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Anna Winkvist
Researcher at Umeå University
Publications - 46
Citations - 4119
Anna Winkvist is an academic researcher from Umeå University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Breast cancer. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 46 publications receiving 3924 citations.
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Researching domestic violence against women: methodological and ethical considerations.
TL;DR: The results indicate that prevalence estimates for violence are highly sensitive to methodological factors, and that underreporting is a significant threat to validity.
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Candies in hell: women's experiences of violence in Nicaragua
TL;DR: The data indicate that battered women frequently experience feelings of shame, isolation and entrapment which, together with a lack of family and community support, often contribute to women's difficulty in recognizing and disengaging from a violent relationship.
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Diversity of dietary patterns observed in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) project.
Nadia Slimani,Michael T. Fahey,Ailsa A Welch,Elisabet Wirfält,Connie Stripp,E Bergstrom,J. Linseisen,Matthias B. Schulze,Christina Bamia,Y. Chloptsios,Fabrizio Veglia,Salvatore Panico,H. B. Bueno-De-Mesquita,Marga C. Ocké,Magritt Brustad,Eiliv Lund,Carlos A. González,A Barcos,Göran Berglund,Anna Winkvist,Angela A. Mulligan,Paul N. Appleby,Kim Overvad,Anne Tjønneland,Françoise Clavel-Chapelon,Emmanuelle Kesse,Pamela Ferrari,W.A. van Staveren,Elio Riboli +28 more
TL;DR: There are considerable differences in food group consumption and dietary patterns among the EPIC study populations, and this large heterogeneity should be an advantage when investigating the relationship between diet and cancer and formulating new aetiological hypotheses related to dietary patterns and disease.
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Gender and tuberculosis control: perspectives on health seeking behaviour among men and women in Vietnam.
TL;DR: There is a need for better understanding of behavioural factors and for developing strategies, that take these into account, that influence the likelihood for achieving equity in diagnosis and cure of tuberculosis patients in Vietnam.
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Wife abuse among women of childbearing age in Nicaragua.
TL;DR: Spousal violence was significantly positively associated with poverty, parity, urban residence, and history of violence in the husband's family and no significant associations were found between women's age, education, marital dependency, or occupation.