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Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade ordet juth.
1. Finding an emotional face in a crowd and the role of threat-biased attention in social anxiety
Sammanfattning : The evolutionary perspective on the functionality of prioritizing efficient threat detection (Öhman, 1986, 1993) provided the foundation for a hypothesis of an attentional bias for preferential detection of angry faces in a group of faces. Furthermore, an evolutionary analysis implied that such a threat bias would be enhanced in socially anxious individuals, whose bias for detecting threat in faces would be potentiated by their increased sensitivity for facial signals of social dominance. LÄS MER
2. Genetic Information - Values and Rights. The morality of presymptomatic genetic testing
Sammanfattning : The focal point of this dissertation is the question of the value of and right to genetic information from presymptomatic genetic testing that may reveal risk of disease. This question is discussed regarding first parties, that is, the person on whom the test is performed, second parties, that is, blood relatives’ of first parties, and third parties, such as insurance companies and employers. LÄS MER
3. Advance Directives and Personal Identity
Sammanfattning : Advance directives are instructions given by patients – or potential patients – specifying what actions ought to be taken for their health in the event that they are no longer capable to make decisions due to illness or incapacity. Over the last decades, there has been a rising tide in favour of advance directives: not only is the use of such directives recommended by most medical and advisory bodies, they are also gaining increasing legal recognition in many parts of the world. LÄS MER
4. Characterising Needs in Health Care Priority Setting
Sammanfattning : The focus of this thesis is needs in the context of health care priority setting. The notion of needs has a strong standing in health care policy; however, how the idea should be understood more specifically and how it should guide decisions about priority setting remain contentious issues. LÄS MER
5. Lika men ändå olika : Språkscreening av enspråkiga och flerspråkiga barn vid 2,5-3 år på BVC
Sammanfattning : Children who do not develop their language as expected are at risk of difficulties in school and with peer relations. The Swedish Child Health Services (CHS) offer preventive health surveillance, including language screening, at 2.5-3 years. However, the screening has only been validated for monolingual children. LÄS MER
