Sökning: "transitions in old age"

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1. 6. Essays in Macroeconomics and Household Finance

   Författare :Richard Foltyn; Per Krusell; Kurt Mitman; Paolo Sodini; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : Experience-based Learning, Stock Market Participation and Portfolio ChoiceRecent evidence suggests that lifetime experiences play an important role in determining households' investment choices. I incorporate these findings and the fact that household portfolios are underdiversified into an otherwise standard life-cycle model and examine to what extent they can help resolve long-standing puzzles in the literature regarding stock market participation and the fraction of financial wealth invested in risky assets. LÄS MER

3. 7. Leisure in late life : patterns of participation and relationship with health

   Författare :Neda Agahi; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Nyckelord :Leisure activities; participation; middle age; old age; Sweden; longitudinal;

   Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate aspects of leisure participation in late life. More specifically, differences in participation rates between two cohorts of older adults and changes in leisure activities from middle age to old age were examined, as well as the association between leisure activities and survival. LÄS MER

4. 8. Att ge liv : aspekter av fruktbarhet i tid och rum

   Författare :Penny Fagerberg; Susanne Lundin; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; pedagogik; Education;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of the study is to explore the context in wich fertility - to give life - is perceived. Human beings are by necessity constructing meaning in order to survive, it is a part of their biological preconditions. Meaning is created and constructed in a society and a culture at a given historic time. LÄS MER

5. 9. The Health Dialogue concept : School children's Self-Reported-Health in a Swedish Context

   Författare :Malin Rising Holmström; Kenneth Asplund; Lisbeth Kristiansen; Niclas Olofsson; Ina Borup; Mittuniversitetet; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Health promotion; health dialogue; longitudinal design; school nurses; schoolchildren; self-reported-health.; Hälsofrämjande arbete; Hälsosamtal; longitudinell design; självrapporterad hälsa; skolbarn; skolsköterskor.;

   Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis was to explore and describe schoolchildren's selfreported-health based on the Health Dialogue concept as well as to identify healthindicators and their possible associations in the perspective of 6 to 16 year-olds,and to provide an analysis of school nurses´ experiences of using the HealthDialogue concept, in the County of Västernorrland. The thesis was based on fourstudies (I-IV). LÄS MER

7. 10. The worries of working : Longitudinal studies on the impact of employment uncertainty and employment transitions on clinically defined mental health conditions

   Författare :Sandra Blomqvist; Linda Magnusson Hanson; Hugo Westerlund; Sarah Burgard; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Employment uncertainty; Organizational downsizing; Job insecurity; Mental health; Psychotropic drugs; Suicide; Suicide attempt; Longitudinal studies; Survey data; Register data; Generalized Estimating Equations; Marginal Structural Models; folkhälsovetenskap; Public Health Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : While mental health problems according psychotropic drug purchases and sick leave spells for psychiatric disorders have increased in Sweden the past 15 years, this is not reflected in trends of psychiatric diagnoses or suicide mortality. In parallel, labor markets have undergone structural changes pressuring employers to increase their flexibility to ensure permanence. LÄS MER