Search for dissertations about: "sickness"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 263 swedish dissertations containing the word sickness.
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21. Legitimacy Work : Managing Sick Leave Legitimacy in Interaction
Abstract : This thesis studies how sick leave legitimacy is managed in interaction and develops an empirically driven conceptualization of ‘legitimacy work’. The thesis applies an ethnomethodological framework that draws on conversation analysis, discursive psychology, and membership categorization analysis. READ MORE
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22. Shaping Justice : Defining the disability benefit category in Swedish social policy
Abstract : This thesis is about what qualifies to be characterised as disability in Swedish social security legislation and which principles are used to decide who is entitled to social security benefit as disabled. The thesis brings into focus which definitions of needs and criteria that are found 'worthy' and acceptable to include in a disability category in Swedish social policy. READ MORE
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23. Leadership in human service organisations: Conceptions, strategies and preconditions to promote and maintain health at work
Abstract : The aim of this thesis was to deepen knowledge of leaders’ conceptions, strategies and preconditions to promote and maintain health at work in human service organisations. Methods: The qualitative study I and prospective study II are both part of a research and development programme (The SAMS study) of workplace health promotion (WHP) projects and the setting was the City of Göteborg. READ MORE
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24. The illness flexibility model and sickness absence
Abstract : Research on sickness absence has repeatedly been described as theoretically undeveloped. In this thesis the model of illness flexibility is introduced. In this model, sickness absence is assumed to be caused by people’s ability and motivation to work. Ability and motivation will in turn be affected by conditions met in and outside work. READ MORE
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25. A Swedish Dilemma : Culture and Rule of Law in Swedish Sickness Insurance
Abstract : Swedish society has been described as both modern, liberal democratic and deeply humanitarian; and as more or less premodern, semi-authoritarian and potentially abusive of groups with weak political representation. In this dissertation, this Swedish dilemma is explored in an anthropology of law tradition, with disputing practices as an inroad to an understanding of law as culture. READ MORE