The relationship between macroeconomic conditions and mortality has previously been established to be procyclical, which means that mortality has decreased during recessions and vice versa. This has been shown for various settings. However, more recent findings suggests that the procyclicality between mortality and macroeconomic conditions have undergone a secular shift from being procyclical to b

Sverige blir allt varmare på grund av klimatförändringarna och det innebär ökade hälsorisker för den äldre befolkningen. Den här undersökningen har därför studerat hur kommunerna arbetar för att skydda äldre invånare från den potentiellt dödliga värmen. Detta gjordes genom en webbenkät som skickades till alla Sveriges kommuner. Enkäten innehöll frågor om exempelvis fysisk planering, krisberedskap,Extreme temperatures are increasing in frequency as well as intensity due to human induced climate change. Heat waves now pose a very high risk to the public health in Sweden and the elderly are particularly vulnerable. This study therefore aimed to investigate how Swedish municipalities are working to strategically manage these health risks. An analytical framework, based on recommendations from

Bakgrund: Postoperativa infektioner är näst vanligast bland de vårdrelaterade infektionerna och leder till lidande för patienterna. Preoperativ helkroppstvätt med klorhexidinbaserad tvål används i stor utsträckning i förebyggande syfte inför alla typer av kirurgiska ingrepp. Vårdhandboken rekommenderar preoperativ klorhexidintvätt inför särskilt infektionskänsliga ingrepp. Syfte: Att granska ocBackground: Surgical site infections (SSI) are the second most common healthcare associated infection and causes patient suffering. Presurgical showering with chlorhexidine soap is widely used to prevent SSI amongst all types of surgery. The national guidelines in Sweden promotes the use of chlorhexidine soap prior to surgery classed as perceptive to infections. Aim: To review published researc

Over the last decades, the adverse effects of increased international trade and the rapid rate of globalization have been widely discussed - with labor markets in focus. This study examines the effect of increasing imports from China on manufacturing employment in Nordic countries. I analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition over the years 1995 to 2020 by employing a two-stage least

Niche pro-environmental innovations in death practices are gaining attention from sector and public stakeholders but can be sidelined due to lack of ritual and practice to support their implementation. The way death practices are conducted in Sweden is examined using transdisciplinary research methods and the multi-level perspective to understand which niche innovations have and have not been inco

Syftet med detta masterarbete är att undersöka hur skotska dialektmarkörer och skotska kulturspecifika element hanterats och överförts från Diana Gabaldons roman Outlander (1991) till Sven Christer Swahns svenska översättning Främlingen (1992). Två kapitel ur originalromanen och motsvarande kapitel ur översättningen analyseras. I en dels kvantitativ, dels kvalitativ analys behandlas kategorierna l

Honour-based violence and oppression is usually studied through a perspective that views girls and young women as victims whilst boys and men are seen as the natural oppressors. The aim of this study was to explore social workers' views on working with boys as victims and as oppressors in an honour-based context. A qualitative method was used and six social workers were interviewed on their pe

The aim of this study was to examine social service workers’ experiences of the relationship between their work-sphere and their private-sphere, as well as understand how they discuss this relationship. We conducted eight qualitative semi-structured interviews with social service workers who work with child welfare, in five different social services in Skåne. The material we obtained from the inte

De senaste tio åren har antalet sökta bygglov för småhus med träregelstomme mer än fördubblats. I dagsläget finns inget allmänt krav att säkerställa horisontalkapacitet för småhus men är något som beställaren kan efterfråga och som många konstruktörer någon gång upplevt problematiskt. Projekteringsfasen kan bli tidskrävande där lösningar för att fastställa kapacitet mot vindlast blir dyra och kompIn the last ten years, the number of building permits applied for houses with timber frame structure has more than doubled. Today, there is no general requirement to establish horizontal capacity, but is something that can be demanded and that many structural engineers have occasionally experienced as problematic. The design phase can then be time-consuming, where solutions for determining capacit

Mutual fund savings in Sweden has during the last 40 years gone from close to nil to represent a large portion of the private and public savings within the country. However, in recent years, the occurrence of closet indexing has been brought to light by researchers and media. Closet indexing is considered to be the fund manager’s failure to manage the fund portfolio as actively as is otherwise adv

