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- Beausang, Angela, et al.
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"Möjligheten att rädda några av dessa kvinnors liv har inte vägts in"
- 2014
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Ingår i: Dagens Medicin. - : Dagens Medicin.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Namnet på Socialstyrelsens vägledning lyder: Hur upptäcka våldsutsatthet? Ja, det kan man verkligen fråga sig efter att ha läst detta föga vägledande dokument, skriver ett stort antal kritiska debattörer.
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- Björkelund, Cecilia, 1948, et al.
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Long-term effects of a primary health care intervention program for women: lower blood pressure and stable weight
- 2000
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Ingår i: Family Medicine. ; 32, s. 246-251
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Department of Primary Health Care, Sahlgrenska Hospital, Göteborg University, Sweden. cecilia.bjorkelund@allmed.gu.se BACKGROUND: In Strömstad, with 10,000 inhabitants, a cardiovascular prevention program was launched during 1985-1987 because of high rates of cardiovascular disease. To study long-term effects in women, an 8-year follow-up was conducted. METHODS: Participants (n = 114) and nonparticipants (n = 269) in the lifestyle intervention program in 1985-1987 (both groups with cardiovascular risk factors) were compared regarding risk factor levels after 8 years. Effects were also compared to another community not exposed to intervention. RESULTS: After 8 years, intervention participants showed significant reduction of mean systolic blood pressure compared to the control group and had higher intake of dietary fibers and more-positive attitudes to and better knowledge of healthy diets. There was no increase of mean body weight or serum triglyceride levels whatsoever in the intervention group. Compared with another female population not exposed to intervention, body weight and systolic blood pressure changed in a significantly more favorable way. CONCLUSIONS: Results from the prevention program could be discerned after 8 years. Advantages in risk factor changes could also be found when comparing with another female population. Given the high level of stroke in women within the community, the blood pressure advantage in the intervention group is particularly encouraging. PMID: 10782370 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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- Borg, Alexandra, 1978-
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En vildmark av sten : Stockholm i litteraturen 1897–1916
- 2011
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study explores the urban fiction emerging in Stockholm around the turn of the 20th century. It modifies earlier research by arguing that the fascination with the city transcends traditional conventions of genre. The main theory is that Stockholm’s conversion into a metropolitan space compels a new form of literary expression, a sort of urban aesthetics. The thesis claims that the urban prose of Stockholm is co-creative: the authors articulate a myth of Stockholm, an image of the Swedish capital as a modern urban space. Based on Henri Lefebvre’s ideas about space as something that is created, it is argued that the authors are founders of a city identity that influences people’s understanding of themselves and their new environment. The thesis maintains that the authors’ cities of words, their representational spaces, stem as much from personal fantasies and real-life experiences as from other works of art and literature. The dissertation contributes to our knowledge of urban literature by placing it against a back- ground of urban theory. Hence, it paves the way for further research on the city as a complex of symbols within Swedish literature, a subject that has not been examined to any notable extent. The analysis of how the urban environment has been conveyed and who has been given the priv- ilege of interpretation also deepens our understanding of contemporary Stockholm, real or imaginary. The thesis consists of two parts. The first part examines the background and genesis of the fiction type. Part two consists of analytical readings. The following authors are given particular attention: Henning Berger, Martin Koch, Maria Sandel and Sigfrid Siwertz. In four chapters, their respective repre- sentations of Stockholm are explored. Theories of urban space, modernity and gender, as well as Franco Moretti’s idea of a literary geography, guide the readings.
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- Alm, Erika, 1975, et al.
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Sexuell orientering
- 2012
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Ingår i: I framtidens skugga. (Red.) Lennart Weibull, Henrik Oscarsson, Annika Bergström. - Göteborg : SOM-institutet. - 9789189673243 ; , s. 557-571
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Pedrelli, Matteo, et al.
