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A Flexible Simulation Architecture for Pandemic Influenza Simulation.

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A Mobile Phone Based Method to Assess Energy and Food Intake in Young Children: A Validation Study against the Doubly Labelled Water Method and 24 h Dietary Recalls

scientific article published on 15 January 2016

A Systematic Review of the Technology Acceptance Model in Health Informatics

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A cloud-based simulation architecture for pandemic influenza simulation

scientific article published on October 22, 2011

A discrete time-space geography for epidemiology: from mixing groups to pockets of local order in pandemic simulations.

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A high-precision protocol for identification of preschool children at risk for persisting obesity

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A management information system model for process-oriented health care

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

A model for interpreting work and information management in process-oriented healthcare organisations

scientific article published on December 2003

A neighborhood susceptibility index for planning of local physical interventions in response to pandemic influenza outbreaks

scientific article published on November 13, 2010

A population-based case-control study of work and psychosocial problems in patients with irritable bowel syndrome--women are more seriously affected than men.

scientific article published on 11 December 2006

A simple method for heuristic modeling of expert knowledge in chronic disease: identification of prognostic subgroups in rheumatology.

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A theory for classification of health care organizations in the new economy

scientific article published on October 2003

A web- and mobile phone-based intervention to prevent obesity in 4-year-olds (MINISTOP): a population-based randomized controlled trial

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Adding value with 3D visualization and haptic forces to radiosurgery--a small theory-based, quasi-experimental study

scientific article published on 01 August 2006

Age as a determinant for dissemination of seasonal and pandemic influenza: an open cohort study of influenza outbreaks in Östergötland County, Sweden

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

An eHealth Application of Self-Reported Sports-Related Injuries and Illnesses in Paralympic Sport: Pilot Feasibility and Usability Study (Preprint)

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An eHealth Application of Self-Reported Sports-Related Injuries and Illnesses in Paralympic Sport: Pilot Feasibility and Usability Study.

scientific article published on 29 November 2017

Are female students in general and nursing students more ready for teamwork and interprofessional collaboration in healthcare?

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Assessing parents, youth athletes and coaches subjective health literacy: A cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 17 February 2021

Associations Between Fear of COVID-19, Mental Health, and Preventive Behaviours Across Pregnant Women and Husbands: An Actor-Partner Interdependence Modelling

scientific article published on 11 June 2020

Associations between recreational runners' anti-inflammatory drug use, coping strategies, and time loss due to injury and illness during preparations for a marathon event

scientific article published on 4 January 2018

Assumptions management in simulation of infectious disease outbreaks

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Athlete health protection: Why qualitative research matters

scientific article published on 03 July 2020

Body fat in children and adolescents participating in organized sports: Descriptive epidemiological study of 6048 Latvian athletes

scientific article published on 6 May 2015

Boys soccer league injuries: a community-based study of time-loss from sports participation and long-term sequelae

scientific article published on 14 June 2007

Can a psychosocial intervention programme teaching coping strategies improve the quality of life of Iranian women? A non-randomised quasi-experimental study

scientific article published on 25 March 2013

Cell phone-supported cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety disorders: a protocol for effectiveness studies in frontline settings

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Classification of Prevention in Sports Medicine and Epidemiology

scientific article published on 6 August 2015

Cognitive design of a digital desk for the emergency room setting

scientific article published on 14 November 2014

Community-level football injury epidemiology: traumatic injuries treated at Swedish emergency medical facilities

scientific article published on 16 May 2017

Correlates of local safety-related concerns in a Swedish Community: a cross-sectional study

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Dealing with ecological fallacy in preparations for influenza pandemics: use of a flexible environment for adaptation of simulations to household structures in local contexts.

