94 research outputs found
Gender, health, the decisions we make and the actions we take
This thesis comprises of four self-contained papers that use both experimental and applied micro-econometric methods to explore different aspects of gender, health, the decisions we make, and the actions we take. In the first paper we investigate changes in psychiatric diagnoses and their income-related inequalities over time in Sweden and attempt to disentangle the development by decomposing changes over time in terms of population-level changes in education and migration background. Using Swedish administrative data we find that income-related inequalities in mental ill health increased dramatically between 1994 and 2011, but changes in education and migration background were not important drivers of these increases.The second paper aims to improve our understanding of the use of commitment contracts to help individuals achieve their physical activity goals. We experimentally compare the success of commitment contracts with and without financial stakes attached, and find a significant positive impact of being offered a hard contract. Importantly, we find that the effects are strongest among participants who reported exercising the least at baseline.In the third paper we seek to establish the effect of access to universal primary school-based health services in Sweden on long-term health and socioeconomic outcomes, using historical data on the timing of implementation of school health services in school districts in Sweden combined with administrative data. This paper helps shed light on the importance of interventions occurring during childhood on later life outcomes. Overall, we find little evidence that access to universal primary school-based health services leads to improved outcomes either during school ages or in later life.In the fourth paper, I conduct a pilot study to experimentally investigate the role of childrenâs books in the early internalisation of norms regarding gender, family, and careers. The motivation for this study was the fact that when women have children, they tend to make labour market decisions that result in substantial and persistent losses in earnings. The study was under-powered to draw strong conclusions, but results suggest exposure to a book that communicates a strong, positive message about mothers in both career and family roles may lead to reductions in implicit and explicit biases about gender, family and careers
Fighting Symbolic Violence through Artistic Encounters: Searching for Feminist Answers to Questions of Life and Death with Dementia
Book on publisher's web site. eBook ISBN: 9781786611185. First book in the series Feminist Studies on Peace, Justice and Violence
Bland biblar och heliga kor - om barn och unga som far illa inom den sociala barnavÄrden
Author: Anja Ferhatovic and Therese Stridh Title: Among bibles and holy cows - about maltreatment of children and youth in child welfare. [translated title] Supervisor: Claes Levin Assessor: Eva-Malin Antoniusson The purpose of this study was to examine social workers experiences of maltreatment of children and youth in child welfare. More specifically, our aim was to find out how social workers look upon the directives of the law in their work with children and youth, in what way maltreatment manifests itself in child welfare and how social workers look upon how the media presents maltreatment of children and youth in child welfare. Our aim was also to examine social workers experience of the conditions in their work and what they believe is needed to prevent maltreatment of children and youth in child welfare. The study was based on qualitative interviews with eleven social workers in Malmö. To analyze our material we used Lipsky`s theory of street-level bureaucrats using two kinds of perspectives; discretion and conflict. The study showed that social workers experience an absence of adequate resources in order to perform in the way that society expects them to. They also experience a conflict between what the organization expects them to do and what they can do within their discretion. The organization determines the degree of the discretion according to Lipsky, which corresponds well with our results. We found that some of the social workers found it hard to act in an organization without explicit goals and directives. They also expressed difficulties in question of interpretation and boundaries. The social workers thought that media is presenting an unfair and simplistic image of the child welfare. They also believed that this image could have a negative impact on the public, which could affect their work in a negative way. All these aspects combined with poor alternatives can contribute to maltreatment of children and youth in child welfare
Stig Sjödin och minnets politik
The aim of this article is to analyse the attitudes to history and memory expressed in the working-class poetry of Stig Sjödin (1917â1993) â both in Sotfratgment (Fragments of Soot) from 1949, which marked his breakthrough as a poet, and in the poetry he wrote for the labour movement (mainly poems published in tradeunion membership magazines or read at meetings and congresses) â and to discuss how he and his poetry are today viewed as reminders of political ideals and experiences threatened by oblivion. There are certain differences between how memory and remembering is treated in Sotfragment and in Sjödinâs labour-movement poetry respectively. In Sotfragment, focus is more often on individual memories and existential problems, whereas in the labour-movement poetry, Sjödin is sometimes more explicitly political and writes about collective memories from a proletarian perspective. These differences are conditioned by differences between the spheres to which the poems belong: that of literature and that of the labour movement. In connection with the rise of left-wing radicalism in Sweden during the 1960s and 1970s, Sjödin argued that older working-class literature contained important political experiences and perspectives. This is also how his works are sometimes viewed today, both by working-class writers and by political commentators. Thereby, it is emphasized that literature is not a passive medium for the preservation of memories, but that it can also transform them and make them politically relevant
Debatten om Sprutbytet i Svensk Dagspress - i sökandet av ett brukarperspektiv
