Search for dissertations about: "guinea-bissau"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 25 swedish dissertations containing the word guinea-bissau.

  2. 6. Assessment of Environmental Pollutants in Humans from Four Continents : Exposure levels in Slovakia, Guinea-Bissau, Nicaragua and Bangladesh

    Author : Linda Linderholm; Åke Bergman; Maria Athanasiadou; Kristina Jakobsson; Myrto Petreas; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; POPs; PCB; DDT; PBDE; HCH; metabolites; human exposure; children s exposure; placental transfer; Environmental chemistry; Miljökemi; miljökemi; Environmental Chemistry;

    Abstract : Humans are continuously exposed to complex mixtures of anthropogenic chemicals. This thesis focus on human exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs). POPs ability to bioaccumulate and biomagnify together with the extensive historical use of POPs in e.g. READ MORE

  4. 7. Walking the tight rope : Informal livelihoods and social networks in a West African city

    Author : Ilda Lourenço-Lindell; Katherine Gough; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; social networks; social capital; informal safety nets; informal sector; informalization; livelihoods; urban food; regulation; social change; structural adjutsment; Guinea-Bissau; West Africa; African cities; ADP; ADB;

    Abstract : Trends towards ‘informalization’ are looming large in the world today. African cities have long been characterised by the presence of an ‘informal sector’ but are now experiencing new waves of ‘informalization’. READ MORE

  5. 8. "Tired of weeping" : child death and mourning among Papel mothers in Guinea-Bissau

    Author : Jónína Einarsdóttir; Susan Reynolds Whyte; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; socialantropologi; Social Anthropology;

    Abstract : The study examines the assumption that mothers in poverty stricken areas with high rates of fertility and child mortality will, as a survival strategy, neglect their children, sometimes with a fatal outcome and then fail to mourn their death. The thesis is based on anthropological fieldwork conducted in 1993-98 among the Papel people in Guinea-Bissau, West-Africa. READ MORE

  6. 9. HIV-1, HIV-2 and other Sexually Transmitted Infections in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa

    Author : Fredrik Månsson; Enheten för infektionssjukdomar; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; HIV-1 HIV-2 Sexually Transmitted Infections Conflict Guinea-Bissau West Africa;

    Abstract : HIV-1 is dominating the global HIV pandemic, while HIV-2 is mainly confined to West Africa. The highest HIV-2 prevalence figures have been reported from Guinea-Bissau. READ MORE

  7. 10. Clinically important mycobacteria in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa : phenotypic and genetic diversity

    Author : Tuija Koivula; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Tuberculosis (TB) is a major and still increasing health problem in West Africa. In Guinea-Bissau, TB has an estimated annual incidence of 1501100.000. Knowledge on infections caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria, such as Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC), is very limited in Africa, including Guinea-Bissau. READ MORE