Search for dissertations about: "hiv aids and education"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 22 swedish dissertations containing the words hiv aids and education.

2. 11. Elderly South Africans' in transition : the daily life circumstances, beliefs concerning health and illness and the influences on caring and family structure

   Author : Doris Bohman; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Activities of daily living; Aged; Changing society; Elderly; Ethnography; Family; Health and illness beliefs; Interpretive phenomenology; Keeping normality; Modernization; Reciprocity; South Africa; Tradition; Transition; Activities of daily living; changing society; Elderly; Ethnography; Keeping normality; South Africa; health and illness beliefs; interpretive phenomenology; transition; aged; family; modernization; reciprocity; tradition;

   Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis was to shed light on different aspects of elderly South Africans experiences in a transitional period in order to reach culturally contextual knowledge within gerontological care. The research objectives were to: identify and describe daily life and related concerns and interests as expressed by a group of elderly (I), illuminate how a group of elderly South Africans experience being old in a transitional period (II), study how a group of aged South Africans and their family members describe their intergenerational relations in a transitional period i. READ MORE

4. 12. Influencing HIV treatment success in India : do mobile phones really work?

   Author : Anita Shet; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : HIV;

   Abstract : Background: Sustaining treatment adherence and long-term virological suppression is a global health challenge in HIV management. Mobile phone-based interventions are increasingly harnessed to enhance medication adherence in HIV infection, although supporting evidence for implementation is limited by lack of robust efficacy trials in settings such as India. READ MORE

5. 13. Education and dementing disorders : the role of schooling in dementia and cognitive impairment

   Author : Diana De Ronchi; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Education; cognitive impairment; MCI; dementia; Alzheimer s disease; socioeconomic status; risk factors; cognitive reserve; prevalence; stroke; occupation;

   Abstract : This doctoral thesis aimed to investigate the complex relationship between education, dementias, and cognitive impairment. Two different databases were used: the Faenza and the AIDS Projects. READ MORE

6. 14. The interface between biomedical and traditional health practitioners in STI and HIV/AIDS care : study on intersectoral collaboration in Zambia

   Author : Berthollet Bwira Kaboru; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Traditional medicine; health practitioners; collaboration; multisectoralism; integrative medicine; STI; HIV; AIDS; Zambia.;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to explore potential opportunities for and obstacles to collaboration between biomedical and traditional health practitioners (BHPs and THPs) and to test a dialogue nurturing intervention in order to improve attitudes and increase collaborative activities pertinent for STIs and HIV/AIDS care in Zambia. The specific objectives were: to explore the local communities views on prerequisites (or preconditions) to collaboration between biomedical and traditional health providers with regards to STIs and HIV/AIDS care (I); to explore BHPs and THPs' experiences of and attitudes toward collaboration and to identify obstacles and potential opportunities for them to collaborate with regard to care for patients with STIs and HIV/AIDS (II); to explore biomedical and traditional health practitioners perceptions of good STIs and HIV/AIDS care and their opinions on weaknesses in the services they provide to patients with STIs and HIV/AIDS (III); to assess the changes in attitudes to and practices of collaboration among a set of BHPs and THPs following a participatory intervention in the Zambian city of Ndola, focusing on STIs and HIV/AIDS care (IV). READ MORE

7. 15. HIV-infected African parents living in Stockholm, Sweden : social networks, disclosure, parenthood, and knowledge about HIV-transmission

   Author : Ann-Sofie Åsander; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : African parents; collectivism-individualism coping and adaptation ; disclosure; HIV AIDS; parenting; social network; Sweden; Uganda; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : Background: HIV-infected individuals born in Africa constitute about 30 percent of the about 5000 persons who are living with HIV in Sweden, and represent the largest group of those infected through heterosexual contact. Thus, most children of HIV-infected persons in Sweden have a parent of African origin. READ MORE