Lager, Anton

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08-16 31 44, 070-313 27 39
anton.lager@chess.su.se

Anton Lager’s research interests are in children's public health and life course epidemiology.

Positions

2012- Researcher, CHESS

2007- Public Health Planning Officer, Swedish National Institute of Public Health

2007-2011 PhD student, Department for Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, and CHESS

2005-2006 Committee Secretary, Swedish Ministry of Education, Research and Culture.

2003-2005 Public Health Planning Officer, Swedish National Institute of Public Health.

Publications

Lager A, Berlin M, Danielsson M, Heimerson I. Young people’s health. Scand J Public Health [forthcoming].

Lager A, Bacchus Hertzman J, Guldbrandsson K. A pragmatic approach to evidence-based public health policy. Open Public Health J [forthcoming].

Lager A, Torssander J. Causal effect of education on mortality in a quasi-experiment on 1.2 million Swedes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2012;109(22):8461-6.

Lager A, Modin B, De Stavola B, Vågerö D. Social origin, schooling and individual change in intelligence during childhood influence long-term mortality: A 68-year follow-up study. Int J Epidemiol. 2012;41(2):398-404.

Lager A. Främjandet av färdigheter kan förlänga medellivslängden. Socialmedicinsk tidskrift 2011;88:6 [The promotion of skills can prolong life expectancy, in Swedish].

Ahrén J, Lager A. Ungdomars psykosociala hälsa. In: Rostila M, Toivanen S (eds.). Den orättvisa hälsan. Om socioekonomiska skillnader i hälsa och livslängd. Stockholm: Liber; 2012 [Young people’s psychosocial health, in Swedish].

Lager A. The role of education and cognitive skills in understanding mortality inequalities. Stockholm: Karolinska Institutet; 2011. 

Bremberg S, Lager A. Övergång från skola till arbete. In: Bremberg S, Eriksson L, editors. Investera i barns hälsa. Stockholm: Gothia; 2010. p. 162-70 [Transition from school to work, in Swedish].

Lager A, Bremberg S, Vågerö D. Intelligence and mortality. Only ignorance stops progress. BMJ. 2010;340:c2765.

Lager A. Intelligens och utbildning förlänger livet. Läkartidningen. 2010;107(1-2):20 [Intelligence and education prolong your life, in Swedish].

Lager A, Bremberg S, Vågerö D. The association of early IQ and education with mortality: 65 year longitudinal study in Malmö, Sweden. BMJ. 2009;339(b5282).

Lager, A. Övervikt bland barn - system för nationell uppföljning: fem kommuner under fem läsår. Östersund: Swedish National Institute of Public Health; 2009 [Overweight among children - national monitoring system, in Swedish].

Lager A. Psykisk ohälsa hos ungdomar. Framtider. 2009(3), 14-17 [Mental ill-health among young people, in Swedish].

Lager A, Bremberg S. Association between labour market trends and trends in young people's mental health in ten European countries 1983-2005 [highly accessed]. BMC Public Health.2009; 9: 325.

Lager A, Fossum B, Rörvall G, Bremberg S. Children's overweight and obesity: Local and national monitoring using electronic health records. Scand J Public Health. 2009 Mar;37(2):201-5.

Lager A. Varför drabbas kvinnor oftare av oro, ångest och depression? En kunskapsöversikt.Östersund: Swedish National Institute of Public Health; R 2009:08 [Why are women more worried, anxious and depressed? A literature review, in Swedish, English abstract].

Lager A, Berlin M, Danielsson M, Heimerson I. Ungdomarshälsa.In: Danielsson M, Berlin M, Heimerson I, Talbäck M, editors. Folkhälsorapport 2009. Stockholm: National Board of Health and Welfare; 2009 [Young people’s health, in: Public health report 2009, in Swedish].

Lager A, Bremberg S. Spridning av nya metoder för föräldrastöd i förskole- och skolåldern fram till år 2008. Östersund: Swedish National Institute of Public Health; A 2009:01 [Dissemination of new programs for parent support in the preschool and school ages until year 2008, in Swedish].

Lager A, Guldbrandsson K, Fossum B. The chance of Sweden's public health targets making a difference. Health Policy. 2007 Mar;80(3):413-21.

Lager A, Bremberg S. Health effects of video and computer game playing: A systematic review. Stockholm: Swedish National Institute of Public Health; 2005 [Translation of Swedish report, Hälsoeffekter av tv- och datorspelande en systematisk genomgång av vetenskapliga studier].

Lager A, Fossum B, Bremberg S. Övervikt bland barn: nytt system för nationell uppföljning. Stockholm: Swedish National Institute of Public Health; 2005 [Overweight among children: A new national monitoring system, in Swedish].

Lager A. Från mål till faktiska åtgärder: Sveriges folkhälsomål ur ett målstyrningsperspektiv. Stockholm: Karolinska Institutet. KI rapport 2004:9. [In Swedish, English abstract]

Among main contributors to official reports

Socialtjänstens insatser för barn och ungdomar i risksituationer: kartläggning av selektiv prevention i 25 kommuner. Östersund: Swedish National Institute of Public Health, 2012 [Social services for children and young people in risk situations: survey of selective prevention in 25 municipalities, in Swedish]

Utredningen om ungdomars psykiska hälsa. Ungdomar, stress och psykisk ohälsa. Stockholm: Fritzes, 2006. SOU 2006:77 [The committee on young people's mental health.Young people, stress and mental health. Swedish Government Official Report 2006:77, in Swedish].

Sven Bremberg (ed). New tools for parents: Proposals for new forms of parent support. Stockholm: Swedish National Institute of Public Health, 2006. R 2006:15 [Translation of Swedish report Nya verktyg för föräldrar – förslag till nya former av föräldrastöd, R 2004:49].

Trygga och goda uppväxtvillkor: kunskapsunderlag till folkhälsopolitisk rapport 2005: målområde 3. Stockholm: Swedish National Institute of Public Health, 2005 [Secure and healthy conditions for growing up: Knowledge basis for the public health policy report 2005: Target 3, In Swedish].

Contributor to official reports

Svenska lärdomar av Marmot-kommissionens rapport Closing the Gap. Östersund and Stockholm: Swedish National Institute of Public Health and National Board of Health and Welfare ; 2010 [Swedish lessons from the Marmot Commission’s report Closing the Gap, in Swedish]

Folkhälsopolitisk rapport 2005. Stockholm: Swedish National Institute of Public Health; 2005. [Public Health Policy Report, in Swedish].

Others

Peer reviews for the Archives of Disease in Childhood, BMC Public Health, Health Promotion International, European Journal of Public Health, International Journal of Epidemiology and the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. Course manager (together with Dr Jenny Eklund) of “Methodology I – research methods”, within CHESS’s master’s programme.