"International Health, HES" - Selaus Tutkinto-ohjelman ja opintosuunnan mukaanOpinnäytteet - ylempi korkeakoulututkinto

Background: Most people prefer to die at their place of residence, yet appropriate end-of-life care is not always available there. This lack of access to care is of particular concern in the context of Swedish eldercare, ...

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is largely practiced in Somalia and it forms an essential part of a Somali girl’s life. Ending FGM under Siad Barre’s regime was encouraged even if there was no law specifically prohibiting ...

Finland along with most countries in the Northern Hemisphere continues to see increased migration into the country. As the proportion of immigrants in regard to the entire population continues to grow immigrant health and ...

Maternal health care utilization in Ethiopia is very low which is reflected in high maternal mortality. Ethiopian men are known to have a strong influence on partner´s health care seeking behavior but how men´s socio-demographic ...

Costa Rica has a large Nicaraguan minority, the health of which has not been actively studied. It is known that pregnancy rates of Nicaraguans are higher than those of the native population, but the reasons behind these ...

In Finland, the annual number of reported Salmonella infections has been approximately 2,000-3,000 during the past 10 years. The vast majority of the infections has been acquired abroad. Nowadays salmonellosis is the second ...

Pneumonia like many other communicable infections is vaccine-preventable, but the increasing death toll resulting from the disease globally is a call for concern; partly attributed to the incomplete vaccine coverage in ...

The number of international immigrants has increased both globally and in Finland. In 2008, almost 30,000 migrants came to Finland. Infectious diseases are health problems associated with immigrants and screening these ...