Sökning: "Immigrant patients"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 28 avhandlingar innehållade orden Immigrant patients.
1. Immigrant Patients with Diabetes: How They Understand, Learn to Manage and Live with Their Diabetes
Sammanfattning : This study was initially based on the assumption that difficulties that arise between the Swedish health-care providers and immigrant diabetes patients are due to linguistic and cultural barriers. This assumption weakened as the study developed and began to point to the fact that the patient’s own understanding of his experience of living with and managing his diabetes has a more far-reaching effect than that of the cultural and linguistic differences. LÄS MER
2. Vitamin D deficiency in Northern Sweden : a cross-sectional study of an immigrant population at latitude 63° N, including an open partially randomized, controlled trial studying the effect of supplementation with different doses of cholecalciferol
Sammanfattning : Background: Vitamin D is a prohormone that plays a key role in the calcium and phosphate balance and has physiological functions throughout the entire body. Vitamin D is supplied by exposure to ultraviolet light or by food. The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in immigrants in Northern Sweden was unknown. LÄS MER
3. Health care on equal terms for immigrants in Sweden
Sammanfattning : Background: There is limited knowledge about immigrant patients’ lower self-reported health (SRH) in relation to acculturation and discrimination and about immigrant patients’, interpreters’ and GPs’ experiences, reflections, and strategies during the triangular meeting. Aims: Study I. LÄS MER
4. Immigrants with heart failure- A descriptive comparative study of symptoms, self care, social support, care and treatment
Sammanfattning : Background: The current demographic profile in Sweden demonstrates blended ethnicities and cultures evolving through mass migration and resettlement. While it is acknowledged that cultural background affects, illness experience, participation in the care or self-management of illness, little is presently known about the treatment patterns, symptoms, health care seeking and health outcomes among immigrants with heart failure (HF) in Sweden or other Scandinavian countries ? despite the fact that worsening of chronic heart failure is the most common cause of hospitalisation in patients over 65 years of age. LÄS MER
5. Alcohol problems in women; Gender characteristics relevant for identification in clinical and health screening settings
Sammanfattning : This thesis presents data relating to gender differences of problem drinking. The aim was to increase the knowledge of characteristics of female problem drinking to enhance identification efficiency. LÄS MER