Jerker Karlén

qualifications: MD

contribution: original concept, designed the project, collected data, statistical analysis, wrote the first draft, wrote the first draft

position: Postgraduate student

Yvonne Lowert

qualifications: MD

contribution: original concept, designed the project, collected data, statistical analysis, contributed to drafts

position: MD

Marios Chatziarsenis

qualifications: PhD

contribution: designed the project, supplied data

position: Director of Health Care Centre

Karin Fälth-Magnusson

qualifications: Professor

contribution: designed the project, literature review, contributed to drafts

position: Professor

Tomas Faresjo

qualifications: Associate Professor

contribution: designed the project, literature review, contributed to drafts

position: Associate professor

Tomas Faresjö is associate professor in Medical Sociology at the Department of Health and Society, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University in Sweden. As an active lecturer and researcher he has for almost 25 years participated in several interdisciplinary studies in the field of community medicine and epidemiology.