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Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 19 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Ecuador.

  1. 6. The Bumpy Road to Universal Health Coverage : Access to Primary and Emergency Care in Rural Tropical Ecuador

    Författare :Martin Eckhardt; Magnus Falk; Tomas Faresjö; Birger Forsberg; Miguel San Sebastián; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : Background: By the turn of the new millennium 84% of families in rural coastal Ecuador had difficulties to access health services. A health reform some years earlier to improve this situation had not been implemented. LÄS MER

  3. 7. Local baseline knowledge for conservation and restoration of degraded ecosystems in Ecuador

    Författare :Ana Mariscal; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
    Nyckelord :LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : Deforestation and land-use changes are a major threats to native ecosystem in many tropical countries, including Ecuador– one of the biodiversity hotspots in the world. In tropical Andean countries, natural ecosystems change over small spatial scales. LÄS MER

  4. 8. In the Lands of Oligarchs : Ethno-Politics and the Struggle for Social Justice in the Indigenous-Peasant Movements of Guatemala and Ecuador

    Författare :Magnus Lembke; Ishtiaq Ahmed; Björn Beckman; Teivo Teivainen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ethno-politics; indigenous-peasant movements; oligarch power structures; political regimes; social justice; strategies; structures; Political science; Statsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : The study explores how struggles for social justice by Guatemalan and Ecuadorian indigenous peasant movements are affected by ethno-politics (the strategic political use of ethnicity), by using a comparative historical approach incorporating structural change and strategic agency. The analysis revolves around the partly enduring, partly changing oligarchic structures. LÄS MER

  5. 9. Every bug counts : neonatal colonization and infection of Gram-negative bacilli : aspects on antibiotic resistance in Sweden and Ecuador

    Författare :Viveka Nordberg; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Sammanfattning : Neonatal infections caused by extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Gramnegative bacilli are associated with high morbidity and mortality. In order to perform targeted preventive interventions against the impacts of antibiotic resistance in neonates, it is crucial to study colonization, infection and the spread of EPE-bacteria. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Impossible Interculturality? : Education and the Colonial Difference in a Multicultural World

    Författare :Robert Aman; Andreas Fejes; Stefan Jonsson; Lisbeth Eriksson; Edda Manga; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Interculturality; multiculturalism; intercultural education; policy; postcolonialism; cultural difference; colonial difference; European Union; interculturalidad; delinking; Interkulturalitet; mångkultur; interkulturell utbildning; policy; postkolonialism; kulturella skillnader; koloniala skillnader; Europeiska Unionen; interculturalidad;

    Sammanfattning : An increasing number of educational policies, academic studies, and university courses today propagate ‘interculturality’ as a method for approaching ‘the Other’ and reconciling universal values and cultural specificities. Based on a thorough discussion of Europe’s colonial past and the hierarchies of knowledge that colonialism established, this dissertation interrogates the definitions of intercultural knowledge put forth by EU policy discourse, academic textbooks on interculturality, and students who have completed a university course on the subject. LÄS MER