Search for dissertations about: "health urban"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 432 swedish dissertations containing the words health urban.
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1. Health and Health Care Utilization among the Unemployed
Abstract : The number of persons who are not employed has increased in Sweden since the early 1990s. Unemployment has been found to influence health, especially when unemployment rates are low. The extent to which unemployment affects health when unemployment is high is less clear, and this needs to be further studied. READ MORE
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2. Social capital, health and community action : implications for health promotion
Abstract : Background; The overwhelming increase in studies about social capital and health occurring since 1995 indicates a renewed interest in the social determinants of health and a call for a more explicit use of theory in public health and epidemiology. The links between social capital and health are still not clear and the meanings of different forms of individual and collective social capital and their implications for health promotion needs further exploration. READ MORE
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3. Making visible the invisible : Health risks from environmental exposures among socially deprived populations of Nairobi, Kenya
Abstract : Background: Most countries of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are experiencing a high rate of urbanization accompanied with unplanned development resulting into sprawl of slums. The weather patterns and air pollution sources in most urban areas are changing with significant effects on health. READ MORE
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4. Health workforce development post-1990s health sector reforms : the case of medical doctors in Tanzania
Abstract : Background: Health systems in many low- and middle-income countries suffer from critical shortages and inequitable geographical distribution of the health workforce. Since the 1940s, many low- and middle-income countries have passed through different regimes of health sector reforms; the most recent one was in the 1990s. READ MORE
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5. Inequalities in Health : the Importance of Material/Structural Factors and Psychosocial Resources
Abstract : Socioeconomic inequalities in health are well-documented in most countries. Health differences have been shown to follow a gradient, where health status in average is somewhat poorer for every lower level in the social hierarchy. Notably, the welfare state Sweden is no exception. READ MORE