Dissertations / Theses: 'Nutrition Information services Social aspects'

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Lea, Emma J. "Moving from meat : vegetarianism, beliefs and information sources." Connect to this title online, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phl4335.pdf.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 327-346). A random population survey and a survey of vegetarians were conducted to examine South Australians' beliefs about meat and vegetarianism. Meat beliefs, barriers and benefits of vegetarianism, meat consumption, personal values, use of and trust in sources of food/nutrition/health information and demographic variables were measured.

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Sparlin, Linda Rae. "The use of a color code system to promote compliance to diet information." Scholarly Commons, 1988. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2165.

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The use of color coded prompts to influence students' food selections in choosing a balanced meal was investigated. Yellow, green, blue, and orange dots, representing the four major food groups, grains, fruit and vegetables, dairy, and meat respectively were displayed at the point-of-selection on food entree cards along the serving line of a college dining hall. Two grain servings, two fruit/vegetable servings, one dairy serving, and one meat serving, were suggested as the optimal combination for a balanced meal. The results indicated that the prompts, although noticed and understood by the majority of the students, did not significantly influence their food selections. These findings are inconsistent with earlier studies substantiating the effectiveness of color coded prompts at the point-of-selection in influencing food choices. Implications are discussed.

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Mofidian, Seyedehrashin. "Understanding Privacy Aspects Related to Location Based Services (LBS) in the Småland Tourism Industry." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för informatik (IK), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-99607.

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Digital technologies have a substantial impact on the tourism industry by affecting thetraveller's behaviour before, during and at the end of the trip and by transforming thetraditional travellers to the digital travellers and smart tourism. Data lies at the core ofall smart tourism activities and received considerable attention in the context of tourists'privacy concerns, precisely, location-based service (LBS). LBS is an example of smarttechnology to enhance travellers' experience and to provide significant benefits to users.Although, LBS become popular among tourists due to high information availability, easeof use, and cheapness, lack of location information protection make the users vulnerable.The latter is a great concern for users when they unintentionally allow the LBS providersto collect all information related to their location. Therefore, this study was conductedby focusing on the general concept of privacy to determine the issues related to the LBSusing in Småland tourism industry. The tourists' perceptions and understanding ofprivacy while using LBC were considered as a general concept of privacy.The study was performed through qualitative research by collecting data from thestructured-interview based on open-ended questions. The qualitative research presentedin this study was based on different viewpoints of interviewees. Thematic analysis wasused to obtain a comprehensive understanding of interviewees' privacy concerns to useLBS. The result indicated four major themes, such as personal information, privacybreach, hesitancy/conditionally and hedonic, that impact differently on tourists' intentionto use LBS. Furthermore, the personality of people, their perceptions and demands couldenhance their privacy concerns for using LBS. These concerns, however, might besuspended when the benefits of gaining information from LBS is considerable. Someother factors, such as the ease of use, user-friendly design, pleasant impression, alongwith providing useful information in the tourism destination, were also considered asessential for LBS adoption among tourists.

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Kunjuzwa, Dumani Tau. "Exploring user-driven telephony services in an information and communication technology for development context." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/546.

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There is a great difference that exists between people who have access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and those who do not. As a developing nation, South Africa is badly affected by the so-called Digital Divide. Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICTD) interventions are rapidly increasing in marginalized and rural communities in striving to bridge this digital divide. This research project is undertaken within the context of the Siyakhula Living Lab (SLL) which is an ICTD intervention at Dwesa rural community. This research investigates how audio-based services can be applied locally for communication and information sharing. This research aims to develop a user-driven telephony framework which will enable users to construct customized audio-based services. This aims to empower the Dwesa community for skill development and supports the user-driven innovation. The Internet and Telephones are the most popular technologies that are widely used in our daily life for purposes of communication and information access. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) integrates these two separate technologies (Internet and Telephones) to produce real-time multimedia communication services such as Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems. In addition, the ability of VoIP presenting information through voice plays a crucial role, more especially to those who do not have web visual access or those who are computer illiterate.

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D'Mello, Zane. "Managing the IT relationship: A critical realist view of the small non government human service organisation experience." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2008. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/200.

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There are approximately 700,000 non Government organisations in Australia employing approximately 936,000 people. Many of these can be classified as Non Government Human Service Organisations (NGHSOs). These organisations provide an array of services to people experiencing disadvantage. In the emerging information intensive climate, NGHSOs are increasingly under pressure to consider their own use of information technology (ID to underpin and transform traditional methods of service delivery, or risk becoming irrelevant to their clients and those that support them materially. This thesis argues that NGHSOs hove a critical role to play in addressing the so-called "digital divide" affecting their disadvantaged clients. It suggests a critical role for IT vendors in NGHSO IT management and examines this vendor role in diffusing new IT innovations. The thesis also highlights the multitude of impacting structures and policies that that influence NGHSO IT management practice.

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Hedlund, Elin. "Citizen's Perspectives on Municipalities' E-Services : A Study about how a Municipality works with their E-Services and how they involve the Citizens." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avd för informatik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-15842.

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Digitalization and e-services are a hot topic within the Swedish municipalities today. There are a lot of discussions about how the municipalities can improve their services with the help of digital tools. However, the one thing that is often missed is what the citizens or end users' needs and want from a service. Through a mixed method approach, this research is looking into how one municipality in the western part of Sweden are working with their e-services and what the citizens think about them. In the study, the results show that the municipality needs a general strategic position in relation to digitalization. The research also show that it is more about the process and journey for both the employees and citizens rather than a question about which digital tool or service that they should use. The municipality is in the initial phase of digitalization and they need to have both the employees and the citizens on board to be able to succeed.

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Nhavoto, José António. "Integration of Mobile Technologies with Routine Healthcare Services in Mozambique." Doctoral thesis, Örebro universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Örebro Universitet, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-56948.

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Mobile technologies are emerging as one way to help address health challenges in many countries, including in Least Developed Countries. Mobile technology can reach a large share of the population but in order to provide effective support to healthcare services, technology, information collection and dissemination, and work processes need to be well aligned. The thesis uses a design science methodological approach and mixes qualitative and quantitative data analysis to address the question of, How can mobile technologies be effectively integrated with routine healthcare services? The study concerns the design, implementation, and evaluation of a mobile technology-based system, called SMSaúde, with the aim of improving the care of patients with HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in Mozambique. The work started with the elicitation of functional and user requirements, based on focus group discussions. An important challenge, as in many mHealth interventions, was the integration with routine healthcare services and the existing IT systems, as well as developing a scalable technical structure. The system has now been in routine use since 2013 in more than 16 healthcare clinics in Mozambique. Evaluation was done by a randomised controlled study. Analysis of patient records showed that retention in care in urban areas was significantly higher in the intervention group than in the control group. In a user study both patients and health professionals were very positive to the system. The thesis contributes to research by demonstrating how information system artefacts can be constructed and successfully implemented in resource-constrained settings. The practical contributions include the designed artefact itself as well as improved healthcare practices and mHealth policy recommendations.

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Grauers, Björn. "Digital innovation through the use of participatory design in the development of Swedish public healthcare support services." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-45645.

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The Swedish public sector stands in front of great challenges, threatening the very existence of a Swedish welfare state. An aging population has increased the need for welfare support for the elderly population. At the same time, Sweden is facing a decrease in tax revenue from a shrinking percentage of work-able citizens among its population. Politicians, citizens, and service providers ask for radical innovation, and many see the opportunity to make use of digital technology to make our public services more efficient. However, it is not the lack of technical innovation that hinders public services from becoming more efficient, but rather the lack of knowledge into what is efficient and for whom. Without the understanding of user needs rather than wants it is hard, if not impossible, to know how digital technology is best utilized to increase user value. The findings show that participatory- and service design practices can answer why digital technology is needed and how and when it should be implemented. This project aims to find ways to increase accessibility, efficiency, and trust in digital healthcare support services and give insight into the opportunities for Interaction designers to bring value to healthcare development using participatory design practices.

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Lundström, Ludvig. "Dynamic pricing services in e-commerce ecosystems : An exploratory study of context, technologies, and practices." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för informatik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-188340.

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The development of e-commerce has seen a considerable rise in the last decade, with many companies starting online stores. While there is research regarding e-commerce, the concept of dynamic pricing within the e-commerce ecosystem still has a gap. This study seeks to explore and present how a dynamic pricing system can be delivered within an e-commerce setting. With insights from DynamicX, an intelligent dynamic pricing system organization, and through thematic analysis, the result is presented through four themes regarding e-commerce and dynamic pricing. The findings presented in the discussion related to the past, the present, and the future of dynamic pricing systems in e-commerce with a focus on context, technologies, and practices.

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Lundström, Ludvig, and Linn Jensen. "NAVIGATING YOUR WAY THROUGH THE CLOUDS : A qualitative study on the transition to cloud services within Swedish municipalities." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för informatik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-184620.

