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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy"”.
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Towards a Health Economic Simulation Model of Type 2 Diabetes in Sweden
… (i.e., HbA1c, systolic blood pressure, BMI, LDL and total to HDL cholesterol ratio) over time was estimated using data on 5,043 newly diagnosed T2DM patients from the Swedish National Diabetes Register (NDR) and a dynamic panel data framework. The results indicated that difference between …
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Epidemiological studies of risk factors for injuries in an adult population
… are often associated with long-term suffering and lowered functioning, and personal injuries impose a huge burden on medical care and health services in addition to the costs associated with impaired functional ability. Each year in Sweden, falling accidents are experienced by a third of those …
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Social Capital and Self-rated Health: testing association with longitudinal and multilevel methodologies
… levels of social integration, social networks and social support have better health status. However, the recent introduction of a contextual phenomenon known as social capital to the field of public health has sparked lively debate as to how it may also influence the health of individuals, if …
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Epidemiological studies of sociodemographic factors, early life factors, health, and medical care consumption among small children
By international standards, children in Sweden experience good health. Sweden has low infant mortality rates, low accident mortality rates, a high number of breastfed children and a high proportion of vaccinated children. However, during the past twenty years the prevalence of overweight children …
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Social Construction of Technical Aids - Personal Meaning and Interactional Effects of Disability and Assistive Devices in Everyday Life
This thesis concerns the role of disability and assistive devices in everyday life among persons with, for instance, impairments related to mobility (e.g. wheelchair users) and bodily shape and configuration (e.g. dysmelia). Assistive devices are seen as both includators (assisting participation …