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Vasculoprotective Properties of Plasma Lipoproteins from Brown Bears (Ursus arctos)
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Lipid Research. - : American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. - 0022-2275 .- 1539-7262. ; 62
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Plasma cholesterol and triglyceride levels are twice as high in hibernating brown bears (Ursus arctos) than healthy humans. Yet, bears display no signs of early-stage atherosclerosis development when adult. To explore this apparent paradox, we analysed plasma lipoproteins from the same ten bears in winter (hibernation) and in summer using size exclusion chromatography, ultracentrifugation and electrophoresis. LDL cholesterol binding to arterial proteoglycans, and plasma cholesterol efflux capacity were also evaluated. The data collected and analysed from bears were also compared with those from healthy humans. In bears the cholesterol esters, unesterified cholesterol, triglyceride and phospholipid content of VLDL and LDL were higher in winter than in summer. The percentage lipid composition of LDL differed between bears and humans, but did not change seasonally in bears. Bear LDL was larger, richer in triglycerides, showed pre-beta electrophoretic mobility and had 5-10 times lower binding to arterial proteoglycans than human LDL. Finally, plasma cholesterol efflux capacity was higher in bears than in humans, especially the HDL fraction when mediated by ABCA1. These results suggest that in brown bears the absence of early atherogenesis is likely associated with a lower affinity of LDL cholesterol for arterial proteoglycans and an elevated cholesterol efflux capacity of bear plasma.
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- Pedrelli, Matteo, et al.
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Vasculoprotective properties of plasma lipoproteins from brown bears (Ursus arctos)
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Lipid Research. - : Elsevier. - 0022-2275 .- 1539-7262. ; 62
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Plasma cholesterol and triglyceride (TG) levels are twice as high in hibernating brown bears (Ursus arctos) than healthy humans. Yet, bears display no signs of early stage atherosclerosis development when adult. To explore this apparent paradox, we analyzed plasma lipoproteins from the same 10 bears in winter (hibernation) and summer using size exclusion chromatography, ultracentrifugation, and electrophoresis. LDL binding to arterial proteoglycans (PGs) and plasma cholesterol efflux capacity (CEC) were also evaluated. The data collected and analyzed from bears were also compared with those from healthy humans. In bears, the cholesterol ester, unesterified cholesterol, TG, and phospholipid contents of VLDL and LDL were higher in winter than in summer. The percentage lipid composition of LDL differed between bears and humans but did not change seasonally in bears. Bear LDL was larger, richer in TGs, showed prebeta electrophoretic mobility, and had 5-10 times lower binding to arterial PGs than human LDL. Finally, plasma CEC was higher in bears than in humans, especially the HDL fraction when mediated by ABCA1. These results suggest that in brown bears the absence of early atherogenesis is likely associated with a lower affinity of LDL for arterial PGs and an elevated CEC of bear plasma.
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- Svensson, Viktoria, et al.
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Obesogenic dietary intake in families with 1-year-old infants at high and low obesity risk based on parental weight status : baseline data from a longitudinal intervention (Early STOPP)
- 2016
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Ingår i: European Journal of Nutrition. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1436-6207 .- 1436-6215. ; 55:2, s. 781-792
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- PURPOSE: To compare dietary intake in 1-year-old infants and their parents between families with high and low obesity risk, and to explore associations between infant dietary intake and relative weight.METHODS: Baseline analyses of 1-year-old infants (n = 193) and their parents participating in a longitudinal obesity intervention (Early STOPP) were carried out. Dietary intake and diet quality indicators were compared between high- and low-risk families, where obesity risk was based on parental weight status. The odds for high diet quality in relation to parental diet quality were determined. Associations between measured infant relative weight and dietary intake were examined adjusting for obesity risk, socio-demographics, and infant feeding.RESULTS: Infant dietary intake did not differ between high- and low-risk families. The parents in high-risk families consumed soft drinks, French fries, and low-fat spread more frequently, and fish and fruits less frequently (p < 0.05) compared to parents in low-risk families. Paternal intake of vegetables and fish increased the odds for children being consumers of vegetables (OR 1.7; 95 % CI 1.0-2.9) and fish, respectively (OR 2.5; 95 % CI 1.4-4.4). Infant relative weight was weakly associated with a high intake of milk cereal drink (r = 0.15; p < 0.05), but not with any other aspect of dietary intake, obesity risk, or early feeding patterns.CONCLUSIONS: At the age of one, dietary intake in infants is not associated with family obesity risk, nor with parental obesogenic food intake. Milk cereal drink consumption but no other infant dietary marker reflects relative weight at this young age.