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In the wake of a digitally transforming environment, public sector organizations are realizingthe necessity to adopt new ways of managing their operations. The changing expectations anddemands of citizens and stakeholders are triggering such organizations to develop their deliveryof services, as well as digitally transforming their internal processes. As the public sector valuesservice delivery and cost-effectiveness, cloud services have become an attractive option to transition to, due to their flexible and economical characteristics. This qualitative study examines two Swedish municipalities in their transition to cloud services, studying the reasons behind said transition, and how those affect their adoption. The Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework was utilized to evaluate the factors affecting the two organizations’ transitions and adoptions of cloud services, showcasing a connection between the framework’s elements and the analyzed results. The findings show pressure coming from both external and internal sources, restrictions involving governmental regulations and lack ofavailability, as well as how they manage these challenges, by finding new ways to innovate and preparing their organizations for future transitions.

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Featherstone, Lisa. "Breeding and feeding: a social history of mothers and medicine in Australia, 1880-1925." Australia : Macquarie University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/38533.

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Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Humanities, Department of Modern History, 2003.
Bibliography: p. 417-478.
Introduction: breeding and feeding -- The medical man: sex, science and society -- Confined: women and obstetrics 1880-1899 -- The kindest cut? The caesarean section as turning point -- Reproduction in decline -- Resisting reproduction: women, doctors and abortion -- From obstetrics to paediatrics: the rise of the child -- The breast was best: medicine and maternal breastfeeding -- The deadly bottle and the dangers of the wet nurse: the "artificial" feeding of infants -- Surveillance and the mother -- Mothers and medicine: paradigms of continuity and change.
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw profound changes in Australian attitudes towards maternity. Imbibed with discourses of pronatalism and eugenics, the production of infants became increasingly important to society and the state. Discourses proliferated on "breeding", and while it appeared maternity was exulted, the child, not the mother, was of ultimate interest. -- This thesis will examine the ways wider discourses of population impacted on childbearing, and very specifically the ways discussions of the nation impacted on medicine. Despite its apparent objectivity, medical science both absorbed and created pronatalism. Within medical ideology, where once the mother had been the point of interest, the primary focus of medical care, increasingly medical science focussed on the life of the infant, who was now all the more precious in the role of new life for the nation. -- While all childbirth and child-rearing advice was formed and mediated by such rhetoric, this thesis will examine certain key issues, including the rise of the caesarean section, the development of paediatrics and the turn to antenatal care. These turning points can be read as signifiers of attitudes towards women and the maternal body, and provide critical material for a reading of the complexities of representations of mothers in medical discourse.
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Tiitinen, Mekhail Kirsi. "Chil Nutrition Communication for Small Children in Egypt: Described by Mothers with Higher Educational Background." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för hälsovetenskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-13250.

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ABSTRACT Right child nutrition communication to the mothers of small children is fundamental. Optimal infant and young child feeding practices rank among the most effective interventions to improve child health. How well health information is received, is affected by the characteristics of the receiver such as culture, language, personality etc. Communication of child nutrition over cultural boarders can be improved by understanding communication processes in different societies. Communication inputs from McGuire’s model; source, channel and destination were used to describe communication process in this study, which was carried out in Egypt, where the nutrition situation is characterized by different challenges. The purpose of this interview study was to find out how highly educated mothers of small children, living in cities in Egypt experience child nutrition communication in their society. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were used as the method for interviewing 7 mothers with children from 6 months to 4 years. Strategic sampling and snowball sampling were used for finding suitable participants. Interviews were analyzed by content analysis. Result: Mass media in the form of Internet, TV, books and Child nutrition hotline and interpersonal communication such as pediatricians, social networks and elder generation were nutrition information sources for Egyptian mothers. Pediatricians and Internet were widely described sources as well as the elder generation. Challenges, related to different sources such as trust were mentioned, available information contained discrepancies. This study gives specific knowledge of how child nutrition is communicated, used and received by Egyptian mothers. Challenges are identified both in interpersonal and mass media communication. These results can improve the nutrition communication/health communication for the study group or similar target groups via different sources and channels. The result of study is increasing the understanding of complexity in health communication. More culture specific studies and understanding of the target groups is needed in order to gain deeper understanding for other cultural contexts.

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Wass, Sofie. "The importance of eHealth innovations : Lessons about patient accessible information." Doctoral thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Informatik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-38045.

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Access to digital information and communication has an increasing importance in both the work of healthcare professionals and in patients’ everyday life and has transformed what we do and how we carry out activities. It changes the way in which healthcare is delivered, how information is exchanged within and between organizations and how patients and other actors access and manage information. Currently, innovation is imperative in the healthcare sector and today there is a focus on how different eHealth services can improve healthcare. With increased access to various eHealth services, there is a need to know more about the impact of eHealth innovations on healthcare. The aim of this thesis is to acquire more knowledge about eHealth innovations in healthcare. The focus is on prerequisites to realize innovative eHealth services and eHealth services that provide patients with access to health information. The theoretical background addresses innovation, services and business models. This thesis is a compilatory work and includes five qualitative research papers. The first study is an interview study, the second is a literature review and the remaining three are case studies. The data collection consisted of interviews, surveys, workshops and secondary data collected from documents. The interview study and the case studies were performed in the Swedish eHealth setting. The research contributes to our understanding of eHealth innovations with insights on prerequisites to realize eHealth innovations and knowledge on patient accessible information. The first study provides a classification of prerequisites that need to be considered to realize innovative eHealth services. When dealing with eHealth services, organizational and sematic interoperability are still a challenge, and they transcend organizational boundaries. This thesis provides knowledge on the recent trend of opening up electronic health records to patients. The knowledge derived from the studies on patient accessible electronic health records show that there is a discrepancy between the perceptions of patients and healthcare professionals. The thesis concludes that patients feel more involved and that the patient-professional relationship improves with patient access to electronic health records, whereas healthcare professionals have concerns about how patients will manage access to health information. This thesis also provides empirical insights on how business models can be represented in a public eHealth setting. By viewing public eHealth services as social innovations, the thesis contributes to the research on business models in a public healthcare setting by incorporating societal value into the representation of the business model. The research in this thesis contributes to research in health informatics by discussing issues related to eHealth innovations and patient accessible information. Its practical importance lies in identifying issues that are important when discussing eHealth initiatives and the implications of giving patients online access to their electronic health record.

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Miteche, Sacha Patrick. "A mobile phone solution for ad-hoc hitch-hiking in South Africa." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013340.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of mobile phones in organizing ad-hoc vehicle ridesharing based on hitch-hiking trips involving private car drivers and commuters in South Africa. A study was conducted to learn how hitch-hiking trips are arranged in the urban and rural areas of the Eastern Cape. This involved carrying out interviews with hitch-hikers and participating in several trips. The study results provided the design specifications for a Dynamic Ridesharing System (DRS) tailor-made to the hitch-hiking culture of this context. The design of the DRS considered the delivery of the ad-hoc ridesharing service to the anticipated mobile phones owned by people who use hitch-hiking. The implementation of the system used the available open source solutions and guidelines under the Siyakhula Living Lab project, which promotes the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in marginalized communities of South Africa. The developed prototype was tested in both the simulated and live environments, then followed by usability tests to establish the viability of the system. The results from the tests indicate an initial breakthrough in the process of modernizing the ad-hoc ridesharing of hitch-hiking which is used by a section of people in the urban and rural areas of South Africa.

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Wikström, Daniel, and Ida Sandeberg. "Accessibility, With or Without Colour : A qualitative look on existing accessibility guidelines for colour vision deficiency and its effect on Swedish e-health services." Thesis, Tekniska Högskolan, Jönköping University, JTH, Datateknik och informatik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-48237.

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Purpose WCAG is a set of guidelines to assist in developing websites accessible for everyone, for example people with colour vision deficiency (CVD). However, there are few guidelines relevant for CVD and with increasing dependant on websites the importance of accessibility on these websites increases as well. The purpose of the research study is therefore to investigate the impact the relevant guidelines for CVD in WCAG 2.1 has on Swedish health care websites and what the consequences are for people who live with CVD. Method An initial literature study was conducted to gain knowledge of previous findings and also evaluate the best approach for the research study. The research study is based on a qualitative approach to gain a deep understanding of the area and to gain insight into the feelings and experiences of the people affected. The methods used to gain the necessary knowledge are an evaluation of 1177.se and e-tjanster.1177.se also observations and interviews around these two websites. Findings The results show that WCAG 2.1 has a positive impact on Swedish health care websites, as well as on users with CVD. From evaluations, interviews and observations it is concluded that 1177.se and e-tjanster.1177.se are easy to perceive for people with CVD. Implications This research study was limited to the mobile version of the websites. However, the results could be different if the research was conducted on the desktop version due to the different structure of the websites and the inclusion of a cursor on desktop. The evaluation could have been affected by the sampling of pages while the interviews and observations should not have been. Limitations The research study was limited to Swedish health care website 1177.se and its subdomain etjanster. 1177.se. Further it was decided to evaluate the mobile version of these websites, although the elements should look similar on desktop and mobile. While not the initial intention, due to over representation of red-green CVD the study was also limited to people with red-green CVD. Also, the experience of browsing the web on a mobile device was considered to reduce the variables for frustrations. Further research For further research, another selection of WCAG guidelines could be considered to evaluate etjanster. 1177.se since the results shows that 1177.se’s and e-tjanster.1177.se's weaknesses seems to be in the structure of the website. A study researching the “blue-yellow colour blindness” compared to websites could contribute with new, relevant knowledge as well.

