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Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 699 avhandlingar innehållade orden health and childhood.
16. Iron and zinc in infancy : results from experimental trials in Sweden and Indonesiaa
Sammanfattning : Background: Iron and zinc are difficult to provide in sufficient amounts in complementary foods to infants world-wide, resulting in high prevalence of both iron and zinc deficiency. These deficiency states cause anemia, delayed neurodevelopment, impaired growth, and increased susceptibility to infections such as diarrhea and respiratory infections. LÄS MER
17. Resilience, mental health, and exposure to violence among individuals with former or current experiences of being a refugee in Sweden : quantitative and qualitative studies
Sammanfattning : Studies indicate that individuals with current or former experiences of being a refugee are more likely to have experienced adverse events, like violence, and face mental health challenges in their host countries. After arrival in host countries, people with refugee experiences often confront various post-migration adversities like discrimination. LÄS MER
18. Troubled childhoods cast long shadows : Studies of childhood adversity and premature mortality in a Swedish post-war birth cohort
Sammanfattning : Taking a life course approach can help us to understand health inequalities. This thesis illustrates that socially-patterned childhood experiences might play a critical role for inequalities in mortality. The association between childhood adversity and premature mortality is investigated in the context of a 1953 Stockholm birth cohort. LÄS MER
19. Inequalities in Health : the Importance of Material/Structural Factors and Psychosocial Resources
Sammanfattning : Socioeconomic inequalities in health are well-documented in most countries. Health differences have been shown to follow a gradient, where health status in average is somewhat poorer for every lower level in the social hierarchy. Notably, the welfare state Sweden is no exception. LÄS MER
20. Asthma in school age : prevalence, incidence and remission in relation to environmental determinants
Sammanfattning : Background In the past half-century, the prevalence of asthma among children and adolescents has risen and asthma has become an important public health challenge in Sweden as well as in many other countries, necessitating further studies on this complex disease and its risk factor pattern. The studies included in this thesis aimed to investigate the clinical expression of childhood asthma over time, to describe the determinants of new-onset and remission of asthma, and to evaluate possible environmental risk factors in northern Sweden. LÄS MER
