Sökning: "avoidable factors"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 23 avhandlingar innehållade orden avoidable factors.
1. Improving quality of perinatal care through clinical audit : a study from a tertiary hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Sammanfattning : Perinatal audit has been tested and proved an important tool for reduction of perinatal mortality and assessment of quality of perinatal care. At Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH), a tertiary hospital in Dar es salaam, Tanzania we performed a retrospective cross-sectional study using data from an obstetrics database to classify all perinatal deaths during 1999-2003. LÄS MER
2. Social Inequalities in Child Health : Type 1 Diabetes, Obesity, Cardiovascular Risk Factors and the Role of Self-control
Sammanfattning : The Swedish Commission on Health Inequality defined health inequality as systematic differences in health between groups in society with different social positions. All avoidable socioeconomic health inequalities are unfair, and as stated by WHO's Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, we have a moral obligation to try to reduce them. LÄS MER
3. The loss of a husband to cancer : additional and avoidable psychological traumata
Sammanfattning : Background: The loss of a loved partner is a stressful event and the long-term outcome of such a trauma may partly be determined by characteristics of the death. When death is the result of a chronic illness such as cancer, the future widow may have an opportunity to prepare for the forthcoming death but may also be exposed to the additional burden of her husband's suffering. LÄS MER
4. On intestinal ischaemia after aortoiliac surgery : Epidemiological, clinical and experimental studies
Sammanfattning : An important cause of death among patients undergoing surgery of the abdominal aorta is intestinal ischaemia. In the Swedish Vascular Registry 2930 aortoiliac operations were identified. The complication was studied in a combined cohort and case-control study, and multivariate analysis performed. The incidence of intestinal ischaemia was 2. LÄS MER
5. Equity in Treatment and Outcomes among Heart Failure Patients in Sweden : The role of gender, age and socioeconomic factors in access to treatment and mortality
Sammanfattning : There is extensive empirical evidence for inequity in health and health care between and within countries across all economic levels worldwide. In Sweden, the Health and Medical Services Act states that health care should provide good health and equal health care for the entire population, but this goal has yet to be fulfilled. LÄS MER