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Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 478 avhandlingar innehållade orden living environment.
16. Home, health and participation for community living people with disability
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis was to contribute to the understanding of aspects related to home, health and participation for community living people with disability and identify different groups with different needs for interventions. Study I used focus groups to explore aspects of importance for participation. LÄS MER
17. 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
18. Neighborhood environment and physical activity
Sammanfattning : Introduction Insufficient levels of physical activity are one of the top contributors to global mortality, and it is an important public health priority to increase the proportion of physically active people in the population. The interest in environmental determinants of physical activity has been rapidly increasing over the past few years. LÄS MER
19. Organic Bioelectronic Devices for Selective Biomarker Sensing : Towards Integration with Living Systems
Sammanfattning : Inorganic materials have been the main players of the semiconductor industry for the past forty years. However, there has been a continuous interest and growth in the research and in the application of organic semiconductors (OSCs) as active materials in electronic devices, due to the possibility to process these materials at low temperature on flexible substrates, fabricate them on large-area, and upscale their fabrication using cost-effective strategies such as printing. LÄS MER
20. Participation through ICT : – studies of the use and access to ICT for young adults with intellectual disability
Sammanfattning : The right to full participation in society is stated in law to ensure that vulnerable groups such as people with intellectual disability have the same rights and possibilities as the general population. Technological development has changed the conditions of participation in society, including the types of interactions, information and societal services. LÄS MER
