Sökning: "sociology of health and illness"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 27 avhandlingar innehållade orden sociology of health and illness.
1. Doing informal care : Identity, couplehood, social health and information and communication technologies in older people’s everyday lives
Sammanfattning : The aim of the thesis has been a) to analyse how informal care influences the identity of carers and care recipients, their sense of couplehood and social health, and b) to explore the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the context of informal care and the everyday lives of older people. Study I focused on how older carers conceptualised their identity as carers on a Swedish online social forum, using a netnographic methodology. LÄS MER
2. Gränsdragningar i Vårdens Vardag : Hanteringen av arbetsrelaterad psykisk ohälsa i det svenska välfärdssystemet
Sammanfattning : Psykisk ohälsa i arbetslivet är ett stort och växande problem i välfärdssamhället. Problemet har flera bottnar och väcker många frågor om vem som har ansvar, vad det egentligen är för ett slags fenomen och hur det bör hanteras. LÄS MER
3. Growing up with poor health and managing school : Studies on ill health and young people's educational achievements
Sammanfattning : Aim and objectives: The overall aim of this thesis was to empirically investigate consequences of poor health for children’s educational outcomes in Sweden. A central tenet is that health problems impact not only the afflicted individual but also people in their social and emotional proximity, in particular immediate family members. LÄS MER
4. Categorization Work in the Swedish Welfare State : Doctors and social insurance officers on persons with mental ill-health
Sammanfattning : This dissertation contributes to the debate on street-level bureaucracy, which highlights how the decisions made by workers in public bureaucracies effectively become public policy. This debate has paid relatively little attention to the study of how professionals carry out their work by means of institutional categorization, a knowledge gap that this study helps to close. LÄS MER
5. Den ojämlika ohälsan : om klass- och könsskillnader i sjuklighet
Sammanfattning : This study addresses the question of inequalities in health between social classes and betweenmen and women. The purpose of the study is threefold, namely 1) to map class and sex differencesin illnes in Sweden, 2) to seek an explanation for class differences in health and 3) toseek an explanation for sex differences in health. LÄS MER