Bakgrund: Meningsfulla aktiviteter är viktigt för att uppleva hälsa och välbefinnande. Idag finns en brist på meningsfulla aktiviteter för personer med demens som bor på särskilt boende för äldre. Personer med demens kan ha svårt att självständigt engagera sig i aktiviteter. Arbetsterapeuter har möjlighet att stötta människor att engagera sig i meningsfulla aktiviteter. Syfte: Att identifiera hur Background: Meaningful activities are important for experiencing health and well-being. Today there is a lack of meaningful occupations among people with dementia living in residential aged care facilities. People with dementia may have difficulty engaging in activities independently. Occupational therapists have the opportunity to support people to engage in meaningful activities. Aim: To identif

Energy cooperatives are seen as a way to achieve energy democracy in both academic and activist circles, with often an implicit expectation that they also contribute to energy justice. These assumptions are increasingly being questioned, often on the grounds of the limited diversity of energy cooperative membership. I conducted semi-structured interviews with four German energy cooperatives in ord

This paper examines the relationship between credit ratings and aggregate, as well as individual pillar CSR scores during the periods of 2009 and 2014 for European corporations. The results indicate that the aggregate CSR scores did not influence credit ratings for either period. However, social pillar scores had a statistically significant impact on credit ratings during the financial crisis of 2

Att lära en högupplöst radar känna igen människor inomhus: övervakning med integritet i åtanke Ett problem med övervakning med videokameror är att det kan vara integritetskränkande. Från en bild kan man både identifiera personer och se exakt vad de gör, vilket kan vara befogat i offentliga miljöer men inte i den privata bostaden. Här kan högupplöst radar vara en lösning. Med en radar går det inteVideo cameras are the primary equipment used for indoor surveillance. There are however areas where alternatives are needed as the use of cameras is sensitive or forbidden, e.g. in homes, bathrooms or dressing rooms. A more privacy-preserving method is using a radar. The interest in radar-based surveillance indoors has increased in recent years with the development of high resolution radar sensors

Handla hållbart – välj ärtdryck Speglar konsumenters hållbarhetsattityd deras inköpsval i livsmedelsbutiker? Kan konsumenter påverkas till hållbar konsumtion? Denna studie visar att konsumenters hållbarhetsattityd inte speglar deras dryckesval (komjölk eller växtbaserad dryck). Däremot finns skillnader avseende varför konsumenten väljer drycken. Studien visar även att de fyra nudgingverktyg som tFood consumption is a big part of the global emissions, which we need to address to increase the pace in the climate transition. In order to prevent further increase in greenhouse gas emissions a shift in milk consumption towards more plant- based options is needed. The aim of this study is to increase the understanding of how the relationship between consumers attitudes towards sustainability and

We aimed to map out the landscape of the Swedish mental health and wellness technology market in order to show that there is a growing community of mental health entrepreneurs focused on innovation, particularly in post-covid times. Prior to our work, the Swedish Mental Health Tech sector had not been mapped out or explored. We gathered information on Swedish Mental Health Tech businesses from pu

Bakgrund: Postoperativt delirium (POD) är en relativt vanlig komplikation efter genomgången kirurgi och anestesi. Enligt sammanställd forskning drabbas 4 till 53 procent beroende på typ av kirurgi, ålder och tidigare sjukdomar. Det är en komplikation som skapar obehag för patienten, förlängd sjukhusvistelse och även ökad mortalitet. Flertalet faktorer förutom de ovan påverkar risken för att drabba

The purpose of this study was to investigate how child and family social workers on the basis of a specific mentor model express their discretion in their professional role. The data was collected by using qualitative interviews with five social workers from the same workplace.The benchmark of the municipality was determinative for the social embeddedness, the social climate and the social network

Release of extracellular vesicles is an evolutionarily conserved trait present among all life forms. Bacterial extracellular vesicles are released in the extracellular space to interact with the surrounding environment. The vesicles are known to be involved in cell-cell, intra species communication and produced in response to stress. Recently, emerging evidence of virulence factors present in vesi