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“It should not be a type of bingo” - A study of NAV family social workers descriptions of Children’s participation
(Master thesis, 2017)The aim of this master thesis is to explore NAV family social workers own descriptions of children’s participation within their work with low-income families. It asks what role the family social workers have in involving ... -
The meaning of vaccination. How do parents in India justify a choice no to vaccinate their children?
(Master thesis, 2019)Even though the government emphasize on the importance of immunization in India, the vaccine preventable diseases are still prevailing in the country. The perception of parents regarding vaccines vary according to different ... -
Micro-Finance: The Implementation Experiences. A case study of Village Bank program implementation in Chongwe District Zambia.
(Master thesis, 2018)The purpose of this study was to explore experiences of village bank program implementation by the government of the Republic of Zambia. The study established that participants benefited from the program through increased ... -
Nudge fudge or crystal clear? Investigating nudges and how they work
(Master thesis, 2016)Recently there has been growing interest in the use of “nudges” as a policy tool and their potential to solve some of society’s biggest problems, such as obesity or climate change. Thaler and Sunstein in their influential ... -
The pull and push factors in the acceptability and use of contraceptives among women in the Kwabre-east district of Ghana.
(Master thesis, 2018)This study explores why some women are able to use contraceptives and why others are not able to use contraceptives in relation to pregnacies in the Kwabre East District of Ghana. The study employs the qualitative method ... -
Responsiveness of Offshored Clinical Trials among Women in the Philippines
(Master thesis, 2019)The state of responsiveness of the offshored clinical trials in the Philippines on the health needs of Filipino women is a quantitative research using the feminist standpoint as the theoretical framework. To test ... -
Sexual and Gender Based Violence against Internally Displaced Women in the Camps of Mogadishu, Somalia
(Master thesis, 2018)The theme of this study is sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against women in the camps for internally displaced people (IDP) in Mogadishu, Somalia. The aim of this thesis is to understand the causes and consequences ... -
Silent Labour: Expressions and management of labour pain in Fort Portal, Uganda.
(Master thesis, 2018)Maternal health is being considered as a highly important international issue at least since the year 2000. That was when the UN’s General Assembly implemented the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, with the ... -
The situation of social welfare and child protection for vulnerable street-involved children in Tanzania : where is the gap?
(Master thesis, 2013)The main objective of this study is to give a holistic analysis of the current situation experiences of street involved children in Tanzania whereas its population today is about 44.9 million inhabitants and children account ... -
Social inclusion of people with disability living in disability centers in kathmandu, Nepal
(Master thesis, 2016)Background: Social inclusion describes how a society morals all of its citizens, compliments their differences, make sure that everyone’s basic needs are met, their rights are ensured and enables full participation in that ... -
A Study of the Effectiveness of the legal system in dealing with child abuse cases- The family Perspective.
(Master thesis, 2018)The thesis examines the effectiveness of the legal system in processing cases of child sexual abuse in Zambia. The study legal and extra-legal factors that influence families’ decisions on which mode of justice to use ... -
The Healthy Child in an Unhealthy Family setting
(Master thesis, 2016)This phenomenological narrative research study aims to understand the pathway of the individuals who have managed to adapt successfully into adulthood in spite of their dysfunctional family setting, and understand how they ... -
The Shame of pverty - A Comparative Analysis Of The Shaming Experience In Welfare Programmes Provided By Public And Private Institutions Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Faculty of
(Master thesis, 2016)In recent years there has been an increase in the public expenditure for providing welfare assistance to the people. With the UN convention making the access to social welfare to maintain a decent standard of living as a ... -
“We are at the bottom of the society” A qualitative study of dignity related experiences in non-standardized activation policies implemented towards social assistance recipients in Norway
(Master thesis, 2016)Active labor market policies have a long tradition in Norway, and since early the 1990s, conditional activation policies have increasingly become a core component in the provision of social assistance. The primary aim of ... -
What is Respectful Maternity Care? An Ethnography Study of Mothers and Midwives in Fort Portal, Uganda
(Master thesis, 2018)Globally, the maternal mortality rate is high at 216 deaths per 100,000 live births. Within Sub-Saharan Africa the rate remains much higher at 546 deaths per 100,000 births. Uganda makes up two percent of the global maternal ...