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Nyblom, Åsa. "Making travel sustainable with ICT? : The social practice of travel planning and travel information use in everyday life." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Miljöstrategisk analys (fms), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-154474.

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Adopting the perspective of the traveller, this thesis examines how travel plans are actually made in the everyday situation and how information is used and drawn on when planning the many, often unremarkable, trips of ordinary urban life. Ethnographical field studies in southern Stockholm, Sweden, employing a practice theory perspective showed that people use a vast mixture of different types of information when planning and making trips. Therefore, the concept of travel information should be defined broadly enough to encompass informal, formal, analogue and digital types of travel information. Then, and only then, is it possible to perceive the interactions between these and see their potential as a change factor for sustainable city travel. In relation to this, situations when travel information was not used, were also identified in the qualitative data and are acknowledged and discussed in the thesis. Travel planning is in everyday practice undertaken little by little, squeezed in between other activities of daily life. It is a process more extended in time, space and content than the limited search for information about the best way to get from A to B, assumed and facilitated in many existing travel information services. Travel planning is closely connected to the overall scheduling of activities (planning of life) and thus spans much larger time frames than the single trip. Planning travel also includes consideration of issues such as preparations needed (things to be done before departure/brought on the trip); managing vehicles and equipment in time and space (getting the bicycle/car home again or safely parked); the weather (current and forecast); social relations (the potential of different travel options for relationship building or conflict triggering); social norms (e.g. of 'good parenting' or 'proper behaviour on public transport'); and health issues (wanting exercise or inability to manage stairs/luggage). The qualitative data revealed that travel information is sometimes perceived and used as a security blanket, i.e. something to hold on to and give the traveller courage on the trip until they are safe at their destination. It also showed that travel planning, depending on life situation, can be experienced as either a house of cards, i.e. if anything changes the whole house collapses and has to be rebuilt to a different layout, or a prefab building, i.e. the same prefabricated pieces are joined together in more or less the same pattern every time. Recent decades have seen rapid growth in ICT services relating to transportation. Different types of travel information services have been proposed as a means to decrease the environmental impacts of transportation through effecting behavioural change. Taking the empirical 4 insights provided by this thesis into travel planning and travel information use in practice, it is clear that travel information services of tomorrow, if connected to other ICT systems in everyday life, could be designed in a way that broadens their horizon of assistance in supporting travel planning processes in everyday life. Although, as this thesis demonstrates, the role and potential of travel information services and ICT in the work of achieving sustainable mobility should be discussed from a perspective critical of overly linear perceptions and instrumental starting points.
Denna avhandling tar resenärens perspektiv, och undersöker från vardagslivets horisont hur resor egentligen planeras, och hur information används när de många, ofta obemärkta, vardagsresorna görs i staden. Etnografiska fältstudier i södra Stockholm, gjorda och analyserade med ett praktikteoriperspektiv, visar att människor använder sig av många olika typer av information för att planera och genomföra sina resor. Därför bör begreppet reseinformation definieras vitt nog att rymma både informella, formella, analoga och digitala typer av reseinformation. Först då är det möjligt att iaktta interaktioner mellan dessa, och också se informationens eventuella potential som förändringsfaktor för hållbart stadsresande. Även situationer när reseinformation inte används uppmärksammas och diskuteras. Reseplanering är i vardaglig praktik något som sker lite i taget, i mellanrummen mellan andra sysslor och aktiviteter. Det är en process mer förgrenad i tid, rum och innehåll än den avgränsade sökning efter information om bästa sättet att ta sig mellan A och B som många existerande IT-baserade reseplanerare verkar förutsätta och i dagsläget assisterar. Reseplanering är starkt knutet till den övergripande planeringen av aktiviteter i livet, och reseplanering har därför oftast ett vidare tidsspann än endast en resa. Planering av resor inkluderar även hänsyn till faktorer som nödvändiga förberedelser (saker att göra innan avfärd/ta med sig på resan); hantering av fordon och bagage i tid och rum (få hem cykeln/bilen igen eller få den säkert parkerad); vädret (nuvarande och prognostiserat); sociala relationer (potentialen för konflikter/positiv samvaro vid olika färdmedelsval); sociala normer (om gott föräldraskap eller hur man för sig på kollektiva färdmedel); och hälsoaspekter (vilja till motion eller oförmåga att gå i trappor). Fältarbetet gjorde tydligt att reseinformation ibland används som en snuttefilt – något att ty sig till och hålla i handen på okänt territorium tills du har kommit till målet för din resa. Reseplanering kan också, beroende på livssituation, antingen upplevas och liknas vid husbygge med prefabricerade element – samma standardiserade, välkända bitar sammanfogas på ungefär samma sätt varje gång; eller också ett korthus – om någonting ändras brakar hela huset ihop, och måste byggas upp igen med en helt annan design. Under de senaste decennierna har det skett en snabb utveckling av IT-lösningar på transportområdet. Olika typer av reseinformationstjänster har föreslagits som ett verktyg för att ändra resebeteenden och därmed minska transporters miljöpåverkan. Med utgångspunkt från studiens 6 empiriska insikter i hur reseplanering går till i praktiken, och hur reseinformation används blir det tydligt att morgondagens reseplanerartjänster, om de kopplades ihop med andra digitala system vi använder i vår vardag, skulle kunna utformas på ett sätt som utvidgar systemets "assistanshorisont" för att bättre passa ihop med reseplaneringspraktikerna i vår vardag. Potentialen och rollen för reseinformationstjänster och IT i arbetet med att minska transporters miljöpåverkan bör diskuteras från ett perspektiv som är kritiskt till alltför linjära och instrumentella utgångspunkter, vilket denna avhandling bidrar till.

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Ferguson, Isaac Yaw. "Case study: testing Wahlgren’s escalation maturity model within public sector organisations in Sweden : Studying model support for operators of essential services in meeting NIS directive requirements for incident escalation." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-20202.

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Critical infrastructures are vital services, and attacks on such systems affect people's social and economic well-being. Therefore, operators of such services must have appropriate measures in place to handle IT-related incidents. However, reports show that organisations classified as Operators of Essential Services (OES) do not have appropriate measures to handle IT-related incidents. A case study approach is used in this study to test the usability and the applicability of Wahlgren's Escalation Maturity Model level within various public sector organisations in Sweden regarding their escalation and communication of IT-related incidents. A follow-up semi-structured interview is also conducted with employees at the technical level to determine if the current organisation's maturity level shortcomings are known across different organisational levels. The tool's maturity level scaling attributes are difficult to understand because all organisations in this study achieve the same level of maturity, even though there is a wide range of performance regarding the number of questions answered in the affirmative. The data output generated from the testing of the model can assist organisations in improving their incident escalation activities. However, the lack of precision of the model makes it challenging to apply in the public sector. The results reveal that all the five organisations obtained an escalation maturity level of zero (0), non-existent, regarding escalation of IT-related incidents. As a result, with the current model, the participating organisations will have a difficult task complying with the NIS Directive's security and notification requirements.

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Forsyth, Rowena Public Health &amp Community Medicine Faculty of Medicine UNSW. "Tricky technology, troubled tribes: a video ethnographic study of the impact of information technology on health care professionals??? practices and relationships." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Public Health and Community Medicine, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/30175.

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Whilst technology use has always been a part of the practice of health care delivery, more recently, information technology has been applied to aspects of clinical work concerned with documentation. This thesis presents an analysis of the ways that two professional groups, one clinical and one ancillary, at a single hospital cooperatively engage in a work practice that has recently been computerised. It investigates the way that a clinical group???s approach to and actual use of the system creates problems for the ancillary group. It understands these problems to arise from the contrasting ways that the groups position their use of documentation technology in their local definitions of professional status. The data on which analysis of these practices is based includes 16 hours of video recordings of the work practices of the two groups as they engage with the technology in their local work settings as well as video recordings of a reflexive viewing session conducted with participants from the ancillary group. Also included in the analysis are observational field notes, interviews and documentary analysis. The analysis aimed to produce a set of themes grounded in the specifics of the data, and drew on TLSTranscription?? software for the management and classification of video data. This thesis seeks to contribute to three research fields: health informatics, sociology of professions and social science research methodology. In terms of health informatics, this thesis argues for the necessity for health care information technology design to understand and incorporate the work practices of all professional groups who will be involved in using the technology system or whose work will be affected by its introduction. In terms of the sociology of professions, this thesis finds doctors and scientists to belong to two distinct occupational communities that each utilise documentation technology to different extents in their displays of professional competence. Thirdly, in terms of social science research methodology, this thesis speculates about the possibility for viewing the engagement of the groups with the research process as indicative of their reactions to future sources of outside perturbance to their work.

