Background. Describing the illness-story from a patient perspective could increase understanding of living with a chronic disease for health professionals and others, facilitate decision-making about treatment and enhance information about the outcome from a patient perspective. Aim. To illuminate patients' illness experiences of having a gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD), going through sur

Background: Improving maternal and reproductive health still remains a major challenge in most low-income countries especially in sub-Saharan Africa. The growing inequality in access to maternal health interventions is an issue of great concern. In Ghana, inadequate attention has been given to the inequality gap that exists amongst women when accessing antenatal care during pregnancy and skilled a

Popular Abstract in SwedishBarn till föräldrar med psykisk ohälsa är en eftersatt grupp. Syftet med denna studie är att studera pedagogers utveckling som kompletterande anknytningsperson i relation till en tre-årig fortbildning.Fortbildnigen ägde rum samtidigt som pedagogerna arbetade och innehöll teorier om barns utveckling, nämligen anknytningsteori, affektteori samt Sterns teori om barns självuChildren whose parents suffer from mental illness are a neglected group. The child´s need of a secure predictable grown up, is not always compatible with the parents abilities to care for the child. The objective in the thesis is to study and analyse preschool teacher´s development in relation to an in-service training for a period of three years and to study the development of the teacher´s work

Background: Intimate partner violence against women is a prevailing public health problem in Tanzania, where four of ten women have a lifetime exposure to physical or sexual violence by their male partners. To be able to suggest relevant and feasible community and health care based interventions, we explored community members' understanding and their responses to intimate partner violence. Methods

Abstract Authors: Johan Nilsson and Emma Johnsson Title: Självbestämmandets villkor - en uppstats om personalens förhållningssätt på gruppboenden inom LSS Supervisor: Lars Harrysson The aim of this study was to examine how staff members within the work area of group homes for disabled grownups conduct themselves in relation to their clients’ rights to self-determination. The base of the study was

Uppsatsens huvudsakliga syfte är att utreda om det med härledning till EU-rätten och EUD:s rättspraxis kan utrönas en gränsdragning för när en privatperson till-handahåller tjänster kan anses göra detta i egenskap av en beskattningsbar person och följaktligen faller transaktionen under mervärdesskatterättens tillämpnings-område. Utredningens analytiska utgångspunkt utgår från det ekonomiska sam-liThis essay's main purpose is to examine when a private individual, who provides services, can be considered to do this as a taxable person and therefore falls under the scope of VAT. This survey's analytical starting point is based on the economic concept collaborative consumption. The term describes an economic model which is based on the coordination of individuals' consumption needs

This thesis focuses on both street art and outdoor advertisements in Istanbul. Specifically, we chose Istiklal and Bağdat Avenues as our fieldwork areas to conduct our research. With its cosmopolitan structure Istiklal Avenue and high-standard lifestyle Bağdat Avenue together represent Istanbul to understand the multifaceted nature of social, cultural and political identities of the society. In re

This study will focus on how patients that suffer from self-injurious behaviours experience the relation between their self and body according to some professionals. The purpose is to enlighten why a person who has mental problems chooses to injure his or her body. We believe that the reason behind this is based on the early attachment between the parent and child. We also believe that a person on

Compulsory licensing is used to prevent the owner of an intellectual property right from refusing to exploit that right in a country or from being the sole provider of a product by forcing him to permit competition from other producers', subject only to their payment of a reasonable royalty or licence fee. When a compulsory license is used to remedy an abuse of competition law, issues of confl

Today, 14 years have gone since the whole world turned their backs on Rwanda, the small country in East Africa, during a time when its population needed us the most. These were the same nations that already after the Second World War had made a promise about ''Never Again'', then meaning that they would never again allow another attempt to exterminate an entire ethnic group. It was

Title: Do you hear my feelings? The purpose of this work was to find out in what extent the intentions and feelings of a performing musician reach the listener. To look into this I let a musician perform a piece. The performance was recorded and the recording was played to a group of listeners, in this case three students at the education of eurhythmics at Malmö Academy of Music, that were to reac

In recent years extensive medical progress has been made regarding HIV- research and with the assistance of antiretroviral drugs people who are infected with HIV are now able to live for a much longer time. Despite these advancements HIV is still an incurable and deadly disease and in 2007 541 new cases were reported in Sweden. HIV-infection is not common among young Swedish people. However, the i

