Sökning: "Health sociologi"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 283 avhandlingar innehållade orden Health sociologi.
1. To work or not to work in an extended working life? Factors in working and retirement decisions
Sammanfattning : In most of the industrialised world, the proportion of older and retired people in the population is continuously increasing. This will have budgetary implications for maintaining the welfare state, because the active working section of the population must fund the non-active and old population. LÄS MER
2. Work-Related Inequalities in Health : Studies of income, work environment, and sense of coherence
Sammanfattning : Ill health is unevenly distributed across different groups in society, with the disadvantaged groups displaying higher rates of ill health than the more advantaged groups. The aim of the thesis is to study work-related inequalities in health, and to focus on how income, aspects of the physical and psychosocial work environment, and sense of coherence, individually or jointly, generate inequalities in a number of health outcomes in the Swedish working population. LÄS MER
3. Understanding young people’s well-being within a translocal everyday life : How health and well-being are experienced and conditioned in the daily school life of young people recently migrated to Sweden
Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with the relationship between young people’s health, everyday life, school, and migration. It is a compilation dissertation based on a comprehensive summary (kappa) and four empirical articles. LÄS MER
4. Healthy bridges : Studies of social capital, welfare, and health
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to study whether social capital is related to health and health inequality, and to investigate the significance of welfare state features for levels of social capital. Another aim is to examine whether social capital may be important for the relation between the welfare state and health. LÄS MER
5. From the cradle to the grave - in sickness and in health? : The welfare state and health outcomes
Sammanfattning : Sickness, whether manifested through actual sickness or through fear of sickness, is a part of human life. Sickness cash benefits was one of the earliest social security programs implemented in modern welfare states. Previous research on how sickness benefits are associated with health outcomes has emphasized the significance of income. LÄS MER