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Elin Karlsson serves as a Lecturer at Linköping University's Department of Health, Medicine and Care within the Faculty of Medicine. Her academic work centers on sickness insurance systems, work ability assessment methodologies, and healthcare work environments, with particular focus on Swedish social insurance structures and their impact on claimants and professionals.
Education:
- PhD in Medical Science, Linköping University (2022)
- Master's in Occupational Therapy (2014)
Her research examines how insurance medical investigations and subsequent decisions are experienced by both sick-listed individuals and healthcare professionals, emphasizing communication quality, information clarity, and inter-actor cooperation. She investigates organizational characteristics that foster positive work environments in healthcare settings where professionals thrive and remain. Current projects include developing the Assessment of Work Performance (AWP-FK) instrument for work capacity evaluations and studying interprofessional education models at the medical faculty.
Analysis of her 2022-2024 publications reveals three dominant research streams: 1) Social insurance literacy and claimant experiences within Sweden's sickness insurance system; 2) Psychosocial work environments in primary healthcare, particularly physician and nurse job satisfaction during/post-pandemic; 3) Development and validation of assessment instruments for work ability evaluation. Her work consistently employs mixed-methods approaches with strong emphasis on Swedish healthcare contexts and cross-national comparisons with Denmark.
Karlsson supervises doctoral students as an assistant supervisor and teaches across multiple programs including occupational therapy, medicine, and medical science master's programs. Her instructional responsibilities encompass basic group supervision, seminars, examinations, lectures, and thematic group coordination. She is affiliated with the Unit for Public Health Sciences within the Division of Society and Health, contributing to research in social medicine, public health science, and medical pedagogy.
