Browsing Department of Health Promotion and Development by Document Types "Doctoral thesis"
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Evaluating the implementation of the Norwegian guidelines for healthy school meals. A case study involving three secondary schools
(Doctoral thesis, 2010-06-30)Introduction: Healthy eating is an important factor in children’s health and academic performance. Children and adolescents eat at least one daily meal at school and school meals represent a considerable part of their ... -
The Experience of Job engagement and Self-care among Ugandan Nurses and Midwives
(Doctoral thesis, 2012-11-27)Background: Nurses, the backbone of health care in sub-Saharan Africa, endure various forms of difficulties while on the job and as a result many choose to migrate in search for better opportunities, or leave the profession. ... -
Forståelse av pasientaggresjon og forklaringer på nedgang i voldsrate ved Regional sikkerhetsavdeling, Sandviken sykehus
(Doctoral thesis, 2014-03-20)A reduced amount of violence in a regional high security psychiatric ward - what happened and how to describe main dimensions of patient aggression? This thesis is based on 17 years of clinical data and experience from a ... -
Fra paternalisme til pasientmedvirkning? Eldre pasienter som blir behandlet med hemodialyse, deres nære pårørende og sykepleiere: et diskursivt perspektiv på erfaringer med pasientmedvirkning i dialyseavdelinger
(Doctoral thesis, 2013-03-06)The rights of patients and their families to participate in treatment and health care are guaranteed by international law and by national law in Norway since 1999. The overall aim of this thesis is to explore and analyze ... -
Frykt, forhandlinger og deltakelse. Ungdommer og foreldre med etnisk minoritetsbakgrunn i møte med den norske barnevernstjenesten
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-05-04)Background and aims: The quality of child welfare services (CWS) offered to families with ethnic minority backgrounds in Norway has been an issue of heated media debate, both nationally and internationally. Our knowledge ... -
The Good Beating: Social norms supporting men’s partner violence in Tanzania
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-05-19)This thesis is a qualitative investigation into the discourses that support wife-beating in Tanzania. Tanzania is recognised as a particularly peaceful country in the region. Nevertheless, one in two Tanzanians say a man ... -
"Helse i alt kommunen gjør?..." : -en undersøkelse av samvariasjoner mellom kommunale faktorer og norske kommuners bruk av folkehelsekoordinator, fokus på levekår og prioritering av fordelingshensyn blant sosioøkonomiske grupper.
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-12-03)In 2012, a new public health act took effect in Norway, highlighting the importance of health equity and the use of “health in all policies” (HiAP) approach to reduce social inequalities in health. The act passed the main ... -
Hidden Wounds: Orphanhood, Expediency and Cultural Silence in Botswana
(Doctoral thesis, 2005)This thesis focuses on the social impact of orphanhood in Botswana, i.e. the effect that loss of parents has on children and the implications for caregivers of taking on responsibility for orphans. Historic and ongoing ... -
How can employee empowerment be made conducive to both employee health and organisation performance? An empirical investigation of a tailor-made approach to organisation learning in a municipal public service organisation
(Doctoral thesis, 2011-09-01)Employees are often encouraged to take on more control over their work practices, so as to generate “more for less” solutions to the benefit of their employers, clients and themselves. To employees such increased control ... -
Inside the Outdoor Experience. On the distinction between pleasant and interesting feelings and their implication in the motivational process
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-08-24)Inspired by the functional well-being approach (Vittersø, 2013a, 2013b), this study set out to explore the distinction between hedonic and eudaimonic dimensions of feeling states to understand more about the variety ... -
Intimate partner violence among adolescents in South Africa and Tanzania
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-09-04)Background The aims of this dissertation were to study intimate partner violence among adolescents in Tanzania and South Africa, particularly prevalences and associated factors. Furthermore, to examine the relation between ... -
The intraindividual relations between social and academic self-efficacy, loneliness, academic stress and psychological distress in adolescence
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-10-20)Det overordnede målet i denne avhandlingen er å øke vår forståelse av intraindividuelle sammenhenger mellom akademisk og sosial mestringstro og akademisk stress, ensomhet og symptomer på angst og depresjon. I dag er det ... -
Local drug prevention - From policy to practice : A qualitative case study of policy makers, outreach social workers and at-risk youths
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-10-01)The overall aim of this thesis is devoted to understanding a local drug prevention strategy and its implementation through the eyes of policy makers, outreach social workers and at-risk youths. In Norway, municipalities ... -
Long-term sickness absence and disability pension award as consequences of common mental disorders. Epidemiological studies using a population-based health survey and official ill health benefit registries
(Doctoral thesis, 2013-01-15)The common mental disorders anxiety and depression are widespread in the population and will affect 1 in 4 adults at least once during their lifetime. Due to high prevalence of common mental disorders within official benefit ... -
The meaning of professional identity in public health nursing
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-09-22)Because health care is constantly changing, public health nursing is experiencing new and demanding challenges, which can have consequences for the identity of the profession. The overall aims of this dissertation are to ... -
Mental health and impairment in disability benefits. Studies applying linkages between health surveys and administrative registries
(Doctoral thesis, 2007-09-19)Objective: An increasing number of people in Norway and most other western countries leave the workforce earlier than retirement age and depend on disability benefits for income security. There is no consensus concerning ... -
Mortality and work-related disability as long-term consequences of anxiety and depression: historical cohort designs based on the HUNT-2 study
(Doctoral thesis, 2006-10-12)Objective: Over the last decades, quality epidemiological studies have repeatedly shown that the prevalence of mental illness is substantial, but still largely under-recognised and undertreated. Under-recognition in general ... -
The nature of subjective health complaints in adolescence: Dimensionality, stability, and psychosocial predictors
(Doctoral thesis, 2006-09-12)Despite the fact that adolescence is regarded as a period in life with good health and where severe illness is uncommon, many adolescents struggle with different kinds of health complaints in their daily lives. From a ... -
Navigating Prolonged Conflict: Subject positions and meaning constructions in postdivorce families
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-06-08)Background: Prolonged conflicts among postdivorce or noncohabiting parents are found to threaten the welfare of children, parents, and functioning in two household families. These family contexts are known in the literature ... -
Negotiating parenting culture, identity, and belonging : The experiences of Southern European parents raising their children in Norway
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-06-18)Background and aim: In the current environment of globalization, notions of parenting and childhood travel across borders and interact with local understandings pertaining to childrearing. Likewise, families are increasingly ...