Sökning: "Global South"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 193 avhandlingar innehållade orden Global South.
1. Who died, where, when and why? : an investigation of HIV-related mortality in rural South Africa
Sammanfattning : BackgroundSouth Africa has experienced the most severe consequences of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Every community has been affected in some way, many experiencing huge increases in mortality,particularly before antiretroviral therapies (ART) were readily available. LÄS MER
2. Smoking cessation during pregnancy : a person-centred approach among disadvantaged women in South Africa
Sammanfattning : Smoking remains a leading cause of premature, preventable death in South Africa killing 44 000 South Africans each year. Through the introduction of comprehensive tobacco control policies, the South African government has tried to reduce the death toll and a significant reduction in tobacco use has been recorded since its peak in the 1990’s. LÄS MER
3. Dying to make a fresh start : mortality and health transition in a new South Africa
Sammanfattning : Rationale: Vital registration is lacking in developing settings where health and development problems are most pressing. Policy-makers confront an “information paradox”: the critical need for information on which to base priorities and monitor progress, and the profound shortage of such information. LÄS MER
4. The Mediated Representation of Working Conditions in the Global South : Discourse, Ideology and Responsibility
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the mediated representation of workers’ working conditions in the Global South. Using a qualitative approach inspired by Critical Discourse Studies, it focuses on ideological representation in newspapers from Sweden, the USA, Chile and China/Hong Kong. LÄS MER
5. Public Access to Surgical Care. Studies on Timeliness, Capacity, Safety and Affordability
Sammanfattning : Background. A once commonly held belief was that surgery is too complicated, too expensive, and too ineffectively addressing a too minor proportion of the burden of disease to deserve priority in a setting of scarce healthcare resources in low- and middle-income countries. LÄS MER