Search for dissertations about: "Healthcare- Dissertations"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 298 swedish dissertations containing the words Healthcare- Dissertations.

2. 1. Healthcare Staff's Racialised talk : Examining Accounts of Racialisation in Healthcare

   Author : Sarah Hamed; Hannah Bradby; Sandra Torres; Rebecca Selberg; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Racism; racialisation; racialised talk; healthcare; healthcare staff; critical ’race’ theory; postcolonial theory; Sweden; Sociologi; Sociology;

   Abstract : This thesis contributes to the literature on racism in healthcare and the scholarship on racism and racialisation by moving the current focus of healthcare literature from demonstrating the existence of racism to examining accounts of racialisation through analysing healthcare staff’s racialised talk. Drawing from critical ‘race’ and postcolonial theories, the thesis departs from the premise that racism is a structural phenomenon embedded in nation states and institutions, including healthcare across the globe. READ MORE

4. 2. Predictive Healthcare : Cervical Cancer Screening Risk Stratification and Genetic Disease Markers

   Author : Nicholas Baltzer; Jan Komorowski; Mark Jit; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Bioinformatics; Cervical Cancer; Screening; Computer Science; Algorithmics; Machine Learning; Genetics; SNPs; Rough Sets; Bioinformatics; Bioinformatik;

   Abstract : The use of Machine Learning is rapidly expanding into previously uncharted waters. In the medicine fields there are vast troves of data available from hospitals, biobanks and registries that now are being explored due to the tremendous advancement in computer science and its related hardware. READ MORE

5. 3. The use of interpreter in healthcare : Perspectives of individuals, healthcare staff and families

   Author : Emina Hadziabdic; Aina Willman; Linnéuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : communication; healthare service; patient-safe quality care; qualitative data collection; qualitative data analysis; users perceptions experiences; utilization of interpreters; Vårdvetenskap; Caring Science;

   Abstract : This thesis focuses on the use of interpreters in Swedish healthcare. The overall aim was to explore how individuals, healthcare professionals and family members experience and perceive the use of interpreters in healthcare.The study design was explorative and descriptive. READ MORE

6. 4. A Data-Rich World : Population‐based registers in healthcare research

   Author : Ann-Britt Wiréhn; John Carstensen; Carl Johan Östgren; Anneli Ivarsson; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; chronic disease; demographic factors; healthcare costs; hospitalization; incidence; registers; primary healthcare; prevalence; Epidemiology; Epidemiologi;

   Abstract : Advances and integration of information and communication technologies into healthcare systems offer new opportunities to improve public health worldwide. In Sweden, there are already unique possibilities for epidemiological research from registers because of a long tradition of centralized data collection into population-based registers and their allowance for linkage. READ MORE

7. 5. Quality Improvement in Healthcare : Experiences from a Swedish County Council Initiative

   Author : Ann-Christine Andersson; Elg Mattias; Ewa Idvall; Perseius Kent-Inge; Rickard Garvare; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Improvement work; Swedish healthcare organizations; Quality of Healthcare; Quality Management; Förbättringsarbete; Kvalitetsutveckling; Svensk hälso- och sjukvårdsorganisation;

   Abstract : Quality improvement (QI) has become an important issue in healthcare settings. A central question for many healthcare systems is how to manage improvement initiatives adequately. All county councils and regions managing healthcare in Sweden have started to work with QI at an organizational system level, to varied extents. READ MORE