Through interviews with children of ages 4-5 years old and by observing children children at play at three preschools with different types of outdoor surroundings, I have investigated if the preschools outdoor surroundings have any influences on the children´ choice of play. The hypothesis was that natural surroundings can entice children´s interest in nature being in it and play. I have also investigated if the children know why it is important to be outdoors and if they know it has a positive influence on their health.The result of my investigation is that the children play about the same games at the three different preschool gardens, but at the preschool with more natural surroundings, the children have more contact with plants and animals, and could learn of the different phenomena of nature by the preschool teacher answering their questions. Most of the children in the interviews know it´s useful to be outdoors and be on the move and get fresh air, but many of them thought it was most important to play. By being outdoors the children get exercise, fresh air, play and at the same time they establish an understanding of the nature and a healthier life..

En av fyra kvinnor beräknades få missfall innan de fyllt 39 år. Ett missfall kan leda till ångest, depression, ilska och förvirring, vilket ger ett upphov till hjälp och stöd för att kunna hantera känslorna, dels från anhöriga och dels från vårdpersonal. Syftet med studien var att belysa kvinnors livsvärld i samband med missfall. Litteraturstudien baserades på åtta vetenskapliga artiklar med kvalitativ ansats. Artiklarna bearbetades med induktiv innehållsanalys.

Projektets syfte var att undersöka om en handdator kan stödja distriktssköterskans arbete. I rapporten beskrivs hur vi tillsammans med distriktssköterskor har iakttagit i vilka situationer handdatorn kan vara ett hjälpmedel. Om patientjournalen är tillgänglig via handdatorn vid hembesök skulle det styrka de av oss utvalda nyckelorden som representerar distriktssköterskans yrkeskunnande; "seende", lyhördhet, kommunikation, flexibilitet, prioritering, beslutsfattande, dokumentation, framförhållning samt utveckla ett minne och självständighet. I rapporten skriver vi också om hur distriktssköterskorna tillsammans med oss har påverkat utvecklingen av det grafiska gränssnittet i designprocessen. Vi visar med mock-upbilder hur denna process har framskridit och vi pekar på hur viktig användarmedverkan är.

The aim of this study was to document treatments of sick and injured reindeer in Tornedalen and the area around Gällivare. I also wanted to find out the basis for the treatments, how they are considered to work and if they agree with established veterinary science. The occurrence of ?folk remedies? was especially studied. In all, 40 reindeer owners were interviewed.

Diabetes är en kronisk och obotlig sjukdom och antalet diabetiker fortsätter att öka ständigt Agardh et al. (2000). Risken för att utveckla diabetes typ 2 är: stigande ålder, låg fysiskt aktivitet, fetma, högt kaloriintag och rökning. Brister i egenvård kan medföra allvarliga komplikationer för patienten och höga kostnader för sjukvården. Kylberg och Lidell (2002) fastställer vilka komplikationer som kan uppstå som resultat av en äventyrad egenvård är kärlförändringar i de stora och små blodkärl, amputation och hjärtinfarkt.

SAMMANFATTNING En bristfällig munvård kan leda till olika sjukdomstillstånd. En god munvård är en viktig del i det fysiska och psykiska välbefinnandet. Allt fler äldre personer behåller idag sina egna tänder. De som inte kan sköta sin egen munvård p.g.a. sjukdom eller åldrande behöver därför hjälp.

Urininkontinens är beskriven som en dold sjukdom. Mer än 50 miljoner människor i världen är drabbade av detta tillstånd. Urininkontinens leder till försämrad livskvalitet. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att belysa kvinnors livskvalitet i samband med urininkontinens. En litteraturstudie med kvalitativ ansats har utförts.

Background: Children?s death is unexpected and unnatural irrespective of a long time of illness or a sudden death. Nurses working with palliative care of children experience a range of different emotions during the care. Palliative care is health promoting even though the purpose no longer is to cure. According to the nursing theorist Katie Eriksson health is possible to achieve even though the patient has got a deadly disease.

