Various reports have linked loneliness to premature death. However, a new international study led by researchers at the University of Waterloo’s School of Public Health Sciences has found that while loneliness is common among older adults receiving home care, it is not associated with an increased risk of death.

Monitoring health inequity across Europe 

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Rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMD) are the leading causes of disability worldwide, resulting in significant healthcare and social support costs. One of the reasons for this increasing burden seems to be the variability in the number and nature of allocated resources across Europe, as well as organisational aspects of health systems that result in disparities and health inequities across countries.  

Women play a crucial role in peacebuilding in conflict affected societies, particularly through grassroot and civil society movements such as mediation and activism. However, they are rarely included in official peace negotiation teams. Julia Vassileva, a doctoral candidate at the School of Governance, Law and Society at Tallinn University, studied why women are still underrepresented in peace processes.

Slavery in the 18th-19th century United States and British Empire and serfdom in the Russian Empire have been compared in previous studies, but those works have generally overlooked the particularities of the Baltic provinces. In his doctoral dissertation defended at the School of Humanities at Tallinn University, Andre Kruusmaa focused specifically on the Baltic provinces and compared serfdom in this unique region to the slavery practiced in the southern United States and in the colonies of the British Empire in the Western hemisphere. The focus of the study was primarily on ideas that supported both slavery and serfdom, where it became clear that the two were often seen as similar practices by contemporaries and were often defended using similar arguments.