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- Wendt, Eva, 1958, et al.
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Young women's perceptions of being asked questions about sexuality and sexual abuse : a content analysis
- 2011
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Ingår i: Midwifery. - Amsterdam : Elsevier. - 0266-6138 .- 1532-3099. ; 27:2, s. 250-256
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- OBJECTIVE: to describe young women's perceptions of being asked questions by midwives or doctors pertaining to sexuality and sexual abuse in connection with visits for gynaecological examination. DESIGN: a qualitative study. Data comprised responses to open-ended questions in a questionnaire and were analysed by qualitative content analysis. SETTING: a county in the south-west of Sweden. PARTICIPANTS: all of the 23-, 26- and 29-year-old women who attended eight midwife and youth centres for cervical screening during the period between March and July 2006 were invited to participate. The open-ended question about sexuality was answered by 413 women, and 409 women answered the question about sexual abuse, representing approximately 84% of the women who answered the questionnaire as a whole. FINDINGS: the data resulted in a total of eight categories and 31 codes, which showed the women's perceptions of being asked questions about sexuality and sexual abuse. Six of the categories dealt with why it was considered natural to be questioned. Health professionals can be trusted and questions can open up a dialogue as well as clarify the woman's situation. The context of a visit for a gynaecological examination is relevant and questions will make it possible for the professionals to strengthen the woman. Another reason was that sexuality is an essential part of life. Those women who felt that it would not feel natural to be asked questions about sexuality and sexual abuse considered that the context is wrong and that such questions will encroach on the woman's personal sphere. KEY CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: women's responses indicate that there are good reasons for midwives and doctors to raise questions about sexuality and sexual abuse when they meet young women. Taking opportunity to find those who have sexual problems and/or experience of sexual abuse could reduce the suffering of these women and lead to an economic gain to society. The provision of training and supervision for midwives and doctors is important to enhance the quality of conversations about sexual matters. In order to deal with such issues, it is necessary to have knowledge of sexual health, relationships and violence, as well as a professional stance and a good conversational technique.
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- Wendt, Eva, 1958, et al.
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Young women's sexual health and their views on dialogue with health professionals
- 2007
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Ingår i: Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica. - Oxford : John Wiley & Sons. - 0001-6349 .- 1600-0412. ; 86:5, s. 590-595
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND:Many women who experience sexual problems or who have been subjected to sexual abuse, do not seek help, and often health professionals avoid raising such issues. The aim of this study was to describe young women's sexual health and their views on a dialogue about aspects of sexuality in connection with a gynecologic examination.METHOD:Cross-sectional study. Women, 23, 26 and 29 years of age, called for gynecologic screening between March and July 2006 (n=488; response rate 75%). Descriptive statistics, multiple logistic regression and bivariate analysis were used.RESULTS:The majority (95%) had a positive attitude towards sexuality, although many women reported sexual problems, and one-fifth (22%) were dissatisfied with their sex life. Women considered it appropriate to be asked about sexuality in general (92%), while a majority (72%) found questions about sexual abuse appropriate. However, depending on the area, the majority (76-99%) had never been asked such questions. Demographic variables, aspects of life, sexuality and sexual abuse were irrelevant for whether women considered it appropriate to be asked questions about aspects of sexuality, by a midwife/doctor in connection with a gynecologic examination.Conclusion:The result can activate health professionals to initiate a dialogue about sexual issues among young women. In this way, many women who experience sexual problems or have been subjected to sexual abuse, may be provided the opportunity to improve their sexual health.
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- Westerståhl, Anna, 1948, et al.
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Challenging heteronormativity in the consultation: a focus group study among general practitioners.
