• Will diabetes care move closer to rural patients in China? : assessing the impact of an educational intervention for type 2 diabetes among patients and health care professionals in rural China 

  Chen, Shaofan (Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2020-09-22)

  Aim The overall aim of this PhD thesis was to increase knowledge on the feasibility and impact of an educational intervention to shift the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus from hospitals to primary health care ...

• Every bug counts : neonatal colonization and infection of Gram-negative bacilli - aspects on antibiotic resistance in Sweden and Ecuador 

  Nordberg, Viveka (Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 2020-09-18)

  Neonatal infections caused by extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Gramnegative bacilli are associated with high morbidity and mortality. In order to perform targeted preventive interventions against the ...

• Health effects of air pollution : innovative approaches for spatio-temporal evaluations 

  Stafoggia, Massimo (Institutet för miljömedicin / Institute of Environmental Medicine, 2020-09-17)

  Air pollution is one of the major risk factors to human health, causing both short- and long-term effects and the global burden on mortality is estimated in more than 4 million deaths every year. Most of the evidence on ...

• Implantable cardioverter defibrillator treatment in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy 

  Magnusson, Peter (Inst för medicin, Solna / Dept of Medicine, Solna, 2020-09-17)

  Background: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a heterogeneous disease with various clinical manifestations, including sudden cardiac death, which can be prevented by an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). Aims: ...

• Responsible antibiotic use and diagnostic challenges in infectious diseases : studies in a resource-limited setting and a high-income setting 

  Damlin, Anna (Inst för global folkhälsa / Dept of Global Public Health, 2020-09-17)

  Background Antibiotic resistance is a globally emerging health challenge. In resource-limited settings, the burdens of infectious diseases and of antibiotic resistance are the highest. The World Health Organization ...

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