Author: Therese Ekheim and Staffan Jansson Title: The needle syringe debate in Swedish newspaper â in search of a user perspective. [Translated title] Supervisor: Frans Oddner Assessor: Mats Hilte The aim of this study was to examine how syringe drug users are produced in Swedish newspaper in the needle exchange debate. More specifically its aim was to identify how the user perspective is given a certain space and study the consequences the petitions of the drug users could give and to see if there was any differences in how the drug user were explored depending on whether one is for or against syringe exchange, or if one is ambivalent in their arguments. As the study was based on a discourse analysis we only studied articles about the needle exchange debate. The aim with our method was to found the patterns in the statements about the debate on syringe exchange that was written in the articles seeing from a user perspective. We selected articles from newspapers from Swedenâs three largest cities. We found that the user perspective was missing in the most of the articles, and that the production of the users was different depending on what the articles were focusing on. The most articles had their focus on the location of the needle syringe program and the effects of the use of drugs such as infection, which are two debated areas that had a negative image of the drug users. All the articles besides two didnât have any focus on the user perspective, which is a kind of stigma. The drug users is already a group of people that mostly are standing outside our society, and by not mention the group or mention the group in a negative image is a result of stigma. Media has power in a way that they are choosing what they want to publish and also how they decide to illustrate something, which we could see in which way the drug users were illustrated in the articles
Biodiversity in municipal city planning : examples from Ărebro and Uppsala
I nordeuropeiska stĂ€der och inte minst i Sverige finns tack vare vĂ„r omfattande grönstruktur en unik möjlighet att genom planering arbeta för urban biologisk mĂ„ngfald. Ansvaret för att arbeta aktivt med biologisk mĂ„ngfald inom fysisk planering och Ă€rendehantering ligger i och med det kommunala planmonopolet pĂ„ kommunerna. Syftet med studien var dĂ€rför att utifrĂ„n ett top-down perspektiv identifiera samstĂ€mmighetet gĂ€llande urban biologisk mĂ„ngfald i kommunala dokument. Detta följdes av en jĂ€mförelse av hur det kommunala arbetet med urban biologisk mĂ„ngfald redovisas i nĂ„gra av Ărebro och Uppsalas kommunala planeringsdokument. Studien genomfördes frĂ€mst med hjĂ€lp av dokumentstudier samt en kompletterande intervju. De dokument som granskades var översiktsplaner med miljökonsekvensbeskrivning, grönstukturplan/parkplan, naturplan/naturvĂ„rdprogram, miljöprogram (Ărebro kommun) och en detaljplan med miljökonsekvensbeskrivning. Resultat frĂ„n vĂ„r studie var att begreppet biologisk mĂ„ngfald ofta ersĂ€tts av andra uttryck och i urbana sammanhang i princip inte förekommer alls. Det finns en stor otydlighet kring hur arbetet med urban biologisk mĂ„ngfald ska genomföras i praktiken. Biologisk mĂ„ngfald ges störst utrymme i dokumenten dĂ„ den kan kopplas till mĂ€nniskans behov och nĂ€mns frĂ€mst i samband med estetiska och ekonomiska vĂ€rden. Vi kunde ocksĂ„ konstatera att det inom kommunerna finns ett stort fokus pĂ„ grönstrukturens sociala funktioner, vilket överensstĂ€mmer med en tidigare studie av Elander et. al. (2005). Sedan dess tycks det kommunala förhĂ„llningssĂ€ttet till urban biologisk mĂ„ngfald inte ha förĂ€ndrats nĂ€mnvĂ€rt inom ramen för dokumenten.With an extensive urban green structure there is a unique opportunity to work with urban biodiversity in northern European cities, and not least in Sweden. Because of the municipal planning monopoly the responsibility to work actively with biodiversity in spatial planning lies within the municipalities. The aim of our study was therefore to identify how the municipal planning documents correspond to each other concerning urban biodiversity, based on a top-down perspective. This was followed by a comparison of how municipal work with urban biodiversity was reported in Ărebro and Uppsalaâs municipal planning documents. The study was carried out mainly by means of document studies and a complementary interview. The reviewed documents were a comprehensive plan with EIA, a green structure plan /park plan, a nature plane/nature conservation program, an environmental program (Ărebro) and a local plan with EIA from each municipality. Results from our study showed that the concept of biodiversity is often replaced by other terms and barely occurs in urban contexts. There is a great lack of clarity regarding how biodiversity should be implemented and carried out in practice. Biodiversity is primarily discussed when it may be linked to human needs and is mentioned mainly in connection with aesthetic and economic values. The studied municipalities mainly focus on the green structureâs social functions. This agrees with a previous study executed by Elander et. al. (2005). Since then it seems that the municipal approach to urban biodiversity has not changed significantly
Det Digitala Museet - En studie om myndigheten Livrustkammaren, Skoklosters slott och stiftelsen Hallwylska museets arbete med digitalisering
The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to demonstrate how the government agency constituted by the Royal Armoury, Skokloster Castle and The Hallwyl Museum (further on shortened as LSH) works with digitization of their collections. The aim is also to present which opportunities and problems this process may bring. A presentation of the digitization process in the âcentralmuseernaâ (museums that are accounted to the swedish Ministry of Culture) is made to create other perspectives. The base of this case study is empirical material derived from interviews. The author applies theories regarding the difference between the physical and the digital, the shift in the role of the museum and how the digitization changes the authoritative museum. An identification of a possibility within the digitization process at LSH is made - the digitization enables both preserving and exhibiting objects without the one suffering on the behalf of the other. The research is summarized and further discussed in the last chapter. There is no attempt to make universal meaning from the case of LSH or from the âcentralmuseernaâ. The aim is rather to present and discuss the results and how these may be understood in relation to general theories
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