- 2003
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Ingår i: Scandinavian journal of primary health care. - 0281-3432. ; 21:4, s. 205-8
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- OBJECTIVE: To reflect on and further understand mechanisms of heteronormativity in the consultation, with special focus on the relative invisibility of lesbian women. DESIGN: Tape-recorded focus group interviews transcribed verbatim and analysed using qualitative methods. SETTING: General practitioners (GPs) from the city of Göteborg, Sweden, who had formerly answered a postal questionnaire about lesbian women in the consultation, were invited to take part in subsequent focus groups. SUBJECTS: Ten GPs from the questionnaire who accepted the invitation and volunteered to participate in focus groups. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: A discourse analytical approach using interaction regarding consensus and disagreement between informants in creating major and minor themes. RESULTS: Consultation skills were forwarded as a major tool in receiving optimal information from patients. However, traditional concepts of family and sexuality restricted information and hampered an accepting attitude. Bringing up issues of sexual identity/orientation was left to the lesbian patient and strongly related to her reason for attending. CONCLUSION: Consultation skills are a useful but not sufficient means of making lesbian women visible in the doctor-patient relationship. Doctors also need to transcend traditional concepts of family and sexuality and reflect on what is a relevant issue from the patient's perspective.
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- Westerståhl, Anna, 1948
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Encounters in the medical context. Issues of gender and sexuality
- 2003
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A multidisciplinary approach in medicine is pivotal in order to understand the health implications of gender differences and sexual identity/orientation..The general aim of this thesis was to study how gender and sexuality are constructed in the medical context using examples from the following settings: an intervention programme, medical faculty and medical consultation. The specific aims were to assess the long-term effects of a cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk-factor control intervention in women, to study actively participating women's experience of being at risk, to study faculty course organizers' views of a gender perspective on their scientific field, to study general practitioners' (GPs') awareness and knowledge of sexual identity matters in the consultation setting, and to bring up the relative invisibility of lesbian women.Material and methods. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used in the studies. Female participants and non-participants in a 1985-87 life-style intervention program in Strömstad were compared regarding risk factors for CVD after eight years. A sample of the most actively participating women was chosen for interviews. Course organizers at the medical faculty in Göteborg took part in telephone interviews concerning gender issues in medical science. GPs in Göteborg answered a postal questionnaire, and a sample of these GPs took part in focus group interviews, concerning awareness and knowledge of sexual identity issues in the consultation setting.Results. Women with CVD risk factors handled knowledge and experience from intervention groups so that, after eight years, the participants lowered or kept control over several risk factors as compared to non-participants. Three core concepts in relation to living with risk factors were identified: there is no one but yourself to rely on, resisting invasion, and living with incompatibilities. Two core concepts in relation to gender in science were identified: diversity and boundaries within the medical field of knowledge, and women as the source of gender knowledge. A minority of GPs were aware of having lesbian women as patients and few of these knew of health issues. The relevance of bringing up sexual orientation issues was discussed. The role of consultation skills and how family and sexual orientation are discussed with patients was elaborated, showing the complexity of the GPs' opinions and experiences with patients.Conclusions. Community prevention programs designed for women can produce long-standing effects on CVD risk factor patterns but may be invasive and ambiguous, and a shift to health orientation is suggested. Gender issues in medical faculty are sometimes categorically referred to the spheres of ideology (non-science) and women. An active promotion of gender issues by the faculty, with special focus on male participation, is suggested. Heterosexism in society and lack of medical education on minority issues are suggested causes of low levels of awareness and knowledge about lesbian women as patients. Doctors need to transcend traditional concepts of family and sexuality to make non-heterosexual identities visible in the consultation.
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- Westerståhl, Anna, 1948, et al.
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Gender in medical curricula: course organizer views of a gender-issues perspective in medicine in Sweden.
