During the past few years there has been an observed decrease in physical fitness within different patient groups. As a part of the rehabilitating physiotherapy treatment it is important to acknowledge the physical condition of the patient. Physical fitness testing might be difficult due to physical limitations within different patient groups. A broad range of exercise tests is therefore of importance in clinical practice. The aim of this overview was to describe exercise tests used in rehabilitation contexts, and to define areas of use and restrictions.

This essay is about two Swedish folk musicians, Anders Rosén and Leif Stinnerbom, who have been playing two important rolls in the developing process of Swedish folk music, on their separate ways. The main part of this work is focused on the era called ?The Folk Music Vogue?, which was the era when my informants were in the limelight on the Swedish fiddler scene of the 70s.Our music culture is constantly lying under the change of progress and I find it interesting to reflect how these kinds of changes are affecting the role of the musician.In this essay I am reflecting on the different perspectives of the musicianship according to my informants and how they both are referring to their role as musicians. The purpose is further on to see how they have been relating to the change of progress on the field of the Swedish folk music during the 70s and up to this date. Throughout interviews with the informants I am analyzing their personal relationship to their life as folk musicians.

Följande examensarbete är en litteraturöversikt med syfte att beskriva potentiella strålrisker och metoder för stråldosreducering för patienter och personal i samband med koronarangiografi. I takt med pågående forskning sker en utveckling mot allt mer avancerade undersökningar och behandlingsformer vars utförande i flera fall inkluderar röntgengenomlysning. Exempelvis frambringar koronarangiografi (kranskärlsröntgen) möjligheten att kartlägga förträngningar inuti patientens blodkärl och fortsatt behandling med ballongvidgning, PCI (Percutaneous Coronary Intervention), kan förhindra en potentiell hjärtinfarkt. Tidsmässigt långa procedurer med begränsad användning av adekvat strålskydd kan dock medföra risker såsom hudskador och linsgrumling (katarakt) samt sena effekter avseende genetiska skador och cancer. Kunskap och medvetenhet utgör därmed nödvändiga faktorer för tillämpning av förebyggande åtgärder.

Syfte och frågeställningarSyftet med denna studie är att kartlägga attityder på ledningsnivå till att använda fysisk aktivitet för de anställda som medel för att öka de ekonomiska vinsterna i företaget.Frågeställningar:? Hur ser attityderna till fysiskt aktiva medarbetare ut, utifrån ett ledningsperspektiv på företaget?? Hur ser företagsledningen på kopplingen mellan medarbetarnas fysiska status och företagets ekonomiska resultat?MetodInsamling av material till studien skedde genom intervjuer och utgår ifrån en kvalitativ undersökningsansats. Kontakt togs med en person på ledningsnivå på fem företag. Denna person kom sedan att representera respektive företags attityder. Intervjuer gjordes även med två ledande organisationer på den svenska arbetsmarknaden, en på arbetsgivarsidan respektive en på arbetstagarsidan som komplement till övriga intervjuer.ResultatDe attityder kring hälsoekonomi som framkom i denna studie var av varierande karaktär.

Förskolans läroplan reviderades år 2011. Ambitionen var att höja kvaliteten och tydliggöra yrkesrollerna i förskolan. I dagens förskola arbetar två yrkesgrupper, förskollärare och barnskötare. Yrkesgrupperna har organiserat sig i olika fackförbund; förskollärare i Lärarförbundet och barnskötare i Kommunal. För att förstå bakgrunden till revideringen har studiens syfte varit att nå kunskap om fackförbundens synsätt på förskolans verksamhet och dess personal.

Foreign aid is a very debated and controversial topic. The most recent studies have focused more on GDP growth and foreign aid correlation, however not much of the debate has focused on what kind of foreign aid should be given. The most common foreign aid is budget support, often a bilateral funds transfer between two countries. This kind of foreign aid can be both conditional and unconditional from the donors? perspective.

Syftet med denna jämförande studie är att söka förklaringsfaktorer till varför hälso- och sjukvård respektive civilflyg har utvecklats olika i säkerhetstänkande. Frågeställningen är huruvida de statliga tillsynsmyndigheternas förutsättningar och arbetssätt har betydelse för säkerhetskulturen i respektive tillsynsverksamhet. Till förutsättningarna hör författningarna - skiljer sig dessa åt? Myndigheternas arbetssätt, dvs. tillsynens utformning ? vilken betydelse har den?Resultaten visar att säkerhetsrelaterade författningar inom civilflyget är tydligare jämfört med hälso- och sjukvården.

