Sökning: "Treatment Refusal"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden Treatment Refusal.

  1. 1. Assessing Capacity to Decide on Medical Treatment: On Human Rights and the Use of Medical Knowledge in the Laws of England, Russia and Sweden

    Författare :Yana Litins'ka; Anna-Sara Lind; Lena Wahlberg; Mette Hartlev; Offentlig rätt; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Legal capacity; Mental capacity; Decison-making capacity; Capacity assessment; Medical treatment; Consent; Refusal; Right to privacy; Right to life; Discrimination; Right to health; Disability; Decision-making; CRPD; ECHR; Human rights; Mental disorder; English law; Russian law; Swedish law; Somatic care; Psychiatric care; Medicinsk rätt; beslutsförmåga; beslutskompetens; samtycke; vägran; Psykiatrisk vård; Äldre; funktionshinder; Europakonventionen; konventionen om rättigheter för personer med funktionsnedsättning; psykisk störning; Ryssland; England; Sverige; rätten till privatliv; Rätten till liv; Rätten till hälsa; Diskriminering; Komparativ rätt; Mänskliga rättigheter; vetenskap och beprövad erfarenhet; legal capacity; Medicinsk rätt;

    Sammanfattning : To provide a valid consent to – or refusal of – medical intervention, a patient must be legally capable to decide. This dissertation evaluates and compares when the assessment of mental abilities to refuse – or consent to – somatic medical intervention is required in England, Russia and Sweden, and what criteria must be applied to assess the ability to decide about somatic medical interventions in these legal orders. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Complementary and alternative medicine in cancer : from utilization to a randomized controlled trial

    Författare :Kathrin Wode; Per Fransson; Roger Henriksson; Lena Sharp; Johanna Hök Nordberg; Vinjar Magne Fønnebø; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; oncology; epidemiology; evidence-based medicine; neoplasms; pancreatic neoplasms; adult; integrative oncology; complementary therapies; treatment refusal; communication; physician-patient relations; mistletoe; palliative care; quality of life; cross-sectional studies; qualitative research; randomized controlled trial; Sweden; Europe; medicin; Medicine;

    Sammanfattning : Background: Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) are non-conventional health care approaches used in parallel with or instead of conventional medicine. Little is known about Swedish patients’ patterns of complementary CAM use in the context of cancer. LÄS MER

  4. 3. The Maternal Migration Effect : Exploring Maternal Healthcare in Diaspora Using Qualitative Proxies for Medical Anthropology

    Författare :Pauline Binder; Birgitta Essén; Sara Johnsdotter; Helen Lambert; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :caesarean section; care encounter; constructivist; interpreter use; migration; Somali; African immigrant; socio-cultural factors; International Health; Internationell hälsa;

    Sammanfattning : This project explores the 'maternal migration effect'. Following migration to a high-income country with a low maternal mortality rate, we assume that some immigrant women’s reliance upon maternal practices that respond to a low-income, high-mortality context can adversely affect care-seeking and utilization of treatment facilities. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Autonomy and decision-making capacity : studies on the ethics of self-determination in healthcare

    Författare :Manne Sjöstrand; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Sammanfattning : The thesis discusses the concepts of autonomy and decision-making capacity and their normative relevance in healthcare. It is based on five studies. The first study discusses autonomy and the ethics of compulsory treatment in psychiatry. Different lines of reasoning regarding the justification of compulsory treatment are discussed. LÄS MER

  7. 5. HIV trends, risk behaviours, social structural barriers and retention in HIV care among key populations in Nepal and the Asia-Pacific region

    Författare :Keshab Deuba; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Nyckelord :Condom use behaviour;

    Sammanfattning : Background: The HIV epidemic in the Asia-Pacific region is characterised by a number of concentrated, and in some geographical areas, growing epidemics, particularly among key populations [men who have sex with men (MSM), transgender (TG), female sex workers (FSW), and people who inject drugs (PWID)]. Some countries in the region have been particularly successful in reducing the incidence rate, but other countries in the region have experienced opposite scenarios. LÄS MER