Search for dissertations about: "sense of coherence. psychosocial"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 46 swedish dissertations containing the words sense of coherence. psychosocial.

  2. 1. Work-Related Inequalities in Health : Studies of income, work environment, and sense of coherence

    Author : Susanna Toivanen; Örjan Hemström; Espen Dahl; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sweden; socioeconomic inequalities; income; work environment; sense of coherence; cardiovascular disease; stroke; mental health; musculoskeletal disorder; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : Ill health is unevenly distributed across different groups in society, with the disadvantaged groups displaying higher rates of ill health than the more advantaged groups. The aim of the thesis is to study work-related inequalities in health, and to focus on how income, aspects of the physical and psychosocial work environment, and sense of coherence, individually or jointly, generate inequalities in a number of health outcomes in the Swedish working population. READ MORE

  4. 2. Living with ALS – Perspectives of Patients and Next of kin

    Author : Anneli G Olsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; ALS; anxiety; coping; depression; manageability; next of kin; patient; sense of coherence; well-being; quality of life;

    Abstract : ALS is a neurodegenerative disease without curative treatment. The knowledge of the relationship between patients and their next of kin with respect to quality of life (QoL) is deficient. READ MORE

  5. 3. Health and Rehabilitation in a Psychosocial Context. A Ten Year Persepctive

    Author : Per-Olof Kaiser; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : Rehabilitation; Psychosocial; Sense of Coherence; Percieved health; Long-term follow-up.;

    Abstract : Abstract This thesis is a retrospective- and prospective study of 372 long-term sick listed individuals with diseases of the locomotor system that underwent vocational rehabilitation conducted by the Social Insurance Office in the County of Västernorrland during the 1990s. The outcome of commercial rehabilitation services financed by the Insurance was evaluated in terms of return to work, sickness benefit and disability pension after1, 3, and 10 years in relation to demographic data, Sense of Coherence, Perceived Health and a created index of potential psychosocial stress labelled Psychosocial Marker. READ MORE

  6. 4. Allergy, Stress and Sense of Coherence in Families with Children living in accordance with an Anthroposophic Lifestyle

    Author : Jackie Swartz; Frank Lindblad; Thöres Theorell; Johan Alm; Gösta Alfvén; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Anthroposophic lifestyle; Allergy; Stress; Children; Sense of Coherence; Medicin; Medicine;

    Abstract : Background: Previous studies on anthroposophic lifestyle and allergy show that the children have less risk of developing allergies. All studies so far have been retrospective and have included children in school age. READ MORE

  7. 5. Do psychosocial working conditions contribute to healthy and active aging? studies of mortality, late-life health, and leisure

    Author : Charlotta Nilsen; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; Sweden Stockholm Karolinska Institutet Care Sciences and Society Department of Neurobiology; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; psychosocial working conditions; work stressors; active jobs; passive jobs; sense of coherence; middle age; socioeconomic position; mortality; physical functioning; lung function; leisure activity; old age; Sweden; longitudinal;

    Abstract : The growing demographic challenge posed by an aging population makes finding predictors of health in old age increasingly important. This thesis investigated long-term associations between midlife psychosocial working conditions and late-life health and leisure and examined whether sense of coherence in midlife modified the association between psychosocial working conditions and all-cause mortality. READ MORE