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Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 1949 avhandlingar innehållade orden Technology and Health.
16. Social Challenges when Implementing Information Systems in a Swedish Healthcare Organization
Sammanfattning : When the Swedish National IT Strategy for Health and Social Care was introduced in 2006, intensive work started in implementing Information Systems (IS) in Swedish healthcare organizations. To follow up on the requests for more research with a combined socio-technical focus on challenges, the overall aim of this thesis was to identify social challenges when implementing IS in a Swedish healthcare organization. LÄS MER
17. Ergonomics Infrastructure - An Organizational Roadmap to Improved Production Ergonomics
Sammanfattning : Improving production ergonomics is a pursuit common to many companies in different industrial sectors. At the core is an aspiration to eliminate risks for work-related musculo-skeletal disorders (MSDs), but modern views on ergonomics have evolved the discipline from a purely physiological, instrumental concern to an organizational, holistic systems-performance discipline (macroergonomics). LÄS MER
18. Health and safety management of hand-arm vibration : preconditions and outcomes
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of the research presented in this thesis was to gain increased knowledge and understanding of aspects and actors that contribute to the preconditions and outcomes for proactive health and safety managementregarding vibration exposure. The main objectives were: 1) to investigate carpenters´ perceptions of the proactive health and safety management at their work sites, and 2) to carry out an exploratory investigation of the aspectsand actors that can influence the implementation of planned change processes in four industries regarding lowvibration hand-held power tools. LÄS MER
19. Development, application, and reliability of methods for ergonomic workload assessments in production evaluation and workstation design
Sammanfattning : Ergonomics assessments of conditions for humans at workstations and in manufacturing processes are necessary to prevent work-related musculoskeletal disorders and enhance efficiency and quality. Many methods can be used for this from systematic observations to direct measurements and simulation. LÄS MER
20. Physical activity among patients with cardiovascular disease : a predictor of hospital care utilisation and mortality in clinical work
Sammanfattning : Guidelines highlight the importance of physical activity (PA) in secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) within the healthcare sector. Previous studies have mainly focused on the effects of PA at moderate-vigorous intensity performed within exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR). LÄS MER