Search for dissertations about: "Health"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 23263 swedish dissertations containing the word Health.
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1. Health-promoting health services personal health documents and empowerment
University dissertation from Umeå : Folkhälsa och klinisk medicinAbstract : 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
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2. Adolescent boys’ health managing emotions, masculinities and subjective social status
University dissertation from Umeå : Umeå UniversityAbstract : Tonårspojkars hälsa är komplex och det finns förvånansvärt lite forskning gällande hur tonårspojkar uppfattar, konceptualiserar och upplever hälsa. Därför var det övergripande syftet med denna avhandling att undersöka tonårspojkars uppfattningar och upplevelser av hälsa, emotioner, maskuliniteter och subjektiv social status. READ MORE
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3. Social Capital and Self-rated Health: testing association with longitudinal and multilevel methodologies
University dissertation from Lund UniversityAbstract : Since Durkheim’s seminal work over a century ago, research has repeatedly shown that individuals with higher levels of social integration, social networks and social support have better health status. However, the recent introduction of a contextual phenomenon known as social capital to the field of public health has sparked lively debate as to how it may also influence the health of individuals, if at all. READ MORE
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4. Health workforce development post-1990s health sector reforms the case of medical doctors in Tanzania
University dissertation from Umeå : Umeå universitetAbstract : 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. Essays on Social Capital, Health and Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health A Health Economic Study
University dissertation from Muhammad Kamrul IslamAbstract : The thesis comprises four independent research papers and a summary that focus on two related dimensions. The first dimension focuses on the understanding of the production of health. Particularly, the question is asked whether community's stock of social capital influence individual's health. READ MORE
