Search for dissertations about: "institutional categories"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 48 swedish dissertations containing the words institutional categories.

2. 21. On Institutions, Economic Growth and the Environment

   Author : Susanna Lundström; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Carbon dioxide; Cross-country regressions; Cycles; Decomposition; Democracy; Economic freedom; Economic growth; Environmental quality; Innovations; Institutions; Natural resources; Paradigm shifts; Political freedom; Technological opportunities;

   Abstract : This thesis analyzes economic growth and the environment by including institutional aspects and specific innovation mechanisms. It contains an introduction and five separate studies. Paper 1: The Effect of Democracy on Different Categories of Economic Freedom Many empirical studies conclude that democracy increases economic freedom. READ MORE

4. 22. Transforming information into practical actions : A study of professional knowledge in the use of electronic patient records

   Author : Thomas Winman; Berner Lindström; Lars Svensson; Anne Moen; Högskolan Väst; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Electronic patient records; professional knowledge; decision making; work integrated learning; standardization; Pedagogik; Pedagogics; Arbetsintegrerat lärande; Work Integrated Learning;

   Abstract : Today, technologies are being introduced into historically established settings, which change the conditions for work as well as for work-integrated learning. In health care, electronic patient records (EPRs) has been implemented during the last decades to serve as a tool for planning, decision making and evaluation of care work. READ MORE

5. 23. Lost in Mobility? : Labour Migration from Baltic Lithuania to Sweden

   Author : Indre Genelyte; Branka Likic-Brboric; Charles Woolfson; Annette Thörnquist; Jolanta Aidukaite; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Intra-EU mobility; East-West labour migration; Lithuania; Sweden; social transformation; Hirschmanian model.; rörlighet inom EU; öst-västlig arbetskraftsmigration; Litauen; Sverige; social omvandling; Hirschmans modell.;

   Abstract : This thesis seeks to make both theoretical and empirical contributions to the understanding of intra-EU mobility, with a focus on labour migration from Lithuania to Sweden. Inspired by a critical realist perspective, the thesis aims to help to explain the dynamics and individual decision-making behind mass labour emigration from the Baltic states, its socioeconomic consequences and policy responses. READ MORE

6. 24. Essays on Health in Developing Countries

   Author : Anna Welander Tärneberg; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Child Health; Developing Countries; Globalization; Democracy; Multilateral Debt Relief; Quality of Health Care; Health Worker Competence; Patient Satisfaction;

   Abstract : Health plays an essential role for human and economic development. This thesis consists of four independent empirical papers on health and health care in developing countries. The first paper investigates the relationship between globalization, democracy, and child health in low- and middle-income countries. READ MORE

7. 25. Eating difficulties in elderly, focusing on patients with stroke

   Author : Albert Westergren; Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; discharge; length of in-hospital stay; malnutrition; energy; alertness; ingestion; deglutition; dysphagia; eating; elderly care; rehabilitation; Nursing care; stroke; Gerontology; Gerontologi;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis was to describe eating difficulties and interventions to improve eating among elderly patients, especially those with stroke, to make comparisons between patients with dysphagia and those without (Papers I & II), those with and without assisted eating (Paper IV), and to analyse the relation between eating difficulties, nutritional status (Papers II-V), pressure ulcers (Paper IV), length of hospital stay and levels of independent living when discharged (Paper V). Eating difficulties were mainly assessed using structured observations. READ MORE