Background: Overweight and obesity has become an increasing health issue around the world, which leads to an increase of cardiovascular diseases. The reason for this is a lack of physical activity in combination with an overconsumption of unhealthy food. In the primary healthcare is the ordination of physical activity on prescription offered as a treatment, which is an important health preventive action. When clients get physical activity on prescription they are given the opportunity to receive health counseling as a way to motivate a change in an unhealthy way of living.Objectives: This study aim to examine the experience of the health counseling of individuals with overweight related problems, in combination with the prescription of physical activity.Method: Qualitative interviews were chosen as method. Nine individuals participated in the study, seven females and two males, who had been to health counseling at Friskvården in Värmland.

The purpose of this study was to illustrate a parental perspective of children´s participation and quality of live through personal assistance. Important aspects of parents' experiences were highlighted based on how they experienced participation and quality of life for their children. We chose to use a qualitative approach in the form of four individual interviews with parents from different municipalities in central Sweden. The study was conducted with a narrative approach in which we used a holistic perspective. Parents' experiences were highlighted over time to create a complete picture.

This paper attempts to display how five teachers of social studies use and relate to the policy documents and their instructions on gender. To penetrate the subject, five teachers were intreviewed. Each interview focused on how the curriculum attempts to guide teachers regarding gender, sex differences and equality of opportunity. The collected information was processed, analyzed and discussed using gender studies and discourse theory.The results show that the interpretation and usage of the curriculum is very subjective and varies greatly between all the interviewed teachers. Their personal interpretation proves to be crucial when it comes to making reality of the stated goals in the curriculum, concerning actively working towards equality of opportunity between sexes.

Today is what you could call a golden age for technological development in health care. Technology is given a bigger role in healthcare and serves not only as a support for health professionals in their daily work but also as a tool for the patient. With the help of eHealth services, patients are becoming more involved in their own care. This improves patient?s knowledge about their health, which in turn contributes to higher motivation to perform self-care.

Background: An evaluation of analysts´ forecasting ability is interesting since their estimates constitute an important part in stock valuation and investment decisions. The recent years´ development in the stock market has lead to criticism of analysts? deficient forecasts. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate analysts´ forecasting ability concerning companies quoted at Stockholmsbörsen between 1987 and 2002. We also intend to discuss possible explanations for analysts? behavior in case of deficient accuracy.

The purpose with this study is to examine school-leaders?, school-librarians? and teachers? expectations and aims for their school-libraries at two different schools in the city of Växjö. The study is based on these five questions:· How do school-leaders, school-librarians and teachers think about learning?· What function does the school-library have?· What roles do school-leaders, school-librarians and teachers have in the school-library?· How do school-leaders, school-librarians and teachers experience the co-operation in the school-library?· How would school-leaders, school-librarians and teachers wish that the co-operation should be?To be able to answer these questions I have done thirteen qualitative interviews and studied literature relevant to the subject. Three different theories are used as a theoretical framework; the traditional perspective, individual constructivism and social constructivism.

Background: The competition is getting harder between the universities. To reach the high school students and discover which means of contact they prefer and how they perceive student recruitment are important issues in order to succeed in marketing strategies.Purpose: The purpose with our report is to investigate, analyze and compare the student recruitment in three universities and investigate how the high school students want to be contacted. Then we compare to see if they think alike.Method: We have done a qualitative study and chosen to use focus group interviews for the high school students and interviews for the universities to collect our empirical data. We have compared the empirical data and analyzed it with communication processes and marketing communication as theoretical grounds.Result: All of the universities work approximately the same way with their student recruitment. They put a large effort in the Internet and social networks as well as the personal contact.

Den utveckling som skett under 1990-talet är att gå från att ha sett människan som ett utbytbart kugghjul till att nu använda människan som sitt främsta konkurrensmedel. Personalutveckling är idag ett väldebatterat begrepp i media, och det tillämpas inom de flesta företagen. Personalutveckling kan ske på många olika sätt, t.ex. genom utbildning, teambildning, information, kommunikation och feedback. Men kan organisationsuppbyggnaden ha någon inverkan på personalutvecklingen? Tre fastighetsföretag, med olika ägandeformer och fastighetsbestånd, har intervjuats för denna uppsats; HSB, MKB och Fastighets AB Briggen.