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Socioecononomic health inequalities: measurement, explanation and policy evaluation

The main purpose of this project is to identify and quantify the major causal mechanisms that drive the changes in socioeconomic health inequalities in Sweden.

Ulf Gerdtham Ulf Gerdtham

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The manipulability theories of causality in the space of the multiple mental representations of time flow: how stable is causal relationship?

Human mind continuously produces explanations because an explained world is perceived as more understandable, more secure, open for forecasting and for planning of successful actions.

Oleksiy Polunin Oleksiy Polunin
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