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Molin, Linda, and Johanna Rydell. "Utveckling av e-tjänster i kommunal samverkan." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för informatik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-159539.

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This study investigate a Collaboration between municipalities that cooperate to develop e-services. One larger municipality helps the smaller municipalities by providing them with fully developed e-services, help maintain a technical platform, support and materials in order for them to be able to drive their own process of change. The object of this study is to contribute knowledge that can form the basis for potential improvements of the Collaboration of e-services. The aim of the study is to find out what the reason is that some participating municipalities have launched several e-services while others none? How they experience the development of e-services that are conducted in Collaboration, and what challenges they experience in the development work? To collect empirical data we did qualitative interviews with both participating municipalities and with informants central in this Collaboration. We have had access to documents, their contract, and their planning tool that includes videos, manuals, and templates. The result of this study identifies a number of crucial points that need to be taken into account in continued Collaboration. These are: You cannot measure success with number of launched e-services: There are lack of “change management”: How homogeneity can help in the long run: and that Process mapping is the next step to take for the smaller municipalities. The study's result also show the challenges that may appear along the way towards more efficient, attractive and competitive county. For the participating municipalities these are time constraints, difficulty in prioritizing among other tasks, resistance from administrations and administrators, how they organize themselves internally on their own. The results also show that all participants wants this, and that several of them are working in a way that may pay off in the long run.

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Ring, Eggers Gustav Emil, and Petter Olsson. "Informationssäkerhet vs. Affärsmål : Ett arbete om hur svenska startups hanterar sin informationssäkerhet." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informatik och media, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-341513.

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Att bedriva startups i ett informationsbaserat samhälle medför idag flera utmaningar. För att nå framgång måste företagets resurser användas på rätt sätt. I en tid där informationssäkerhet spelar en allt större roll ska det här till en avvägning mellan att uppnå en bra säkerhetsnivå, samtidigt som de affärsmässiga aspekterna måste prioriteras. I arbetet undersöks hur svenska startups hanterar sin informationssäkerhet. Arbetet syftar även till att undersöka hur utbredd medvetenheten är inom sex svenska startups gällande informationssäkerhet samt hur mycket det prioriteras. Arbetet resultat visar att medvetenheten kring informationssäkerheten är hög men att det fortfarande är brister när det gäller att omsätta denna medvetenhet till praktisk handling och att det är de affärsorienterade målen som prioriteras högst inom en svensk startup.
To run a startup in an information based society can cause a lot of challenges. To reach success, the company’s resources must be used in a proper way. In a time where information security has a big role, there must be a balance between keeping a high level of security meanwhile the business orientated expectations must be prioritized. This thesis will examine how a startup manages its information security. It does also focus on the awareness of information security within six swedish startups considering information security and also it’s priority. The results of the study shows that awareness of information security is high, but there are still shortcomings in putting this awareness into practice. The study also shows that the business-orientated goals are the highest priority within a swedish startup.

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Placencia, Mary Louise. "Condom use in 15-19 year old adolescent girls before and after initiating hormonal contraception." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2123.

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This study provides data suggesting that adolescent girls who receive education and hormonal contraceptive methods at a school-based clinic in the Fontana Unified School District, are more likely to have a signficant improvement in condom use, which improves safe sex practices and reduces the risks of sexually transmitted diseases.

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Ntuli, Phindile. "Digitization in Africa: The Adoption and Use of Self-Service Technology in Retail." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Informationssystem, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-455018.

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Service delivery in the twenty-first generation is evolving into more digital forms expanding the consumers' experience and engaging in new forms of communications to consumers through these digital forms. Despite the initiation of self- service technology being widely accepted by consumers within the retail banking industry, the supermarket retail industry has yet to experience the same form of reception and implementation of the self- service technologies (SST). South Africa, being a developing country, any conventions that lead to the country’s progression should be embraced. Thus, the introduction of SST within retail is assumed to enhance consumer's experiences, these technologies open the prospects to generate possibilities for producing new services and enhancing efficiency.The study aimed at evaluating factors of perception through the employment of a conceptualized framework from the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). An understanding of why SSTs in retail have not been widely implemented would respond to the challenges associated with the adoption of SSTs from a consumer’s perspective. The findings, from a questionnaire survey posed, revealed that there is a high expression on the intention of using the technologies should the opportunity presents itself. Most of the participants exhibited a high familiarity with the self-service technologies, online purchasing, and self- check- out services, thus the measure of intent resulted in a high margin.

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Gustavsson, Daniel. "Molnforensik : En litteraturstudie om tekniska utmaningar och möjligheter inom IT-forensik mot molnet." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-19049.

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Molntjänster används idag över hela världen och ger många fördelar för en användare eller företag. En nackdel med molnet är att det är en miljö som kriminella kan använda sig av för att utföra brott. En anledning till att molnet är en attraktiv plats för kriminella är på grund av bristen på IT-forensiska metoder för att utföra en undersökning mot molnmiljön. När ett brott har anmälts i molnet så kommer en IT-forensiker utföra en undersökning genom att samla in digitala bevis för att avgöra vad som har hänt, dock kan detta vara problematiskt på grund av molnets komplexitet. Det traditionella sättet för att utföra en IT-forensisk undersökning blir en utmaning i molnet på grund av flera anledningar, några av dem är molnets dynamiska miljö och att flera användare delar på samma resurser. Denna studie genomför en systematiskt litteraturstudie för att identifiera tekniska utmaningar och möjligheter vid en IT-forensisk undersökning i molnet. Flera utmaningar och möjligheter identifierades från existerande litteratur som i sin tur kategoriserades och sammanställdes i modeller. Flera utmaningar tas upp som att datan i molnet inte är centraliserad och att virtuella maskiner kan vara i ett volatilt tillstånd. Vid möjligheter så går det exempelvis att hämta ögonblicksbilder från molnet för att utföra en analys på och även hämta bevis från en klients dator.
Cloud services are being used all over the world today and provides several benefits for a user or a company. A downside with the cloud is that it is an environment that criminals can use to conduct a crime. One reason why a criminal uses the cloud to conduct a crime is due to the lack of suitable digital forensic techniques against the cloud environment. When a crime has been reported in the cloud, a digital forensics investigation can occur to gather digital evidence to determine what has happened. Unfortunately, this could be problematic because of the complexity of the cloud environment. The traditional way of conducting a digital forensic investigation becomes a challenge in the cloud because of several reasons. Some of the reasons are the dynamic environment of the cloud and that several users share the same resources. This study will conduct a systematic literature review to identify technical challenges and possibilities in a digital forensic investigation in the cloud. Several challenges and possibilities were identified from existing literature which in turn got categorized and compiled into models. This study presents challenges, for example the data in the cloud is not centralized and virtual machines may be in a volatile state. There are several possibilities for instance, collecting snapshot for analysis and collect evidence from a client’s computer.

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Wijayawardhana, Thimali, and Liene Kokina. "Consultancy agencies as actors within the digital transformation journey: a case study." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för informatik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-185781.

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The complexity that digital transformation brings to the business environment requires new knowledge and expertise in different domains. To avoid the extensive costs of acquiring and managing this knowledge internally, organizations frequently collaborate with external consultancies. In this exploratory case study, we investigate what role the consultancy agencies take within client organizations' transformation journey and how this role is affected by the dynamic nature of digital transformation. The study reveals that the notion of digital transformation in the business environment is fuzzy and challenging not only to the client organization but to the consultancy agency itself which leads to the necessity to narrow down the notion of digital transformation and form a new role.

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Mulonya, Rodrick K. A. R. "The political economy of development aid: an investigation of three donor-funded HIV/AIDS programmes broadcast by Malawi television from 2004 to 2007." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002926.

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Development aid in most of the developing countries can sometimes compromise the principles of public service broadcasting (PSB). This may be true when reflected against the tension between donor financed programmes in Malawi and the mandate of Television Malawi (TVM). Although the donor intentions are noble, the strings attached to the funding are sometimes retrogressive to the role of PSBs. A case in point is how donors dictate terms on the HIV/Aids communication strategies at TVM. Producers receive money from donors with strings attached on how the money should be used and accounted for. If producers deviate they are sanctioned through withholding funding, shifting schedules and reducing the funding frequency. The donors also dictate who to interview on what subject, how to conduct capacity building. Some scholars have researched much on the impact of commercialisation of the media. This study is a departure from these traditional interferences; it interrogates the interest of philanthropy tendencies by international donors in the three chosen HIV/Aids programmes broadcast by TVM. The study investigates the extent of pressure exerted by donors on the producers of HIV/Aids programmes in Malawi. Thus, the study seeks to illicit specifics in the power relationship between the donor and the producer hence the study employs the political economy of development aid as applied to the public service broadcasting and communication for development. The study employed qualitative research methods and techniques (in-depth interviews, case study and document analysis). The study reveals how donor ideologies dominate the Aids messages-content output of the texts constructed. The study argues that cultural alienation of the Malawian audiences retards efforts of donors in combating HIV infection rate.

