Search for dissertations about: "child immunization"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 swedish dissertations containing the words child immunization.

  2. 1. Gender inequity in child survival : travails of the girl child in rural north India

    Author : Anand Krishnan; Nawi Ng; Peter Byass; Chadrakant Pandav; Per Ashorn; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Conditional cash transfers; girl child; inequities; gender; prejudice; mortality; non-specific effects; sex; socio-economic; vaccines; Epidemiology; epidemiologi;

    Abstract : Background: While substantial progress has been made globally towards achieving United Nations Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) on child mortality, the decline is not sufficient to reach the targets set for 2015. The South Asian region, which includes India, was to achieve the MDG 4 target of 39 deaths per 1000 live births by 2015 but was estimated to have reached only 61 by 2011. READ MORE

  4. 2. Child health and acute respiratory infections in Ethiopia : epidemiology for prevention and control

    Author : Lulu Muhe; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Epidemiology; acute respiratory infections; morbidity; mortality; infants; under-five children; determinants; intervention;

    Abstract : This thesis is based on studies in Butajira district in the south central part of Ethiopia and one study in the Ethio-Swedish Children's Hospital in Addis Ababa. The Butajira project has a continuous demographic surveillance system, established in 1987 in a sample of 10 communities with a total baseline population of about 30,000. READ MORE

  5. 3. Social inequalities in access to child healthcare services : an international comparative perspective

    Author : Arzu Arat; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Universal access to child healthcare services is of greatest importance and a common goal of many countries in Europe and elsewhere. Thus, every child should be able to receive the healthcare they need, irrespective of their socio-economic circumstances and national origin. To what degree this is the case is the subject of this thesis. READ MORE

  6. 4. New strategies to prevent fetal and neonatal complications in Rhesus D immunization

    Author : Eleonor Tiblad; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : The general purpose of this thesis was to investigate if fetal and neonatal complications due to RhD immunization in the mother could be prevented by 1) reducing procedure-related complications in intrauterine blood transfusions and by 2) reducing the incidence of RhD immunization by providing routine antenatal anti-D prophylaxis during pregnancy selectively to non-immunized RhD negative women with RhD positive fetuses. Paper I was a retrospective study including 284 intrauterine transfusions in 84 women 1990-2010. READ MORE

  7. 5. Computer-based support for maternal and child care at primary health centres

    Author : Khalid Moidu; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICINE; MEDICIN;

    Abstract : Health infonnation systems are reported to be weak and inadequate in supporting public health programs, since at the primary health centre, which is the level of first contact, the information infrastructure is weak. This thesis reports a health systems research effort to strengthen the infonnation infrastructure, specifically to develop an application software to support the delivery of maternal and child care at the primary health centre. READ MORE