Search for dissertations about: "health promotion principles"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 swedish dissertations containing the words health promotion principles.

2. 1. Designing ICT-Supported Health Promoting Communication in Primary Health Care

   Author : Amina Jama Mahmud; Blekinge Tekniska Högskola; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; eHealth; eHealth literacy; empowerment; health communication; health literacy; health promotion; Internet; participatory action research; primary health care;

   Abstract : Increasing lifestyle-related ill health, escalating health care costs, expanding health inequalities within and between nations, and an aging population are challenges facing governments globally. Governments, especially in industrialized countries like Sweden, are investing in health promotion and health communication, especially in ICT-supported health communication as a way to increase health literacy and empowerment at individual and population levels. READ MORE

4. 2. Nature and public health : aspects of promotion, prevention, and intervention

   Author : Matilda van den Bosch; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES;

   Abstract : Nature’s potentially positive effect on wellbeing may serve as an important resource for population health. Based on theories mainly derived from environmental psychology this resource has been explored in varied scientific studies the last century. READ MORE

5. 3. Asking the public : Citizens´ views on priority setting and resource allocation in democratically governed healthcare

   Author : Mari Broqvist; Peter Garpenby; Barbro Krevers; Lars Sandman; Anna T. Höglund; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : Resource allocation in publicly funded healthcare systems is inevitably linked with priority setting between different patient groups and between different service areas, so-called meso level priorities. Behind every priority-setting decision (investments, reallocating or rationing), are values affecting both the content of the decisions and how the decisions are made. READ MORE

6. 4. The school as an arena for oral health promotion

   Author : Eva Hedman; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Adolescents; Dental caries; oral health promotion; preventin; Secondary school Sweden;

   Abstract : Abstract The School as an Arena for Oral Health Promotion Eva Hedman, Department of Cariology, Institute of Odontology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Box 450, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden. Objective: This thesis focuses on the school as an “arena for oral health promotion”. READ MORE

7. 5. On Oral Health-Related Quality of Life in Swedish Young Adults

   Author : Gunvi Johansson; Anna-Lena Östberg; Margareta Strandmark; Högskolan i Halmstad; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; measures; oral health; quality of life; young adults; measures; oral health; young adults; quality of life;

   Abstract : Young adults in Sweden have grown up with dental care free of charge until the age of twenty. Their self-perceived oral health has been reported as being good, but rapid changes in society have led to a weaker economic situation for many young adults, which may influence their dental attendance and priorities concerning oral health and oral health care. READ MORE