Search for dissertations about: "mortality trends"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 165 swedish dissertations containing the words mortality trends.
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1. Epidemiology of dementia - with particular focus on time trends and methodology
Abstract : Dementia is a clinical syndrome characterised by deterioration in cognitive functions, which causes personal suffering and societal challenges. Studies investigating the incidence, prevalence, and mortality of dementia are needed for the understanding of the societal and economic burden of the disease. READ MORE
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2. Capturing health in the elderly population : Complex health problems, mortality, and allocation of home-help services
Abstract : This thesis investigates health trends among very old people and the allocation of public home-help services. A further aim is to examine methodological issues in mortality analysis. READ MORE
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3. Trends in Prostate Cancer Mortality
Abstract : In the early 20th century, cancer of the prostate was considered a rare and deadly disease with little to no possibility of cure. Since then, prostate cancer management has improved substantially with earlier detection, hormonal therapy, surgery and radiotherapy of the prostate. READ MORE
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4. Mortality in Oxygen-Dependent Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Possibilities for Pharmacological Interventions
Abstract : Background Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major and rising cause of mortality worldwide, especially in women. Patients with chronic hypoxia owing to COPD are treated with long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) but have high morbidity and mortality. READ MORE
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5. Air pollution and health – Indicators, trends and impacts
Abstract : This thesis focuses on some of the limitations and difficulties that exist when it comes to quantifying the human health effects that arise as a result of air pollution exposure. The following four issues are particularly analysed and discussed: 1) The measurement techniques used for carbonaceous particles and their lack of consistency; 2) Do the health risks associated with exposure to PM10 depend on the content of elemental carbon in the aerosol?; 3) Trends in air pollutants and the health effects that arise as a result of changed exposure to the measured pollutants; 4) The associations between the measured concentrations of different air pollutants in Stockholm and the daily number deaths; 5) Air quality indicators and health outcomes as basis for an air quality health index (AQHI). READ MORE