Search for dissertations about: "cross-cultural interviews"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 23 swedish dissertations containing the words cross-cultural interviews.
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6. Living with diabetes within the framework of Swedish primary health care : Somalian and professional perspectives
Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis was to provide knowledge on the one handSomalian-born immigrants´ experiences of living with diabetes mellitus (DM)in a new cultural environment, on the other hand their encounter with Swedishdiabetic care – this from both their own point of view and that of the health-care professionals. There was an endeavour to describe methodological aspectsof the interpreter´s role in respect of the trustworthiness of research performedin multicultural societies. READ MORE
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7. Migration, mental health and suicide : an epidemiological, psychiatric and cross-cultural study
Abstract : Background: In spite of restrictions in Swedish immigration policy during the 1990s, the foreign-born population (10.7% in 1996) is steadily increasing because of immigration of relatives of refugees and labor migrants. READ MORE
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8. Migration, Stress and Mental Ill Health : Post-migration Factors and Experiences in the Swedish Context
Abstract : This predominantly empirical dissertation deals with how socio-economic living conditions and immigrant-specific factors can be linked to immigrants’ mental ill health. It is also explored how cultural representations can affect stress and whether mental ill health is expressed differently among immigrants from Iraq and Iran than among individuals of Nordic origin. READ MORE
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9. Understanding "successful aging" : Cultural and migratory perspectives
Abstract : This dissertation aims to contribute to the rectification of the atheoretization that characterizes the study of aging and diversity through the formulation and preliminary empirical testing of a culturally-relevant theoretical framework for the study of successful aging. Inspired by the Kluckhohnian approach to the study of cultural variation, the framework hereby proposed posits that there is congruence between the understandings of successful aging that people uphold and the value orientations that they prefer in regards to four topics: man-nature, time, activity and relational. READ MORE
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10. Understanding health-related quality of life in old age : a cross-sectional study of elderly people in rural Bangladesh
Abstract : Background: A rapidly growing subset of the world’s elderly population lives in Bangladesh, where the population aged 60 years and above is projected to almost double in twenty years, from 8.5 million in 2005 to 17.8 million in 2025. READ MORE
