Search for dissertations about: "Partial Disability"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 22 swedish dissertations containing the words Partial Disability.

  2. 1. Social Insurance, Organization and Hospital Care

    Author : Eric Rehn; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Disability insurance; Trilateral Trade; Continuous disability; Partial Disability; Property Rights Approach to Organization; Imperfect Tagging; Partial Integration; Public Hospitals; Joint Production; Privatization; Integration;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of four chapters where chapter 1 introduces the topics in the following chapters and discusses some related literature. Chapter 2 moves beyond the disability insurance with two types, able and disabled, in Parsons (1996). READ MORE

  4. 2. Essays on Smallholder Diversification, Industry Location, Debt Relief, and Disability and Utility

    Author : Sven Tengstam; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Zambia; agriculture; income diversification; structural change; poverty; global clothing industry; new economic geography; comparative advantages; industrial agglomeration; HIPC; debt relief; debt overhang; investment; incentives; disability; mobility impairment; marginal utility; hypothetical lotteries; risk.;

    Abstract : Essay 1 Smallholder Income Diversification in Zambia: The Way Out of Poverty? This paper investigates the relationship between income diversification (combinations of farm income, agricultural wage work, non-agricultural wage work, and own-business income) and income within Zambian smallholder households. Shifting to a higher degree of diversification is found to be associated with getting higher income per laborer. READ MORE

  5. 3. Measurement properties of the Swedish self-administered version of the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0

    Author : Paulina Norén; Liselotte Hermansson; Margareta Möller; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Cognitive interviewing; Disability evaluations; International Classification of Functioning; Disability and health; Patient-reported outcome measures;

    Abstract : The World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHODAS 2.0) is a leading patient-reported outcome measure of disability. However, patients' perspective of the WHODAS 2. READ MORE

  6. 4. Stochastic modelling in disability insurance

    Author : Björn Löfdahl; Boualem Djehiche; Mogens Steffensen; KTH; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of two papers related to the stochastic modellingof disability insurance. In the first paper, we propose a stochastic semi-Markovian framework for disability modelling in a multi-period discrete-time setting. READ MORE

  7. 5. On vocational rehabilitation in northern Sweden : with focus on life satisfaction and outcome prediction

    Author : Michael Eklund; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Work; Vocational rehabilitation; Impairment; Disability; Outcome; Return to work; Earnings; Psycho-social aspects; Life Satisfaction; Happiness; Chronic pain;

    Abstract : A consecutive series of 149 subjects with complete or partial vocational disability due to somatic ill-health were investigated at admission for vocational rehabilitation and two years later. Subjects filled in checklists which encompassed 5 socio-demographic, 5 psycho-social and 9 life satisfaction items. READ MORE