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Design of a protocol for large-scale epidemiological studies in individual sports: the Swedish Athletics injury study.

scientific article published on 19 May 2010

Design of an online health-promoting community: negotiating user community needs with public health goals and service capabilities

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Design of interactive health drama built on social realism.

scientific article published in January 2004

Designing a decision support system for existing clinical organizational structures: considerations from a rheumatology clinic.

scientific article published on October 2006

Developing web-based health guidance for coaches and parents in child athletics (track and field)

scientific article published on 22 March 2020

Development of systems for support of collaboration in health care: the design arenas

scientific article published on 01 February 1998

Dynamic Multicore Processing for Pandemic Influenza Simulation

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Economic empowerment of women and utilization of maternal delivery care in bangladesh

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Efficacy of pre-participation cardiac evaluation recommendations among athletes participating in World Athletics Championships

scientific article published on 24 October 2019

Electronic data capture on athletes' pre-participation health and in-competition injury and illness at major sports championships: An extended usability study in Athletics.

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Elite athletes' experiences of musculoskeletal pain management using neuroanatomical dry needling: A qualitative study in Swedish track and field

scientific article published on 23 July 2020

Erratum to: The Sports-Related Injuries and Illnesses in Paralympic Sport Study (SRIIPSS): a study protocol for a prospective longitudinal study

scientific article published on 27 September 2016

Ethical issues in public health informatics: implications for system design when sharing geographic information.

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Evaluation of Nowcasting for Detecting and Predicting Local Influenza Epidemics, Sweden, 2009-2014

scholarly article by Armin Spreco et al published October 2018 in Emerging Infectious Diseases

Evaluation of an inter-organizational program for prevention of work-related injuries in a WHO Safe Community

scientific article published on 01 January 1999

Evaluation of an osteoporosis and fall risk intervention program for community-dwelling elderly. A quasi-experimental study of behavioral modifications

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

Examining quality function deployment in safety promotion in Sweden

scientific article published on 15 January 2013

Extending in-competition Athletics injury and illness surveillance with pre-participation risk factor screening: A pilot study.

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Family-based behavioural intervention program for obese children: an observational study of child and parent lifestyle interpretations

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Family-based behavioural intervention programme for obese children: a feasibility study

scientific article published on 2 March 2012

From sports injury prevention to safety promotion in sports

scientific article published on January 2006

GammaKnife surgery: safety and the identity of users

scientific article published on January 2005

Governance and implementation of sports safety practices by municipal offices in Swedish communities

scientific article published on November 30, 2011

Health complaints and heat stress prevention strategies during taper as predictors of peaked athletic performance at the 2015 World Athletics Championship in hot conditions

scientific article published on 05 November 2019

Health information system implementation: a qualitative meta-analysis

scientific article published on 01 October 2009

Health professionals' attitudes towards using a Web 2.0 portal for child and adolescent diabetes care: qualitative study

scientific article published on 06 April 2009

History matters: childhood weight trajectories as a basis for planning community-based obesity prevention to adolescents

scientific article published on January 17, 2012

Illnesses during 11 international athletics championships between 2009 and 2017: incidence, characteristics and sex-specific and discipline-specific differences

scientific article published on 12 March 2019

Impact of a community-based osteoporosis and fall prevention program on fracture incidence

scientific article published on 30 September 2004

Impact of precautionary behaviors during outbreaks of pandemic influenza: modeling of regional differences.

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Implementing an integrated computerized patient record system: Towards an evidence-based information system implementation practice in healthcare.

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Individual Preferences and On-line Public Health Services

Influenza detection and prediction algorithms: comparative accuracy trial in Östergötland county, Sweden, 2008-2012.

scientific article published on 17 May 2017

Infographic. Useful steps in the prevention of illnesses during international athletics championships

scientific article published on 18 June 2019

Infographic: Elite athletes' anxiety over illness ups risk of injury in competition

scientific article published on 22 August 2017

Information infrastructure for inter-organizational mental health services: an actor network theory analysis of psychiatric rehabilitation

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Information system needs in health promotion: a case study of the Safe Community programme using requirements engineering methods

scientific article published on September 2008

Infrastructural requirements for local implementation of safety policies: the discordance between top-down and bottom-up systems of action

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Injuries and illnesses in Swedish Paralympic athletes - a 52-week prospective study of incidence and risk factors

scientific article published on 17 April 2020

Injuries in competitive youth bandy: an epidemiological study of a league season

scientific article published on 01 June 2002

Injuries in youth track and field are perceived to have multiple-level causes that call for ecological (holistic-developmental) interventions: A national sporting community perceptions and experiences

scientific article published on 12 June 2017

Injury Pain in Track and Field Athletes: Cross-Sectional Study of Mediating Factors.

scientific article published on 10 May 2019

Injury and illness definitions and data collection procedures for use in epidemiological studies in Athletics (track and field): consensus statement.

