Search for dissertations about: "Healthy way of life"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 66 swedish dissertations containing the words Healthy way of life.

2. 16. The importance of being thin : perceived expectations from self and others and the effect on self-evaluation in girls with disordered eating

   Author : Sanna Aila Gustafsson; Claes Norring; Lars Kjellin; Birgitta Edlund; Per Johnsson; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Eating disorders; risk factors; protective factors; sociocultural factors; gender; perfectionism; personal standards; competitiveness; phenomenography.; MEDICINE; MEDICIN; Psychiatry; Psykiatri; Psychiatry; Psykiatri;

   Abstract : The overall aims of this thesis were to examine personal standards, self-evaluation and attitudes to eating and weight in the development of disturbed eating in adolescent girls, and to examine how adolescent girls with a clinical eating disorder reflect upon and deal with perceived expectations in daily life.Studies I and II were quantitative studies, conducted in a population-based longitudinal study. READ MORE

4. 17. Case-crossover studies of the triggering of disease : myocardial infarction and Ménières disease

   Author : Jette Möller; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Myocardial infarction; Ménières disease; case-crossover; trigger; physical exertion; anger; sexual activity; life events; misclassification; recall bias;

   Abstract : The general objective of this thesis is to contribute to understanding of the aetiology of myocardial infarction. It focuses on identification and risk-quantification of the factors acting late in the causal chain towards manifest myocardial infarction, so-called triggers, by using the case-crossover design. READ MORE

5. 18. 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

6. 19. Immunopeptidomics and autoantigens of interstitial lung diseases

   Author : Emil Wiklundh; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Abstract : We investigate Sarcoidosis and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, IPF, to find markers for early fibrosis development. The aetiologies for both diseases are unknown and there is no specific treatment, moreover, there is a lack of diagnostic biomarkers for both diagnose and disease activity. READ MORE

7. 20. Idiopathic menorrhagia : studies of angiogenesis and surgical therapy

   Author : Miriam Mints; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Menorrhagia; TCRE; endometrium; angiogenesis; VEGF; VEGFR1; -2; -3; gaps.;

   Abstract : Background: Excessive menstrual bleeding, menorrhagia (i.e. > 80 nil loss of blood) is a com-mon gynecological problem in women of reproductive age, accounting for over 20% of visits to gynecology outpatient clinics. The disorder may not only cause iron deficiency anemia but also considerable social discomfort and reduction in the quality of life. READ MORE