Search for dissertations about: "Who blue book"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 22 swedish dissertations containing the words Who blue book.

  2. 1. A Workplace Prevention Program for Problem Gambling

    Author : Jonas Rafi; Per Carlbring; Petra Lindfors; Anders Håkansson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; prevention; gambling; problem gambling; workplace; managers; longitudinal; randomized controlled trial; psykologi; Psychology;

    Abstract : Gambling is an activity that may involve harm for the gambler and others close to the gambler. Since workplaces may be negatively affected by employees who gamble during work or are at-risk problem gamblers, this setting has been proposed as a suitable arena for prevention. However, the potential effects of such initiatives have not been evaluated. READ MORE

  4. 2. At the End of the Rainbow - Post-winning life among Swedish lottery winners

    Author : Anna Hedenus; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; consumption; identity; lottery winning; money; work;

    Abstract : This thesis is based upon empirical data from a quantitative survey among 420 Swedish lottery winners and from qualitative interviews with fourteen individual lottery winners. By examining how winners of large lottery prizes manage and experience their situation after winning, this thesis illustrates how sudden wealth affects people‟s behaviours and sense of self. READ MORE

  5. 3. Health behavior : studies on determinants for health behavior and the relationships between health behavior, beliefs, and knowledge

    Author : Kristina Görel Näslund; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : health behavior; health beliefs; health knowledge; compliance;

    Abstract : The general aim was to study determinants for health behavior. The groups surveyed were: 1) male and female university students, 2) male and female blue-collar workers, and 3) middle-aged men with slightly to moderately elevated coronary heart disease risk factors invited to participate in a 6-month diet and physical exercise program. READ MORE

  6. 4. Risks for cardiovascular disease in middle-aged women in different social environments

    Author : Carina Wennerholm; Tomas Faresjö; AnnaKarin Johansson; Susanna Toivanen; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES;

    Abstract : Background: The importance of the social environment and human life conditions for public health was early recognized in community medicine. Despite major reductions in recent decades, cardiovascular diseases (CVD) is one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity for both genders in all European countries. READ MORE

  7. 5. Cardiorespiratory fitness, physical workload, and lifestyle-related factors in occupational groups : associations with sickness absence and cardiovascular disease

    Author : Daniel Väisänen; Elin Ekblom Bak; Lena Kallings; Erik Hemmingsson; Ulf Ekelund; Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Medicin Teknik; Medicine Technology;

    Abstract : The main aim of this thesis was to study cardiorespiratory fitness, physical workload, and lifestyle-related factors, with a special emphasis on cardiorespiratory fitness in an occupational context and the associations with cardiovascular disease and sickness absence across a wide range of occupations. A secondary aim was to study trends in cardiorespiratory fitness in different occupational groups over the last decades. READ MORE