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Injury frequency and characteristics (location, type, cause and severity) differed significantly among athletics ('track and field') disciplines during 14 international championships (2007-2018): implications for medical service planning

scientific article published on 13 November 2019

Injury patterns in Swedish elite athletics: annual incidence, injury types and risk factors.

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Injury rates and risk-factors associated with eventing: a total cohort study of injury events among adult Swedish eventing athletes

scientific article published in June 2011

Integrated Detection and Prediction of Influenza Activity for Real-Time Surveillance: Algorithm Design

scientific article published on 15 June 2017

Intentions to perform non-pharmaceutical protective behaviors during influenza outbreaks in Sweden: a cross-sectional study following a mass vaccination campaign

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Interactions between microfinance programmes and non-economic empowerment of women associated with intimate partner violence in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 06 December 2013

International Olympic Committee Consensus Statement: Methods for Recording and Reporting of Epidemiological Data on Injury and Illness in Sports 2020 (Including the STROBE Extension for Sports Injury and Illness Surveillance (STROBE-SIIS))

scientific article published on 18 February 2020

International Olympic Committee consensus statement: methods for recording and reporting of epidemiological data on injury and illness in sport 2020 (including STROBE Extension for Sport Injury and Illness Surveillance (STROBE-SIIS))

scientific article published on 18 February 2020

Interobserver Variations in Assessment of Antral Disease from Direct Sinoscopic Observations Compared to Video Recordings

scientific article published on 01 May 1998

Interrater reliability of the injury reporting of the injury surveillance system used in international athletics championships.

scientific article published in March 2018

Is "football for all" safe for all? Cross-sectional study of disparities as determinants of 1-year injury prevalence in youth football programs.

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Is calcaneal stiffness more sensitive to physical activity than forearm bone mineral density? A population-based study of persons aged 20-79 years

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

Lifetime history of sexual and physical abuse among competitive athletics (track and field) athletes: cross sectional study of associations with sports and non-sports injury

Long-term economic effects of team-based clinical case management of patients with chronic minor disease and long-term absence from working life

scientific article published on December 1, 1997

Long-term sickness absence: women's opinions about health and rehabilitation

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Maintaining motivation and health among recreational runners: Panel study of factors associated with self-rated performance outcomes at competitions

scientific article published on 13 July 2019

Management demands on information and communication technology in process-oriented health-care organizations: the importance of understanding managers' expectations during early phases of systems design

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

Meeting the global demand of sports safety: the intersection of science and policy in sports safety

scientific article published on January 2008

Merge the organization of Swedish public health and communicable disease control

scientific article published on 01 February 2011

Meta-narrative analysis of sports injury reporting practices based on the Injury Definitions Concept Framework (IDCF): A review of consensus statements and epidemiological studies in athletics (track and field).

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Mobile phone applications to overcome malnutrition among preschoolers: a systematic review

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Mobile phone computing for in-situ cognitive behavioral therapy

scientific article published in January 2007

Mobile-based intervention intended to stop obesity in preschool-aged children: the MINISTOP randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 26 April 2017

Nowcasting (Short-Term Forecasting) of Influenza Epidemics in Local Settings, Sweden, 2008-2019

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Nurses' views of interprofessional education and collaboration: a comparative study of recent graduates from three universities

scientific article published on 24 January 2013

Ontology based modeling of pandemic simulation scenarios.

