Search for dissertations about: "Smoking : epidemiology"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 171 swedish dissertations containing the words Smoking : epidemiology.

  2. 1. Addressing smoking during pregnancy : the challenge to start from the woman's view

    Author : Agneta Abrahamsson; Högskolan Kristianstad; []
    Keywords : MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Smoking cessation; Smoking prevention control; Smoking psychology; Pregnancy; Motivation; Health education; Tobaksrökning och graviditet; Pregnant women ¡ Tobacco use; Rökavvänjning; Graviditet; Graviditet; Rökning; Rökavvänjning; Rökvanor; Tobaksrökning; Health education; Smoking cessation; Public health science; Folkhälsovetenskap; MEDICINE; MEDICIN; samhällsmedicin; Socialmedicin; smoking habits; smoking cessation; wellbeing; Sense of Coherence; health education; narrative; Social medicine; phenomenography; health providers;

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  4. 2. Social inequity in health : Explanation from a life course and gender perspective

    Author : Masuma Novak; Christina Ahlgren; Anne Hammarström; Kate Hunt; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; social inequity; pathways; social causation; life course; gender; intersectionality; smoking; musculoskeletal disorders; obesity; social mobility; Sweden; Public health medicine research areas; Folkhälsomedicinska forskningsområden; Epidemiology; Epidemiologi; Public health science; Folkhälsovetenskap; Gender studies; Genus; Epidemiology; epidemiologi; hälso- och sjukvårdsforskning; health services research; näringslära; Nutrition; Occupational and Environmental Medicine; arbets- och miljömedicin; Social environment; Social class; Life style; Obesity etiology; Smoking epidemiology; Musculoskeletal diseases etiology; Intersektionalitet; Socioekonomi; Hälsa vikten rökning Sverige; Sjukdomar kropp levnadsförhållanden; Klasstillhörighet genus utbildning; Social inequity; Pathways; Social causation; Life course; Gender; Intersectionality; Social mobility4; Sweden; Socioeconomics; Health obesity smoking Sweden; Diseases body living conditions; Class affinity gender education;

    Abstract : Background: A boy child born in a Gothenburg suburb has a life expectancy that is nine years shorter than that of another child just 23 km away, and among girls the difference is five years. There is no necessary biological reason to this observed difference. READ MORE

  5. 3. Women, smoking and myocardial infarction

    Author : Ellis Janzon; Kardiovaskulär forskning - epidemiologi; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; epidemiology; Medicine human and vertebrates ; Smoking cessation; Smoking; risk; Prevention; Trends; Myocardial infarction; Women; epidemiologi; Folkhälsa; Public health; Medicin människa och djur ; Blood pressure; Women;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis has been to explore factors associated with smoking and smoking cessation in women and the relation between smoking and incidence of myocardial infarction (MI). The time trends in incidence of MI 1986-2002 in the city of Malmö (pop. 250.000) were explored. READ MORE

  6. 4. Epidemiology of cardiovascular disease in rural Vietnam

    Author : Hoang Van Minh; Peter Byass; Stig Wall; Nguyen Thi Kim Chuc; Cairns Smith; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Cardiovascular disease; epidemiology; risk factors; rural Vietnam; Epidemiology; Epidemiologi;

    Abstract : In the context of transitional Vietnam, although cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been shown to cause a large burden of mortality and morbidity in hospitals, little is known about the magnitude of its burden, risk factor levels and its relationship with socio-demographic status in the overall population. This thesis provides a preliminary insight into population-based knowledge of the CVD epidemiology in rural Vietnam and contributes to the development of methodologies for monitoring it. READ MORE

  7. 5. Maternal smoking and congenital malformations

    Author : Karin Källén; Tornbladinstitutet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; teratologi; Utvecklingsbiologi; embryology human ; ontogeny; Epidemiology; smoking; malformation; pregnancy; registry; confounders; teratology; Development biology; embryologi människa ;

    Abstract : About two percent of Swedish newborn infants are born with a significant congenital malformations which is reported to the Swedish Registry of Congenital Malformations (RCM), and/or the Swedish Medical Birth Registry (MBR). In spite of persistent public health recommendations, about 16% of the Swedish pregnant women are smoking during pregnancy (1996). READ MORE