Search for dissertations about: "Child birth"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 288 swedish dissertations containing the words Child birth.

2. 1. Sex steroid secretion during childhood in males - with focus on prematurity, birth size, and growth patterns

   Author : Kjersti Kvernebo-Sunnergren; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; androgens; birth weight; body height; body weight; child; estrogens; male; mass spectrometry; premature birth; Silver-Russell syndrome;

   Abstract : Aim: The overall aim of the thesis was to evaluate sex steroid secretion patterns during childhood in boys and to study how sex steroid concentrations relate to gestational age, birth weight, growth patterns, and adult height outcome. Patients and Methods: In paper I, 11 growth hormone-treated boys with Silver–Russell syndrome (SRS) who had reached adult height were included. READ MORE

4. 2. Gender inequity in child survival : travails of the girl child in rural north India

   Author : Anand Krishnan; Nawi Ng; Peter Byass; Chadrakant Pandav; Per Ashorn; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Conditional cash transfers; girl child; inequities; gender; prejudice; mortality; non-specific effects; sex; socio-economic; vaccines; Epidemiology; epidemiologi;

   Abstract : Background: While substantial progress has been made globally towards achieving United Nations Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) on child mortality, the decline is not sufficient to reach the targets set for 2015. The South Asian region, which includes India, was to achieve the MDG 4 target of 39 deaths per 1000 live births by 2015 but was estimated to have reached only 61 by 2011. READ MORE

5. 3. Sibling Configuration and Adulthood Outcomes : The Case of Two-Child Families

   Author : Roujman Shahbazian; Magnus Nermo; Erik Bihagen; Katarina Boye; Anette Eva Fasang; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; educational choice; income; siblings; birth order; birth spacing; sex-composition; STEM; Sweden; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : This thesis includes three empirical studies, analyzing how sibling configuration (i.e. birth order, birth spacing and sex-composition) influences siblings’ long-run income and educational choice. This is done by utilizing the unique linkage opportunities of administrative registers covering the entire population of Sweden. READ MORE

6. 4. Child physical abuse : Reports and interventions

   Author : Charlotta Lindell; Carl Göran Svedin; Staffan Jansson; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICINE; MEDICIN;

   Abstract : This thesis was begun in 1998 at a time when increased numbers of police reports regarding child physical abuse was presented. The increase had been overshadowed by the research on the sexual abuse of children and showed that child physical abuse in Sweden had only been scarcely investigated since the institution of the Swedish anti spanking law in 1979. READ MORE

7. 5. Troubled childhoods cast long shadows : Studies of childhood adversity and premature mortality in a Swedish post-war birth cohort

   Author : Josephine Jackisch; Ylva B. Almquist; Alyson van Raalte; Olle Lundberg; Naja Hulvej Rod; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Mortality; Health Equity; Adverse Childhood Experiences; Child Welfare; Adult Survivors of Child Adverse Events; Life Course Perspective; Birth cohort; Longitudinal Studies; Public Health Sciences; folkhälsovetenskap;

   Abstract : Taking a life course approach can help us to understand health inequalities. This thesis illustrates that socially-patterned childhood experiences might play a critical role for inequalities in mortality. The association between childhood adversity and premature mortality is investigated in the context of a 1953 Stockholm birth cohort. READ MORE