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Örnfelt, Jonas, and Daniel Arnesson. "Upplevelsekvalitet för molnbaserade speltjänster : En nulägesbild av upplevd kvalitet för molnbaserade speltjänster på mobila enheter." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informatik och media, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-446948.

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Molnbaserat spelande är spelande som sker över nätverket. Spelet streamas från servrar till användarens enhet. Detta ger möjligheten att spela på enheter som inte skulle vara tillräckligt kraftfulla för att spela vissa spel på annat sätt. Mobiltelefonen är den nuvarande primära enheten för spel och fortsätter att öka i popularitet. I tidigare forskningsstudier och litteratur finns det ett uttalat behov för mätning av upplevelsekvalitet, även känt som Quality of Experience (QoE) för nylanserade molntjänster. QoE är ett sätt att undersöka användarnöjdhet och nöje för en specifik applikation eller tjänst. Denna studie redogör upplevd QoE för den molnbaserade speltjänsten Google Stadia på mobila enheter. Studien använder en kvalitativ forskningsansats med semistrukturerade intervjuer som metod för datainsamling. Resultatet analyseras med hjälp av ramverket CCA och kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultatet visar att upplevd QoE är bra överlag men att det finns förbättringsområden för spelupplevelsen. Denna studie utvecklar kunskapen om hur väl molnbaserade speltjänster fungerar på en mobiltelefon i dagsläget och resultatet visar behovet att liknande forskningsstudier utförs för att fördjupa denna kunskap.
Cloud gaming provides a way to play games over the network. This presents the possibility to play on devices that would not be powerful enough to play certain games otherwise. The mobile phone is the current primary device for gaming and continues to rise in popularity. In previous research studies and literature, there is an expressed necessity for measuring the Quality of Experience (QoE) of the cloud gaming services. QoE is a way to examine user satisfaction and entertainment for a specific application or service. This paper presents a study of perceived QoE for the cloud-based gaming service Google Stadia on mobile devices. The study is using a qualitative research approach with semi-structured interviews as a data collection method. The result is analyzed using the framework CCA and qualitative content analysis. The result shows that the perceived QoE is good overall but that the gaming experience has some minor inconveniences. This study expands the knowledge of how well cloud gaming services work on a mobile phone at this time and the result shows the need for similar research studies to deepen this knowledge.

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Nilsson, Camilla. "Går det att hitta lesbiska kioskromaner på svenska folkbibliotek? : Ett diskursanalytiskt perspektiv på en osynlig genre." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-323931.

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The aim of this master’s thesis is to examine how Swedish public libraries approach and regard lesbian pulp fiction as a genre, from both a historical and modern perspective, and also to visualize and critique the surrounding discourses that influence the perception and reception of the genre. The method is twofold and consists of qualitative interviews as well as discourse analysis inspired by Foucault. The data consists of interviews with three librarians responsible for library collections, selection and purchase of new library materials which is combined with a survey reading of Biblioteksbladet, the periodical of Svensk Biblioteksförening, from 1945–1990. Michel Foucaults theories on discourses and the principles and mechanisms of exclusion, and Pierre Bourdieus theories on taste and distinction, guide the analysis. The analysis focuses to a great extent on discursive patterns, especially concerning the relationship between popular and quality fiction, and components of Bourdieus field theory and how this contributes to the creation of taste through distinction. Throughout the analysis possible explanations regarding the position of lesbian pulp fiction are given which covers areas from classification and interpretation of literary genres to quality assessment, selection and purchase of literature. The results of the study shows that lesbian pulp fiction is quite invisible in Swedish public libraries which is mainly seen as an effect of discursive practices that surround and influence the genre such as the societal and historical view of homosexuality but also the view on popular literature. Conclusions are that librarians are not making conscious exclusions of lesbian pulp fiction per se, they are if anything quite unaware of the genre’s existence, but that the practices that shape the field of public libraries has contributed to the genre’s position. The study is a two years master’s thesis in Library and Information Science written at Uppsala university.

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Harte, David. "Internet content control in Australia : data topology, topography and the data deficit." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2001. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1073.

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The success of the online adult industry has provoked a public policy controversy over the need for internet censorship, and in recent times there has emerged desire to protect minors from possibly unsuitable content. On January 1st 2000, the Broadcasting Services Amendment (Online Services) Act (Cwlth, 1999) (BSA) was proclaimed. The Act purports to regulate and control Internet content in Australia. Operating in tandem with the Act is the Internet Industry Association Code of Practice, giving Australia a co-regulatory approach to Internet content control. The Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA) is charged with implementing the regime. This study sets out examine the Internet content control problem in the Australian context. The political issues surrounding the topic of Internet censorship and the lack of reliable operational statistics, revealed the difficulty of estimating the effectiveness of the current control regime. Pivotal questions for the study concerned the scope and scale of content control in the Australian context and trends in hosting. This study used website typology, as defined by data topology and data topography, to examine the scope and scale of the content control task, and the implications for the effectiveness of the BSA. It was expected that if the BSA was to have an impact, that a discernible change in user download behaviour should ensue. This study used information provided by the adult Internet Content Provider (ICP) industry to gauge the BSA's impact-on user download behaviour as a measure of the control regime’s effectiveness. It was suggested by some observers that the so-called 'data deficit' between Australia and the US would be exacerbated by the new content control regime, with possible negative implications for the conduct of e-commerce in Australia generally. A study of Australian adult website hosting arrangements and data topography was conducted to examine the implications of the control regime for the "data deficit'. This study suggests that most Australian online adult content is in fact hosted in the US. The reasons for offshore hosting are almost totally financial and pre-date the introduction of the Broadcasting Services Act (Online Services) Amendment Act 1999. The study also suggests that any effect on the 'data deficit' should be minimal, and that the typology of adult content websites in such that the current co-regulatory regime may prove ineffective in controlling access to adult content.

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Eriksson, Per Gustav. "Analysis of Physiotherapists Perceptions for Improvement of Digital Innovation." Thesis, KTH, Medicinteknik och hälsosystem, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-279129.

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With the current challenges for the healthcare such as increased demand for care, financial and resource constraints along with rapid changes and complexity there is high believe in digital innovation and digitalisation to efficacy resources and aid in delivering a safer, more accessible and patient centred valuable care. There is a digitalisation that is ongoing, being used and implemented over several different areas of healthcare. Since healthcare can be seen as a complex adaptive system, there is a need to understand several agents. The aim is to gather more knowledge about perceptions within the physiotherapy staff and give recommendations and directions for improvements regarding digital innovation. Opinions about digital innovation have been gathered with open interviews and a semisystematic literature review with focus on physiotherapy. Too find subjective data the mixed method Q methodology was applied. The open interviews resulted in eight categories: digital innovation, digital innovation being used, digital innovation not used, management, obstacles, education, wishful thinking, applications and systems and associated opinions. The semi-systematic literature review showed on a rapid scientifically development, 25 articles was found and thematically analysed. 140 cited viewpoints and facts was merged with the results from the open interviews. Ten physiotherapists performed the q-sort consisting of 25 statements. Three factors were found. Interpreted as digital innovation optimism & patient oriented, digital innovation scepticism & management oriented and digital innovation sceptical optimism. Video-call technique is strongly encouraged by factor one contrary to factor two. Integrity is the major conflicting viewpoint between the factors. The result shows that gender can affect if a physiotherapist is either optimistic or sceptical to digital innovation. Using existing models such as UTAUT could improve acceptance about digital innovation. Education is perceived as important among all factors. Nine participants responded on baseline questions showing low knowledge of the term mHealth and little communication with IT departments.

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Winnberg, Lise-Lott, and Mimmi Jackléus. "IoT användning inom kommunal verksamhet : – i Östergötland." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Informatik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-151405.

