Doktorsavhandlingar / Doctoral Theses - K9 (GPH): Recent submissions
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Antibiotic use and resistance : patterns, perceptions, policy and the price to pay
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2014-05-08)Background: Antibiotic resistance is a major health challenge especially in low and middle income countries such as India. Inappropriate antibiotic use is one important factor contributing to resistance. Strategies to ... -
The impact of safe community program on safety promotion among motorcyclists in Iran with focus on helmet usage
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2014-04-25)Background: Injuries to motorcyclists are an important public health problem. Motorcycles' riders and pillions have the highest public health burden in terms of disability adjusted life years (DALY) lost. Many countries ... -
Type 2 diabetes in rural Uganda : prevalence, risk factors, perceptions and implications for the health system
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2014-04-14)Background: Between 2010 and 2030, a 69% increase in type-2 diabetes is expected in low-income countries compared to a 20% increase in high income countries. Yet health system responsiveness to non-communicable diseases ... -
Nutrition, weight status and physical activity in Saudi Arabia : with special focus on women
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2014-03-28)Background: The prevalence of obesity and physical inactivity in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has been escalating to levels that are threatening the public health of the entire KSA population, especially the female ... -
Tobacco use and dependence : does it originate in utero?
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2014-02-28)Prenatal nicotine exposure (such as from maternal smoking during pregnancy) has been hypothesized to cause a so called programming effect, where epigenetic changes might result in a long-lasting vulnerability to tobacco ... -
Income distribution and health : the role of individual and municipality levels
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2014-02-06)The question whether income inequality is detrimental for health is still, after almost a quarter of a century and an impressive amount of literature, debated. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the association between ... -
Mental disorder, sexual risk behaviour, sexual violence and HIV in Uganda
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2014-01-17)Aim: The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate the association between mental disorder and risk of sexual HIV transmission in a low-income country with a generalized HIV epidemic. Specific objectives were to ... -
Alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harm among young people : studies of the recent experience in Sweden
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2013-11-19)Background: The starting point for this thesis was the unexpected development in recent trends in youth drinking and harm in Sweden which seemed to question some basic assumptions of the total consumption model. For example, ... -
Female genital mutilation : determinants and consequences among girls and women in Sudan
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2013-11-08)Background: Female genital mutilation (FGM) is still a reality in Sudan, Egypt and sub-Saharan Africa with three million girls at risk of being subjected to the practice annually and approximately 140 million girls and ... -
Uptake of HIV testing : assessing the impact of a home-based intervention in rural South Africa
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2013-10-31)Background: Despite the introduction of HIV counselling and testing (HCT) methods about 30 years ago, HIV testing uptake remains low in most high HIV prevalence settings. To date, knowledge of status still remains a critical ... -
Sexual risk taking and HIV vulnerability among young women in post-apartheid South Africa
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2013-10-31)Background: Young women face the highest risk of HIV infection than any other group in South Africa. Within the broad population of young women, those who have multiple sexual partners are thought to have a heightened risk ... -
Integrated community case management of malaria and pneumonia in eastern Uganda : care-seeking, adherence, and community health worker performance
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2013-10-16)Background: Despite being easily preventable and treatable, malaria and pneumonia are major killers of children aged less than five years. Integrated community based interventions through which lay persons called community ... -
Vulnerability in illness : household healthcare-seeking processes during maternal and child illness in rural Lao PDR
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2013-09-27)Background: Despite considerable progress, maternal and child mortality persists and continues to affect many low-income countries, to the extent that the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) 4 and 5 will not be reached. ... -
Voices of fear and safety : women’s ambivalence towards breast cancer and breast health practices in Jordan
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2013-08-16)Background: Although early detection is associated with better prognosis, still, breast malignancies are detected at late stages in Jordan. This thesis aimed to explore women’s and men’s perceptions about breast cancer and ... -
Public health economics of chlamydia and other STIs : aspects of risk, prevention and resources
(Institutionen för folkhälsovetenskap / Department of Public Health Sciences, 2013-05-22)The overall aim of this thesis was to increase the knowledge of the public health economic aspects of chlamydia and other STIs, in terms of risk, prevention and resources. In Study I, we examined the association ... -
Adverse life events, psychiatric morbidity, and mortality : epidemiological studies of socioeconomic inequalities from a life course perspective
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2013-04-12)The overall aim with this dissertation was to increase the knowledge on the association between adverse life events, and psychiatric morbidity and mortality, and the role of socioeconomic position from a life course ... -
Epidemiological studies of suicide : classification bias, drug use, and social circumstances
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2013-04-12)Despite the decline in suicide rates in Sweden during the past decades, suicide still constitutes a severe public health problem and is a cause of death that to a large extent could be prevented. In 2008 the Swedish ... -
Environmental risk factors for autism spectrum disorders
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2013-04-04)Aims: Two overarching hypotheses were tested in this thesis- first, that the environmental factors studied during pregnancy or the time preceding birth would be associated with a higher risk of autism spectrum disorders ... -
Epidemiology, risk and protective factors of self-immolation : a study from Iran
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2013-04-04)Background: Suicide by self-burning (self-immolation) is one of the suicide methods that is far more common in low-middle income countries than in high-income ones. Iran is one of the countries that has a high rate of ... -
Social environment and genetics as determinants of depression occurrence and its chronicity : a longitudinal survey
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2013-03-21)Depressive disorders are a set of heterogeneous disorders who se common characteristics are sadness and lack of interest, but varying regarding other symptoms, response to treatment and probability of recurrence and ...