Purpose: In viewing that consumers are important stakeholders in supporting or opposing retailers’ corporate social responsibilities (CSR) activities while existing CSR communication does not address directly to consumers, the paper aims to explore how retailers could use retail store environment to communicate CSR with consumers. Methodology: This study uses qualitative research method, includin

Vad händer bakom museimontrar och magasindörrar? Vem bestämmer vilket kulturarv som ska bevaras och vilken del av det ska utställas? Vem driver det osynliga maskineriet av museernas backstage-funktioner och genomför dagliga museirutiner? Museer som modernitetsinstitutioner har en särskild roll i processen för kunskapsproduktion och maktfördelning inom samhällen, först och främst genom att synliggöWhat exactly happens behind museum displays and repository doors? Who decides what heritage has to be preserved and what part of it should be exhibited? Who operates all this invisible machinery of the museums’ backstage functions and executes its daily routines? Museums as institutions of modernity have a specific role in the process of knowledge production and power redistribution within societi

Syftet med uppsatsen är att utreda gränsdragningen av ett samtyckes ansvarsbefriande verkan vid misshandelsfall av normalgraden i sexuella sammanhang. Dessa fall rör sig i gränslandet mellan det straffbara och det straffria. Uppsatsen utreder gränslandet genom att se till hur ett ansvarsbefriande samtycke är uppbyggt. Det konstateras att det krävs ett giltigt samtycke och att själva gärningen inteThe purpose of this bachelor thesis is to investigate the boundary of a consent exonerating effect on assaults of the normal degree made in a sexual context. Such cases are located at the boundary between the criminal and impunity. The paper investigates the boundary area by looking at how an exonerating consent is constructed. It is noted that there is a need for a valid consent and that the act

The increase in population and urbanization has led to widespread concern about the resulting volume of consumption. This is especially problematic in the housing market, where home size continues to grow. In the United States the average size of a single-family home has doubled since 1950, leading to a profound environmental impact. This paper will seek to address the problem of overconsumption b

Frågan om rätt till heltid på arbetsmarknaden har länge varit omdebatterad. Kraven på rätt till heltid drivs såväl av de fackliga organisationerna som av politiker. Det kan vara svårt att försörja sig på ett deltidsarbete, och ur den aspekten har den deltidsanställde ett berättigat intresse av att kräva ett så högt arbetstidsmått som möjligt. Arbetsgivaren har å andra sidan ett intresse av att anpThe issue about the right to work full time has been debated for long time. The demand for the right to work full time is driven by the trade union movement as well as by politicians. It can be hard to earn a living when you work part-time, and from that aspect the part-time worker has an entitled interest to ask for such a high employment rate as possible. On the other hand the employer has an in

material Expression Reception and Recall of Narrative Instrument (ERRNI) in six- and eightyear old children with typical language development. ERRNI provides information about a person's narrative skills, including expressive language and story comprehension. ERRNI can be used in a clinical context, by speech language pathologists or psychologists, when evaluating nan·ative skills in both chil

Water availability faces increasing pressure due to economic growth, population growth,greater affluence as well as climate change. For companies, this could lead to higher businessrisks as water is often a key ingredient in their operations for example in cooling, steamgeneration and cleaning. Moreover, companies might be competing over water with otherstakeholders in the region when water scarci

Popular Abstract in Swedish Bröstcancer är den vanligaste cancerformen hos västerländska kvinnor. I Sverige kommer var tionde kvinna att drabbas av bröstcancer, vilket motsvarar drygt 5000 kvinnor om året. Dödligheten i bröstcancer är 30%. Detta innebär att en tredjedel av de som drabbas kommer att dö av sin sjukdom. Det är dock inte själva tumören i bröstet som dödar eftersom denna i princip alltBreast cancer is one of the most common cancer forms in the industrialized world. Only in Sweden, nearly 6000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year and 1/3 of them eventually succumb to the disease. Wnts are a family of genes that have been implicated in many human tumours, so far mainly studied in colorectal cancer where activated Wnt signalling occurs in a vast majority of tumours. Wh