A new type of chartered holiday, fitness holiday, has evolved during the last years and has also been mentioned in different media channels. Despite this, fitness holiday is a relatively new and unexplored phenomenon, which caught our interest to further explore this. The desire to travel on a holiday of this type has also increased. Therefore, a study about this particular phenomenon with focus on the traveler?s motives behind the choice to go has been done.It?s a qualitative study and most part of the data has been collected during a field study to Playitas Resort, Canary Islands.

AbstractThis project discusses various aspects of children's way to explore nature with their senses. Therefore I conducted a study in two preschools, one nature-oriented and another preschool. This study was carriedout usien the three metods, interviews, observations and surveys. Interview four children from each preschool, observations of each group outdoors during four different occasions and question forms to teachers. The result of the study showed that both teachers and children have a great interest in being outdoors in nature, but it is not always possible to take out all children's groups. The reason is large groups and inadequate staff.

Patienter i behov av palliativ omvårdnad finns på många vårdenheter och målet med modern palliativ vård är att främja livskvalitet. I vården har personalens bemötande stor betydelse för patienters välmående. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att beskriva patienters upplevelser av det goda mötet i palliativ omvårdnad. Arton vetenskapliga artiklar analyserades med kvalitativ manifest innehållsanalys. Detta resulterade i tre kategorier: att få omsorg utan att behöva fråga, att bli sedd som människa inger hopp, att lita på personalens kunskaper.

That all children today receive the opportunity to explore all of their capabilities is not certain at all preschools. Today there are preschools that are not able to work actively to explore the children's abilities because the large number of children and not enough teachers. Therefore I want to find out with my research how the educators would react when there is a crisis with the youngest children, the toddlers. I also want to find out different ways of acting in everyday situations at the preschool and why the teachers act in that way. I have relied on qualitative methods and I have used the critical incident method in my study.

That all children today receive the opportunity to explore all of their capabilities is not certain at all preschools. Today there are preschools that are not able to work actively to explore the children's abilities because the large number of children and not enough teachers. Therefore I want to find out with my research how the educators would react when there is a crisis with the youngest children, the toddlers. I also want to find out different ways of acting in everyday situations at the preschool and why the teachers act in that way. I have relied on qualitative methods and I have used the critical incident method in my study.

Denna uppsats avser beskriva alignment, överensstämmelse, mellan Den nationella IT-strategin för vård och omsorg och verksamhetsplaner som finns för de offentliga sjukhusen i Västra Götalandsregionen. Detta har gjorts av orsaken att det funnits en implementeringsproblematik gällande Den nationella IT-strategin. Genom jämföra dessa utifrån perspektivet alignment avses kunna bidra med en möjlig förklaring till dessa problem.Metoden utifrån vilken de lokala verksamhetsplanerna och IT-strategin har studerats utgjordes av en kvalitativ textanalys på hermeneutisk grund. IT-strategin analyserades inledningsvis utifrån de centrala mjuka parametrar (värderingar och mål) som denna innehöll. Därefter analyserades och jämfördes de lokala verksamhetsplanerna utifrån samma mjuka parametrar.Resultatet pekar mot att det råder en viss brist på alignment mellan Den nationella IT-strategin och de lokala verksamhetsplanerna.

Ett ökat antal frågor från verksamma lärare kring hur undervisningen kan anpassas för elever som har en kombinerad flerspråkighet och språkstörning ligger till grund för uppsatsen. Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur stödet vid flerspråkighet kombinerad med språkstörning är utformat. Fokus är att studera hur stödet är organiserat, vilka insatser som lärare och elever anser utgör ett stöd i skolarbetet samt hur stödet kan utvecklas. Utifrån det sociokulturella perspektivet och ifrån KoRP, ett kommunikativt och relationsinriktat perspektiv, har en fallstudie i två skolor i två olika kommuner genomförts. Data har samlats in genom observationer och intervjuer, varav två med elever.Resultatet är en mångfald av trådar men bland annat visar studien att hur kommunen väljer att organisera sitt stöd påverkar hur specialpedagogen på den enskilda skolan agerar i sin yrkesroll.

Organisation and market orientation of elderly careThis comparative literature study is intended to describe how elderly care is organised and financed in Germany and Sweden. Furthermore, it analyses the degree of competition and market orientation in both countries' care systems. Important aspects in this context are the kinds of measurements which are used on the two markets and the question if there are quasimarkets.The theoretical backgrounds of the study are Esping-Andersen's "Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism" and Harold Wilensky's convergence theory. Esping-Andersen's theory describes Sweden as a social democratic and Germany as a conservative welfare regime which means that there are different conditions for the development of welfare. The use of Wilensky's theory shows that both welfare systems are converging since the end of the 20th century.

