Sökning: "Healthcare sectors"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 22 avhandlingar innehållade orden Healthcare sectors.

  1. 1. Healthcare-seeking behaviour and management of type 2 diabetes in Uganda : Perspectives of persons with diabetes, traditional healers and healthcare providers

    Författare :Fortunate Atwine; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Omvårdnad; Nursing;

    Sammanfattning : Healthcare-seeking behaviour is important as it determines acceptance ofhealthcare and outcomes of chronic conditions, but it has been investigated to alimited extent, and not in developing countries. The overall aim was to explorehow persons with type 2 diabetes seek care to manage diabetes using differenthealthcare providers including the use of complementary alternative medicine andtraditional healers in Uganda. LÄS MER

  2. 2. Enacting ambidextrous IT governance in healthcare

    Författare :Michael Kizito; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : With digitalization, Information Technology (IT) has become an integral part of digital business strategies and future solutions and this calls for organizations to prioritize the governance of IT if they are to succeed or remain relevant. IS research has focused on the transformation of the IT function, where IT governance is considered one component of the IT function profile. LÄS MER

  3. 3. Serious Game Approach for Improving Healthcare Logistics

    Författare :Chen Zhang; Sebastiaan Meijer; Marcin Wardaszko; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Technology and Health; Teknik och hälsa;

    Sammanfattning : Although serious games are central to corporate learning of needed skills for industrial operations sectors, their use for managing healthcare logistics has rarely been discussed from the perspective of game mechanics in terms of motivation, engagement and the achievement of the desired objectives. This thesis discusses serious games as a method for improving healthcare logistics with a case study in paediatric emergency medicine. LÄS MER

  4. 4. Healthcare financing challenges and opportunities to achieving universal health coverage in the low- and middle-income country context

    Författare :Sayem Ahmed; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Sammanfattning : Background: In Bangladesh, on an average 62% of total healthcare spending was borne by households through out-of-pocket (OOP) payments annually during 2000- 2015. Because of such high OOP payments, a sizable proportion of households (15.7%) faced catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) and a number of them fell into poverty in 2010. LÄS MER

  5. 5. Markets and marketplaces : Essays on access and transformation in remote rural economies

    Författare :Tillmann von Carnap; Anna Tompsett; Jakob Svensson; Sam Asher; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; development economics; economic geography; remote sensing; transport infrastructure; climate change adaptation; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : Market access and agricultural intensification: Remotely-sensed evidence from Mozambican river crossingsMany believe that high transport costs are a significant constraint to agricultural intensification in rural Africa. Empirical evidence is limited, however, because areas with high agricultural potential may see more infrastructure improvements and data is rarely available at the necessary granularity. LÄS MER