The purpose of this paper is to test a procedure that would be useful for a certain, more final purpose. Assume that you want to know if the differences in the result of a certain effort in health care have any connection with differences between the life situations of the patients. This would be easier to investigate if the life situations of the patients had connection to the easily available variable Health Care Cost (in Swedish VK). In that case the searching for connections between VK of patient groups and the result of health care efforts would be sufficient to gain knowledge of possible connection between health care efforts and life situations. Thus that is the final purpose.

Rabbits, Oryctolagos cuniculus, rapidly increases as pets. During the right circumstances, rabbits are friendly, social and playful. A rabbit who shows an abnormal behavior should always be examined by a veterinary, though there is almost always a medical problem. This essay is a result of a literature studie with the aim to find the prophylactic measures that may give pet rabbits a more healthy life. Rabbits have got a lot of common health problems, including dental, skin and gastrointestinal problems.

During the last decade a number of studies have been published that investigate how the most fundamental aspect of political organization, the regime type, affects population health. The results unanimously show that citizens of democracies live longer and healthier lives than citizens of non-democracies. Many explanations for this have been suggested, among these are that democracies redistribute more and invest more in salutogenic resources, and that the tendency of dictatorships to control the media negatively affects the ability to spread information crucial to public health. When these mechanisms are controlled for, however, it turns out that democracy has a large residual correlation with for example life expectancy, which suggests that other mechanisms are also involved.In this paper two new mechanisms regarding the possible psychosocially mediated health effects of the regime type are investigated, namely political repression, and the possible negative effects this might have on the levels of chronic stress, and autonomy, which connects to a large previous literature in social epidemiology. In the paper an ecological cross-country design is used and country-level data, provided mainly by the World Bank and Freedom House, is analyzed with a simple multiple OLS-regression model.

Under de senaste decennierna har det inom HR (Human Resources) skett en domänutvidgning, där allt större ansvar tas för fler aspekter av människors liv. Man får ofta ett intryck av att det finns ett genuint intresse för människors liv och hälsa bortom arbetet. Ett grundläggande antagande inom HR är emellertid att välmående individer leder till en ökad produktivitet. Därigenom finns en otydlighet i det egentliga syftet med de av arbetsgivarnas aktiviteter som syftar till människors hälsa och välmående. Det finns därmed anledning att närmre studera de idéer om människors arbete, tid och liv som cirkulerar inom HR.HR som kunskapsområde och branch är dock svårt att fånga i ett enda empiriskt material.

The conservation of great apes faces many challenges, one of which is the threat of infectious disease outbreaks. Zoonotic transmission of respiratory diseases from humans to wild great apes has recently been confirmed. Since respiratory disease is one of the major causes of death in both gorillas and chimpanzees, this gives reason for major concern. Little is known about the risks of disease transmission from humans to great apes in natural environments, and there is a need for systematic risk evaluation. Researchers, conservation staff and tourists spend time in very close proximity of wild great apes, sometimes during long time periods, which poses a potential risk of disease spillover. However, the presence of researchers and tourists has been shown to decrease the risk of poaching, making the matter increasingly complex.

Bakgrund. Under historiens gång har sjukdomar varit förknippade med rädsla och fördomar, HIV/AIDS är i nuläget den mest ökande smittsamma sjukdomen som har associationer med fördomar och skam. Detta ställer stora krav på vårdarens syn på HIV/AIDS och att kunna ge trygg vård som grundar sig på teoretisk och praktisk kunskap. Syftet. Syftet med denna Litteraturstudie är att fördjupa förståelsen för vårdarens känslor i mötet med personer smittade med HIV/AIDS och att undersöka orsaker till dessa känslor.

The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is a special unit for patients who is in the need for emergency life-sustaining measures and every patient has complex medical- technical equipment. The experiences of a critical illness and the needs of critical care are experienced in different ways. The purpose of this study was to describe the experiences from patients in the ICU and how this experience has an influence on the patients. The method was a study of literature with a qualitative inception based on eight scientific articles and the analysis of content has been inspired by Graneheim and Lundman (2003). The result of the study is presented by four categories: to loose the ability to make themselves understood, to be forced to adjust to the environment of caring, to have the lack of connection with reality and to be in an intensive care environment, The results showed that patients in the ICU are affected by the attitude from the staff, the equipment around them as well as the sounds and lights in the environment there.