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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Health sociology"”.
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"A compelling voice": a qualitative study of the construction and mobilisation of lived experience evidence and expertise in health technology assessment in Scotland
… a resource-limited setting, such as the National Health Service (NHS), is that not every medicine or other health technology that is safe, or even efficacious, can be funded. In Scotland, such funding decisions are made using Health Technology Assessment (HTA), a multidisciplinary process that …
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Regionale Unterschiede der Inanspruchnahme von Präventionsleistungen in der ambulanten Versorgung
Das Ziel dieser Studie war es die regionalen Unterschiede der Inanspruchnahme sekundärpräventiver Leistungen in Deutschland auf Kreisebene zu analysieren. Hierbei sollte eine Lücke in der deutschen Forschung geschlossen werden, indem neben individuellen Faktoren auch ökologische Faktoren durch …
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Discursos femininos sobre a sexualidade durante a gravidez : um estudo na Maternidade Dr. Alfredo da Costa
Dissertação de Mestrado em Estudos Sobre as Mulheres apresentado à Universidade Aberta
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A tomada de decisão dos enfermeiros face aos cuidados que prestam no hospital
O presente estudo aborda a tomada de decisão dos enfermeiros face aos cuidados que prestam no hospital. Trata-se de um estudo que utiliza um paradigma qualitativo, com uma abordagem fenomenológica e teve como objectivo compreender que decisões são tomadas pelos enfermeiros na sua prática de …
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Representação do cuidar em enfermagem : uma visão de professores e estudantes
Resumo - Reconhecendo a nossa responsabilidade na formação dos futuros enfermeiros e privilegiando uma atitude de interrogação permanente sobre as práticas de cuidados, procurámos compreender a estrutura do cuidar no processo ensino aprendizagem, no intuito de clarificar o seu sentido e …
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Adesão e gestão do regime terapêutico em diabéticos tipo 2: o papel do suporte social e da satisfação com os cuidados de enfermagem
O estudo sobre “Adesão e gestão do regime terapêutico em diabéticos tipo 2. O papel do suporte social e da satisfação com os cuidados de enfermagem", tem como objectivos conhecer as representações que o diabético tipo 2 tem em relação à diabetes e de que forma estas influenciam a vivência da doença …
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Constrained Spaces of Prenatal Care: South Asian Immigrant Women in New York City
… social networks and resources. Recently, public health analysts have raised concern about low utilization of prenatal care by South Asian women who are much less likely than US-born women to receive early and adequate prenatal care.
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Modernization and Health in Developing Countries: The Case of Brazil
Improved health, declines in mortality and morbidity and extension of life expectancy have all been positively associated with development in industrial countries within the last century, through improved nutrition, sanitation, better housing, improved conditions of work, income, education, public …
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Residency and Practice Choice Patterns of Black and White Medical Graduates: A Comparative Study
This study compared and analyzed the specialty preference (choice) patterns and the residency and practice locations of black and white physicians who graduated from a large urban medical school during the years 1973-1984. The intent of the study was to determine if differences occurred between …
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Race, Class, and Health: Health Behavior and Hypertension in Black and White Americans
Previous research has shown that the health of black Americans is persistently worse than that of white Americans. The aim of this dissertation is to comprehend why these racial differences in morbidity and mortality exist. For this purpose racial differences in health behavior and hypertension are …
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Social constructions of HIV and AIDS: Relationship to the provision of social support in African-American kinship networks
This is a descriptive, exploratory study which examines the relationship between socially constructed, cultural meanings of HIV and AIDS and the provision of social support within African American kinship networks. Symbolic interaction theory and interpretive interaction methodology grounded the …
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Welfare organization: The case of worksite health promotion
… the corporate motivation for offering worksite health promotion. Three possible motivations are presented: efficiency (reduction of health care costs), control (monitoring of employees' lifestyle), and demography (aging of the workforce). Data from the 1985 ""National Survey of Worksite Health …
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Cuidar do recém-nascido: o enfermeiro como promotor das competências parentais
Resumo - As acções de promoção de saúde pertinentes e de qualidade desenvolvidas no contexto dos cuidados de saúde primários, são fundamentais porque visam facultar aos Pais os conhecimentos necessários ao melhor desempenho da sua função parental. Desta forma, torna-se imperioso conhecer as …
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A Constructionist Analysis Of Same-sex Marriage
… ruling in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health.
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Neighborhood social environments and the distribution of low-birthweight in Chicago
… social groups tend to have very different health outcomes in pregnancy. Ordinarily, social inequalities in rates of low birthweight (LBW) are discussed in terms of risk factors for these conditions, such as race, income, education, or prenatal care use, which largely focus on individual …
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Patterns and conditions of health lifestyles in the United States and West Germany
… patterns of lifestyle that express people's health conduct. A comparative approach is taken that utilizes cross-national data from the U.S. and West Germany. The study seeks to contribute to the theoretical as well as empirical knowledge on modern lifestyles in general and health lifestyles …
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A Socio-Psychological Analysis of Eating Behaviors at Fast Food Restaurants
… to explain fast food consumption behavior. The Health Belief Model (HBM) was used to examine from the mutual interplay of attitude toward taste and nutritional information of fast food, which factor is prioritized by consumers in predicting fast food consumption. In this cross-sectional, …
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Health status of the uninsured: An investigation of health behaviors and medical care usage
… is a necessary and positive component of good health. Sociologists have included insurance in models to predict access to the medical care system, but the empirical relationship between insurance and health had not been tested. The question this dissertation sought to answer is ""Does insurance …
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