Doktorsavhandlingar / Doctoral Theses - K9 (GPH): Recent submissions
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Barriers of mistrust : public and private health care providers in Madhya Pradesh, India
(Institutionen för folkhälsovetenskap / Department of Public Health Sciences, 2008-08-27)Background: In India, the foundations for a public role in the health sector were set at the time of her independence in 1947. Like other former colonies emerging from the war, India envisioned heavy state involvement ... -
Equity and equality : case detection of tuberculosis among women and men in Vietnam
(Institutionen för folkhälsovetenskap / Department of Public Health Sciences, 2003-05-02)Background: The global Tuberculosis (TB) control strategy recommended by the WHO, DOTS, is based on identification of sputum smear-positive pulmonary TB cases by self-referral to health services. The target set by the WHO ... -
Female and male infertility in Nigeria : studies on the epidemiology of infertility in Nigeria with special reference to the role of genital tract infections and sexual and reproductive risk factors
(Institutionen för folkhälsovetenskap / Department of Public Health Sciences, 2005-05-05)Background: Infertility is a major public health problem in Nigeria, contributing to inappropriate contraceptive behavior and poor sexual and reproductive health of women. To date, there is a paucity of scientific information ... -
Health changes in a market changing labour market
(Institutionen för folkhälsovetenskap / Department of Public Health Sciences, 2004-12-29)The late 20th century saw major changes in working life across the world. In Sweden, the changes on the labour market had a very strong impact in the early years of the 1990s. Not necessarily because they were larger than ... -
Turning guidelines into clinical practice : findings from an implementation study
(Institutionen för folkhälsovetenskap / Department of Public Health Sciences, 2010-05-19)Aim: The general aim of this thesis is to describe factors of importance when implementing clinical guidelines in psychiatry, and more specifically contribute to a better understanding of the implementation process. The ... -
Gender matters : understanding of access barriers to community-based tuberculosis care in Bangladesh
(Institutionen för folkhälsovetenskap / Department of Public Health Sciences, 2009-03-27)Background: Females lesser use of TB control services is a grave concern worldwide, entailing more gender research in quest of practical remedies. Objective: To understand the gender differences in various clinical ... -
Healthy workplaces : factors of importance for employee health and organizational production
(Institutionen för folkhälsovetenskap / Department of Public Health Sciences, 2010-03-26)The overall aim of the thesis was to investigate one aspect of healthy workplaces; namely, how psychosocial work factors affect employees’ general health and organizational production. The aim of Study I was to ... -
Assessing health problems : self-reported illness, mental distress, and alcohol problems in a rural district in Vietnam
(Institutionen för folkhälsovetenskap / Department of Public Health Sciences, 2006-05-23)Background: Data on disease burden in the community is important for health planning and policy making. Several developing countries in epidemiological transition suffer the double burden of infectious diseases and increasing ... -
The health and working conditions of female immigrants in Sweden
(Institutionen för folkhälsovetenskap / Department of Public Health Sciences, 2006-09-01)Sweden is one of the European countries that has gradually changed from a mainly ethnically homogeneous society into a multi-ethnic society. This change began in the late 1940s and has increased in pace, especially since ... -
Selling drugs or providing health care? The role of private pharmacies and drugstores, examples from Zimbabwe and Tanzania
(Institutionen för folkhälsovetenskap / Department of Public Health Sciences, 2009-05-22)Background: In low-income countries many people do not have access to formal health care because of poverty and weak health systems. Instead people seek care at private pharmacies and drugstores. Infectious diseases ... -
The pragmatic randomised trial : a simple research design for real-world evaluation of innovation in tuberculosis care
(Institutionen för folkhälsovetenskap / Department of Public Health Sciences, 2009-08-28)Tuberculosis was the first disease in history whose treatment regimens were systematically established using randomised controlled trials (RCTs). As a result TB drug treatment regimens are standardised globally, and have ... -
Verbal abuse in school : constructing gender and age in social interaction
(Institutionen för folkhälsovetenskap / Department of Public Health Sciences, 2007-01-19)This thesis aims to describe and analyze gender and age patterns of verbal abuse among students, and how it is used in identity construction by girls and boys in social interaction in school. Two sets of data were ... -
Paediatric burn injuries in Cape Town, South Africa : context, circumstances, and prevention barriers
(Institutionen för folkhälsovetenskap / Department of Public Health Sciences, 2007-05-03)Despite concerns about the impact of childhood burns, there remains a paucity of systematic descriptions of its epidemiology, contexts of occurrence, and preventability. This information is essential for the development ... -
Multiprofessional rehabilitation for women with fibromyalgia : quantitative and qualitative studies
(Institutionen för folkhälsovetenskap / Department of Public Health Sciences, 2006-02-17)The overall aims of the present work were to obtain further knowledge of the effects ofmultiprofessional rehabilitation programmes for women with fibromyalgia (FM) or chronic widespread musculoskeletal pain (CWMP) and to ... -
Access to health care for febrile children in Uganda : symptom recognition, care seeking practices and provider choice
(Institutionen för folkhälsovetenskap / Department of Public Health Sciences, 2009-05-18)Background: Febrile illnesses including malaria and pneumonia are leading causes of death among children under five in Uganda. The survival of a sick child depends on access to prompt and appropriate care. Despite government ... -
Occupational exposure to pesticides and risk of leukemia among offspring in Costa Rica
(Institutionen för folkhälsovetenskap / Department of Public Health Sciences, 2006-11-03)Background: Leukemias are the most common childhood cancers, accounting for 25-35% of the incidence of all childhood cancer in most populations. In early reports on cancer, Costa Rica ranks among the highest incidence of ... -
Working children’s experiences and their right to health and well-being
(Institutionen för folkhälsovetenskap / Department of Public Health Sciences, 2005-04-13)Freedom from labour and the duty to learn for the future in a separate and protected surrounding are main features characterising the modem concept of childhood, reflected in the CRC. Schools are, however, not available ... -
Making motherhood safe in the West Bank, occupied Palestinian territory
(Institutionen för folkhälsovetenskap / Department of Public Health Sciences, 2008-05-23)Objective: To determine causes of death among women of reproductive age; to determine MMR; to review death notification and registration procedures, and to examine the fate and status of under-5 motherless orphans in the ... -
Particles in small airways : mechanisms for deposition and clearance and pharmacokinetic assessments of delivered dose to the lung
(Institutionen för folkhälsovetenskap / Department of Public Health Sciences, 2004-04-16)BACKGROUND: Knowledge about lung deposition and clearance from airways of inhaled particles/drugs are essential for evaluation of health effects of inhaled pollutants and to achieve optimal drug dose to the lung. The ... -
Social network, perceived ill health and use of an emergency department : a descriptive and experimental study
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 1987-08-21)The contents of this thesis are focused on relationships between social integration, social network and social support, on the one hand, and perceived ill health and care utilization on the other. The aims of the ...