Search for dissertations about: "older adult health"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 91 swedish dissertations containing the words older adult health.

  1. 1. Health-promoting aspects of preventive home visits for older persons: An individual and a societal perspective

    Author : Anna Nivestam; Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Aged; Health promotion; Home visits; House calls; Local government; Older adult; Older people; Preventive health services; Preventive home visit; Risk assessment; Risk prevention; Society;

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  2. 2. Abdominal obesity among older population in Indonesia : socioeconomic and gender inequality, pattern and impacts on disability and death

    Author : Cahya Utamie Pujilestari; Nawi Ng; Margareta Norberg; Lennarth Nyström; Lars Weinehall; Mohammad Hakimi; Alexandra Krettek; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Abdominal obesity; concentration index; disability; focus-group discussion; gender inequality; Indonesia; mortality; older people; socioeconomic inequality; Public health; folkhälsa; epidemiologi; Epidemiology;

    Abstract : Background: Population ageing has contributed to the rise of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Concurrently, obesity prevalence is increasing in all age groups and has become a serious public health problem. Obesity is the main risk factors of the major chronic NCDs such as type 2 diabetes and has been linked to disability and mortality. READ MORE

  3. 3. Close to the edge : discursive, gendered and embodied stress in modern youth

    Author : Maria Wiklund; Ann Öhman; Eva-Britt Malmgren-Olsson; Carita Bengs; Erik Bergström; Charli Eriksson; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Sweden; adolescent; youth; young women; stress; distress; health; psychosomatic; subjective health; body; embodiment; lived experience; gender; modernity; discourse; qualitative method; content analysis; interviews; school survey; questionnaire; epidemiology; Sverige; ungdomar; tonår; unga vuxna; tonårsflickor; stress; ångest; subjektiv hälsa; kropp; förkroppsligande; levd erfarenhet; genus; modernitet; kvalitativ metod; kvalitativ innehållsanalys; intervjuer; skolenkät; frågeformulär; epidemiologi; Public health science; Folkhälsovetenskap; folkhälsa; Public health;

    Abstract : Background Adolescent subjective health and mental problems have become a public health concern not only in Sweden but worldwide. The overall aim of this thesis is to deepen and widen the understanding of young peoples’ subjective health, psychosomatic and stress-related problems. READ MORE

  4. 4. Adult and pediatric trauma : outcomes and health-related quality of life

    Author : Kerstin Sluys; Lars E Eriksson; Lennart Iselius; Tom Häggmark; Leanne Aitken; Röda Korsets Högskola; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Trauma; Injury; Health- related quality of life; Follow- up; Pediatric; Adolescents; SF-36; PedsQL 4; 0; trauma;

    Abstract : Background: Trauma is the number one killer of children and young adults and the  most common cause for hospital admissions for these age-groups in Sweden. Trauma is  also one of the most common causes for hospital care and early death for older people. READ MORE

  5. 5. Does health insurance contribute to improving responsiveness of the health system? : the case of elderly in rural Tanzania

    Author : Paul Joseph Amani; Miguel San Sebastian; Anna-Karin Hurtig; Isabel Goicolea; Angwara Denis Kiwara; John Porter; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAGE; health insurance; healthcare use; older people; community health fund; rural; responsiveness; Tanzania;

    Abstract : Background: Financing healthcare in Tanzania has for years depended on out-of-pocket payments. This mechanism has been criticized as being inefficient, contributing to inequity and high cost as well as denying access to healthcare to those most in need, including the elderly in rural areas. READ MORE