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Internet of Things blir allt mer vanligt och inkluderas redan på vissa ställen i till exempel stadsplaner förnybyggnationer men finns även i smarta kontor och infrastruktur. Det finns en uppsjö med privatägdaföretag som specialiserat sig på IoT-lösningar och tillämpningar av detta på olika delar i samhället. Det ärredan på tal att installera IoT sensorer i vattenledningar till exempel så att underhåll kan förutses och därmedminska avvikelser av tillförsel samt minska eventuella förlust.I den här kvalitativa undersökning har vi studerat hur IoT används i kommuner, vad de tror IoT har förframtid i Sveriges kommuner samt hur de ser att IoT kan användas för att skapa nytta i kommunalaverksamheter, men också vad som kan tänkas vara ett hinder som står i vägen för att realisera detta.Efter att ha intervjuat ett antal kommuner över hela Östergötlands län har vi funnit att det i nuläget intefinns så mycket IoT i kommunerna och att det beror på flera orsaker. En av dem är att det råder brist påregelverk som behandlar IoT men även standardisering av IoT och vad införande av IoT lösningar faktisktinnebär i kommun eller stadssammanhang. Vad ska man satsa på? Om detta råder det osäkerhet, däremotom det fanns konkreta exempel med direkt verksamhetsnytta skulle det nog vara skillnad. Detta kanDigitaliseringsmyndigheten som kommer till hösten eventuellt råda bot på, men det verkar som att derasroll inte är så väldefinierad, och det märktes när vi pratade med respondenterna. De hade olikaförhoppningar av vad myndigheten kan bistå med eller vad deras arbete kommer att mynna ut i.Vi har även upptäckt att det inte finns några krav på statens sida på att kommunerna tar fram en strategisom behandlar IoT men även digitaliseringsstrategi. Trots detta har ett par respondenter redan endigitaliseringsstrategi eller jobbade på det.En annan orsak är att de finansiella medel kommunerna har i nuläget inte räcker till för en digital satsning,medlen behövs för att underhålla verksamheten. En kommuns fokus är alltid verksamheten ochmedborgarna. Om begränsade medel tvingar till ett val mellan investering i tekniska möjligheter, även omde kan generera större vinst i längden, och verksamhetsutveckling av annan form eller underhåll, kommeralltid verksamheten först. Som en av respondenterna förklarade, att om valet står mellan att bygga en nyförskola eller att investera i ett nytt teknikprojekt är det ganska självklart vart pengarna slutligen går.
The Internet of Things is becoming more common and more common and is already included in someplaces such as city plans for new buildings, in smart offices and infrastructure. There is a wealth ofprivately-owned companies specializing in IoT solutions and application of this to different parts of society.A great example is installing IoT sensors in water pipes so that maintenance can be foreseen, thus reducingsupply deviations and reducing any losses.In this qualitative bachelor thesis, we have investigated how IoT is used in municipalities, what they thinkIoT has to offer the future of Sweden's municipalities and how they see IoT can be used to create utility inmunicipal activities, but also what may be an obstacle in the process of realizing this.After interviewing a few of the municipalities across Östergötland County we have found that currentlythere are few IoT solutions in the municipalities and that it is due to several reasons. One of them is thelack of regulations that deal with IoT, but also the lack of standardisation of IoT, and what the introductionof IoT solutions would entail in municipalities or towns. What to invest in? There is some uncertainty there.If there were concrete examples of direct municipial operation benefit that would probably be a difference.This might possibly be resolved by the Digitaliseringsmyndigheten which will be established in the autumnhowever it seems that their role is not so well-defined, which we noticed when we spoke to respondents.They had different hopes of what the government can assist with or what their work would result in.We have discovered that there is no requirement for the state to provide municipalities with a strategy thataddresses the IoT or a digitization strategy. Nevertheless, a couple of respondents already have a digitizationstrategy or were working on it.Another reason is that the funds the municipalities currently have is not enough for such a venture, thosefunds are necessary to maintain and keep the municipal operation running. A municipality's focus is alwaysthe business and the citizens. If limited funds force a choice between investment in technical capabilities,although they can generate greater profit in the long run, and operational development of other forms ormaintenance, the operation will always come first. As one of the respondents explained, if the choice isbetween building a new preschool or investing in a new technology project, it is obvious where the moneyends up.

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Ottosson, Ulrika, and Siri Rönnlund. "Implementation of a Mobile Healthcare Solution at an Inpatient Ward." Thesis, KTH, Medicinteknik och hälsosystem, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-279145.

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Healthcare is a complex system under great pressure for meeting the patients’ needs. Implementing technology at inpatient wards might possibly support healthcare professionals and improve quality of care. However, these technologies might come with issues and the system might not be used as intended. This master thesis project investigates how healthcare professionals communicate at an inpatient ward and how this might be affected by implementing a Mobile Healthcare Solution (MHS). Further, it sought to question why healthcare professions might, or might not, use the MHS as a support of their daily work and what some reasons for this might be. Research methods were of qualitative approach. Field studies were performed at an inpatient ward and further, two healthcare professionals were interviewed. Grounded Theory (GT) was chosen as a method to process the data and obtain understanding for communication at the inpatient ward. The results showed that healthcare professionals communicate verbally, written and by reading, using different tools. The most prominent ways of communication were verbally, where it was common to report or discuss about a patient. The means for communication did not get drastically affected by implementing the MHS and reasons for this were of social, technical and organizational types. Some reasons for not using the MHS were habits and due to healthcare professionals perceiving the MHS as more time consuming than manual handling. However, a specific investigation of whether this might affect the usage of the MHS is yet needed

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van, Wincoop Sven. "Analysis of Learning from IncidentsProcesses in Swedish and DutchHealthcare Systems : A Mixed Methods Study for Cross-Border Learning." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för kemi, bioteknologi och hälsa (CBH), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-302464.

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Many healthcare organisations face repetitive incidents because organisations tend to fail to learn from the past. Learning from incidents (LFI) in healthcare is a process through which healthcare professionals and the organisation as a whole seek to understand adverse events that have taken place. The LFI process consists of five main steps: data acquisition, investigation and analysis, planning interventions, implementing interventions, and evaluations. In order to reduce the reoccurrence of incidents, it is important that LFI processes are improved. As a prerequisite, it is necessary to gain insight into the steps of the LFI process to identify hindrances (bottlenecks) and mitigate them. This thesis is a broad comparative study of the LFI processes in Dutch and Swedish healthcare systems. Cross-border comparisons between LFI systems can support mutual learning, and consequently lead to improvements of healthcare organisations’ learning processes. The study consists of an analysis of Swedish and Dutch legislation, national healthcare inspectorates, and hospitals’ learning from incidents processes. Legislation was analysed through a (legal) documentation study. Healthcare inspectorates’ practices in LFI were analysed by a combination of documentation studies, and by conducting interviews with one Dutch inspector, one Swedish inspector, and one Swedish development strategist. For analysis of hospitals’ LFI processes, a questionnaire and interview study with fourteen Dutch and eleven Swedish hospitals were conducted. Analysis of these processes was done at the hand of a number of quality statements developed based on a literature study. The main differences between how the two countries’ learn from incidents are in data acquisition, and investigation and analysis. The Netherlands have various reporting systems, as well as diversity in incident investigation methods. Sweden has more uniformity in these matters. Moreover, Sweden has a national system for sharing lessons learned between hospitals, which can benefit the learning process on a national level. The Netherlands currently does not have such a system. Sweden and the Netherlands have similar strengths and weaknesses in LFI. Both countries have accessible data acquisition systems, and it does not take much time to report incidents. There are however significant disparities between incidents and sentinel events in both countries in the quality of investigations and analyses, planning of interventions and implementation of interventions. The implementation and evaluation phases are also regarded to have the lowest quality, based on analysis of the quality statements. Dutch and Swedish legislation and the supervision of the healthcare inspectorates only cover these last two phases to a limited extent. Requirements with respect to incidents are also only formulated to a limited extent (except data acquisition), which may explain the significant difference of quality when compared to sentinel events. There are resemblances between the scopes of the legal frameworks and inspectorates, and the LFI processes in hospitals. There is therefore reason to believe that hospitals typically do not excel above what is required by legislation or by the healthcare inspectorates.
I många vårdorganisationer upprepar sig incidenter eftersom organisationer tenderar att misslyckas med att lära sig från incidenter. Att lära från incidenter (LFI) inom hälso- och sjukvården är en process genom vilket vårdpersonal och organisationen som helhet försöker förstå incidenter som har ägt rum. LFI-processen består av fem huvudsteg: datainsamling, utredning och analys, planering av åtgärder, implementering av åtgärder, och utvärderingar. För att minska upprepande av incidenter är det viktigt att LFIprocesser förbättras. Det här examensarbetet är en jämförande studie av LFI-processerna i holländska och svenska sjukvårdssystem. Gränsöverskridande jämförelser mellan LFI-system kan stödja ömsesidigt lärande och därmed leda till förbättringar av vårdorganisationernas lärande. Studien består av en analys av svensk och holländsk lagstiftning, nationella inspektioner och sjukhusens lärande från incidensprocesser. Lagstiftningen analyserades genom en (juridisk) dokumentationsstudie. Sjukvårdsinspektionernas praxis i LFI analyserades med en kombination av dokumentationsstudier och genom att göra intervjuer med en holländsk inspektör, en svensk inspektör och en svensk utvecklingsstrateg. För analys av sjukhusens LFI-processer genomfördes en enkätstudie och intervjustudie med 14 holländska och 11 svenska sjukhus. Analysen genomfördes med ett kvalitetsindikatorer som är baserade på en litteraturstudie. De viktigaste skillnaderna mellan hur de två länderna lär sig av incidenter är inom datainsamling och incidentutredning. I Nederländerna används många olika rapporteringssystem och utredningsmetoder för händelser. Sverige har mer enhetlighet i dessa frågor. Dessutom har Sverige ett nationellt system för att dela lärdomar mellan sjukhusen, vilket kan gynna lärningsprocessen på nationell nivå. Nederländerna har för närvarande inget liknande system. Sverige och Nederländerna har liknande styrkor och svagheter i LFI. Båda länderna har tillgängliga datainsamlingssystem och det tar inte mycket tid att rapportera incidenter. Det finns betydliga skillnader mellan incidenter och händelser som har medfört allvarliga vårdskador i båda länderna. Detta gäller kvaliteten på utredningar, planering av åtgärder och implementering av årgärder. Implementerings- och utvärderingsfaserna anses ha lägsta kvalitet, baserat på analys av kvalitetsindikatorerna. Holländsk och svensk lagstiftning och tillsynen av inspektionerna täcker dessa två sista faser endast i begränsad utsträckning. Krav på incidenter formuleras också endast i begränsad omfattning (förutom datainsamling), vilket kan förklara skillnaden i kvalitet jämfört med händelser som har medfört en allvarlig vårdskada. Det finns likheter mellan räckvidden av lagstiftningen och inspektionen, och LFIprocesserna på sjukhus i både länder. Det finns därför anledning att tro att sjukhus vanligtvis inte utmärker sig högre än vad som krävs enligt lagstiftningen eller av hälsooch sjukvårdsinspektionerna.

