Search for dissertations about: "socio-economic group"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 149 swedish dissertations containing the words socio-economic group.

2. 1. Socio-economic consequences of longstanding illness

   Author : Christina Lindholm; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Limiting longstanding illness; socio-economic consequences; socio-econornic group; job demands; economic inactivity; unemployment; economic difficulties.;

   Abstract : This thesis focuses an old research area of social medicine, the social and economic consequences of chronic illness and factors modifying this effect. Historically, illness was the main predictor of poverty. READ MORE

4. 2. Dialogues on the Net - Power structures in asynchronous discussions in the context of a web based teacher training course

   Author : Annette Johnsson; Utbildningsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; minority; cultural background; sex; ethnicity; gender; age; socio-economic; dialogicity; web based; computer based; CMC; net based; asynchronous; CSCL; teacher education; power structures; dialogues; Group work; team work; symbolic capital; group work;

   Abstract : The general aim of this thesis is to investigate the interaction processes that occur in group dialogues when teacher students work in small groups, using net based asynchronous dialogues to solve a problem in the area of environmental sustainability. More specifically, the interest is to determine whether students’ net based dialogues give rise to patterns of dominance/subordination similar to those observed in face-to-face situations. READ MORE

5. 3. Socio-economic dynamics in sparse regional structures

   Author : Örjan Pettersson; Ulf Wiberg; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Northern Sweden; Norrland; Sparsely populated areas; Countryside; Rural change; Regional development; Forestry; Population; Welfare; Glesbygd-- Sverige -- Norrland; Regional utveckling-- Sverige -- Norrland; Norrland-- sociala förhållanden; Norrland-- ekonomiska förhållanden;

   Abstract : The aim of the thesis is to describe and analyse socio-economic changes in northern Sweden. Focus is on the period 1985-2000. READ MORE

6. 4. Peasants by preference? : socio-economic and environmental aspects of rural development in Tanzania

   Author : Jan Rudengren; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
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   Abstract : Development is not always an entirely positive process in which the gains are equal to the risks. Rural development implies a penetration of the existing peasant mode of production by alternative systems. History has shown that this penetration creates its own barriers. READ MORE

7. 5. Gender inequity in child survival : travails of the girl child in rural north India

   Author : Anand Krishnan; Nawi Ng; Peter Byass; Chadrakant Pandav; Per Ashorn; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Conditional cash transfers; girl child; inequities; gender; prejudice; mortality; non-specific effects; sex; socio-economic; vaccines; Epidemiology; epidemiologi;

   Abstract : Background: While substantial progress has been made globally towards achieving United Nations Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) on child mortality, the decline is not sufficient to reach the targets set for 2015. The South Asian region, which includes India, was to achieve the MDG 4 target of 39 deaths per 1000 live births by 2015 but was estimated to have reached only 61 by 2011. READ MORE