Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Social capital and work participation among people with mobility disability and overweight
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2016-09-23)People with disabilities or who are overweight/obese may have fewer opportunities and experience more barriers to a social participation and working life than people without disabilities or overweight/obesity. Even less ... -
Subjective well-being and its association with subjective health status, age, sex, region, andsSocio-economic characteristics in a chinese population study
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2016-04-18)This study analyse how subjective well-being (SWB) in a Chinese population varies with subjective health status, age, sex, region and socio-economic characteristics. In the Household Health Survey 2010, face-to-face ... -
Impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on pneumococcal disease, carriage and serotype distribution : comparative studies in Sweden and Uganda
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2016-04-01)Background: Streptococcus pneumoniae is a leading infectious cause of child deaths worldwide. Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) was first introduced in the US in the year 2000, and included the major seven pneumococcal ... -
HIV preventive interventions, sampling methods and sexual risk behaviour among men who have sex with men
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2016-02-05)Background: Gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM) are at high risk of HIV globally. HIV rates among MSM in Europe show increasing trends, in contrast to declining trends in the general population. During ... -
"Nobody delivers at home now" : who and why women participate in a conditional cash transfer program to promote institutional delivery in Madhya Pradesh, India
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2015-11-11)Background: One-fifth of global maternal deaths occur in India making this a serious public health challenge. It is well known that skilled birth attendance and access to quality emergency obstetric care reduces maternal ... -
The risk of dying : predicting trauma mortality in urban Indian hospitals
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2015-11-06)Introduction: With increased urbanisation and motorisation, trauma is emerging as one of the top threats to population health globally. Each year almost five million people die as a result of trauma, more than the total ... -
Genital fistula among Ugandan women : risk factors, treatment outcomes, and experiences of patients and spouses
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2015-10-08)Background: An estimated 2-3 million women globally and majorly in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, suffer from genital fistula with an annual incidence of 50,000-100,000 women. Uganda like other low-income countries is not ... -
Social differentials in health-related non-employment and poverty : studies on consequences of limiting longstanding illness, musculoskeletal and mental disorders
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2015-10-01)The overall aim of the thesis is to increase knowledge on social differentials in employment and income consequences among persons with chronic disease. The studies were conducted in Sweden and different policy context ... -
Embodiment of inequality : the translation of childhood social inequality to alcohol related health disparities later in life
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2015-09-18)This thesis aims to increase knowledge regarding the translation of childhood social inequality to alcohol related disparities later in life. Four empirical studies focus on different dimensions of childhood social inequality ... -
Quality of obstetric care in India's Janani Suraksha Yojana cash transfer program to promote facility births : studies from Madhya Pradesh province
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2015-08-11)Background: Improving maternal health remains a challenge in most of the developing countries. In-facility births is an accepted strategy to reduce maternal mortality. India, which accounts for 17% of global maternal deaths, ...