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  1. Receiving Return-To-Work Coordination at Swedish Primary Healthcare Clinics: A Register-Based Study Among People on Sickness Absence

    Article • Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, September 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Veronica Svärd

  2. Knowledge production in health social work: an analysis of doctoral dissertations in Sweden

    Article • Social Work Education, October 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Veronica Svärd

  3. A Scoping Review of Outcomes Measured and Involvement of People With Intellectual Disabilities in Active Support Research

    Article • Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, October 2024, Wiley

    Professor Christine Bigby, Dr Veronica Svärd

  4. Active support as good support in group homes? A longitudinal interview study with service users

    Article • Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, September 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Veronica Svärd

  5. Collaboration in the return-to-work process after sick leave due to common mental disorders: a qualitative study of stakeholders’ views on goals and roles

    Article • BMC Public Health, June 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Veronica Svärd

  6. Exploring the working life of people with multiple sclerosis during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden

    Article • BMC Public Health, May 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Veronica Svärd

  7. Physicians’ experience of and collaboration with return-to-work coordinators in healthcare: a cross-sectional study in Sweden

    Article • Disability and Rehabilitation, September 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Veronica Svärd

  8. Coordinators in the return-to-work process: Mapping their work models

    Article • PLOS One, August 2023, PLOS

    Dr Veronica Svärd

  9. Competence and professionalisation among return-to-work coordinators in Sweden: comparisons by original profession

    Article • European Journal of Social Work, March 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Veronica Svärd

  10. Organisational prerequisites for coordinating the return-to-work process for people with multimorbidity and psychosocial difficulties

    Article • Disability and Rehabilitation, August 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Veronica Svärd

  11. Health social work with migrants: Constructing a specialist profession

    Article • International Social Work, July 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr Veronica Svärd

  12. Coordination and Perceived Support for Return to Work: A Cross-Sectional Study among Patients in Swedish Healthcare

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, March 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Veronica Svärd

  13. Hälso- och sjukvårdskuratorn i storstaden - urbanisering, specialisering och komplex samverkan

    Article • Socialmedicinsk tidskrift, February 2022, Stiftelsen Socialmedicinsk tidskrift

    Dr Veronica Svärd

  14. Physician’s use of sickness certification guidelines: a nationwide survey of 13 750 physicians in different types of clinics in Sweden

    Article • BMJ Open, December 2021, BMJ

    Dr Veronica Svärd

  15. Conducting In-Depth Interviews via Mobile Phone with Persons with Common Mental Disorders and Multimorbidity: The Challenges and Advantages as Experienced by Participants and Researchers

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, November 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Veronica Svärd

  16. Patients’ with Multimorbidity and Psychosocial Difficulties and Their Views on Important Professional Competence for Rehabilitation Coordinators in the Return-to-Work Process

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, September 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Veronica Svärd

  17. Factors of decisive importance for being in work or not during two years after breast cancer surgery: content analysis of 462 women’s open answers

    Article • BMC Women s Health, September 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Veronica Svärd

  18. How People with Multimorbidity and Psychosocial Difficulties Experience Support by Rehabilitation Coordinators During Sickness Absence

    Article • Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, May 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Veronica Svärd

  19. Oncologists’ experiences of and prerequisites for sickness certification tasks: A nationwide questionnaire study

    Article • European Journal of Cancer Care, February 2021, Wiley

    Dr Veronica Svärd

  20. Characteristics of specialist consultations regarding immigrant patients at a large Swedish hospital

    Article • European Journal of Public Health, November 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Veronica Svärd

  21. Experiences of specialist social workers for asylum seeking patients at a large Swedish hospital

    Article • European Journal of Public Health, November 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Veronica Svärd

  22. Physician’s work with sickness certification of patients; results from 4 very large Swedish surveys

    Article • European Journal of Public Health, November 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Veronica Svärd

  23. Physician’s views on social insurance officers’ encounters and competence regarding sick-leave cases

    Article • European Journal of Public Health, November 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Veronica Svärd

  24. A Matter of Professional Status: The Impact of Medical Hierarchies on Child Maltreatment Work

    Article • International Journal of Nursing & Clinical Practices, November 2016, Graphy Publications

    Dr Veronica Svärd

  25. “Why don’t they Report?” Hospital Personnel Working with Children at Risk

    Article • Child Care in Practice, August 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Veronica Svärd

  26. Assessing children at risk: organizational and professional conditions within children's hospitals

    Article • Child & Family Social Work, April 2016, Wiley

    Dr Veronica Svärd

  27. Emotions and normativity in assessments of children at risk

    Article • International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion, January 2014, Inderscience Publishers

    Dr Veronica Svärd

  28. Hospital social workers' assessment processes for children at risk: positions in and contributions to inter-professional teams

    Article • European Journal of Social Work, June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Veronica Svärd