Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences: Recent submissions
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Socioeconomic development initiatives and women’s welfare in rural Bangladesh
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2018-05-21)Background: Socioeconomic development initiatives (SDIs) are not only regarded as vehicles for poverty eradication but as promotion of women‟s welfare in terms of their economic independence, empowerment, and safety from ... -
Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of early childhood obesity prevention
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2018-05-15)Background: Due to individual health-related and social consequences, but also due to its immense cost burden, obesity remains a large public health challenge for which effective and cost-effective prevention is lacking. ... -
Alcohol dependence : barriers to treatment and new approaches in primary care
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2018-04-13)Alcohol dependence is highly prevalent worldwide, with an estimated prevalence of 4 % in the Swedish adult population. However, alcohol dependence has one of the largest gaps between the number of individuals affected and ... -
Calling for change : the effectiveness of helpline counselling and spontaneous change in problematic alcohol use
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2018-04-12)Population studies have estimated the remission rate from alcohol use disorders as well as the life course trajectory of alcohol consumption. However, less is known about the spontaneous change to low-risk use in populations ... -
Novel methods for dose-response meta-analysis
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2018-03-14)Dose–response meta-analysis is a statistical procedure for combining and contrasting the evidence on the association between a continuous exposure and the risk of a health outcome. Different papers refined selected aspects ... -
Antibiotic resistance: implications of hospital practices for public health : a study from Hanoi, Vietnam
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2018-02-28)Background: Antibiotic resistance is a global challenge, requiring urgent attention. Inefficient hospital infection control and hospital dissemination of antibiotic residues and antibiotic resistant bacteria contribute ... -
Lyft och överflyttning med och utan hjälpmedel för personer med förvärvad hjärnskada : funktionell utvärdering av selar och byglar
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2018-02-01)I de flesta vård- och omsorgsverksamheter pågår försök att hitta de optimala förutsättningarna för att lyfta personer, barn och vuxna, och samtidigt skona personalens ryggar. I Sverige är utbudet av hjälpmedel för att ... -
Implementing prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : human resources, client and provider satisfaction and cost-effectiveness
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2017-11-14)Despite advancement in global efforts to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT), more work needs to be done to protect children from HIV transmission particularly in eastern and southern Africa. The integration ... -
Impact of school outdoor environment upon pupils' physical activity and sun exposure across ages and seasons
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2017-10-24)Background and aims: Among children, the lack of physical activity (PA) is widespread in developed countries. Further, the majority of all skin cancers depend on an overexposure to solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR) in ... -
Light to moderate alcohol consumption and acute myocardial infarction, heart failure and atrial fibrillation
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2017-10-20)Background and aim: A large number of studies found an inverse association between light to moderate alcohol consumption and the risk of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and heart failure (HF). Whether this consumption ... -
Exploring the impact of diabetes in Sudan : out-of-pocket expenditure and social consequences of diabetes on patients and their families
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2017-08-10)Diabetes mellitus in Sudan is a growing health problem in all socio-economic classes. The natural history of the disease is associated with poor of glycaemic control, a high prevalence of complications and a low quality ... -
Development and testing of an m-Health platform to reduce post-operative penetrative sex in recipients of voluntary medical male circumcision
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2017-05-24)Background: The widespread roll-out of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) has been accompanied by reports of VMMC recipients, particularly men who are married or cohabiting, resuming sexual intercourse before the ... -
HIV trends, risk behaviours, social structural barriers and retention in HIV care among key populations in Nepal and the Asia-Pacific region
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2017-05-09)Background: The HIV epidemic in the Asia-Pacific region is characterised by a number of concentrated, and in some geographical areas, growing epidemics, particularly among key populations [men who have sex with men (MSM), ... -
Towards improved trauma care outcomes in India : studies of rates, trends and causes of mortality in urban Indian university hospitals
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2017-04-26)Introduction Injury is a serious threat to global public health. Every six seconds someone in the world dies as a result of injury, adding up to five million people a year. This is more than the number of deaths due to ... -
Closing the quality gap : investigating health system bottlenecks and quality improvement strategies for maternal and newborn care in Sub Saharan Africa, focusing on Tanzania
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2017-03-31)BACKGROUND: Despite substantial gains in survival in the past three decades, around 200,000 maternal deaths, 1 million newborn deaths and 1 million stillbirths occur annually in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). The majority of ... -
Parental support to promote children's dietary and physical activity behaviours in disadvantaged settings
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2016-11-17)Background: A clear socioeconomic gradient in prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity exists in Sweden whereby children with low socioeconomic status (SES) have higher rates. Parents are an important target group ... -
Analysing equity in outpatient care in Stockholm county and the impact of using different data sources
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2016-11-04)Healthcare plays an important role in tackling inequalities in health by providing care to groups in need, and protecting lower income groups from further impoverishment due to ill health. Continually evaluating equity in ... -
Socioeconomic differences in alcohol habits, alcohol-related disorders and mortality
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2016-10-27)The overall aim of this thesis is to enhance knowledge about stability and predictors of change in alcohol habits among different sociodemographic subgroups, and to assess the contribution of alcohol use to social differences ... -
Pregnancy weight gain : family studies on the effects on offspring's body size and blood pressure
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2016-10-12)Introduction: Increasing maternal weight gain during pregnancy, gestational weight gain (GWG), is associated with several adverse outcomes in the child, e.g. high birth weight, childhood overweight and obesity, as well as ... -
Exercise as treatment for depression
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2016-10-06)Studies have reported that physical activity can be protective against developing depression and that exercise can be as effective as pharmacotherapy or psychotherapy in the treatment of depression. However less is known ...