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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 13 avhandlingar innehållade orden Karin Sundström.
1. Existentiell ensamhet hos sköra äldre personer : vårdpersonals och volontärers erfarenheter och behov av stöd
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of the thesis was to explore healthcare professionals’ and volunteers’ experiences of encountering older persons’ existential loneliness, the significance of the care context, and first-line managers’ view of support. Three of the studies were qualitative with a descriptive design (studies I–III) and the fourth was quantitative with a cross-sectional design (Study IV). LÄS MER
2. Human papillomavirus test and vaccination : impact on cervical cancer screening and prevention
Sammanfattning : Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the world’s most common sexually transmitted infection and its consequence cervical cancer is one of the world’s most common cancer forms. Revolutionary advances in HPV testing and HPV vaccination have the potential to radically change women’s health. LÄS MER
3. Of voles and men: novel Hantavirus in vitro models
Sammanfattning : Hantavirus-infection can cause severe disease in humans, with up to 40% case fatalities. Presently, no therapeutics or prophylaxis against hantaviral illness exists. The mechanisms underlying the onset of symptoms and the following pathogenesis are not fully known. LÄS MER
4. Watchdogs or Lapdogs? : National Human Rights Institutions in Africa
Sammanfattning : National human rights institutions (NHRIs) have important roles to play for the protection, promotion, and monitoring of human rights. These institutions are set up by governments that have a special role in upholding human rights but at the same time violate these rights. LÄS MER
5. The Terms of Involvement : A study of attempts to reform civil society's role in public decision making in Sweden
Sammanfattning : For the better part of a century, a distinguishing feature of the Swedish democratic model has been the close relationship between organised interests and public decision makers. Yet the first decade of the twenty-first century saw a number of attempts to reform Swedish civil society’s role in decision making, purportedly to make involvement activities more inclusive, reciprocal, flexible and consequential. LÄS MER
