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Attitudes towards self-determination in health care : A general population survey in northern Sweden

Background: Today, patient self-determination has become an issue in many western countries due to the widespread availability and use of technology, which makes it possible to prolong life often in spite of severe disability and poor quality of life. Many people fear an overzealous use of modern life-saying procedures which merely serve to prolong the dying process. As a first step towards autono

Fat Words or Useful Concepts? Consensus and Variation in Conceptions of Problematic Drinking in Contemporary Sweden

The aim of this study was to bring to light the meanings attributed to four concepts denoting problematic drinking—“alcoholism,” “alcohol dependence,” “alcohol misuse,” and “risky drinking”—and to investigate whether individuals’ preferences for using these concepts vary depending on their demographic characteristics, their stakeholder group membership, and their own drinking habits. These questio

Association between age, gender and multimorbidity level and receiving home health care : a population-based Swedish study

BACKGROUND: Home health care is an important part of primary health care. How delivery of home health care is organised is probably important for sustainability of the healthcare system as a whole. More than 50 % of individuals over 65 years old have multimorbidity, which increases with higher age, also influencing the needs of home health care. Our aim was to study the proportion of the populatio

Differences in Health : The Influence of Gender and Institutional Settings on Sickness Claims in Gothenburg, Sweden (1898–1950)

Sickness funds information has given conflicting evidence on the evolution of morbidity during the mortality decline. Evidence on increased morbidity has been explained by an actual increase of morbidity, a cultural inflation of morbidity or changing institutional settings, however, morbidity rates have also been shown to be stable over time when age composition of members is controlled for. Most

Medical practice at Swedish Cistercian monasteries

Definitions and understandings of disease are to a large extent culturally dependent, even if there are also biological components to this. While many medieval religious orders nursed an interest for science and knowledge in general, their approach to medicine was complicated by the complex attitude towards illness and the tending of the body within Christendom. Archaeological artifacts from Ciste

Burnout among school teachers : quantitative and qualitative results from a follow-up study in southern Sweden

BACKGROUND: Teachers are at high risk of stress-related disorders. This longitudinal study aimed to (a) identify which occupational, sociodemographic and life-style factors and self-efficacy at baseline that were of importance for burnout, (b) explore associations between changes in the studied factors versus changes in burnout, and (c) by interviews increase the understanding of perceived job dem