Search for dissertations about: "multidimensionality"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 27 swedish dissertations containing the word multidimensionality.

  2. 11. Zvinorwadza : Being a patient in the religious and medical plurality of the Mberengwa district, Zimbabwe

    Author : Olov Dahlin; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; Patient; life-worlds; Mberengwa; Karanga; Zimbabwe; religious plurality; traditional religion; Christianity; African-initiated churches; medical plurality; traditional medicine; faith healing; modern health care; biomedicine; sickness; healing; placebo; nocebo; cooperation; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; religionssociologi; religionssociologi;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with patients in a rural area of southern Africa and poses these basic questions: What does it mean to be ill in this part of the world and what do patients' life-worlds look like? In order to find answers to these questions, an in-depth fieldwork was carried out through which I was able to study how patients reacted to illness. I followed twenty patients in their search of ease, of which ten were members of Chief Mataga's family, with whom I was staying. READ MORE

  4. 12. Social capital and inequalities in mental health among young adolescents in Sweden

    Author : Mikael Ahlborg; Petra Svedberg; Jens M. Nygren; Maria Nyholm; Malin Eriksson; Högskolan i Halmstad; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Adolescence; Inequalities; Lifestyle; Mental health; Social capital; Socioeconomic status;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis was to explore social capital and inequalities in mental health among young adolescents in Sweden. This is a compilation thesis comprising four studies. Studies I and II are quantitative studies of crosssectional data from the Swedish Health Behaviour in School-aged Children survey. READ MORE

  5. 13. Towards an item bank to measure patient-reported experience of person-centred care

    Author : Lena Rosenlund; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Person-centred care; Person-centredness; Patient-reported experience measures; Patient experiences; Professional-Patient Relations;

    Abstract : The reorienting of healthcare towards a more person-centred approach requires new approaches to evaluate care from the patient perspective. The overall aim of this thesis was to explore care from the perspective of people living with long-term conditions, and to develop and psychometrically test Swedish and English items to measure patient experience of PCC. READ MORE

  6. 14. About Child Poverty – A Bangladesh's Perspective

    Author : Syeda Shahanara Begum; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Child poverty; Bangladesh; Education; Multidimensional deprvation; Intergenerational transmission of poverty; Public services; Corruption; Economic growth; Income inequality; Grounded theory approach;

    Abstract : Taking child poverty into account as an enormous concern on the pathway to human development, the present dissertation aims to examine child poverty’s extent and characteristics, poor children’s views on this issue and their policy recommendation to reduce it. The research questions are: 1) what are the extent and characteristics of child poverty in Bangladesh? 2) What is child poverty? Why and how do children experience it? 3 (a) To what extent and in what respect does child poverty differ between Bangladesh and China? 3 (b) What are the reasons for the differences in child poverty over time between the two countries? 4 ) What is needed to reduce child poverty in Bangladesh according to its principal victims? The present dissertation is based on research mainly with young children aged up to 14 years. READ MORE

  7. 15. Labour input in Swedish intensive beef cattle production : physical work environment and motivation

    Author : Elise Bostad; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
    Keywords : LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : Red veal and young bull production are the two main intensive beef finishing systems in Sweden and utilise practically all male calves from the dairy and suckler cow herds. This thesis examined labour input and physical working conditions in the two systems in order to identify factors influencing these parameters. READ MORE