Sökning: "utilisation of medical services"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 32 avhandlingar innehållade orden utilisation of medical services.
1. Intensified primary health care for cancer patients : Utilisation of medical services
Sammanfattning : The aim of the present thesis is to evaluate the effects of an Intensified Primary Health Care (IPHC) intervention on GPs' and home care nurses' possibilities to monitor and support cancer patients, and on cancer patients utilisation of medical services. A further aim is to identify determinants of cancer patients' utilisation of such services. LÄS MER
2. Country of birth and socioeconomic disparities in utilisation of health care and disability pensions - a multilevel approach
Sammanfattning : Besides individual characteristics, people born in the same country may present a related pattern of health status and health care utilisation, perhaps because they share a number of socioeconomic and cultural characteristics in addition to their common geographic origin and language. Rather than using simple ethnical or geographical categories, we apply multilevel regression analysis with individuals nested within countries of birth. LÄS MER
3. Individual Support for Cancer Patients : Effects, Patient Satisfaction and Utilisation
Sammanfattning : The aims of this thesis are threefold: (1) To investigate cancer patients’ satisfaction with and utilisation of an Individual Psychological Support (IPS) intervention. (2) To evaluate the effects of Individual Support (IS), comprising IPS combined with Intensified Primary Health Care and Nutritional Support, on psychological distress and quality of life during the first year after diagnosis. LÄS MER
4. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure : preventive home visits among healthy seniors
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to contribute to existing knowledge. If the knowledge is not useful in building society it has limited value. In order to be a tool for decision-makers, Preventive Home Visits (PHVs) are described and discussed according to a realist synthesis approach. LÄS MER
5. Children with mild intellectual disability and their families – needs for support, service utilisation and experiences of support
Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on service utilisation among children with mild ID and their families, their needs for support and their experiences of support.AimsThe overall aim of the thesis was to explore and describe service utilisation patterns among families of children with mild ID from a systems perspective. LÄS MER