- 2003
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Ingår i: Women & health. - 0363-0242. ; 37:4, s. 35-47
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While there is growing awareness of the importance of gender issues in medicine, with new knowledge and new perspectives intensely debated, reports on the implementation of gender issues into medical curricula are scarce. In 1996, the Medical Faculty of Göteborg University, Sweden, determined that a gender-issues perspective be included in medical education. In 1999, course organizers from preclinical and clinical departments of the faculty were interviewed to determine whether they felt that a gender-issues perspective had contributed to their scientific field and, if so, how they implemented it in their teaching. The interviews revealed varied opinions on the relevance of this perspective in medicine. These variations followed gender division rather than that of preclinicians/clinicians. Thus, female gender was overwhelming for inspiring and introducing a gender-issues perspective both scientifically and practically. Positivism is firmly established in medicine and this must be taken into consideration when introducing a more culturally- and socially-based understanding of sex/gender issues. Female gender is important in this process, but successful implementation requires thorough faculty support and participation of male colleagues and students.
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- Westerståhl, Anna, 1948, et al.
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GPs and lesbian women in the consultation: issues of awareness and knowledge.
- 2002
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Ingår i: Scandinavian journal of primary health care. - 0281-3432. ; 20:4, s. 203-7
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- OBJECTIVE: To study awareness of having lesbian women in the consultation among general practitioners (GPs) and their knowledge of lesbian health-related issues. DESIGN: A mailed questionnaire study using closed and open-ended questions, with an analysis using both quantitative and qualitative methods. SETTING: The city of Göteborg, Sweden. SUBJECTS: GPs working in the city of Göteborg. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Frequencies are presented for closed questions. Open-ended questions are categorised and illustrated by citations. RESULTS: The response rate was 52%, but only 37% were aware of having had any lesbian patients despite many years in practice. Five per cent had ever asked their patients about sexual identity, and most questions concerning social network were put in terms of the heterosexual, nuclear family. Eleven per cent knew of any health issues relevant to lesbian women, but half of all informants declared an interest in learning more. CONCLUSION: Unreflected assumptions of heterosexuality and use of heterosexist concepts may work together in keeping the lesbian patient invisible to health care. Medical education needs to include issues of gender and sexual identity/orientation in the curriculum, and to address the health effects of marginalisation.
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- Westerståhl, Anna, 1948, et al.
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Integration of information about cardiovascular risk factors: how do highly motivated women in a lifestyle intervention programme act and react?
- 2002
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Ingår i: Scandinavian journal of primary health care. - 0281-3432. ; 20:1, s. 22-7
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- OBJECTIVE: To understand the experience of being at risk and of participating in health interventions. How is information about risk factors handled on an individual level with respect to feeling, thinking and doing? DESIGN: Tape-recorded, open interviews, written out and analysed using a descriptive/analytical method. SETTING: Selected women who had participated in a lifestyle intervention programme aimed at reducing risk factors for cardiovascular disease in Strømstad, a community of 10 000 inhabitants on the west coast of Sweden. SUBJECTS: Eight women in the most active group who had had some contact with the project during the whole period 1985-94. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The creation of core concepts as a result of close text reading through codes and categories. RESULTS: Three core concepts in relation to the handling of risk factors were identified: there is no one but yourself to rely on, resisting invasion, and living with incompatibility, based respectively on the subjects' self-efficacy and self-awareness, their ways of maintaining a good life and their trying to understand the risk-factor concept. CONCLUSION: Risk-factor-oriented health interventions focus on disease and create uncertainty as to the relationship between the concepts of risk and disease. The powerful health resources demonstrated by the women in this study to counterbalance the risk pre-occupation suggest changing to health-oriented interventions that focus on individual health resources.
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- Westerståhl Stenport, Anna, 1973
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Scandinavian Modernism: Stories of the Transnational and the Discontinuous
- 2012
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Ingår i: The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms. - New York : Oxford University Press. - 9780199968800 ; , s. 478-498
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This article maps some of Scandinavian modernism' complexity in order to challenge the still relatively common equation of modernism with narrow formalist aesthetic experimentation. With respect to both periodization and geography, Scandinavian modernism can be seen as unusually long and expansive, and the approach here consequently emphasizes both discontinuity and transnationality; it also focuses on neglected issues of class and gender. Modernism in Scandinavia emerges both early and late, through starts and stops, in intermittent and localized forms, as well as in tension with ideologies of margin and center, import and export, and nation and cosmopolitanism.
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