Search for dissertations about: "Healthy"

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  2. 1. Healthy bridges : Studies of social capital, welfare, and health

    Author : Mikael Rostila; Johan Fritzell; Ichiro Kawachi; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sweden; social capital; welfare state; health; migrant; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to study whether social capital is related to health and health inequality, and to investigate the significance of welfare state features for levels of social capital. Another aim is to examine whether social capital may be important for the relation between the welfare state and health. READ MORE

  4. 2. Negotiating healthy eating : Lay, stakeholder and government constructions of official dietary guidance in Sweden

    Author : Karolin Bergman; Paulina Nowicka; Elin Lövestam; Signild Vallgårda; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; dietary guidance; official dietary guidelines; healthy eating discourse; holistic dietary advice; reductionism; Kostvetenskap; Food; Nutrition and Dietetics;

    Abstract : This thesis approaches dietary guidance as socio-culturally produced and comprised in a specific historical context. The work is premised on the position that ideas and understandings of healthy eating are discursively constructed, and that we form our understandings of the world, ourselves and others through discourse. READ MORE

  5. 3. Healthy Offices: Conceptualizing Healthy Activity-based Offices

    Author : Melina Forooraghi; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Salutogenic; Workplace; Office design; Case study; Activity-based office; Sense of coherence; Health; Well-being;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the interrelations between the design characteristics of activity-based offices, users’ perceptions of them, and users’ sense of coherence. The goal is twofold: (i) contribute to conceptualizations of healthy activity-based offices and (ii) facilitate practical use of the sense of coherence theory for office designers. READ MORE

  6. 4. Observations of Interatrial Conduction in Healthy Individuals Using Signal-averaged P-wave ECG: A Clinical Perspective

    Author : Rasmus Havmöller; Kardiologi; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; signal-averaged; interatrial conduction; orthogonal; P-wave; ECG; healthy;

    Abstract : Disturbances of interatrial conduction are linked to supraventricular arrhythmias. Previous studies have shown that these disturbances can be detected non-invasively as distinctive appearances of the orthogonal P wave using signal-averaged P-wave analysis (PSAECG). READ MORE

  7. 5. Studies on nutrition, body composition and bone mineralization in healthy 8-yr-olds in an urban Swedish community

    Author : Susanne Eriksson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; body composition; bone mineralization; dual energy x-ray absorptiometry; healthy; lipids; metabolic markers; overweight; physical activity;

    Abstract : Background: The incidence of welfare diseases including overweight in childhood is increasing worldwide. The results from a study of healthy pre-school children showed that in a population with well educated parents 17% of the children were overweight or obese at the age of 4 years. READ MORE