Sökning: "interventions"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 2246 avhandlingar innehållade ordet interventions.
1. Addressing poor educational outcomes among children with out-of-home care experience : Studies on impact, pathways, and interventions
Sammanfattning : Children with out-of-home care (OHC; foster family/residential care) experience is a high-risk group for future adverse outcomes. With an ambition of supporting the design of effective preventive child welfare measures targeting children in OHC, the overall aim of this thesis is to examine education as a possible intervention path for improving their development and overall life chances. LÄS MER
2. Democracy and UN-interventions : A study of state commitment to UN-interventions 1991-1999
Sammanfattning : After the Cold War a new world-order is in the making. The 1990s prove to be a seminal decade for sketching the contours of the emerging order. This developing order indicates a change in the legitimate use of force. LÄS MER
3. The role of implementation science in healthcare improvement efforts : investigating three complex interventions
Sammanfattning : For decades, scholars have found significant gaps between the knowledge available and the knowledge applied in healthcare. Many potential benefits of adequate knowledge based interventions are therefore never achieved. A considerable body of knowledge has evolved on how to promote a better uptake of evidence-based knowledge into routine use. LÄS MER
4. Using social norms in energy conservation interventions
Sammanfattning : When designing interventions to promote pro-environmental behaviors, practitioners may choose between techniques based on, for example, education, incentives, or social norms. These intervention techniques may, however, target different kinds of motivation, and therefore differ in their psychological and behavioral implications. LÄS MER
5. Child physical abuse : Reports and interventions
Sammanfattning : This thesis was begun in 1998 at a time when increased numbers of police reports regarding child physical abuse was presented. The increase had been overshadowed by the research on the sexual abuse of children and showed that child physical abuse in Sweden had only been scarcely investigated since the institution of the Swedish anti spanking law in 1979. LÄS MER