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In recent years, insufficient obstetric care has been a highly debated topic in Swedish media and politics. However, despite reports on e.g. the country’s high prevalence of birthing injuries, the recent closing of numerous maternity wards and a severe lack of midwives, the development of Sweden’s medical birth outcomes has been stable. Thus, based on the assumptions that (I) said quality measurem

This master´s thesis examines the working conditions and working environment of assistant nurses within the home care service of the elderly during and before the Coronavirus pandemic in Sweden. Before the pandemic studies showed that care work performed by assistant nurses lack recognition of how hard and heavy their work is and at the same time that their wages are low in relation to other occup

The aim of this study was to examine the experiences of change in hospital social counselors counseling with patients during the Covid-19 pandemic, based on the topics “use of digital tools” and “the use of infection control equipment and infection control in general”. Furthermore, the study seeks to understand how the change in work methods caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the perceiv

In early 2019, a system of sensors, projectors, and software was created for the purpose of improving the experience of entering Sony’s offices in Lund, Sweden. The system attracted attention, both internally and externally, and grew organically in features and scope to meet the needs of its initial customers. Due to its modularity and wide applicability, it came to be known as the Interactive Con

Den här kandidatuppsatsen är en kvalitativ studie som undersöker fotboll som arena för integration. Den utgår från teorier om socialt kapital, norm och språk för att kunna analysera och skapa förståelse kring empirin som är hämtad genom fyra intervjuer. Resultatet visar att fotboll har en styrka i att den innehåller ett språk som talas av alla världen över. Men för att fotboll även ska fungera soThis essay is a qualitative study examining football as an arena for integration and the method I’ve used is semi-structured interviews to collect my empirical information. The participants in this study are four different leaders from four different sports associations, which all are different in size and are from different places in Sweden. What they have in common is that they all have experien

Samsjuklighet av missbruk och psykisk ohälsa är ett komplext problem som enligt social forskning ofta är förankrade med varandra. Det är en aktuell problematik som föreligger i flera länder. Syftet med denna studie har varit att undersöka hur de yrkesverksamma inom socialtjänsten och hälso- och sjukvården upplever att samverkan och samsjuklighet tar sig uttryck mellan de båda instanserna. Metoden Comorbidity of addiction and mental illness is a complex problem that according to social research often is linked to each other. This is a current problem that exists in several countries. The purpose of this study has been to investigate how the professionals in the social services and health care experience that collaboration and comorbidity are expressed between the two instances. The chosen m

Abstrakt Bakgrund: Internationellt har arbetsterapeuten en betydande roll inom elevhälsan, vilket skiljer sig från Sverige. Det är därmed betydelsefullt att undersöka hur övriga professioner i elevhälsan i Sverige tillgodoser elevernas behov av stöd till aktivitetsutförande och aktivitetsengagemang utifrån ett arbetsterapeutiskt perspektiv. Syfte: Att beskriva hur elevhälsan i grundskolan i SverigAbstract Background: Internationally, the occupational therapist has a significant role in student health, which differs from student health in Sweden. It is therefore important to investigate how other professions meet the students' need for support for activity and participation from an occupational therapy perspective. Aim: To describe how student health in primary school in Sweden experien

This study examines the challenges related to global talent management (GTM) and employer branding (EB) strategies of multinational enterprises (MNE) within the automotive industry. Caused by increasing global talent shortages, the practices of GTM and EB have gained much attention in academic literature but are argued to be subject to integration-responsiveness tensions based on endogenous and ex

På grund av digitalisering har samhället träffats med det faktum att många företag erbjuder sina tjänster via internet. Det finns många företag som erbjuder språkundervisande tjänster via internet. Liksom företag verksamma offline, drabbas online verksamma företag av konkurrenssvårigheter. I nuvarande gällande rätt finns det inga exakta beskrivningar på hur konkurrensen på sådana marknader ska regDue to digitalization, society has been hit by the fact that many companies offer their services via the internet. There are many companies that offer language learning services through the internet. Like companies operating offline, online companies are experiencing competitive difficulties. In current applicable law, there are no exact descriptions of how competition in such markets should be re

The aim of this study was to examine how professionals in the social services view and talk about the internal cooperation between specialised units at the social services office (i.e. a receiving unit and an investigative unit). The motivation for such a study was located in an identified paradox between rapid societal changes creating more complex client needs and the implementation of new publi

This thesis explores a video phenomenon called “Let’s Play”, that allows people to share their gaming experience with an online audience, for example on YouTube. Let’s Play-videos are a favorite pastime with children. Yet, the knowledge about the information in these videos is sparse. The aim of this study is to contribute with knowledge about how Swedish Let’s Play-producers on YouTube, targeting

A member of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), after breakdown of genocidal regime in 1979, Cambodia started to build its economy from scratch. Regarding the press freedom, Cambodia was graded 128th in 2016 in the World Press Freedom Index (WPFI) by the Reporters Without Borders. The rank has deteriorated after the suppression on non-governmental organizations, opposition party and in

Information on maternal and fetal/child health outcomes is essential in order to improve pregnancy surveillance, clinical management during pregnancy and delivery, and thereby health outcomes. Umeå University, Lund University, University of Gothenburg together with University of Rwanda have collaborated in creating and implementing a Rwandan Medical Birth Register (MBR). This study aimed to invest

Purpose: The purpose is to provide a nuanced understanding of organisational cultural differences, obstacles associated with the human integration process and management strategies to overcome them. Theoretical Framework: Organisational cultural differences are treated as stemming largely from the organisation’s task environment, influenced by industry and function. Human integration is the proce

Background: E-commerce companies have grown considerably, leading to a changing role in logistics and supply chain management. Events such as the COVID-19 pandemic have significantly boosted the global e-commerce market, leading to traditional businesses adopting an online sales model. Therefore, optimising e-commerce operations has become a focus of study in recent years, where e-commerce has imp

This thesis explores the under-recognised yet symptomatic visual motif of two women, a recurring theme within a vast array of pictorial examples. Its primary objective is to construct a theoretical and methodological framework capable of comprehending the multiplicity of images in the form of an image collection: The Atlas of Two Women. This inquiry primarily draws on Walter Benjamin’s concept of

This thesis investigates the key factors influencing startup decisions to reintegrate environmental sustainability objectives (ESO). By adopting an inductive and deductive qualitative approach the study uses semi-structured interviews to investigate the decisionmaking of five startups that have undergone ESO reintegration. The findings lead to the establishment of a theoretic framework by identify

Swedish social services and healthcare systems have been bound by law since 2010 to collaborate when a client requires multiple interventions. This is called a Coordinated Individual Plan (CIP) to prevent clients from being overlooked by healthcare and social services. There has since been published several official reports that highlight the shortcomings of CIP. Our aim of this study was to exami

This paper addresses the problem of reproducing the effect of different visibility conditions on people’s walking speed when using evacuation models. In particular, different strategies regarding the use of default settings and embedded data-sets are investigated. Currently, the correlation between smoke and walking speed is typically based on two different sets of experimental data produced by (1

In timber housing constructions, vibrations can be a nuisance for inhabitants. Notably, the vibrational response of wooden floor systems is an issue in need of being dealt with more adequately in the designing of such buildings. Studies addressing human response to vibrations are needed in order to be able to better estimate what level of vibrations in dwellings can be seen as acceptable. In the p