Search for dissertations about: "emergent health"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 33 swedish dissertations containing the words emergent health.
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1. Divergences, dissonances and disconnects : implementation of community-based accountability in India’s national rural health mission
Abstract : Accountability of health systems to the individuals and communities they serve is increasingly recognized as a key aspect in efforts at health system strengthening. This has led to a greater focus on efforts to evolve systems that enable communities to hold health systems accountable. READ MORE
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2. Participatory approaches to strengthening district health managers' capacity : Ugandan and global experiences
Abstract : Introduction:Residents of low in-come countries have persistently suffered poor health outcomes, modest progress made over time notwithstanding. Weak health systems are one of the key reasons for the less than optimum progress. These health systems are constrained by inadequately equipped managers who play a main role in curbing this progress. READ MORE
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3. Inequity in mind. On the Social and Genetic Risk Factors of Dementia and Their Interactions
Abstract : The present thesis seeks to further explain the occurrence of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias by studying the long-term impact of class- and gender-based inequities as well as the extent to which they potentially moderate genetic risk. Central to this endeavour is the recognition of social inequity as multifaceted, and of potential intersections between different drivers of structural (dis)advantage in relation to individual health prospects. READ MORE
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4. Quality improvement within nonprofit social service providers
Abstract : As a relatively new phenomenon in 2009, Swedish nonprofit social service providers proposed quality improvement as a way to reduce mistakes, use resources more effectively and meet the needs and expectations of clients in a better way. Although similar experiences have been studied in health care, the transfer of quality improvement to nonprofit social services gives a possibility for more knowledge on what enables, and constrains, systematic quality improvement in this specific context. READ MORE
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5. Analysing the emergence of risk : - an opportunity for patient safety
Abstract : The notion of patient safety entails protecting patients from preventable harm. This thesis presents suggestions on how the healthcare system, notably psychiatric healthcare, can understand and analyse patient safety risk as an emergent property of everyday interactions and relations. This view has itsconceptual roots in complexity theory. READ MORE
