Search for dissertations about: "youth organisations"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the words youth organisations.

  2. 6. Designing for Online Youth Counselling : Empowerment through Design and Participation

    Author : Sofia Lundmark; Ann-Carita Evaldsson; Gustav Lymer; Åsa Mäkitalo; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Empowerment; Participation; Design practice; Participatory design projects; Norm-critical design; Norms in design; Ethnography; Ethnomethodology; Online youth counselling; Pedagogik; Education; Patologi; Pathology; Patologi; Pathology;

    Abstract : More and more people are using the internet to access various societal functions. In recent years, municipalities and private enterprises have increasingly begun to explore and develop internet-based services to support public health in general and to disseminate health information in particular. READ MORE

  4. 7. Going places : Local settings and global horizons in young people’s education and work trajectories

    Author : Sara Forsberg; Brett Christophers; Danielle Ekman Ladru; Johanna Waters; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Social and Economic Geography; Kulturgeografi;

    Abstract : The recent trend for mass higher education and a growing policy focus on a knowledge-driven economy has created the expectation that everyone can enter a fulfilling and rewarding career. However, young people often experience discrepancies between expectations of social mobility and local or national labour market opportunities. READ MORE

  5. 8. Child health promotion : analyses of activities and policy processes in 25 Swedish municipalities

    Author : Karin Guldbrandsson; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : Children; adolescents; health-promotion; safety-promotion; municipalities; policy development; the actor-structural approach;

    Abstract : The Swedish municipalities are important actors that offer appropriate environments for healthpromoting activities directed at children and adolescents. Enhanced understanding on how such activities develop is needed to improve local public health action. READ MORE

  6. 9. Making Room for Peace : Challenging Intractable Conflict Through Tourism

    Author : Jack Shepherd; Daniel Laven; Sandra Wall-Reinius; Dorina-Maria Buda; Mittuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : Grounded in an understanding of tourism as a political phenomenon that has consequential impacts on how we understand people and space, and in an understanding of peacebuilding as a participatory process that must involve ordinary citizens, this thesis explores the relationship between tourism and peace. Taking inspiration from the confidence of global organisations and tourism scholars that tourism has a role in peacebuilding, I explore how tourism could serve to challenge conflicts that are deemed intractable - conflicts that are particularly hard to solve. READ MORE

  7. 10. Social capital as a health asset for young people's health and wellbeing

    Author : Antony Morgan; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Background: The concept of social capital has been identified as a ‘resource for societies, contributing to a range of beneficial economic, social and health outcomes and as such has the potential to help further articulate the relationship between health and its broader determinants. While the majority of published studies relate to adult health, the emerging literature on social capital and young people appears not to be learning lessons from some of the difficulties related to earlier research that have hampered its practical application. READ MORE