Lund University on October 16–17, we had the chance to hear about crucial and decisive issues for the future. This year focused on future cities and 'The Future of Death.' Representing LUSEM, Markus Lahtinen, teacher and researcher at the Department of Informatics, gave a lecture. We took the opportunity to ask Markus why this r

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/experts-view-how-sensors-are-shaping-urban-landscape-future - 2025-08-25

The Faculty has carried out a review of empty facilities within the Faculty, which are currently burdening the Faculty's budget. This review means that 1) rent will be charged retroactively for facilities that have been terminated but not yet emptied 2) empty facilities that the faculty pays for will be locked from May 1. BackgroundCurrently, the Faculty of Medicine lacks routines to limit authori

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/inspection-empty-facilities-malmo-and-lund - 2025-08-25

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Photo by Jan Huber on Unsplash. Researcher Patrik Vestin writes in a " news and views " article in Nature that the woody surfaces of trees may take up methane on a scale of global importance. This is a missing piece in the estimation of global methane budgets, and hence in climate models. Future research should involve not just stems and trunks, but also leaves and small branches to get a fuller p

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/bigger-role-trees-global-carbon-cycling - 2025-08-25

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