BackgroundThe opportunity for cochlear implantation has now extended beyond children who are only deaf or hard of hearing. Children who are deaf blind from birth or early in life are receiving implants, but very limited research has been done for this population, and this raises important issues. AimThe aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of hearing and vision impairment or deaf blindness in children with Cochlear Implants in Sweden and to investigate the diagnoses issues among these groups of subjects. Material and MethodSubjects with an age between 1-18 years were ascertained through multiple sources and almost complete ascertainment was achieved.ResultsA total of 77 subjects with a referring diagnosis of combined hearing and vision disorder or deaf blindness were ascertained. Out of those, 30 subjects were excluded.

The purpose of this study was to examine the differences and similarities between coping strategies used by individuals with the disability ADHD in childhood and later adulthood. The questions we asked ourselves: Are the individuals using the same form of coping in adulthood as in childhood? What copingstrategies used individuals while growing up? What coping-strategies used the individuals in adulthood? To fulfill the purpose and answer the questions, we used qualitative methods. Interviews were conducted with four adults who have the disa-bility ADHD. The interviews were analyzed by the hermeneutic circle.

A?ldres delaktighet och inflytande i a?ldreomsorgen beskriver Socialdepartementet sombristfa?llig. Fo?r att o?ka a?ldres delaktighet tillsattes ett verktyg, genomfo?randeplaner. I den ha?r uppsatsen sta?ller vi oss fra?gorna: Hur upplever personal a?ldres delaktighet pa? a?ldreboenden samt vad fyller genomfo?randeplaner fo?r funktion fo?r a?ldres delaktighet? Utifra?n sex intervjuer med personal pa? a?ldreboenden visar resultatet att personalen upplever a?ldres delaktighet som frama?tskridande och betydelsefull inom a?ldreomsorgen.

Bristen på organ är ett välkänt och diskuterat ämne inom transplantationsverksamheten. Den har dock ökat donationsfrekvensen, genom att utvecklingen av att transplantera organ från en levande individ till en annan har påskyndats. Detta i sin tur har gett större möjligheter att belysa och samla kunskaper om hur organdonatorer, mottagare och närstående beskriver sina upplevelser. Syftet med vår studie var därför att fördjupa oss i hur de människor som ger organ och de människor som tar emot ett organ har upplevt donationsprocessen. Vi ville också belysa de känslomässiga upplevelser som de närstående till en patient som drabbats av hjärndöd beskriver.Vi har gjort en systematisk litteraturstudie, och använt vetenskapliga artiklar publicerade mellan år 1997 och 2007.

The Swedish preschool combines both education and care from a holistic point of view. This makes it even harder for both parents and the educators to make an objective evaluation on their own preschool. In Sweden we are proud to have one of the world?s best preschools. It is regulated by the government and is obligated to undertake critical evaluation from the state and the parents that are the consumers of these services.

 Denna uppsats belyser problematik som personal inom vård och omsorg upplever till följd av kravfyllda arbetsmiljöer. Den tidigare forskningen belyser arbetsrelaterad stress med utgångspunkt i vårdpersonalens bristande kontroll, stora engagemang och viktiga roll som förebilder. Utifrån detta perspektiv fokuserar uppsatsen på betydelsen av krav, kontroll, socialt stöd samt relationen mellan prestation och belöning i relation till upplevelsen av arbetsrelaterad stress. Den enkätundersökning som genomfördes i ett privat vårdföretag (n=11) visar att det finns ett samband mellan arbetsrelaterad stress och upplevelsen av kontroll respektive socialt stöd. Resultatens tillförlitlighet diskuteras i termer av genomförandet av enkätundersökningen och nyttan med densamma utifrån den låga svarsfrekvensen.

The purpose of this study has been to analyze the relationship between commercial brands and a subculture, with a focus on a number of elements of success. These elements could be in the nature of sale stats as well as that of influence within the subculture. All of this within the context of the snowboard culture. In accossiation to this we have formulated a question of study:What marks brands which gains influence within a subculture in addittion to becoming an important factor in the self-expression process of the cultural members?In this study, we have practised a qualitative method based on six (6) independant interviews with participants, active within the snowboard culture as well as one outside marketing executive and one ethnological reseracher.