Search for dissertations about: "socio-demographic background"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 58 swedish dissertations containing the words socio-demographic background.

2. 1. Type 1 diabetes in children with non-Swedish background : epidemiology and clinical outcome

   Author : Ulf Söderström; Jan Åman; Ulf Samuelsson; Anders Hjern; Jannet Svensson; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Type 1 diabetes; HbA1c; children; adolescents; ethnicity; epidemiology; immigration; adoption; socio-demographic; registers; Medicine; Medicin;

   Abstract : Sweden holds third place of diabetes incidence in young people after Finland and Sardinia. One fifth of the population is nowadays of foreign descent. We have a substantial number of immigrants from countries where the risk for T1D is considerably lower. READ MORE

4. 2. Smoking cessation in Sweden - gender, pathways, and identity

   Author : Tove Sohlberg; Jan Blomqvist; Pekka Hakkarainen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Smoking; smoking cessation; Sweden; gender; pathways; identity; socio-demographic background; socio-economic factors; trajectories; factor analyses; interviews; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : Research on smoking has to a great deal been conducted within a public health or a medical context, or focused on policy making. Fewer studies have taken their point of departure in a social sciences context, and still fewer have analysed why individuals start and cease to smoke, and how and why smoking patterns on an aggregate level change over time and vary between different population groups. READ MORE

5. 3. Closing the gap : applying health and socio-demographic surveillance to complex health transitions in South and sub-Saharan Africa

   Author : Stephen M Tollman; Stig Wall; Demissie Habte; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; demographic surveillance system; health transition; mortality transition; fertility transition; health policy; primary health care; South Africa; Epidemiology; Epidemiologi;

   Abstract : Background: The challenge of research in resource-poor settings remains a profound concern and is closely linked to African social development. Work of this thesis spans the end of apartheid and first decade of the democratic era in South Africa, along with emergence of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. READ MORE

6. 4. Prenatal, socio-demographic and oral hygiene-related risk factors on dental caries and periodontal conditions in adolescents : clinical and register-based studies

   Author : Annika Julihn; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Key words: Adolescents; Caries development; Dental caries; Epidemiology; Ethnicity; Longitudinal; Oral hygiene; Obesity; Periodontal disease; Pregnancy; Register-based studies; Risk factors; Risk indicators; Smoking; Socio-economic determinants; Subgingival calculus.;

   Abstract : The overall aim of these studies was to identify risk determinants for dental caries and periodontal conditions in adolescents using clinical and register-based data. This thesis is based on two parts. READ MORE

7. 5. Risk factors for disability pension : studies of a Swedish twin cohort

   Author : Åsa Samuelsson; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska institutet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES;

   Abstract : Background & aims: Mental disorders are today the major diagnosis behind newly granted disability pensions (DP) in the Western world. Yet, studies of risk factors for DP due to mental diagnoses are scarce, are often based on small or selective samples, and have a cross-sectional design, or short follow-up. READ MORE