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Illness perception and fatigue after myocardial infarction
(2009-05-15)
Treatment of myocardial infarction (MI) has undergone major advances in recent years, including reductions in mortality and hospital stays. To optimize patients’ recovery, secondary preventive strategies are important. ...
Mechanical Exposure Variability in Industrial Assembly Work
(Arbetslivsinstitutet, 2001)
Many industrial assembly tasks may be characterised as repetitive and monotonous, which increases the risk of developing musculoskeletal disorders, in particular in the upper limbs. Hence, an increased variation within the ...
Relationer som arbete : Förutsättningar för omsorgsfulla möten i hemtjänsten
(Arbetslivsinstitutet, 2003)
Relating as a primary task Prerequisites for sustainable caring relations in home-care service The overall purpose of this thesis is to examine job content and work conditions in home care for the elderly and disabled from ...
Osteoporosis in SLE
(2008-12-03)
As the treatment of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) has become more effective the focus has partly shifted from main concern of short term morbidity and survival to long term complications such as osteoporosis. The aims ...
Quality of life, school performance, treatment adherence and gender differences in asthma.
(2009-10-19)
The aims of this thesis were to estimate the effectiveness of a computerized asthma education
program designed to suit young people (I), to analyze whether quality of life changed over a
five year period and whether young ...
Vision versus reality in organizational change
(Arbetslivsinstitutet, 2005)
The work reported here focuses on models and strategies for organizational change and technical renewal in Swedish industry. The overall purpose of the thesis is to shed light on the experience of change processes in ...
Human responses to cold and wind
(Arbetslivsinstitutet, 2003)
Cold is stressful for the human being and has physical, subjective and physiological effects. Body cooling must be prevented to provide for the worker s comfort and safety in cold workplaces. The effects of cold were ...
Molecular mechanisms in obesity-associated metabolic disease
(2007-07-12)
Obesity is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Subjects with obesity are at risk of developing several serious conditions such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease and stroke. This thesis ...
Myocardial metabolism and ischemia assessed by microdialysis. Clinical and experimental studies in cardiac surgery
(2006-11-23)
Background: The available methods to study myocardial metabolism and ischemia show considerable limitations when employed during and after cardiac surgery. Microdialysis is a technique for continuous sampling of substances ...
Early Prostate Cancer, On prognostic markers and predictors of treatment outcome after radical prostatectomy.
(2007-11-19)
The incidence of prostate cancer (PC) has increased by 4.6% annually in Sweden during the past ten years. Today’s clinically used prognostic markers are not accurate enough to separate the potentially life-threatening ...