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Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 78 avhandlingar innehållade ordet epidemics.

  1. 16. Saving the child : regional, cultural and social aspects of the infant mortality decline in Iceland, 1770-1920

    Författare :ӓlöf Garðarsdóttir; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; infant mortality; neonatal mortality; breastfeeding; infant feeding; midwives; physicians; hygiene; neonatal tetanus; measles; fertility; literacy; history of medicine; Iceland;

    Sammanfattning : The dissertation deals with the infant mortality decline in Iceland during the 19th and early 20th Century. It shows that despite its low degree of urbanization, pre-transitional Iceland displayed higher infant mortality rates than most other European countries. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Pestens gåta : farsoter i det tidiga 1700-talets Skåne

    Författare :Bodil Persson; Historia; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; pestilential fevers; diagnosis; symptoms; pattern of distribution; demography; causes of death; burial records; epizootics; rats; rodents; lice; fleas; regional and local analysis; scurvy; epidemic typhus fever; measles; Plague; smallpox; plague vectors; Modern history up to circa 1800 ; Tidig modern historia till ca. 1800 ; Public health; epidemiology; Folkhälsa; epidemiologi;

    Sammanfattning : This study deals with Sweden’s last outbreak of the plague with focus on Skåne, where the epidemic raged for three years - from late autumn 1710 to late autumn 1713. This was a time of war, crop failures as well as other simultaneously occurring epidemics. LÄS MER

  4. 18. On gastrointestinal viral infections

    Författare :Thomas Beck-Friis; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; norovirus; rotavirus; SARS-CoV-2; gastroenteritis; diagnosis; elderly; epidemiology; humidity; COVID-19; genomic structural variation;

    Sammanfattning : Gastrointestinal viral infections cause considerable morbidity and mortality worldwide. Many factors influencing clinical presentation, disease severity, epidemiology, and transmission are not fully understood. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Viral respiratory tract infections in children

    Författare :Johan Hamrin; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Sammanfattning : The most common infection in humans is viral respiratory tract infections which predominantly present as the ‘common cold’. In some circumstances however, respiratory viruses cause acute lower respiratory tract infections (RTIs) and due to the high absolute number of infection the contribution of these cases to total morbidity and mortality are substantial. LÄS MER

  7. 20. Perilous Silences and Counterproductive Narratives Pertaining to HIV/AIDS in the Ugandan, Lesotho and Namibian Press

    Författare :Cecilia Strand; Mats Edenius; Lowe Hedman; Thomas Tufte; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HIV AIDS; mass media; homosexuality; Africa; Media and communication studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Media and Communication Studies; International Health; Internationell hälsa;

    Sammanfattning : Research on Western mainstream media’s framing of HIV/AIDS in the 1980’s, showed that media narratives influenced audiences’ understanding of the epidemic, as well as society’s responses. Subsequently, by analyzing a society’s mass media and its framing of HIV/AIDS, it is possible to explore what understandings are given preferential treatment in that society, as well as explore what social change those narratives indirectly or directly facilitate. LÄS MER