Doktorsavhandlingar / Doctoral Theses - C7 (LIME): Recent submissions
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The many meanings of money : exploring health care professionals’ experience of economic governance
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2019-05-03)Introduction: Ensuring health care to the public is fundamental to the welfare state and consumes a substantial part of national expenditures. Health care systems across developed countries face challenges of increasing ... -
Web-based learning design in paediatric perioperative care : the importance of including an educational framework and children’s own perspectives
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2019-04-26)The perioperative period is a significant and unforgettable life event for children with both short-term and long-term effects. Despite evidence highlighting the importance of including children’s perspectives, their right ... -
Measuring health care performance : variations in care process, resource use and outcomes in childbirth care
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2019-02-28)Introduction: Measurement of health care performance is important for quality assurance and improvement of health services. With regular monitoring and follow-up, unwarranted variations in performance can be reduced. For ... -
Health economic aspects of low back pain
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2019-01-11)Four out of five people experience low back pain sometime during their lifetime. Problems of the back—and to a less extent of the neck—are consistently in the top seats among the most burdensome diseases in the developed ... -
Virtual patients in nursing education : teaching, learning and assessing clinical reasoning skills
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2018-12-21)Background: One challenge in nursing education is to teach nursing students to apply their knowledge when dealing with clinical problems. Nurses who possess effective clinical reasoning skills have more positive patient ... -
Conditions for care : factors in the nurse work environment related to safe and high quality care in acute care hospitals
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2018-12-20)Shortages of registered nurses (RNs) intensify challenges for healthcare service providers in matching an increasing demand for care with a sufficient healthcare workforce. Poor working conditions have been recognized to ... -
How can health care organizations create value? Business model explorations
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2018-11-30)Background: The Triple Aim posits that health care should strive to improve patient experience, improve population health, and maintain or lower costs. However, most organizations are not organized to achieve the Triple ... -
Too big to fail? A case study of the rise and fall of a medical research infrastructure
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2018-11-19)Introduction: Distributed Research Infrastructures are becoming increasingly more salient as science expands and universities continue to look for new means to cooperate and share expertise and expenses on large-scale ... -
Bridging theory and practice : learning design for AR-based continuing professional development in a primary care setting
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2018-10-30)Background: General practitioners (GPs) are the gatekeepers of health care in most societies, serving as patients’ first point of contact. Continuing professional development (CPD) is needed for GPs to improve their ... -
Innovation inside the box : how contextual constraints can contribute to improvement in health care
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2018-10-19)Background: Health care is becoming increasingly complex because of the major advances achieved in clinical and biomedical knowledge in the last 50 years. Many more important advances are on the horizon that will create ... -
The only constant is change : exploring the evolvement of health and social care integration
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2018-09-13)Introduction: Health and social care services, in Sweden and worldwide, struggle to provide comprehensive care and support for people with complex needs. As these services are currently structured, it is difficult to provide ... -
Teaming over time : team and team leadership development through different interventions
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2018-09-06)Organizing work in groups or teams is becoming almost the norm in contemporary organizations (West, 2012; Wheelan, 2005). This has implications on leadership, team membership and the way organization are designed to favor ... -
Adolescent positive mental health : policy, measurements, prevalence and correlates in a Chinese setting
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2018-08-21)Introduction: Adolescence is a period of one’s life that harbors many risks, but it also presents us with a number of fantastic opportunities for sustained health and wellbeing, through education and preventive efforts, ... -
Making or breaking organizational interventions : the role of leadership
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2018-08-03)Introduction: In the occupational health literature, organizational interventions have been recommended as an effective way to improve employee health and well-being. However, meta-analyses and literature reviews have shown ... -
Leading implementation in health and social care : the line manager in the spotlight
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2018-08-03)Background: Health and social care organizations are frequently undergoing changes intended to improve quality of care and are expected to implement practices based on the best available evidence. However, about two-thirds ... -
HIV-related stigma in the era of efficient treatment : conceptualization, measurement and relations to health-related quality of life
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2018-04-13)The studies included in this thesis examined experiences of HIV-related stigma among persons living with HIV in the current era of efficient treatment. Background: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has been a ... -
Design of blended learning for civilian and military trauma care
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2018-03-01)Violence in society is increasing, but action plans to mitigate this problem are insufficient in several countries. New educational strategies, such as blended learning which integrate face-to-face and online education are ... -
Personality in relation to health, psychosocial work environment and occupational health intervention adherence
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2017-11-24)Background: Personality is a well-studied topic within psychology and it has intrigued scientists and philosophers for centuries. It is a broad, complex and multidimensional phenomenon that constitute individuals’ typical ... -
Understanding the meaning of autonomy : creating a learning space for professional becoming in clinical education
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2017-11-21)The overall aim of this thesis was to understand the meaning of the phenomenon autonomy in learning, related to medicine and health-care students’ perceptions of learning and development in clinical education. We know ... -
From policy to practice : exploring the implementation of a national policy for improving health and social care
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2017-10-06)Introduction: Worldwide, health and social care systems struggle to develop processes that deliver coordinated, high quality care efficiently and at acceptable cost. For various reasons, many problems related to health and ...