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Recent submissions
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Temporal trends in the incidence of dementia hospitalisations in Sweden. Based on the Swedish National Inpatient Register (Hospital Discharge Register) during 1980-2011
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2018-10-17)BACKGROUND: Dementia imposes a significant burden to global health with currently 47 million people in the world suffering from it. It is estimated that by 2050 the number of people affected will increase to 135 million, ... -
Behandlingsutfall och patientupplevelse av datorplanerad implantat installation och direktbelastning med en prefabricerad brokonstruktion : efter 5 år
(Inst för odontologi / Dept of Dental Medicine, 2016-12-13)Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate changes around immediately loaded implants inserted in edentate jaws with computer guided treatment planning and flapless surgery with conventional implant treatment, from 1 year ... -
How do persons with brain fatigue after brain injury interact within a social media community? : results from a content and social network analysis
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2016-10-10)Background: Social media has been shown to be a potentially beneficial tool for the well-being of individuals with chronic medical conditions. However, there is a lack of knowledge on how individuals identified Mild Acquired ... -
Promoting knowledge work practices in health informatics education : exploring students’ and teachers’ views and expectations
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2015-11-17)Background: Education is challenged to offer new type of competencies. Especially in health informatics this need is also emphasized. Trialogical learning is a strategic educational approach that targets towards the ... -
Lexikal organisation hos enspråkiga arabisktalande 9-11-åriga skolbarn
(Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 2015-11-17)The study’s aim is to investigate the lexical organisation in Arabic-speaking children in grades 4 and 5 to see whether they have undergone the syntagmatic-paradigmatic shift – a reorganization of the mental lexicon to a ... -
Exploring the use of health communication in health policy implementation : response to the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2015-10-30)Background: During 2014 and 2015, Sierra Leone suffered the worst Ebola outbreak registered, which also affected Guinea and Liberia. The Government of Sierra Leone, supported by the World Health Organization, issued an ... -
Designing patient education with distance learning
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2015-10-30)Background: Self-management is crucial among patients with diabetes. Increasing the levels of self-management may prevent patients from developing further complications related to their disease. Tailoring education to the ... -
A novel approach to centrosome asymmetries in budding yeast
(Inst för biovetenskaper och näringslära / Dept of Biosciences and Nutrition, 2015-10-01)Asymmetrically dividing stem cells inherit cellular components unequally to descending daughter cells. This creates two distinct cellular profiles originating from one mother cell. Among that, centrosomes are inherited ... -
Childhood asthma and adolescent academic outcome
(Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2015-08-07)Introduction: School absenteeism in children with asthma is higher than in healthy children and increases with asthma severity. However, previous studies have not demonstrated any association between asthma, asthma severity, ... -
The barriers of maternal death review implementation in Sudan : a qualitative assessment
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2015-03-16)Introduction: Maternal death review (MDR) is a cycle and involves identification of maternal death cases, data collection, analysis, recommendation, action and evaluation. The maternal mortality ratio is still high in ... -
A strategy to assess short and frequent skin contacts with nickel
(Institutet för miljömedicin / Institute of Environmental Medicine, 2015-02-26)Background. In order to protect the public health, the EU nickel regulation sets a limit for certain consumer products not to release more nickel than 0.5 μg/cm2/week. However, nickel remains the most frequent cause of ... -
User-centered design of a computerized HRQoL questionnaire : qualitative analysis of user needs and prototype evaluation
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2015-02-20)The digitalization of Health-Related Quality of Life instruments as well as the design of computerized systems according to user needs can improve the usability and fulfil the expectations of the end-users. The purpose of ... -
Interaction involving amino acids in HLA proteins and smoking in Rheumatoid arthritis
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2015-02-06)Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a complex autoimmune disease involving gene-environment interactions. Different subtypes of RA, based on the presence of specific antibodies, differ in each etiology. Interacting ...