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Organization-wide adoption of computerized provider order entry systems: a study based on diffusion of innovations theory

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Paralympic athletes' perceptions of their experiences of sports-related injuries, risk factors and preventive possibilities

scientific article published on 22 June 2016

Participatory Design of Information Systems in Health Care

scientific article published on March 1, 1998

Patients with irritable bowel syndrome are more burdened by co-morbidity and worry about serious diseases than healthy controls--eight years follow-up of IBS patients in primary care

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Peer-to-peer computing in health-promoting voluntary organizations: a system design analysis

scientific article published on 01 October 2005

Perception of Health Problems Among Competitive Runners: A Qualitative Study of Cognitive Appraisals and Behavioral Responses.

scientific article published on 13 December 2016

Perceptions of Overuse Injury Among Swedish Ultramarathon and Marathon Runners: Cross-Sectional Study Based on the Illness Perception Questionnaire Revised (IPQ-R)

scientific article published on 22 October 2019

Performance of eHealth data sources in local influenza surveillance: a 5-year open cohort study.

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Personality Characteristics of Women with Fibromyalgia and of Women with Chronic Neck, Shoulder, or Low Back Complaints in Terms of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and Defense Mechanism Technique Modified

Pharmacists' views on integrated electronic prescribing systems: associations between usefulness, pharmacological safety, and barriers to technology use

scientific article published on 11 November 2010

Physical fitness in northern European youth: reference values from the Latvian Physical Health in Youth Study

scientific article published on 10 August 2010

Place-based social contact and mixing: a typology of generic meeting places of relevance for infectious disease transmission

scientific article published on 19 June 2017

Politics and technology in health information systems development: a discourse analysis of conflicts addressed in a systems design group

scientific article published on 6 June 2007

Population-based simulations of influenza pandemics: validity and significance for public health policy

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Pre-launch evaluation checklist for online health-promoting communities

scientific article published on 29 October 2013

Prediction of obesity from infancy to adolescence

scientific article published on 18 May 2011

Preparticipation injury complaint is a risk factor for injury: a prospective study of the Moscow 2013 IAAF Championships.

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Preparticipation predictors for championship injury and illness: cohort study at the Beijing 2015 International Association of Athletics Federations World Championships

scientific article published on 8 November 2016

Prevalence and correlates of insufficient calcium intake in a Swedish population.

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Prevalence of Sports-Related Injuries and Illnesses in Paralympic Athletes

scientific article published on 23 October 2019

Prevalence of musculoskeletal injuries in Swedish elite track and field athletes

scientific article published on 3 November 2011

Protocol design for large-scale cross-sectional studies of sexual abuse and associated factors in individual sports: feasibility study in Swedish athletics

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Psychosocial factors at work and in every day life are associated with irritable bowel syndrome

scientific article published on 5 May 2007

Quality indicators for implementation of safety promotion: Towards valid and reliable global certification of local programmes

scientific article published in July 2012

Reduced workforce participation 5 years prior to first Parkinson's disease sick-leave

scholarly article by Jonathan Timpka et al published 2018 in NPJ Parkinson's disease

Relevance of workplace social mixing during influenza pandemics: an experimental modelling study of workplace cultures.

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Requirements and design of the PROSPER protocol for implementation of information infrastructures supporting pandemic response: a Nominal Group study

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Residents' perspectives on safety support needs in different types of housing areas

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Risk and Protective Factors for Middle- and Long-Distance Running-Related Injury.

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Running for your life: A qualitative study of champion long-distance runners' strategies to sustain excellence in performance and health

scientific article published on 30 January 2020

Self-referral psychological treatment centre for young adults: a 2-year observational evaluation of routine practice before and after treatment

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Self-reported use of pharmaceuticals among patients with irritable bowel syndrome in primary care

scientific article published in November 2008

Situated cognition in clinical visualization: the role of transparency in GammaKnife neurosurgery planning

scientific article published on 17 December 2008

Smartphone-Based Maternal Education for the Complementary Feeding of Undernourished Children Under 3 Years of Age in Food-Secure Communities: Randomised Controlled Trial in Urmia, Iran

scientific article published on 24 February 2020

Sport in the tracks and fields of the corona virus: Critical issues during the exit from lockdown

scientific article published on 05 May 2020

Sports Health During the SARS-Cov-2 Pandemic

scientific article published on 02 May 2020

Statement on Methods in Sport Injury Research From the First METHODS MATTER Meeting, Copenhagen, 2019

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

Statement on methods in sport injury research from the 1st METHODS MATTER Meeting, Copenhagen, 2019

scientific article published on 04 May 2020

Strategies and factors associated with preparing for competing in the heat: a cohort study at the 2015 IAAF World Athletics Championships

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Suicidal thoughts (ideation) among elite athletics (track and field) athletes: associations with sports participation, psychological resourcefulness and having been a victim of sexual and/or physical abuse

scientific article published on 26 February 2020

Swedish nursing and medical students' high vaccination adherence during the influenza A (H1N1) pandemic 2009: insights for pandemic preparedness.

