Sökning: "advocates"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 138 avhandlingar innehållade ordet advocates.
1. Advocates of Realpolitik : Sweden, Europe and the Helsinki Final Act
Sammanfattning : Sweden is traditionally portrayed as an active critic and mediator or bridge builder in international politics during the 1960s and 1970s. The activation of Swedish foreign policy, often ascribed to Prime Minister Olof Palme, has been lauded as a transformation from armed isolationism to internationalist solidarity. LÄS MER
2. Hypocrites, Devil's Advocates, and Bandwagoneers : Essays on Costly Signaling
Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis contains three essays, all studying different aspects of costly signaling in social interactions. The first chapter explains Hypocrisy as an equilibrium outcome of strategic interactions where society cares about a person's private identity but only observes public actions. LÄS MER
3. Advocates and Voices. Swedish patient associations, their importance to individuals with cancer and collaboration with health care
Sammanfattning : Patient associations (PAs) have an increasing impact for their members and for the health care system. This thesis studies PAs for cancer patients (PACPs) ? currently with over 20 000 members in Sweden ? regarding coverage, activities, and collaboration with the health care system with specific reference to the members? experiences. LÄS MER
4. The Proliferation of Evidence-based Medicine : Ideas, Translations and Advocates
Sammanfattning : In the last few decades, the idea of evidence-based medicine (EBM) has proliferated throughout the world. EBM is, in its essence, an idea that is based on the assumption that doctors need to integrate evidence from clinical research into their patient care. LÄS MER
5. Sjuksköterskor som patienters företrädare : Med huvudsakligt fokus på företrädarskap för äldre patienter i kommunal hälso- och sjukvård
Sammanfattning : The overall aim was to study nurses’ and managers’ attitudes towards micro social patient advocacy (I) and factors related to patient advocacy (II, III) with the main focus being on advocacy in the care of older patients in community health care together with psychometric testing of the instrument 'Attitudes toward Patient Advocacy Scale-Attitudes toward MIcrosocial Advocacy' (IV).Methods: A quantiative cross-sectional study and a qualitative study were carried out. LÄS MER