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Science in Society
Health
The Swedish National Committee for Nutrition and Food Sciences
The committee organizes symposia with the aim to present the latest scientific knowledge in different fields of research within nutrition and food science. The symposia are often webcasted and later published as video on demand.
Read more at Food and nutrition and to the left.
Health Committee
In 2006 the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences appointed a committee to study “Ill-health experienced in school years – development, measurement and proposals for action”. The starting point was the reports on increased mental health problems among young persons that have been presented at intervals since the economic crisis in Sweden in the mid-1990s.
Read more at Mental health to the left.
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