Theorell T
Theorell T
National Institute of Psychosocial Factors and Health
Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Biography
He is a retired professor Töres doesn’t take PI responsibility for new projects but he is still active in several projects at the Institute, in particular those based upon the epidemiological data base slosh. He doesn’t take any new doctoral students and has only two doctoral students left, Annica Kempe (child delivery and maternal mortality in Yemen) and Julia Romanowska (scientific evaluation of a psychosocial education program for managers and its health promotion effects on employees). During later years he has established collaboration with Fredrik Ullén, professor of neurobiology at the Karolinska Institute. A large project within that collaboration which Ullén has the main responsibility for, is the study of musicality and how this can influence health development. This project which has just started is supported mainly by the Tercentenary Fund (Jubileumsfonden) and will be based upon the Swedish Twin Registry. Töres is responsible for the Swedish part of an international project entitled IPD. A number of cohort studies in Europe have been merged for the examination of psychosocial work environment factors in relation to somatic and mental illnesses (mainly the demand control support model and the effort reward imbalance model). The number of participants in this study is in the order of 160 000 from Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium. This study makes it possible to study these relationships in subgroups of the populations (for instance men and women, those with diabetes and without diabetes, smokers and non-smokers, those with high and low education etc. (Mika Kivimäki in Finland has the main responsibility for the whole study). Töres has also recently had the main responsibility for the Swedish part of another international study namely a study of health effects for employees of downsizing with participation from Sweden, France, Hungary and Great Britain (PI for the whole study Harvey M Brenner). He has been active inpriority committees in the Swedish scientific councils and was an expert in the governmental commission on public health 1998-2000. At present he is the chairman of a governmental committee (SBU) for examining the scientific evidence of a relationship between psychosocial work environment and depression and similar psychiatric states.
Research Interest
Aging Skin, Advanced Parkinson Treatment, Advances in Alzheimers Therapy
