Sökning: "Causation"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 108 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Causation.

  1. 16. Social inequity in health : Explanation from a life course and gender perspective

    Författare :Masuma Novak; Christina Ahlgren; Anne Hammarström; Kate Hunt; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; social inequity; pathways; social causation; life course; gender; intersectionality; smoking; musculoskeletal disorders; obesity; social mobility; Sweden; Public health medicine research areas; Folkhälsomedicinska forskningsområden; Epidemiology; Epidemiologi; Public health science; Folkhälsovetenskap; Gender studies; Genus; Epidemiology; epidemiologi; hälso- och sjukvårdsforskning; health services research; näringslära; Nutrition; Occupational and Environmental Medicine; arbets- och miljömedicin; Social environment; Social class; Life style; Obesity etiology; Smoking epidemiology; Musculoskeletal diseases etiology; Intersektionalitet; Socioekonomi; Hälsa vikten rökning Sverige; Sjukdomar kropp levnadsförhållanden; Klasstillhörighet genus utbildning; Social inequity; Pathways; Social causation; Life course; Gender; Intersectionality; Social mobility4; Sweden; Socioeconomics; Health obesity smoking Sweden; Diseases body living conditions; Class affinity gender education;

    Sammanfattning : Background: A boy child born in a Gothenburg suburb has a life expectancy that is nine years shorter than that of another child just 23 km away, and among girls the difference is five years. There is no necessary biological reason to this observed difference. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Legal Questions and Scientific Answers : Ontological Differences and Epistemic Gaps in the Assessment of Causal Relations

    Författare :Lena Wahlberg; Teoretisk filosofi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; interdisciplinarity; law and science; ontology; scientific knowledge; standard of proof; sustainable development; uncertainty; tort law; jurisprudence; allmän rättslära; ignorance; expert knowledge; evidence; environmental law; environmental damage; causation;

    Sammanfattning : A large number of legal rules create an obligation to prevent, repair or otherwise mitigate damage to human health or the environment. Many of these rules require that a legally relevant causal relation between human behaviour and the damage at issue is established, and in the establishment of causal relations of this kind scientific information is often pressed into service. LÄS MER

  4. 18. Teaching and Learning Historical Explanation : Teacher and Student Cases from Lower and Upper Secondary History

    Författare :Joakim Wendell; Johan Samuelsson; Martin Stolare; Thomas Nygren; Karlstads universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; history education; historical explanation; causation; cause and consequence; explanatory progression; historical thinking; use of history; History; Historia;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to investigate and analyse how teachers and students understand the concept of historical explanation in the context of classroom teaching practices. The thesis is made up of four studies that investigate different aspects of understanding, focusing on either teacher or student understanding as expressed in words and actions. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Människans mått : Om statistik, sociologi och världen som socialt vara

    Författare :Sverre Wide; Kaj Håkanson; Mats Beronius; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; statistics; methods; causation; instrumentality; sociality; play; game; Sociologi; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation should be understood as an effort to provide a kind of critique of statistical reason. “A kind”, since it has another focus as well: the question of sociality. LÄS MER

  7. 20. Peer influence on smoking : causation or correlation?

    Författare :Sophie Langenskiöld; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : In this thesis, we explore two different approaches to causal inferences. The traditional approach models the theoretical relationship between the outcome variables and their explanatory variables, i.e., the science, at the same time as the systematic differences between treated and control subjects are modeled, i. LÄS MER