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Background: Drug therapy in primary care is a challenge for general practitioners (GPs) and the prescribing decision is influenced by several factors. GPs obtain drug information in different ways, from evidence-based sources, their own or others? experiences, or interactions with opinion makers, patients or colleagues. The need for objective drug information sources instead of drug industry-provi
Background and aim: Home rehabilitation is an increasing service in many countries due to the aging population. The body of knowledge in home rehabilitation is growing but results are inconsistent, and there is still lack of knowledge from user perspectives to guide practice and home rehabilitation programs. The purpose of this study was to explore valuable aspects of home rehabilitation experienc
Background and Purpose: Absence from work due to illness is common in many western countries and has many negative consequences for both the individual and society. Since 2020 Swedish healthcare regions are required to provide resources to coordinate the rehabilitation process, a complex system involving medical as well as work-related parties, where both the physician and the rehabilitation coord
Registry-based randomised controlled trials (R-RCTs) represent a paradigm shift in research, with the potential to accomplish pragmatic but large trials with high external validity. In this paper, we review our experiences from planning and performing the REgistry-based randomised controlled trial of treatment Duration and mortality in long-term OXygen therapy (REDOX) trial, the first R-RCT within
Promoting young children's health through health promotion activities is an investment for the future. In the Child Health Services in the south of Sweden a structured Child-Centred Health Dialogue (CCHD) directed to all 4-year-old children was developed using illustrations based on the most important health messages associated with the promotion of healthy lifestyle in preschool children. The aim
Background: The lack of access to essential surgical care in low-income countries is aggravated by emigration of locally-trained surgical specialists to more affluent regions. Yet, the global diaspora of surgeons, obstetricians, and anesthesiologists from low-income and middle-income countries has never been fully described and compared with those who have remained in their country of origin. It i
Health services and medical research are subject to growing use of ADM. Whilst such technology brings many benefits, it is important to understand that it is not just a tool but involves a more fundamental shift in the infrastructure through which healthcare takes place. Where that development is driven by the private sector, it also indicates a wider paradigmatic change in how healthcare is provi
This thesis presents a study of the interplay between what numbers do and what people do with numbers in everyday organisational life. Couched in an ethnographic perspective, the study draws on rich empirical material crafted from participant observations conducted at a Scandinavian hospital. The study focuses on how numbers work in everyday social interactions between doctors, nurses, patients, a
BACKGROUND: Research on health systems resilience has focused primarily on the theoretical development of the concept and its dimensions. There is an identified knowledge gap in the research on how to build resilience in health systems in practice and 'what works' in different contexts. The aim of this study is to identify practical strategies for building resilient health systems from the empiric
Objectives: To estimate resource use and costs, including direct and indirect costs, in relation to levels of severity in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD) in a Swedish setting. Materials and methods: Patients with idiopathic PD registered in the National Parkinson's Disease Patient Registry (PARKreg), with registrations of Hoehn and Yahr (H&Y) and “off time” in the Skåne Region, were
Background: Childhood obesity is a major clinical and economic health concern. Alongside the clinical understanding of obesity, there is a growing interest in designing and implementing interventions that are worth their money given the scarce resources in the health care sector. This study is one of the first efforts to provide evidence by assessing the effects and costs of a population-based pri
OBJECTIVE: Our study aims to evaluate hypertensive case management in South Africa's public health sector using simulated patients.METHOD: Our study describes interactions between hypertensive simulated patients and primary healthcare workers at 39 public sector healthcare facilities in two metropolitan centres in the Eastern and Western Cape Provinces of South Africa. Our analysis focus on 97 int
Creativity at the level of employees is of utmost importance for every sector of an economy, with no exception to a healthcare system. The reason why employee creativity is important lies in the fact that employees have profound knowledge of their job and thus can serve as a source of meaningful innovation in an organization. Research shows that employee creativity is largely dependent on leadersh
Background: The five Nordic Associations for palliative medicine (PM) have since 2003 organized a common specialist course for six weeks in two years. Aim: To describe the course: participants, evaluations, impact on participants' careers, and on the development of PM in the Nordic countries. Methods: Information on participants taken from the course archive and national registries. A web survey s
Background: Cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes are among the largest public health challenges in Sweden. Research indicates that a healthy lifestyle can prevent most cases. The health dialogue is an evidence-based public health programme for primary care with positive results in several regions of Sweden. This study aimed to describe health care professionals’ experiences and perceptions o
Prepared for the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law by Felisa Tibbitts HUMAN RIGHTS- HUMAN RIGHTS- BASED APPROACH BASED APPROACH HANDBOOK FOR HANDBOOK FOR HIGHER EDUCATIONHIGHER EDUCATION Section I. INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN RIGHTS AND HIGHER EDUCATION A. Introduction and overview of the handbook …………………………… 4 B. International human rights standards and higher education ……
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VI International Conference on Computational Methods for Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering COUPLED PROBLEMS 2015 B. Schrefler, E. Oñate and M. Papadrakakis(Eds) CONVERGENCE SPEED OF COUPLING ITERATIONS FOR THE UNSTEADY TRANSMISSION PROBLEM AZAHAR MONGE∗ AND PHILIPP BIRKEN∗ ∗Centre for Mathematical Sciences Lund University Box 118, 22100, Lund, Sweden e-mail: azahar.monge@na.lu.se, web p
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Det filmvetenskapliga forskningsfältet ht10 FIVKO1, FIVM01 ht 2010 Det filmvetenskapliga forskningsfältet 7,5 hp Lärare: Lars Gustaf Andersson (LGA), Ann-Kristin Wallengren (AKW) VECKA 36 Tis 7/9 13.15–15 H140 Kursintroduktion. Filmvetenskapens ämneshistoria. 15.00–17 Humhör Intermezzo (Sverige, Gustaf Molander, 1936, 91 min) Att läsa: Bolin/Forsman Ons 8/9 10.15–12 H135b Tillämpning formell analy
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