Search for dissertations about: "hazard rate"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 175 swedish dissertations containing the words hazard rate.

  2. 6. Mortality Risk, Moral Hazard, and Mental Health: Essays in Applied Microeconomics

    Author : Clara Fernström; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This doctoral thesis consists of three self-contained chapters.“Dying and dissaving” analyses how individuals change saving behavior in response to new information about their expected lifetime. The author uses Swedish administrative data to link negative health shocks to subsequent saving behavior. READ MORE

  4. 7. Factors influencing outcome in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy - Effects of pharmacotherapy, pacing and surgical myectomy

    Author : Davood Javidgonbadi; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy; myectomy; pacing; beta-blocker; survival; sex; re-intervention rate;

    Abstract : Background: Most studies on risk factors for disease-related mortality in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) have emanated from specialized tertiary centres which are subject to possible referral bias. About one quarter of HCM-patients have outflow obstruction in the left ventricle, hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM). READ MORE

  5. 8. Social and emotional influences on cardiovascular vulnerability in women : exploration of biological mechanisms

    Author : Myriam Horsten; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : Psychosocial factors; Social support; Depression; Marital stress; Work stress; Heart rate variability; Metabolic syndrome; Coronary heart disease; Prognosis; Women;

    Abstract : Background: During the last decades evidence has been accumulating that psychosocial factors including social isolation, depressive symptoms and work stress increase risk for CHD incidence and prognosis. Although depression has been shown to be around twice as common in women as in men and women with CHD have a poorer prognosis than men in terms of both physical health and psychosocial recovery, most studies of psychosocial risk factors and CHD, have been performed in predominantly male populations. READ MORE

  6. 9. Risk factors for injury in men´s professional football

    Author : Karolina Kristenson; Martin Hägglund; Jan Ekstrand; Markus Waldén; Harald Roos; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Age; artificial turf; cohort study; elite; epidemiology; overuse injury; soccer; surface; sporting injuries; playing position;

    Abstract : This thesis includes four papers based on three different prospective cohort studies on injury characteristics in men’s professional football. The same general methodology was used in all papers. Time-loss injuries and player individual exposure was registered for match and training separately. READ MORE

  7. 10. On efficient use of censored data and covariate factors in survival analysis and maintenance scheduling

    Author : Ulf Westberg; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Kvalitetsteknik; Quality Technology and Management;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with survival analysis and maintenance scheduling, two important issues to achieve efficient use of different production systems. In survival analysis of failure time data, the survival function and the cumulative hazard function are important reliability characteristics. READ MORE