Search for dissertations about: "communication barriers"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 123 swedish dissertations containing the words communication barriers.

  2. 21. Communication over language barriers in paediatric oncology care : a prerequisite for equity in care

    Author : Johanna Granhagen Jungner; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Background: Out of Sweden's more than two million children under the age of eighteen, 23% have a foreign background, which means that every fourth child has a foreign background. We know that migration and the mixed population are reflected in all healthcare settings nationwide and are naturally also reflected in paediatric oncology care. READ MORE

  4. 22. EVOX-CPS : A Methodology For Data-Driven Optimization Of Building Operation

    Author : Mischa Schmidt; Christer Åhlund; Robert Brännström; Anett Schülke; Christian Becker; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Cyber-Physical Systems; Existing Buildings; Predictive Control; Sustainable Development; Energy Efficiency; Pervasive Mobile Computing; Distribuerade datorsystem;

    Abstract : Existing building stock’s energy efficiency must improve due to its significant proportion of the global energy consumption mix. Predictive building control promises to increase the efficiency of buildings during their operational phase and thus lead to a reduction of the lion’s share of buildings’ lifetime energy consumption. READ MORE

  5. 23. Designing out waste - Exploring barriers for material recirculation

    Author : Isabel Ordonez Pizarro; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; waste sorting; sustainable development; Water; Waste; Urban; waste management; Resources; resource recovery; ​Recycling; designing with waste; recycling;

    Abstract : This doctoral thesis has investigated what hinders material recirculation in society, to later suggest possible ways to support material recirculation in the future. Since material recirculation is proposed as a way to use waste materials for new production, it was deemed relevant to investigate two separate case studies that enabled recirculation from production systems and waste management. READ MORE

  6. 24. Traumatic episodes related to the genocide period, mental health effects and perceived barriers to care facing young adults in Rwanda

    Author : Lawrence Rugema; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Population based; Traumatic episodes; mental disorders; barriers to care; content analysis; Rwanda;

    Abstract : Aims: To investigate mental health status in a Rwandan population aged 20-35 years, their associations with traumatic episodes experienced during the 1994 genocide and life time, and barriers to care as perceived by health professionals. Methods: The cross-sectional population-based study was conducted using the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview tool to investigate prevalence of mental disorders and items from the Harvard Trauma questionnaire for traumatic episodes. READ MORE

  7. 25. Doing informal care : Identity, couplehood, social health and information and communication technologies in older people’s everyday lives

    Author : Frida Andréasson; Elizabeth Hanson; Tina Mattsson; Lennart Magnusson; Anna Strömberg; Anna Dunér; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Informal care; carers; older people; carer identity; ill bodies; social health; couplehood; Information and Communication Technology ICT ; ethnography; co-design; Health and Caring Sciences; Hälsovetenskap;

    Abstract : The aim of the thesis has been a) to analyse how informal care influences the identity of carers and care recipients, their sense of couplehood and social health, and b) to explore the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the context of informal care and the everyday lives of older people. Study I focused on how older carers conceptualised their identity as carers on a Swedish online social forum, using a netnographic methodology. READ MORE