Sökning: "Low birthweight"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 28 avhandlingar innehållade orden Low birthweight.

1. 21. Kangaroo Mother Care in Bangladesh : Experiences of Caregivers and Healthcare Providers

   Författare :Johanna Sjömar; Mats Målqvist; Ylva Thernström Blomqvist; Syed Moshfiqur Rahman; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Kangaroo Mother Care; skin-to-skin care; experience of care; provision of care; caregiver; healthcare provider; neonatal health; International Health; Internationell hälsa;

   Sammanfattning : Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is an evidence-based intervention, recommended by the World Health Organization, with the potential to prevent neonatal deaths and morbidity among low-birthweight and preterm babies. In Bangladesh, where the number of neonatal deaths is high, KMC is identified as a priority intervention to be scaled up in the country. LÄS MER

3. 22. Early life determinants of socioeconomic and health inequalities : life course studies within and across generations

   Författare :Muhammad Zakir Hossin; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Sammanfattning : The role of the early life social and maternal environments in the production of health inequalities was widely documented in the past few decades but the underlying mechanisms were often subject to suboptimal analytic practices. The developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) paradigm came with a promise to better document the early life programming of adult diseases, with an emphasis on the postnatal modifiers of prenatal influences. LÄS MER

4. 23. Risk and resilience in children born preterm : cognitive and executive functioning at 5 1/2 years of age

   Författare :Birgitta Böhm; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Nyckelord :Preterm birth; intelligence; chronic lung disease; executive functions; MRI; NIDCAP;

   Sammanfattning : We investigated the intellectual outcome of two cohorts of preterm children, born from 1988 to 1993 and 1994 to 1997, respectively. A population-based follow-up study (the Stockholm Neonatal Project) included 182 children with a birth weight of 1500 g or less (very-low-birthweight: VLBW) and a control group of 125 children born healthy at term who were examined with the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale-Revised (WPPSI-R) and a neuropsychological test battery (Nepsy) at 5½ years of age ((paper I-IV). LÄS MER

5. 24. Economic Analyses of Drinking Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries

   Författare :Therése Hindman; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ekonomisk teori; Nationalekonomi; ekonometri; economic policy; economic systems; economic theory; econometrics; Economics; Discrete Choice; Welfare; Child Health; Water and Sanitation; Household Demand; ekonomiska system; ekonomisk politik; Public health; epidemiology; Folkhälsa; epidemiologi; Environmental health; Miljömedicin;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on different aspects of household demand, and the determinants of demand, for water and sanitation related inputs fundamental to the households' well-being, i.e. drinking water and toilet facilities. The thesis consists of five chapters, one introductory chapter and four self-contained, essentially empirical, studies. LÄS MER

7. 25. Sawubona MAMA : using mHealth to improve maternal, neonatal and child health outcomes in South Africa

   Författare :Jesse Coleman; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Sammanfattning : BACKGROUND: At the end of the first decade of the 2000’s, South Africa had poor, and worsening, maternal and neonatal health outcomes. In parallel, the use of mobile phone technology to support health care (mHealth) increased dramatically. LÄS MER