About the Authors

Anne Hammarström

anne.hammarstrom@umu.se

Affiliations Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Umeå Centre for Gender Studies in Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Inger Haukenes

Affiliations Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Umeå Centre for Gender Studies in Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Division of Mental Health, Department of Public Mental Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Bergen, Norway

Anncristine Fjellman Wiklund

Affiliations Umeå Centre for Gender Studies in Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Physiotherapy, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Arja Lehti

Affiliations Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Umeå Centre for Gender Studies in Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Maria Wiklund

Affiliations Umeå Centre for Gender Studies in Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Physiotherapy, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Birgitta Evengård

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Division of Infectious Diseases, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Britt-Marie Stålnacke

Affiliations Umeå Centre for Gender Studies in Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AH BE BMS. Performed the experiments: AH BE BMS. Analyzed the data: AH IH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AH IH BMS. Wrote the paper: AH IH AFW AL MW BE BMS.