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6. Caregivers' Singing Facilitates Mutual Encounter : Implementation and Evaluation of Music Therapeutic Caregiving in Complex Dementia care Situations
Sammanfattning : Persons with severe dementia suffer from major cognitive impairment, and are in need of considerable caring services. They commonly react with problematic behaviors, such as resistance and aggression in close care (e.g., morning care situations). LÄS MER
7. Designing Healing. A Conceptual Model for Promoting a Healing Health Care Environment in Tanzania
Sammanfattning : Better health services are a basic human right of approximately 40 million people in Tanzania, calling for an improved architecture of Health Care Facilities (HCFs) so as to provide a healing health care environment that supports wellness as well as diagnosis and treatment. Healing design concepts of medical and architectural researchers are in line with life styles, contemporary architectural styles and social cultural systems in the western world, while in Tanzania, although cultural heritage is emphasized as the backbone of sustainable development, very little effort has been made to incorporate cultural elements and vernacular architecture into contemporary HCF designs. LÄS MER
8. Controlled by Knowledge : A Study of two Clinical pathways in Mental Healthcare
Sammanfattning : Standardisation of professional work is a major policy concern to ensure quality and efficiency of services and a number of hospitals are now focusing on the use of clinical pathways as an important tool to standardise their work. This study sheds light on the processes set in motion when notions of standardisation meet local practice. LÄS MER
9. Quality of primary care and self-management of patients with type 2 diabetes in Muscat, Oman
Sammanfattning : Background: Diabetes mellitus is the most common non-communicable disease in Oman and its control remains a huge challenge for the health system. Objectives: The first three studies aimed at exploring how health-care providers interacted with patients with type 2 diabetes at primary health-care level in Muscat, Oman, how the patients perceived these interactions and how the health care providers perceived diabetes care. LÄS MER
10. Women Survivors, Lost Children and Traumatized Masculinities : The Phenomena of Rape and War in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to investigate the phenomenon of war rape in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in order to understand the dynamics, contextual realities and consequences of its perpetration. Practical and theoretical knowledge is generated which is relevant for health care interventions, humanitarian assistance and peace initiatives, that are cognizant of the actual needs of the affected populations. LÄS MER