Search for dissertations about: "travel health"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 69 swedish dissertations containing the words travel health.
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1. Making travel sustainable with ICT? : The social practice of travel planning and travel information use in everyday life
Abstract : Adopting the perspective of the traveller, this thesis examines how travel plans are actually made in the everyday situation and how information is used and drawn on when planning the many, often unremarkable, trips of ordinary urban life. Ethnographical field studies in southern Stockholm, Sweden, employing a practice theory perspective showed that people use a vast mixture of different types of information when planning and making trips. READ MORE
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2. Imported infections’ importance : global change driving Dengue dynamics
Abstract : Background Dengue is a significant problem of international health concern. According to the World Health Organization in 2012, globally, dengue is “the most important mosquito borne viral disease” with incidence 30 higher than it had been 50 years ago. READ MORE
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3. Public Access to Surgical Care. Studies on Timeliness, Capacity, Safety and Affordability
Abstract : Background. A once commonly held belief was that surgery is too complicated, too expensive, and too ineffectively addressing a too minor proportion of the burden of disease to deserve priority in a setting of scarce healthcare resources in low- and middle-income countries. READ MORE
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4. "For a better life..." : a study on migration and health in Nicaragua
Abstract : This thesis explores and analyses the manifold relations between migration and health, what I call the migration-health nexus, in the contemporary Nicaraguan context. The study is based on fieldwork in León and Cuatro Santos and a mixed-methods approach combining qualitative in-depth interviews and quantitative survey data. READ MORE
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5. Icelandic patients in oncology outpatient care: Distress, coping and satisfaction with care
Abstract : This study was conducted at three oncology outpatient clinics in Iceland. The overall aim was to investigate outpatient psychosocial distress, coping strategies and satisfaction with care and to explore patients? experiences of having cancer while receiving treatment. READ MORE