Search for dissertations about: "individualization"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 59 swedish dissertations containing the word individualization.

  2. 1. Transforming Audiences. Patterns of Individualization in Television Viewing

    Author : Jakob Bjur; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Television; Individualization; Audience Studies; Audience Measurement; People Meter; Channel Repertoire; Social Viewing; Habitualness; Referential Space; Media Consumption;

    Abstract : TRANSFORMING AUDIENCES is an enquiry into Patterns of Individualization in Television Viewing. Central to the enquiry being performed is the linkage between television, as technological and cultural form, and television viewing behaviour as a social everyday practice. READ MORE

  4. 2. Collective Patient Participation : Patient Voice and Civil Society Organizations in Healthcare

    Author : Anna Mankell; Johan Vamstad; Mio Fredriksson; Tine Rostgaard; Ersta Sköndal Bräcke högskola; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; patient participation; healthcare; involvement; patient organizations; advocacy; representation; coproduction; marketization; individualization; civil society; Människan i välfärdssamhället; Social välfärd med inriktning mot civilsamhället; The Individual in the Welfare Society; Social Welfare and the Civil Society;

    Abstract : The importance of engaging patients in the development of healthcare services and policy has received increasing attention over the last decades. However, this attention has mainly been directed towards various forms of involvement of individual patients. READ MORE

  5. 3. Individual Information Adaptation Based on Content Description

    Author : Erik Oskar Wallin; KTH; []
    Keywords : metadata; semantic web; personalization; information adaptation; one-to-one marketing; evaluation; optimization; personification; customization; individualization; internet; content filtering; automation;

    Abstract : Today’s increasing information supply raises the needfor more effective and automated information processing whereindividual information adaptation (personalization) is onepossible solution. Earlier computer systems for personalizationlacked the ability to easily define and measure theeffectiveness of personalization efforts. READ MORE

  6. 4. Activating the Sick-Listed : Policy and Practice of Return to Work in Swedish Sickness Insurance and Working Life

    Author : Ida Seing; Kerstin Ekberg; Christian Ståhl; Ellen MacEachen; Lotta Dellve; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Activation policies; return to work; social policy; sickness insurance; working life; employers; street-level bureaucracy; individualization;

    Abstract : A critical task of social policy in most Western welfare states during recent decades has consisted of reducing the economic burden on society due to sick leave, by stimulating participation in the labour market. Many jurisdictions have introduced activation policies, based on the premise that work “per se” has a therapeutic effect on sick-listed workers. READ MORE

  7. 5. Contemporary aspects of health and performance among young adult women and men in Sweden

    Author : Jesper Löve; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : stress; young adults; gender; work ability; performance; sickness presenteeism; individualization; grounded theory; anxiety; womens health; modern society; health; well-being;

    Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis was to improve our understanding of contemporary aspects of health and performance among young adult women and men in Sweden. Cultural and structural changes in society have resulted in new environmental conditions, which in turn give rise to new potential health hazards. READ MORE