Abstract A qualitative study of stress management within geriatric care Authors: Hildingsson, Emelie & Magnusson, JessicaSupervisor: Hjorth Aronsson, Christina Essay topic related to stress and stress management in the geriatric care. The purpose of this study is to ascertain how the unit managers, within care of elderly, in their role as manager and leader handle possible stress reactions among its nursing staff. Our purpose will generate the following issues;         How does the employer discover stress among the employees?        In what way is the stress taken care of among the geriatric care staff?What opportunities are there to prevent stress?The study is based on a qualitative research method. As a data collection method we've used semi-structured interviews and we have implemented them in five female heads in a medium-sized municipality in Sweden.

This masters degree is a study of factors of success in a drug preventions work of change and model or method which could facilitate this work. The target group, which is in focus in this survey, is alcohol- and drug coordinators, also called prevention coordinators who?s main task is to develop and coordinate the preventive work in the alcohol and drugs area. My method of investigation is a combination of literature studies and a quantitative poll study with the target group, alcohol and drug presenters?, in Sweden.

Francisella tularensis, the causative agent of the zoonotic disease tularaemia, is highly contagious and potentially fatal for a wide range of wildlife species of the northern hemisphere, also humans. Although recognized as a pathogen for over 100 years, much still remains to be elucidated concerning the ecology and transmission of the bacterium, hence this literature overview aims at compiling data regarding the aquatic association and the role of mosquitoes in transmission of Francisella tularensis subspecies holartica, the sole subspecies in Sweden. While a linkage between the bacterium and natural waters stands beyond dispute, there is no consensus in the literature concerning its potential as a reservoir. However, two prevailing theories can be distinguished; one proposes the water association being mammaldependent and thus merely the result of contamination from semi-aquatic mammals living in close vicinity to the water source. The other, quite contrary, suggests mammal-independence and hence that water, possibly in association with protozoa, serves as an environmental reservoir for the bacterium.

Musiker är en yrkesgrupp som utsätts för långvarig statisk och dynamisk, repetitiv belastning framförallt i bål och övre extremitet. Denna belastning ökar risken att drabbas av muskeloskelettala besvär, perifera nervskador samt fokal dystoni. Smärta och/eller dysfunktion kan ha förödande konsekvenser för en musiker som i värsta fall tvingas avbryta sin karriär. En sjukgymnast med specifika kunskaper kring musikers situation skulle kunna erbjuda lämplig konservativ behandling i antingen ett behandlande eller preventivt syfte. Syfte: Att skapa en översikt av forskningsresultat avseende effekter av sjukgymnastisk behandling och prevention riktad till musiker som drabbats av smärta och/eller dysfunktion i rörelseapparaten.En litteratursökning gjordes i flera olika databaser.

Bull terrier hereditary nephritis is caused by a mutation that leads to an inadequate synthesis of collagen type IV, which is an important component in the basement membranes. The inheritance of the mutation is autosomal dominant in bull terriers and progression to renal failure takes variable time, from several months to ten years. Proteinuria is the first clinical sign of the disease and the diagnosis is confirmed by transmission electron microscopy of renal tissue where typical ultrastructural changes in the glomerular basement membrane (GBM), thickening and multilaminar splitting are found. This study was performed in order to find out the occurrence of hereditary nephritis in bull terriers in Sweden through examination of urine samples and renal tissue and comparisons with how the disease is described in the literature. Urine samples from 76 Swedish bull terriers were collected and examined for proteinuria.

AbstractJerfström, M. (2013). Mission overweight and obesity ? how do child-care centers operate? C-thesis in Public Health. Faculty of Health and Occupational Studies.

De antibiotika resistenta bakterierna blir allt fler, Methicillin Resistenta Stafylokocker Aureus är en av dem. MRSA återfinns på väldigt många sjukhus världen över och är ett alltmer växande problem. Syftet med litteraturstudien är att belysa effekter av sjuksköterskans compliance avseende prevention och preventiva åtgärder vid risk för spridning av MRSA samt de riskmoment som uppstår vid omvårdnadsarbetet i generell sjukvård. Studien har utförts enligt sju steg för att ha ett systematiskt tillvägagångssätt. Sökningarna har gjorts i Pubmed och Cinahl, kvantitativa studier har inkluderats i litteratursökningen.

