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- Klingberg-Allvin, Marie, et al.
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One foot wet and one foot dry : transition into motherhood among married adolescent women in rural Vietnam
- 2008
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Ingår i: Journal of Transcultural Nursing. - : Sage Publications. - 1043-6596 .- 1552-7832. ; 19:4, s. 338-346
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study explores married Vietnamese adolescents' perceptions and experiences related to transition into motherhood and their encounter with health care service. In-depth interviews were conducted with 22 women younger than 20 who were either pregnant or had newly delivered. It emerged from the narratives that young women experienced ambivalence in the transition to motherhood in that they felt too young but also happy to be able to please their husband and the extended family. Patterns were shown indicating that the participants experienced lacking power with regard to decisions in relation to pregnancy, delivery, and contraceptive usage. Feelings of being patronized and ignored in the encounter with health care providers were seen in the narratives. Findings might be used for reproductive health care providers, social workers, and educators in their contact with young mothers to empower them to make their own decisions with regard to marriage, childbearing, and contraception.
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- Ehliasson, Kent, 1963-
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Framtidsstudier i stora organisationers långsiktiga planering : analysmodell och fallstudier
- 2005
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- People use a variety of means to orient themselves towards the future. A more organised approach to handling the future known as "futures studies" is often used in a variety of contexts including long-term planning within large organisations. In the effort to enhance the quality of such studies, there have been arguments for better methods (which makes sense), but methods may not be the most important aspect in the production of futures studies. Greater theoretical awareness in the substantive questions upon which the study is based is more important. To that end, the intent of this dissertation is to infuse a keener awareness of fundamental assumptions in futures studies and contribute to increasing their quality.One objective of the dissertation is to formulate a method or procedure to analyse the futures studies of large organisations, apply it to two empirical cases and thereafter analyse its strengths and weaknesses. The method I discuss and develop extensively in this work consists of an analytical framework that focuses on three aspects of each future study: its architecture, its relationship to a few of the key future issues of our time and its assumptions regarding our views on society, humanity and technology. A second objective is to systematically study future documents from two large organisations and attempt to clarify motives, orientation, methodology and distinguishing characteristics in their future processes. The cases I have chosen are the Swedish Armed Forces and the telecommunications company Ericsson, which were both in a period of transition around the mid 1990s.The dissertation shows how the method has been used to bring to the fore and clarify central ideas in futures studies, identify ambiguities and fuzzy thinking and to show and expose more covert assumptions. The analysis also illustrates that certain aspects of the model have been observed in the empirical material, other ideas are found to a lesser extent and certain perspectives are entirely absent. The paper stresses that the model developed has both strengths and weaknesses, but the overall assessment is that it was well-balanced and maintains appropriate depth in relation to desired efficiency. The study shows that the analytical method is relevant and adequate to understand and describe the direction and content of futures studies and in so doing enhance their quality.
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- Ehliasson, Kent
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Futures studies as social science : An analytic scheme and a case study
- 2008
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Ingår i: Futures. - : Elsevier BV. - 0016-3287 .- 1873-6378. ; 40:5, s. 489-502
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Several authors in the futures studies field have in their efforts to improve quality argued that better methods must be developed, which makes sense. But the theoretical awareness in the substantive questions upon which the studies are based is probably more important. In that light, the primary objective of this article is to formulate a method of how fundamental social issues (views on society and humanity) are addressed in a future study, apply it to one empirical case (telecommunications company Ericsson) and thereafter analyze the method's strengths and weaknesses. The study shows that the method gained a satisfactory foothold in the material and it has an appropriate depth in relation to desired efficiency. This work has shown that the analytical method is relevant and adequate to understand and describe the orientation and contents of futures studies. Therewith, the study has generated greater awareness of fundamental assumptions in future studies that can contribute to enhancing their quality. © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- Jegermalm, Magnus, et al.
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Caregiving and volunteering among older people in Sweden - prevalences and profiles
- 2009
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Ingår i: Journal of Aging & Social Policy. - : Haworth Press. - 0895-9420 .- 1545-0821. ; 21:4, s. 352-373
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study examines the role of older people in Swedish society by exploring the prevalence of their informal caregiving and volunteering and by analyzing the profiles of these contributors of unpaid work. Data were collected by means of telephone interviews in a Swedish representative survey conducted in 2005. Our analysis reveals three distinct profiles of people involved in unpaid activities. One of these consists of those involved both in informal helpgiving and volunteering, a group that has been labeled “super helpers” or “doers” in earlier research. It is important for social policy planners to recognize these groups of older people and better understand the dynamics of their unpaid work in order to ascertain whether they might need support as providers and to enhance their well-being. There does not seem to be any simple contradiction between the parallel existence of a universal welfare model of the Swedish kind and an extensive civil society in which older people play important roles as active citizens.
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- Kostela, Johan, Doktor i Fysikalisk kemi, 1975-
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Användning av alkolås som kvalitetssäkringsverktyg inom transportsektorn
- 2006
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Alkoholpåverkade förare är ett stort problem i Sverige, både inom privat- och yrkestrafik. För att få bukt med problemet väljer allt fler transportverksamheter att installera alkolås i sina fordon. Dalarnas forskningsråd har under år 2006 utfört en studie för att studera hur alkolås används inom transportsektorn för kvalitetssäkra transporter.
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- Kostela, Johan, Doktor i Fysikalisk kemi, 1975-, et al.
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Från ord till handling : Metoder för att omsätta miljömål till praktisk handling
- 2007
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Ett flertal av dagens stora miljöproblem är betingade av människors livsstil. Samtidigt har dålig miljö ofta en negativ inverkan på människors hälsa. Att påverka människors beteende är nödvändigt för att åstadkomma en bättre miljö och ett förbättrat hälsotillstånd. Detta kan ske genom utbildning och information, men frågan är på vilket sätt detta ska ske för att verkligen ge avtryck i människors beteende. I handlingsplanen för Dalarnas Miljömål finns flera åtgärder som innebär informationsinsatser inom områden som berör sambandet mellan miljö och hälsa. Här finns också starka kopplingar till flera av de elva folkhälsomålen. Dalarnas Miljömål är ett måldokument med relativt hög abstraktionsnivå. Nästa steg är att operationalisera det – att gå från ord till handling. Det finns ett stort behov av att hitta metoder att kommunicera miljömålen med olika väl avgränsade målgrupper. Detta projekt har handlat om att pröva olika metoder för detta och bygger på några grundläggande pedagogiska teorier som kan sammanfattas med begreppen delaktighet och motivation. Projektet har också visat hur övergripande måldokument med fördel kan omsättas i praktiken genom att bygga nedifrån och börja i det lilla. Vad som påverkar en människas beteende styrs av en rad skilda faktorer som varierar från människa till människa, från sakområde till sakområde och som även förändras över tid. En gemensam nämnare är att det förändrade beteendet ger någon form av vinst för den enskilda människan i form av till exempel förbättrad hälsa, ekonomi eller en bättre miljö. Vinsterna för den enskilde behöver inte nödvändigtvis vara direkt kopplade till miljömålen utan kan vara indirekta som t ex önskan att tillhöra ett avantgarde, att bli omtyckt av andra etc. Det viktigaste för varje individ är att frågan ”What’s in it for me?” får ett nöjaktigt svar. Det kräver en tydlig och avgränsad målgrupp vilket är en viktig utgångspunkt i detta projekt.
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