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Möte över gränserna : om arbetet på BVC utifrån anti-agalagen

The purpose of this field survey was to investigate the employees´ work against corporal punishment with parents from other cultures at child welfare clinics. My questions were: - Which cultural factors could affect this work? - Does the employees at the child welfare clinics experience any ethical quandary when they affect cultural valuations of the parents? - How do the employees at the child we

Hot och våld : hot- och våldsituationer i arbetsmiljön med psykiskt funktionshindrade barn och ungdomar

The purpose of this study was to bring forward knowledge about threats and violence in health and social-care working environments. Based on literature, I studied how the complex of threats and violence were described in research and reports, in order to find out which theories, solutions and attitudes were proposed. I also examined the extent, character, situations and consequences of threats and

Missbruk och företaget : tre företags strategier att möta missbruk på arbetsplatsen

This essay focus on the actions three corporations in the city of Halmstad engaged when alcohol- and drug abuse were discovered among their employees. Important questions were the judicial obligations toward employees, knowledge on alcohol- and drug abuse within the company, alcohol- and drug policies, differences in actions according to type of abuse, reasons for dealing with employees with alcoh

Strategies for Diagnosing Deep Vein Thrombosis -a Cost Effectiveness Analysis

Economic evaluations are used in the health care sector to help decision makers allocate resources. The objective of this study is to evaluate the cost effectiveness of a new diagnostic algorithm of deep vein thrombosis. Patients with suspected deep vein thrombosis are common at emergency departments, although few actually have the disease. The new diagnostic algorithm combines a pre-test probabil

Profitability of Momentum Strategies on the Nordic stock market

Purpose: The main purpose of the thesis is to examine the profitability of Momentum Strategies on the Nordic stock markets. This will provide insight and contribute to the debate on efficient markets. Finding profitable Momentum Strategies will provide strong evidence of inefficiency in the market. A secondary purpose is to examine factors which might cause or impact the profitability of the Momen

”Dom kunde väl få lov att sitta ner och dricka kaffe och prata ibland…” – De äldres syn på hemtjänstinsatserna, relationen till personalen och hjälpen från närstående

The aim of the study is to examine what kind of help the elderly get, if the elderly get the help they want, how the staff treat them and how much contact they have with others than the home-help staff. Further the study looks on how the well-being of the elderly was affected by the relationship with the home-help staff and contact with other people than the home-help staff. To conduct the study i

Anknytningens betydelse och utvecklingen av de känslomässiga banden mellan barn och missbrukande föräldrar

Abstract Author: Annika Johansson, Anette Elmbert Title: The importance of attachment and the development of emotional bonds between child and drug abusing parents Keywords: attachment bond, abusive parents, treatment and health Supervisor: Anders Lundberg Assessor: Carina Tigervall The aim of this study was to examine the attachment bond between mother and child in treatment of abuse, at the

European industrial policy and state aid – a competence mismatch?

The European Union (EU) has been entrusted with rather weak powers as regards industrial policy. On top of this, its Member States are prevented from pursuing a national industrial policy with monetary elements as this may distort competition within the EU internal market. At the same time, European companies compete in the global market with state-supported companies from other economically stron

Energy and moisture in historic masonry walls retrofitted with hemp-lime

Thermally insulating historic buildings is imperative in order to reduce energy demands of the existing building stock. Therefore an insulation material is needed that improves energy efficiency while being compatible with the existing structure from a hygrothermal, aesthetic and cultural heritage perspective. Hemp-lime is a building material that consists of on a combination of hemp shiv, the woo

The importance of discretion for welfare services to minorities : Examining workload and anti-immigration attitudes

Migration influx in Western countries resulting in increasingly diverse societies results in more complex situations for bureaucrats in their client interactions in welfare organizations. The role of discretion for services to clients has received much attention in the public administration research and therefore this study explores the relation among perceived workload, anti-immigration attitudes

The Crisis of Care - Caring Against Crisis : Professional Responses to Austerity Politics in Female Dominated Welfare Professions

Capitalist crises, such as the current financial crisis, are also crises in the sphere of social reproduction, according to Fraser (2014). In the current phase of financialized capitalism, social reproduction is increasingly treated as a commodity. As many feminist- and gender scholars have showed, this has resulted in increased pressures on women’s labour. During the last ten years, the Nordic co

Liminality in narratives of integration: Influence of social media use on situational ethnicity of migrants

Given difficult conditions in different regions of the world, it is no wonder that people embark on journeys to regions where they may feel secure, seek refuge, be able to acquire a livelihood, as well as carry on a type of living. At the same time, when migrants arrive in a new country that they have hitherto never been to, there is an expectation that they will integrate into the host country’s

Street-level priority-setting: The role of discretion in implementation of research, development, and innovation priorities

Research on priority-setting for research, development, and innovation (RDI) often does not take into account the many challenges associated with translating priorities into RDI programs and projects. Such implementation challenges are typically handled by RDI program officers at funding agencies i.e. those officers that manage RDI programs and projects. To address this challenge, this paper utili