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Falk Erhag, Hanna, et al.
(författare)
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Capability in Age and Ageing
2022
Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt) abstract
This open access book provides insight on how to interpret capability in ageing – one’s individual ability to perform actions in order to reach goals one has reason to value – from a multidisciplinary approach. With for the first time in history there being more people in the world aged 60 years and over than there are children below the age of 5, the book describes this demographic trends as well as the large global challenges and important societal implications this will have such as a worldwide increase in the number of persons affected with dementia, and in the ratio of retired persons to those still in the labor market. Through contributions from many different research areas, it discussed how capability depends on interactions between the individual (e.g. health, genetics, personality, intellectual capacity), environment (e.g. family, friends, home, work place), and society (e.g. political decisions, ageism, historical period). The final chapter by the editors summarizes the differences and similarities in these contributions. As such this book provides an interesting read for students, teachers and researchers at different levels and from different fields interested in capability and multidisciplinary research.
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Juth, Niklas, 1973, et al.
(författare)
The Ethics of Screening in Health Care and Medicine: Serving Society or Serving the Patient?
2012
Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt) abstract
Medical or health-oriented screening programs are amongst the most debated aspects of health care and public health practices in health care and public health ethics, as well as health policy discussions. In spite of this, most treatments of screening in the research literature restrict themselves to isolated scientific aspects, sometimes complemented by economic analyses or loose speculations regarding policy aspects. At the same time, recent advances in medical genetics and technology, as well as a rapidly growing societal focus on public health concerns, inspires an increase in suggested or recently started screening programs. This book involves an in-depth analysis of the ethical, political and philosophical issues related to health-oriented screening programs. It explores the considerations that arise when heath care interacts with other societal institutions on a large scale, as is the case with screening: What values may be promoted or compromised by screening programs? What conflicts of values do typically arise – both internally and in relation to the goals of health care, on the one hand, and the goals of public health and the general society, on the other? What aspects of screening are relevant for determining whether it should be undertaken or not and how it should be organised in order to remain defensible? What implications does the ethics of screening have for health care ethics as a whole? These questions are addressed by applying philosophical methods of conceptual analysis, as well as models and theories from moral and political philosophy, medical ethics, and public health ethics, to a large number of ongoing and proposed screening programs which makes this book the first comprehensive work on the ethics of screening. Analyses and suggestions are made that are of potential interest to health care staff, medical researchers, policy makers and the general public.
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Munthe, Christian, 1962
(författare)
Pure Selection. The Ethics of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis and Choosing Children without Abortion
1999
Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt) abstract
Preimplantation ge¬netic diagnosis (PGD) is taken to mark the starting-point of a new phase in human reproduction, where the possibility of choosing children on genetic grounds without having to resort to ethi¬cally controversial procedures (such as abortion) will grad¬ually increase. Ethical and political issues actu¬alised by this develop¬ment are addressed. The discussion touches upon issues regarding the moral status of em¬bryos and gametes, the moral import of respecting individual auton¬omy and its implications for the requirement of informed consent in health-care, the connec¬tion between sickness, dis¬ability and the value of life, the moral status of possible future people, and the connection between choosing children and eugenic policies of the past. Practical policy issues are adressed on the basis of this, as well as an empirical case-study of the intro¬duction of PGD in Sweden. The book ends up in a set of recommendations regarding the management of re¬search on, introduction and routine use of procedures for pure se¬lection, both within health care and from the point of view of society as a whole. It is argued that research on such procedures should be allowed and supported by society. However, tight restrictions regarding the clinical introduction of new procedures in this area is highly desirable. A rough model for implementing such re¬strictions is also pre¬sented. It is further asserted that, although reasons of economy and safety should limit the access to pure se¬lection, society should not apply any explicit restrictions based on ideasregarding how different traits affect a person’s quality of life. It is stressed that, in order to to avoid a re¬sur¬rection of eugenic policies of the past, the development in this field un¬der¬lines the need for continued and strengthen public support to the sick, dis¬abled and mentally retarded.
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Thelle, Dag S., 1942
(författare)
Epidemiology : A basis for public health and disease prevention
2015
Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt) abstract
Epidemiology involves the study of the distribution and determinants of disease and health in a given population, and the subsequent application of this study to improve outcomes. This book introduces major topics in this field, and where applicable, illustrated by tables and figures from Norwegian and Swedish studies.
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Ekblom, Maria, 1974-, et al.
(författare)
Fysisk aktivitet och hjärnhälsa : En bok för skolan
2021. - 1
Bok (populärvet., debatt m.m.) abstract
Fysisk aktivitet gynnar förutsättningarna för lärande och psykiskt välbefinnande, men ungdomar rör sig mindre än någonsin och fysisk aktivitet har blivit allt mer av en klassfråga. Detta har lett till orättvisa villkor för barns hälsa och lärande, en orättvisa som skolan kan bidra till att jämna ut.Boken Fysisk aktivitet och hjärnhälsa går konkret igenom hur skolor kan främja fysisk aktivitet inom ramen för skolvardagen och vilka effekter detta kan ge. Här beskrivs vad vi idag faktiskt vet om sambanden mellan fysisk aktivitet och hjärnhälsa med fokus på barn och ungdomar, men också vad vi behöver mer kunskap om. Med ett kritiskt förhållningssätt gör författarna en evidensbaserad genomgång av centrala begrepp inom området fysisk aktivitet med koppling till effekter på hjärnhälsa och lärande.Barn och ungdomar i skolåldern bör röra sig minst 60 minuter om dagen och eftersom eleverna spenderar en så stor del av sin vakna tid i skolan behöver gynnsamma förutsättningar skapas i skolmiljön då inte enbart inom skolämnet Idrott och hälsa.Fysisk aktivitet och hjärnhälsa vänder sig till alla lärare, lärarstudenter, skolledare och elevhälsoteam som vill bidra till ökad fysisk aktivitet, hjärnhälsa och goda vanor för livet.
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Swantz, Lloyd
(författare)
The medicine man among the Zaramo of Dar es Salaam
1990
Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt) abstract
As an urban anthropologist, pastor and teacher the author has lived for many years among the Zaramo. This revised doctoral thesis is an important and well documented study of the traditional healers in the urban setting.
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Trägårdh, Björn, 1950
(författare)
FoU - i takt med tid och omvärld?
2011
Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt) abstract
Boken utvärderar vilken betydelse FoU-organisationer har för sina uppdragsgivare i kommuner och landsting. Exemplet är Fou i Väst/GR med inriktning på insatser inom missbruks- och beroendevård. särskilt diskuteras användningen av styrkonceptet "evidensbaserad praktik". i analysen utvecklas en FoU-modell bestående av fyra bärande komponenter. Bokens avslutande kapitel blickar framåt vilket landar i fyra möjliga utvecklingsområden.