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Seilani, Nicolas, and Simon Ågren. "RPA inom sjukvården : En fallstudie kring möjligheter och utmaningar med RPA på Södra Älvsborgs Sjukhus." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för informationsteknologi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-44531.

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Dagens samhälle utvecklas i snabb takt och i samband med digitaliseringen uppstår nya tekniker som kan effektivisera, förbättra och förenkla arbetet inom verksamheter. En av dessa tekniker är Robotic Process Automation (RPA) som handlar om att automatisera enkla och monotona verksamhetsprocesser med tydliga regler. Implementeringen av RPA kan innebära både möjligheter och utmaningar som kan komma bli avgörande för tillvägagångssätt inom verksamheter. I nuläget existerar begränsad information kring hur RPA kan implementeras effektivt inom specifika verksamheter. Hälso- och sjukvården består i dagsläget av många processer som lämpar sig för automatisering, vilket kan frigöra tid för vårdpersonalen till mer kvalitativ vård. Samtidigt finns det utmaningar med att tillämpa ny teknik inom sjukvården, vilket inkluderar juridik, organisatoriskt motstånd och tekniska hinder. I syfte att undersöka fenomenet där RPA tillämpas inom sjukvården kommer följande studie undersöka frågeställningen: Vilka möjligheter och utmaningar förekommer vid implementering av RPA inom hälso- och sjukvården? I syfte att besvara studiens frågeställning har en kvalitativ ansats använts. Med hjälp av semistrukturerade intervjuer samlades empiriskt datamaterial in och kompletterades även med övrig dokumentation från sjukhuset. Det analyserade resultatet medförde övergripande teman som präglade diskussionens utformning. Följande studie visar möjligheter och utmaningar som förekommer före, under och efter implementeringen av RPA inom ett svenskt sjukhus. Studiens slutsats visualiserar identifierade möjligheter och utmaningar, vilket bland annat belyser användarinvolvering, ökad digital nyfikenhet och prioritering av interna resurser. I och med den begränsade forskningen som existerar inom området förvä
Today's society is developing at a rapid pace and in relation with digitalisation, new technologies are emerging that can streamline, improve and simplify the work within organizations. One of these technologies is Robotic Process Automation (RPA), which is about automating simple and monotonous business processes with clear rules. The implementation of RPA can present both opportunities and challenges that may be crucial for business operations. Currently, limited research exists on how RPA can be implemented effectively within specific organizations. The healthcare sector currently consists of many processes suitable for automation, which can free up time for healthcare professionals to provide more quality care with patients. At the same time, there are challenges in applying new technologies in healthcare, which include law, organizational resistance and technical barriers. In order to investigate the phenomenon where RPA is applied within healthcare, the following study will investigate the issue: What opportunities and challenges exist when implementing RPA in healthcare? In order to answer the research question, a qualitative approach has been used. With the help of semi-structured interviews, empirical data material was collected and also supplemented with other documentation from the hospital. The analyzed result led to overall themes that characterized the design of the discussion. The following study shows opportunities and challenges that occur before, during and after the implementation of RPA within a Swedish hospital. The study's conclusion visualizes identified opportunities and challenges, highlighting, among other things, user involvement, increased digital curiosity and prioritization of internal resources. With the limited research that exists in the field, the study is expected to contribute to new information for future implementations within the same context.

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Lea, Emma J. "Moving from meat: vegetarianism, beliefs and information sources." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/37912.

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A random population survey (n=601) and a survey of vegetarians (n=106) were conducted to examine South Australians' beliefs about meat and vegetarianism. Meat beliefs, barriers and benefits of vegetarianism, meat consumption, personal values, use of and trust in sources of food/nutrition/health information and demographic variables were measured via a written questionnaire. There were differences in the responses of vegetarians, semi-vegetarians, and non-vegetarians. For example, vegetarians were more likely than non-vegetarians to use and trust unorthodox information sources and to hold universal values (e.g. 'equality'). The factors associated with meat consumption and four sets of health-related beliefs about meat and vegetarianism (Meat is Necessary, Vegetarianism Health Concerns and Appreciates Meat, Meat is Unhealthy, Health Benefits of Vegetarianism) were examined. Other (health and non-health) beliefs, barriers and benefits of vegetarianism were the most important factors overall to be associated with these beliefs and with meat consumption. Information sources were also associated (particularly orthodox, unorthodox, mass media, advertising, and social sources). Together, these results provided insight into how consumption of meat and plant foods might be influenced. Finally, the proportion of prospective vegetarians was gauged. Approximately 15% of non-vegetarians were found to hold similar beliefs about vegetarianism as vegetarians. Prospective vegetarians were distinct from vegetarians and the remaining omnivores. For example, they were less likely than the remaining omnivores to eat red meat as frequently or to be Anglo-Australian. The research suggested that a significant portion of the population is interested in vegetarian diets, but that certain barriers need to be overcome if this is to increase and lead to dietary change; in particular, the beliefs that vegetarian diets are nutritionally inadequate and that meat is essential for health. Tailored communications about how to prepare healthy, tasty vegetarian meals may also be useful. The results indicated the sources of food/nutrition/health information that may be most appropriate to disseminate such messages. Additionally, it was found that ethical (e.g. environmental, animal welfare) issues were linked to health and dietary behaviour. They may need to be more fully addressed by health professionals if the public is to obtain maximum benefit from plant-based diets, with minimum risk.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Department of Public Health, 2001.

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Kalash, Abeer. "Trust modelling through social sciences." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/6454.

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
In today's fast paced world, people have become increasingly interested in online communication to facilitate their lives and make it faster. This goes on from simple social interactions to more advanced actions like shopping on the internet. The presence of such activities makes it crucial for people to use their common sense and judgment to process all this information and evaluate what/who they trust and what/whom they do not. This process would have been much easier if the number of people in such networks is really small and manageable. However, there are millions of users who are hooked online every day. This makes the person very overwhelmed with his trusting decision, especially when it comes to interacting with strangers over the internet, and/or buying personal items, especially expensive ones. Therefore, many trust models have been proposed by computer scientists trying to evaluate and manage the trust between users using different techniques and combining many factors. What these computer scientists basically do is coming up with mathematical formulas and models to express trust in online networks and capture its parameters. However, social scientists are the people better trained to deal with concepts related to human behaviors and their cognitive thinking such as trust. Thus, in order for computer scientists to support their ideas and get a better insight about how to direct their research, people like social scientists should contribute. With this in mind, we realized in our group work the importance of such contribution, so we came up with the idea of my research work. In my search, I tried to find how these social scientists think and tackle a dynamic notion like trust, so we can use their findings in order to enhance our work and trust model. Through the chapters, I will discuss an already developed trust model that uses measurement theory in modeling trust. I will refer back to this model and see how other social scientists dealt with some of the issues encountered by the model and its functionality. Some small experiments have been done to show and compare our results with social scientists results for the same matter. One of the most important and controversial points to be discussed from social scientists' point of view is whether trust is transitive or not. Other points to be discussed and supported by social scientists' research include aggregation, reputation, timing effects on trust, reciprocity, and experience effects on trust. Some of these points are classified into trust mapping categories and others are related to trust management or decision making stages. In sum, this work is a multidisciplinary study of trust whose overall goal is to enhance our work and results, as computer scientists.

