Dataset : COVID-19 epidemic policy and events timeline (Sweden)

Summary, in English

The Swedish approach to managing the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic has received significant attention in international scholarly work and press. For this dataset, we have reviewed governmental and media archives to build a detailed timeline that chronicles significant policies, interventions, and events in the Swedish management of COVID-19. The dataset contains summary descriptions of what took place, when it happened, and who the principal actors involved were. Links to primary sources are provided for each entry. Because of the level of detail and saturation, the dataset offers a detailed account of Swedish pandemic governance and will benefit anyone working on Swedish pandemic management or doing comparative work between Sweden and other jurisdictions.

• Author: Tobias Olofsson; Andreas Vilhelmsson
• Department/s: Department of Sociology; Environmental Epidemiology; Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University; Social Medicine and Global Health
• Publishing year: 2022-02
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: Data in Brief
• Volume: 40
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2021.107698
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Topic: Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy; Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
• Keywords: Archival material; COVID-19; Pandemic governance; Public Health; Qualitative data; Sweden; Swedish strategy; Timeline
• Status: Published
• Research group: Environmental Epidemiology; Social Medicine and Global Health
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 2352-3409