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Symptomatic Achilles Tendons are Thicker than Asymptomatic Tendons on Ultrasound Examination in Recreational Long-Distance Runners

scientific article published on 05 December 2019

The Sports-Related Injuries and Illnesses in Paralympic Sport Study (SRIIPSS): a study protocol for a prospective longitudinal study.

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The Top 100 Articles in the Medical Informatics: a Bibliometric Analysis.

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The Voices of Design: Discourse in Participatory Information System Development

scientific article published in 1996

The hopes of West African refugees during resettlement in northern Sweden: a 6-year prospective qualitative study of pathways and agency thoughts

scientific article published on January 24, 2012

The long-term impact of torture on the mental health of war-wounded refugees: findings and implications for nursing programmes

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The mental health of war-wounded refugees: an 8-year follow-up

scientific article published in June 2002

The potential of smart homes for injury prevention among the elderly

scientific article published in June 2002

The psychological factor 'self-blame' predicts overuse injury among top-level Swedish track and field athletes: a 12-month cohort study.

scientific article published on 15 September 2015

The reformist triad and institutional forgetting of culture: a field study into twentieth-century Swedish social medicine

scientific article published in January 2012

The view of the child health nurse among mothers

scientific article published on June 2003

Third generation participatory design in health informatics--making user participation applicable to large-scale information system projects

scientific article published on October 2007

To Choose to Be Poor Today but Have Good Future Prospects: Consumer Participation in the Development of Information Systems in Healthcare Organizations

Towards a simulation environment for modeling of local influenza outbreaks

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Towards integration of computer games in interactive health education environments: understanding gameplay challenge, narrative and spectacle.

scientific article published in January 2004

Towards mHealth Systems for Support of Psychotherapeutic Practice: A Qualitative Study of Researcher-Clinician Collaboration in System Design and Evaluation

scientific article published on March 2016

Towards responsible system development in health services: a discourse analysis study of design conflict resolution tactics

scientific article published on 13 August 2009

Ubiquitous computing to support co-located clinical teams: using the semiotics of physical objects in system design

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Use of cultural probes for representation of chronic disease experience: exploration of an innovative method for design of supportive technologies

scientific article published in January 2005

Using the critical incident technique to define a minimal data set for requirements elicitation in public health

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Value-Based Reimbursement in Collectively Financed Healthcare Requires Monitoring of Socioeconomic Patient Data to Maintain Equality in Service Provision.

scientific article published on 11 September 2018

Visualization of infectious disease outbreaks in routine practice

scientific article published on January 2013

Web 2.0 systems supporting childhood chronic disease management: a pattern language representation of a general architecture

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Web 2.0 systems supporting childhood chronic disease management: design guidelines based on information behaviour and social learning theories

scientific article published in April 2010

What Is Performance? A Scoping Review of Performance Outcomes as Study Endpoints in Athletics

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What is a sports injury?

scientific article published on April 2014

What promotes sustainability in Safe Community programmes?

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Women's experiences of long term sickness absence: implications for rehabilitation practice and theory

scientific article published on January 2003

Young athletes' health knowledge system: Qualitative analysis of health learning processes in adolescent sportspersons

scientific article published on 21 November 2017

[The long distance ski race "Vasaloppet"--sport or public health intervention?]

scientific article published on 01 April 2007

mHealth Self-Report Monitoring Using the Technology Acceptance Model in Competitive Middle- and Long-Distance Runners: Qualitative Study of Long-Term Use Intentions (Preprint)

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mHealth Self-Report Monitoring in Competitive Middle- and Long-Distance Runners: Qualitative Study of Long-Term Use Intentions Using the Technology Acceptance Model

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