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Khadka, Netra Bahadur. "Participatory and non-participatory modes of nutrition communication in a developing country : a case study of Nepal." Thesis, 1997. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15344/.

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The main objective of this study, a case study of nutrition communication practices in Nepal, was to investigate the role of people's participation in nutrition projects, and the most appropriate modes of nutrition communication in the context of a developing country. Field surveys, focus group discussions and interviews with various key persons involved in nutrition development, at the national and village level in Nepal, were the main field methods used in this study. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were undertaken to enable the author to make an assessment of various approaches to nutrition communication in Nepal.

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Feller, Daniel. "An Evaluation of Computational Methods to Support the Clinical Management of Chronic Disease Populations." Thesis, 2020. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-60pj-0831.

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Innovative primary care models that deliver comprehensive primary care to address medical and social needs are an established means of improving health outcomes and reducing healthcare costs among persons living with chronic disease. Care management is one such approach that requires providers to monitor their respective patient panels and intervene on patients requiring care. Health information technology (IT) has been established as a critical component of care management and similar care models. While there exist a plethora of health IT systems for facilitating primary care, there is limited research on their ability to support care management and its emphasis on monitoring panels of patients with complex needs. In this dissertation, I advance the understanding of how computational methods can better support clinicians delivering care management, and use the management of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as an example scenario of use. The research described herein is segmented into 3 aims; the first was to understand the processes and barriers associated with care management and assess whether existing IT can support clinicians in this domain. The second and third aim focused on informing potential solutions to the technological shortcomings identified in the first aim. In the studies of the first aim, I conducted interviews and observations in two HIV primary care programs and analyzed the data generated to create a conceptual framework of population monitoring and identify challenges faced by clinicians in delivering care management. In the studies of the second aim, I used computational methods to advance the science of extracting from the patient record social and behavioral determinants of health (SBDH), which are not easily accessible to clinicians and represent an important barrier to care management. In the third aim, I conducted a controlled experimental evaluation to assess whether data visualization can improve clinician’s ability to maintain awareness of their patient panels.

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Afrane, Daniel Akwasi. "Access to and impact of information technologies at Balme Library, University of Ghana." Diss., 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26661.

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Libraries, particularly academic libraries implement technologies to enhance their services to promote teaching, learning and research. In this thesis the impact of information technologies (library technologies) on delivery of services at the Balme Library of the University of Ghana was evaluated. The researcher adopted the multi-methods approach to the research by using a semi-structured questionnaire to collect data from users (students) of the library and para-professional staff of the Balme Library of the University of Ghana who formed one group of the study. The interview was used to collect data form professional staff of the library who on the other hand formed the second group of the study. Responses of the data collected from the two groups formed the components of the study and data collected quantitatively were analysed using univariate analysis method and interpreted by the descriptive and inferential statistics method. The qualitative data, on the other hand, was analysed using the narrative analysis approach. The findings of the study reveal that a variety of IT facilities such as computers, internet, photocopiers, scanners, braille embossers, magnifiers for reading, reference management software, video conference facility, electronic theses, electronic databases, automated library system, electronic past questions and the library website are available at the library and are very accessible to all users (students) and staff of the library. Students and staff of the library have good IT skills to utilise those resources. The findings also reveal that the IT infrastructure had positive impacts on the delivery of library services ensuring that users received the appropriate services they needed at the right times and places The study found challenges of slow internet connectivity, unstable power supply, lack of IT skills, inadequate IT infrastructure among others and these hinder the maximum utilisation of IT in and out of the library and recommends periodic training of staff and users, proper maintenance of facilities, increase of internet bandwidth and better marketing of library services
Information Science
M. Inf. (Information Science)

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Acheampong, Angela Kwartemaa. "Promoting exclusive breastfeeding among teenage-mothers in Ghana : towards a behavioural conceptual model." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25293.

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Ghana subscribed to the global target of reaching at least 50% of exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months of birth by the year 2030. Policies and programmes to promote exclusive breastfeeding have been formulated and implemented in the country. In spite of these efforts, existing evidence showed that the rate of exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months post-delivery has been declining over the past decade. It was therefore important to understand behavioural factors that influence exclusive breastfeeding among teenage-mothers and propose a behavioural conceptual model based on the understanding of exclusive breastfeeding from the perspective of the teenage-mothers and their social environments. The study was conducted in three phases using multistrand mixed methods within the pragmatism philosophical framework. The Theory of Planned Behaviour and the six steps framework for developing models to address public health issues were used as frameworks in the study. In the first phase, the researcher used qualitative exploratory descriptive design to gain an understanding of the behavioural determinants of exclusive breastfeeding from the perspective of teenagers aged between 13 - 19 years attending antenatal care services at public facilities. Data were generated through focus group discussions and analysed using Group-level thematic and content analysis. In the second phase, longitudinal descriptive correlational designs were used to establish the relationships between the exclusive breastfeeding intentions during the prenatal period and actual breastfeeding practices at six months post-delivery. Structured questionnaires were used to collect data during the last visit of antenatal care visits and six months post-delivery. Data generated were analysed through descriptive inferential statistics. In the last phase, the researcher used meta-inferences to identify the key concepts of conceptual model from the integrated qualitative and quantitative results. Theoretical triangulations were used to define and establish relationships between the concepts and to structure the conceptual model. The integrated results of the two phases of the study showed that exclusive breastfeeding practices among teenage-mothers within the social context of Ghana are determined by certain personal and social related behavioural factors. The approval of the exclusive breastfeeding practice by the teenagers’ mothers and nurses/midwives’ capabilities to provide effective breastfeeding education were the strongest determinants of exclusive breastfeeding up to six months among teenage-mothers in Ghana. From these results, the researcher proposed an integrated behavioural conceptual model that provides an understanding of exclusive breastfeeding practice and the process of promoting exclusive breastfeeding among teenage-mothers in the social context of Ghana. The findings of this study have implications for public health policy-makers, health services managers, health sciences education and further research.
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Parker, Warren. "The development of community-based media for AIDS education and prevention in South Africa: towards an action-based participatory research model." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/3554.

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This research explores the development of community-based media for HIV/AIDS education and prevention. The theoretical framework for the research was based in semiotic, cultural studies and participatory action research perspectives and is critical of conventional approaches to communication and media production. Conceptual ideas for the media products emerged through interaction with small groups of participants utilising participatory action research and focus group methodology. A series of posters were produced and distributed within the communities studied. The research demonstrates a practicable and replicable methodology for deriving community perspectives around a range of issues and articulating these via small media products. The methodology is relevant to health education, but may also be applicable to a range of community-based initiatives that seek to facilitate social change.
Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, 1994.

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Cassar, Kylie Anne. "Health beliefs and treatment adherence among Maltese and Anglo-Saxon Australians with Type II diabetes mellitus." Thesis, 2003. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15745/.

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There is a growing body of research examining psychosocial aspects of diabetes. Relatively few studies, however, have investigated a theoretical framework to help integrate empirical knowledge. This study tested the utility of an expanded health belief model for explaining regimen adherence among Type II Diabetes patients. Furthermore, the study examined differences between Maltese Australian people and Anglo-Saxon Australian people. A paper and pencil questionnaire was administered to 147 people with Type II Diabetes who attended Diabetes Australia in Sunshine, Western Metropolitan Melbourne. The questionnaire measured adherence to diabetes medication, dietary treatment adherence, adherence to home blood glucose monitoring, 'perceived susceptibility and severity of diabetes and its complications', 'perceived benefits and barriers to carrying out treatment', 'health locus of control', 'attitudes toward doctors', 'beliefs about food', and demographic factors. Health beliefs predicted dietary treatment adherence. There were predictive relationships found between health beliefs and ethnic differences were evident. A new 'Diabetes Dietary Adherence Model' emerged from the findings, which may assist in re-directing patient education programs.

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Banana, Catrine. "An investigation into the risk behaviour regarding HIV transmission among youth in Bulawayo." Diss., 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2342.

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The study sought to explore and describe the risk behaviour regarding HIV transmission among youth in Bulawayo, their knowledge of HIV transmission and the sources of information on HIV transmission accessible to them. A quantitative, descriptive exploratory design was used and 238 youth from three secondary schools in Bulawayo, the second largest city in Zimbabwe were the respondents. The Health Belief Model (HBM) was used to facilitate and acquire insight into the risk behaviour among the youth. The inferences drawn from the study were that youth have inadequate knowledge about HIV transmission and therefore do not fully understand their risk of infection. Youth also find shyness and fear of rejection serious barriers to communicating openly about sexuality, sexual and HIV/AIDS issues. The findings of the study have implications for programmes to limit HIV transmission among youth and should assist policymakers and educators in developing and implementing such programmes in order to improve the health of youth in Zimbabwe.
Health Studies
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