Sökning: "safety promotion"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 38 avhandlingar innehållade orden safety promotion.
1. Societal risk and safety management : Policy diffusion, management structures and perspectives at the municipal level in Sweden
Sammanfattning : This compilation thesis investigates risk and safety management at the Swedish local governmentallevel. It sets special focus on municipal implementation of overall international and nationalstrategies and objectives regarding holistic, cross-sectorial and multi-strategic risk and safetywork, and the prevention of accidents and injuries. LÄS MER
2. Studies in safety promotion for preschool children
Sammanfattning : The multifactorial aetiology in childhood injuries indicates a need for a systemic approach in the development of safety promotion strategies. In the present thesis, the feasibility of a systemic approach for the development of safety promotion strategies directed at pre-school children was investigated. LÄS MER
3. Safety promotion and injury surveillance with special focus on young people´s club sports : Challenges and possibilities
Sammanfattning : Physical activity in youth has many benefits, but parallel to these benefits, sport related injuries pose considerable risks. It is important to public health to address sport related injuries, particularly those affecting young people, who comprise the majority of participants in organised sport in Sweden. LÄS MER
4. Safety interventions in Swedish small-scale forestry
Sammanfattning : In private non-industrial forestry, self-employed work has long been associated with high risks for injuries. This thesis is based on four studies that focused on two of the major high-risk activities in this sector in Sweden: two on felling, de-limbing and bucking trees with a chainsaw; and two on off-road use of quad bikes. LÄS MER
5. Essays on the Political Economics of China's Development
Sammanfattning : Complementary Roles of Connections and Performance in Political Selection in ChinaWho becomes a top politician in China? We focus on provincial leaders and examine how their chance of being promoted depends on performance and connections with top politicians. We find a positive correlation between promotion and growth that is robustly stronger for connected provincial leaders than for unconnected ones. LÄS MER