Sökning: "illness behaviour"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 88 avhandlingar innehållade orden illness behaviour.
1. Office illness : the worker, the work and the workplace
Sammanfattning : The work started with the clinical observations in patients working in buildings with indoor air problems. Signs of seborrhoeic dermatitis, erythematous facial skin conditions and itching conditions on the trunk were noted. Another point of departure was the attribution of facial skin symptoms to VDT work by patients. LÄS MER
2. Carpe Diem or Seize your Health? The Economics of Time Preferences, Health, and Education : Carpe Diem eller fånga din hälsa? Nationalekonomisk forskning om tidspreferenser, hälsa och utbildning
Sammanfattning : Who is more likely to follow medical recommendations, invest in their health and pursue higher degrees of schooling? Behavioral economic theory provides a clear answer to this question: more patient individuals (who discount future outcomes less heavily) should be more likely to choose costs and forgo utility now, in order to get better long-run outcomes. But does this behavioral theory match up with peoples' real choices? If so, can it be used to predict important future life events? In four different chapters, this thesis shed new light on education, illness, and death outcomes. LÄS MER
3. On the notion of mental illness : Problematizing the medical-model conception of certain abnormal behaviour and mental afflictions
Sammanfattning : This study inquires into some polemics concerning the notion of mentalillness or disease. Some central arguments in the debate on psychiatry, of the 1960's and early 70's, are focused on.The analysis is performed in two steps. LÄS MER
4. The human condition : psychology and illness
Sammanfattning : The theme of this thesis is the importance of psychosocial factors in the development of psychosomatic illness and cancer. Critics have maintained that a strictly natural scientific view of the individual and his suffering is too restricted for an understanding of often reported psychosocial elements in the pathological picture. LÄS MER
5. Predicting Health Behaviour – Population-Based Studies of Knowledge and Behaviour Related to Cardiovascular Diseases
Sammanfattning : The overall aim was to study factors that affect behaviour related to CVD (cardiovascular diseases). Study I tested whether gender, education and so-cioeconomic status correlated to knowledge about risk factors, and Study II studied knowledge and risk behaviour from a national perspective (Sweden versus Poland). LÄS MER