Background: From a public health perspective it is of great interest to prevent the risk of noise induced hearing loss, because in addition to hearing loss, tinnitus and sound sensitivity also may lead to other health problems. About 1,4 million people in Sweden live with some form of hearing loss and 25000 of them are children under the age of 16. Studies have shown that hearing loss among adolescents is increasing and it is often associated with sound environments in their leisure time. Lectures in hearing prevention has been conducted in schools for adolescents but have not reached the desired results. Objective: To enquire caregivers? attitude, behaviour and perceived knowledge about sound exposure and its risks.

This study aims to highlight the crisis and adjustment process in individuals who suffered myocardial infarction. The research questions focus on the informants? experiences of the crisis and life adjustment process, and illuminate the coping strategies that the informants describe important. By using a narrative method and applyingthe crisis theory and coping theory as theoretical guidelines, this study endeavors to illuminate individuals' experiences of the disease from their own perspective. The empirical material consists of four life stories gatheredthrough semi-structured interviews.

The purpose of this study was to describe the experiences of being a family caregiver for aperson with dementia. A further aim was the inclusion criteria and data collection methods inthe studies presented, and how this may have affected the results of the studies. The methodwas a descriptive literature study with qualitative approach. Data were collected throughdatabases Cinahl and Pubmed using the words: dementia, knowledge, information, support,caregivers, coping, spouses, experiences and family caregiving. Keywords were combined indifferent ways in order to refine the search.

Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att beskriva riskfaktorer som kan orsaka uppkomsten av trycksår samt vilka riskbedömningsinstrument som kan användas vid bedömning av patienter i riskzonen att utveckla trycksår. Vidare var syftet att redogöra för prevention vid trycksår. För att kunna besvara dessa frågor användes vetenskapliga artiklar som söktes via Högskolan Dalarnas databaser. Resultatet av sökningen gav 22 artiklar som användes i studien, varav fem artiklar i introduktionen och 17 artiklar i studiens resultat. Av de artiklar som användes i resultatet hade 16 artiklar kvantitativ ansats och en artikel kvalitativ ansats.

Brucellos är en zoonos med stor samhällspåverkan såväl ekonomiskt som socialt. Infektionen kan drabba majoriten av världens däggdjur och orsakar reproduktionsstörningar hos värddjuren medan de humana fallen karakteriseras av undulerande feber. Alla aborter i sen dräktighet skall betraktas som misstänkta fall av brucellos. Europeiska Unionen (EU) vill bekämpa sjukdomen helt och inriktar sig främst på Brucella abortus och Brucella melitensis men även till viss del Brucella suis då dessa anses höra samman med såväl de humana fallen som de största ekonomiska förlusterna. EU motiverar sina medlemsländer med finansiella bidrag till de nationella bekämpningsprogrammen.

Background: Quality of life is a concept of individual meaning which is perceived differently depending on the person experiencing it. To have a chronic disease in the lung, such as asthma, has an effect on the quality of life. Asthma affects people of all ages. It is a disease that causes a constriction in the patients? airways which leads to a feeling of suffocation which in turn produces a feeling of anxiety.Aim: The purpose is to illuminate which factors affect the quality of life in adult patients with asthma.Method: This is a literary review based on ten articles, both quantitative and qualitative, from four different continents.

The mountainous Central Asian and former Soviet country Tajikistan is the least advantaged country economically among the former Soviet Union states. Approximately 6.5 % of the land is arable in a country where roughly 80 % of the households typically own small numbers of sheep and goats. Management practices and animal husbandry in the villages such as uncontrolled breeding, mixing of animals on pastures favor transmission of infectious diseases. Brucellosis is a zoonotic bacterial disease caused by Brucella spp. The disease is endemic in Tajikistan. B.

The Bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV) causes bronchiolitis and interstitial pneumonia, predominantly in calves, and is a major cause of bovine respiratory disease worldwide. In humans, BRSV is paralleled by the closely related Human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV), an important cause of respiratory disease, most severe in infants.The clinical signs and pathology during RSV infection is caused, not only by the direct effects of viral replication, but also by the response of the host immune system. The immunopathology of RSV has long obfuscated our understanding of the disease, and development of effective treatment and vaccines will be very difficult until greater knowledge is gained.One of the components of the immune system that has come into focus in RSV research the last few years, is the Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4). The TLR4 receptor is well known as the receptor that binds lipopolysaccaride (LPS), and initiates the host response to bacterial infection. Recently, it has been shown that the fusion protein of RSV also interacts with, and up-regulates the expression of, the TLR4 receptor.