Sökning: "Chronic illness"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 150 avhandlingar innehållade orden Chronic illness.

  1. 16. Att göra sin röst hörd : Sjukdomsförhandlande diskurser, genrer och berättelser om endometrios

    Författare :Ida Melander; Anders Björkvall; Linnea Hanell; Mats Deutschmann; Anna W. Gustafsson; Örebro universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Meaning-making; health; illness; endometriosis; patient agency; discourse; genre; narrative;

    Sammanfattning : The main purpose of this thesis is to describe how situated health-related meaning-making about endometriosis is accomplished in three different health-related contexts. Health communication is ever relevant; throughout history, people have become ill, thought about their health and, in many cases, sought care. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Responding to chronic illness : a case stydy from rural Uganda

    Författare :Jovita Amurwon; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the individual and household-level factors that determine households’ responses to and ability to cope with chronic illness of adults, as well as with the stresses from the wider environment, in a rural Ugandan context. Over a period of one year, in 2009/2010, monthly visits were made to 22 households that were part of a cohort that accessed free healthcare from the Medical Research Council of Uganda. LÄS MER

  4. 18. I ett andetag : En kulturanalys av astma som begränsning och möjlighet

    Författare :Kristofer Hansson; Susanne Lundin; Jonas Frykman; Avdelningen för etnologi; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Pharmaceutical companies ; Treatment; Asthma; Diagnos; Risk; Eethical subject ; Simone de Beauvoir ; Inhalator; Drugs; Possibility; Chronic illness; Limitation; Humanities; Cultural anthropology; Humaniora; Body; Kulturantropologi; etnologi; Medical staff ; Technologies of the self ; ethnology; astma;

    Sammanfattning : Though asthma is a commonly occurring disorder today, the development and introduction of anti-inflammatory drugs in treating it has changed the possibilities of living with it. At the same time, the Swedish guidelines for asthma care have changed: the patient is to take responsibility for her or his chronic illness to attain full quality of life. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Mellan två världar : Om konflikten mellan livets krav och doktorns önskningar. Lärdomar från familjer med ett diabetessjukt barn

    Författare :Bengt Richt; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Compliance; life-world; everyday life; conceptions of disease; chronic illness; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Sammanfattning : Compliance is a prerequisite of the patient's recovery, and also closely in accord with the medical profession's own interests. Non-compliance is a familiar as well as a common phenomenon, but its causes has remained obscure. The present study endeavours to answer the question what these causes are. LÄS MER

  7. 20. Medication communication with older adults experiencing chronic illness and polypharmacy

    Författare :Igor Adelsjö; Elin C. Lehnbom; Mirjam Ekstedt; Amanda Hellström; Lina Nilsson; Patrik Midlöv; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Omvårdnad; Nursing;

    Sammanfattning : Background: Populations in many high-income countries are ageing, with an ever-increasing proportion of the population aged 65 years or older. Despite increasingly better health in older people, susceptibility to chronic illness increase with age. LÄS MER