Search for dissertations about: "Health Behaviours"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 222 swedish dissertations containing the words Health Behaviours.

  2. 1. Health-promoting health services : personal health documents and empowerment

    Author : Lars Jerdén; Lars Weinehall; Erik Bergström; Gunilla Burell; Charli Eriksson; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Empowerment; health promotion; health behaviour; self-rated health; medical records; adolescents; health services; primary health care; nursing; cost-effectiveness; Epidemiology; Epidemiologi;

    Abstract : In 2003, the Swedish Parliament adopted a national public health policy that included the domain - “A more health-promoting health service”. Strategies and tools are needed in the work to reorient health services. Personal health documents are documents concerning a person’s health, and are owned by the individual. READ MORE

  4. 2. Oral Health and Sense of Coherence : Health Behaviours Knowledge, Attitudes and Clinical Status

    Author : Ulrika Lindmark; Magnus Hakeberg; Anders Hugoson; Bo Malmberg; Erik Skaret; Jönköping University; []
    Keywords : Oral health; sense of coherence; health behaviours; attitudes; diet; adult;

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  5. 3. Psychosocial Vulnerability Underlying Unhealthy Behaviours in Swedish Adolescents

    Author : Ulrica Paulsson Do; Ragnar Westerling; Birgitta Edlund; Christina Stenhammar; Urban Janlert; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Adolescents; Health-related behaviours; Social environments; Social relationships; Socio-economic status; Unhealthy behaviours; Vulnerability; Well-being; Social Medicine; Socialmedicin;

    Abstract : The overall aim was to examine the relationship between Swedish school adolescents´ health-related behaviours and psychosocial and socio-demographic factors, with the purpose of identifying vulnerability factors for unhealthy behaviours and exploring adolescents’ own experiences and thoughts about this.Three studies were quantitative cross-sectional studies and used data from two different questionnaires. READ MORE

  6. 4. The Paradoxes of Socio-Emotional Programmes in School : Young people’s perspectives and public health discourses

    Author : Sofia Kvist Lindholm; Karin Zetterqvist Nelson; Karin Osvaldsson Cromdal; Vicky Coppock; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; socio-emotional programs; manual-based programs; mental health; social and emotional wellbeing; prevention; health promotion; children’s perspectives; interviews; participant observation; Socio-emotionella program; manualbaserade program; psykisk ohälsa; prevention; hälsopromotion; barns perspektiv; intervjuer; deltagande observation;

    Abstract : Over the past decades socio-emotional programmes have been implemented in schools worldwide. Depression in Swedish Adolescents (DISA) and Social and Emotional Training (SET) are two socio-emotional programmes being practised in Swedish schools. READ MORE

  7. 5. Towards a functioning retail health market : Evaluating the integrated Community Case Management Intervention for Pediatric Febrile Illness in Drug Shops in Rural South Western Uganda

    Author : Freddy Eric Kitutu; Andreas Martensson; Ib Bygbjerg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Integrated community case management; Malaria; Pneumonia symptoms; Drug shops; Retail health markets; Uganda; Under-five; Evaluation; Mixed-methods; Febrile illness; Universal Health Coverage; Medicinsk vetenskap; Medical Science;

    Abstract : Objectives: This thesis examined the health systems effects of implementing the integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) intervention for paediatric febrile illnesses in a retail health market in South Western Uganda. More specifically, it evaluated drug seller interpretation of malaria Rapid Diagnostics Test (RDT) results (study I), adherence to iCCM guidelines (study II) and the intervention effect on households’ perceived quality of drug seller fever care and care-seeking choice. READ MORE