Search for dissertations about: "communication multicultural"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words communication multicultural.

  2. 1. The production and maintenance of inequalities in health care : A communicative perspective

    Author : Joel Hedegaard; Helene Ahl; Airi Rovio-Johansson; Karin Jonnergård; Jönköping University; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; communication; gender; ethnicity; health care; organization; critical discourse analysis; social constructionism; social positions; qualitative content analysis;

    Abstract : The Swedish health care system does not offer care on equal terms for all its end-users. Discrimination toward patients can take the form substandard communication toward women or foreign born patients. Discrimination is also embedded in the organizational context. READ MORE

  4. 2. A Mixed Crew Complement : A maritime safety challenge and its impact on maritime education and training

    Author : Jan Horck; Malmö högskola; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; multiculture; communication; shipping; education; teacher; seafarer; context; maritime;

    Abstract : The human factor/human element starts to have a key role in accidents and incidents during shipments at sea. Investigations show that poor communications increasingly are the root for many tragedies. A possible reason for communication constraints is the growing trend to employ multicultural crews. READ MORE

  5. 3. Meeting diversities in maritime education. A blend from World Maritime University

    Author : Jan Horck; Malmö högskola; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Education; multi-cultural; culture; multi-language; language; IMO; WMU; maritime; pedagogy; Bronfenbrenner; MET;

    Abstract : To address a diversified student complement in academic studies is becoming more and more frequent in maritime education and training. Diversity challenges are also the reality onboard ships that muster a multicultural crew complement. READ MORE

  6. 4. Psychosocial consequences of false-positive mammography among women attending breast cancer screening. Assessment, prediction, and coping

    Author : Anetta Bolejko; Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; women’s health; false-positive screening mammography; breast cancer screening; predictors; coping; Consequences of Screening – Breast Cancer questionnaire; Rasch model; psychometric evaluation;

    Abstract : One side-effect of breast cancer (BC) screening is a false-positive mammogram among healthy women. That is, finding(s) on a screening mammogram that lead to additional breast examinations but where the woman is eventually considered free from BC. There is evidence of short-term psychosocial consequences of false-positive BC screening. READ MORE

  7. 5. Language learning and technology. Student activities in web-based environments

    Author : Linda Bradley; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; language learning; web-based technology; learning activites; student integration; peer reviewing; cultural exchange; language learning;

    Abstract : The impact of the web as a communicative arena, based on the use of social software, has changed conditions for communication on all levels of society; privately, at work and in education. This has opened up for multicultural communication, frequently with English as the lingua franca. READ MORE