Doktorsavhandlingar / Doctoral Theses - K9 (GPH): Recent submissions
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Lifestyle risk factors for Parkinson disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis : an epidemiological perspective
(Inst för global folkhälsa / Dept of Global Public Health, 2022-10-07)Following progressive aging of the population, the global prevalence of PD and ALS is expected to increase in the next decades. Primary prevention of the diseases is hampered by limited knowledge of preventable causes. ... -
School nurses’ use of motivational interviewing as a method for health promoting conversations with parents of primary school children
(Inst för global folkhälsa / Dept of Global Public Health, 2022-10-05)School nurses in Sweden have an important task to promote healthy behaviours in children through regular health conversations with parents and children. Nonetheless, there are no evidence-based methods in Sweden for health ... -
Global and local road traffic injury epidemiology in children and adolescents
(Inst för global folkhälsa / Dept of Global Public Health, 2022-09-26)Background: Every year around the globe, more than 800,000 children and adolescents under the age of 20 die due to injuries from any cause. Globally, low-and middle-income countries bear a disproportionate 95% of the burden ... -
Making a difference with home visiting : studies of an intervention in multicultural, disadvantaged settings in Sweden
(Inst för global folkhälsa / Dept of Global Public Health, 2022-09-09)Introduction: Inequalities in health, including child health, occur even in welfare countries like Sweden because of unequal distribution of the social determinants of health. Children’s health is poorer in multicultural ... -
Health promotion and obesity prevention through a school-based parental support programme
(Inst för global folkhälsa / Dept of Global Public Health, 2022-05-18)It is important to find ways to halt the rise in overweight and obesity among children, which are linked not only to physical and mental illness but also to social inequalities. The school is an ideal setting for public ... -
Sex, drugs and intersecting risks : HIV among people who belong to more than one key population in the United States
(Inst för global folkhälsa / Dept of Global Public Health, 2022-05-16)Background: The HIV epidemic in the United States (US) is mainly concentrated in so-called ‘key populations’ including men who have sex with men (MSM) and people who inject drugs (PWID). In addition, other groups such as ... -
The effect of a text-messaging intervention on retention in care for women living with HIV and their infants in Kenya
(Inst för global folkhälsa / Dept of Global Public Health, 2022-05-12)Background: Retention in prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV care is crucial to reduce vertical HIV transmission, and to improve the health and survival of women living with HIV and their infants. ... -
Human papillomavirus in men who have sex with men, transgender women and people living with HIV in Pakistan
(Inst för global folkhälsa / Dept of Global Public Health, 2022-05-02)Background: Anal infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) and associated anal squamous intraepithelial lesions (ASIL), are more prevalent among men who have sex with men (MSM) particularly among MSM and transgender women ... -
Bereavement in adulthood and risks of incident and recurrent cardiovascular diseases
(Inst för global folkhälsa / Dept of Global Public Health, 2022-04-29)Bereavement, the loss of a family member or a loved one, is a severely stressful life event that may occur at least once in most individuals’ life. Bereaved persons are likely to be influenced by the loss in multiple aspects ... -
Beyond the hospital bed : studies of post-discharge socioeconomic and quality of life outcomes in trauma patients in urban India
(Inst för global folkhälsa / Dept of Global Public Health, 2022-04-20)Background: Trauma contributes toone-tenth of the global morbidity, with low- and middle- income countries (LMICs) bearing a disproportionate burden. It is the biggest contributor of morbidity among young adults, and there ... -
Antibiotic use and resistance in under five children in rural central India : implications of caregivers’ healthcare-seeking behaviour and informal healthcare providers’ practices
(Inst för global folkhälsa / Dept of Global Public Health, 2022-04-20)Background: Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are becoming increasingly prevalent around the world, and this is true for both pathogenic and commensal bacteria. The findings of prior investigations have revealed a statistically ... -
Cannabis use : understanding other illicit drug use, drug-related morbidity and dependence
(Inst för global folkhälsa / Dept of Global Public Health, 2022-04-14)Amid increased prevalence globally of both cannabis use, and cannabis use disorder (CUD), changes of the legal status of use, as well as increased cannabis potency, it is important to increase the understanding about the ... -
Children and adolescents with parental mental illness (CAPRI) : prevalence, physical health, and social outcomes
(Inst för global folkhälsa / Dept of Global Public Health, 2022-03-03)Children and adolescents whose parents have mental illness (CAPRI) are a potentially vulnerable group. Previous studies showed that they are more likely to experience adverse mental health and social outcomes. However, ... -
Home visiting for a better start in life : studies of an intervention to promote health equity in a socioeconomically disadvantaged area of Sweden
(Inst för global folkhälsa / Dept of Global Public Health, 2022-02-24)Background: Early childhood is considered to be a crucial period for ensuring health over the life course of an individual. It is also a prioritized period for policies to reduce socially determined health inequities. ... -
Lifelong antiretroviral treatment for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in routine healthcare in Tanzania, what works?
(Inst för global folkhälsa / Dept of Global Public Health, 2022-02-01)Background: The UNAIDS estimate of the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (MTCT) in Tanzania remains unacceptably high at 11%, despite 84% coverage of lifelong antiretroviral treatment (ART) for the prevention of ... -
Point-of-care diagnostics of childhood central nervous system infections, with a focus on usability in low-resource settings
(Inst för global folkhälsa / Dept of Global Public Health, 2022-01-24)Background: The inaccessibility of laboratory services sustains the high burden of paediatric infectious diseases, such as central nervous system (CNS) infections, in low-resource settings. New contextually fit and ... -
The Chiranjeevi Yojana (CY) : a public-private-partnership to promote institutional births in Gujarat, India : studies of providers and users
(Inst för global folkhälsa / Dept of Global Public Health, 2021-10-05)Introduction: National, regional and local governments, particularly in lower middleincome countries, are encouraged to pursue partnerships with the pool of private providers available to them, in order to achieve the ... -
Socio-economic differences in the healthcare utilisation of older persons in Sweden
(Inst för global folkhälsa / Dept of Global Public Health, 2021-09-22)The global population is ageing and this demographic change has important implications for the provision of healthcare and social care. Older people often have multiple and complex health problems and a range of different ... -
Early life determinants of socioeconomic and health inequalities : life course studies within and across generations
(Inst för global folkhälsa / Dept of Global Public Health, 2021-09-20)The role of the early life social and maternal environments in the production of health inequalities was widely documented in the past few decades but the underlying mechanisms were often subject to suboptimal analytic ... -
Social integration and immigrant mental health : the role of social capital and neighbourhood ethnic composition
(Inst för global folkhälsa / Dept of Global Public Health, 2021-08-20)Background: Nearly 20% of Sweden’s population are immigrants and research has identified inequalities in mental health between certain immigrant groups and the native Swedish population. The role of social integration ...