Bakgrund: Anorexia nervosa (AN) räknas idag till en av de allvarligaste psykiska störningar eftersom sjukdomen är förenad med allvarliga komplikationer. Vanligaste åldern för insjuknande är 14–19 år. Tonårsflickor med AN upplever nedsatt hälsa och välbefinnande samt ökat lidande. Sjuksköterskans roll vid AN syftar till att normalisera vikten samtidigt som tonårsflickorna påtalar en önskan om att sjuksköterskan ska inge stöd och motivation. Syfte: Att beskriva tonårsflickors upplevelser av att leva med Anorexia nervosa. Metod: Självbiografiska blogginlägg har analyserats utifrån en manifest kvalitativ innehållsanalys med en induktiv ansats. Resultat: I resultatet framkom fyra huvudkategorier som beskriver tonårsflickors upplevelser av att leva med AN. Dessa innefattar Att leva i ständig konflikt med sig själv, Att leva med en förändrad kropp, Känslan av psykisk påfrestning och dess konsekvenser samt Att vilja bli frisk och fri. Konklusion: Att möta tonårsflickor som lever med AN kan upplevas svårt och kan innebära en utmaning för sjuksköterskan. Vidare påvisas att tonårsflickors behov och önskemål inte överensstämmer med sjuksköterskans roll vid AN. Som sjuksköterska är det angeläget att se till tonårsflickors behov och önskemål för att kunna öka upplevelsen av hälsa och välbefinnande, lindra lidande samt främja tillfrisknande. / Background: Anorexia nervosa (AN) is considered one of the most serious mental disorders since the disease is associated with serious complications. The most common age for AN is 14–19 years. Teenage girls with AN experience impaired health and well-being and increased suffering. The nurse's role aims to normalize the bodyweight. Teenage girls needs support and motivation from the nurse. Aim: To describe teenage girls' experiences of living with Anorexia nervosa. Method: Autobiographical blog entries have been analyzed based on a manifest qualitative content analysis with an inductive approach. Results: The result revealed four main categories that include Living in constant conflict with oneself, Living with a changed body, The feeling of mental stress and its consequences and Wanting to be healthy and free. Conclusion: Meeting teenage girls who live with AN can be a difficult experience for the nurse. Furthermore, it is shown that the needs of teenage girls do not correspond to the nurse's role in AN. As a nurse, it is important to look at the needs of teenage girls in order to increase the experience of health and well-being, alleviate suffering and promote recovery.

In Australia, as in other industrialised countries, rates of childlessness amongst women are rising. This has been attributed, in part, to a rise in the number of women choosing never to give birth; however, women’s perception of what constitutes choice in remaining childless is under-investigated. The aim of this study was to investigate Australian women’s experience of childlessness at mid age and explore the role of choice in this reproductive outcome. It investigated the determinants of childlessness, considered the consequences of never giving birth, and explored how choice affects childless women’s evaluation of non-motherhood. / A cross-sectional study of the experience of never giving birth was conducted, which comprised two components. The minor component was a secondary analysis of survey data (collected in 1996) from the Women’s Health Australia (WHA) project. WHA is a longitudinal study which recruited a nationally representative sample of 14,099 women born between 1945 and 1952. These women are amongst the first to have lived all their reproductive lives since the introduction of the oral contraceptive. This study compared demographic characteristics, self-rated health, and life satisfaction between 1,069 mid-aged childless women (exclusive of known adoptive and step-mothers) and 12,643 of their peers who are mothers. It was found that at mid-age, childless women have higher levels of education and are more extensively engaged in the paid workforce than mothers, however, there were no differences in health status between mothers and childless women. Life satisfaction differences between the two groups are complex and mediated by marital status. / The major component of the investigation was a study-specific survey (October 2002) completed by 426 nulliparous women who were all participants in the mid-aged cohort of Women’s Health Australia. This component investigated the determinants of childlessness, the role of choice, and the experience of non-motherhood. / In contrast to existing studies into childlessness, this large quantitative investigation has a sample which comprises a broad selection of nulliparous women irrespective of their marital status, medical history, or level of choice in never giving birth. Using an original classification system, women were categorised into three childless groups which describe three levels of choice in never giving birth: 37.1% of respondents chose childlessness actively (Active Choice), 15.4% chose childlessness given their personal circumstances (Constrained Choice), and 47.5% felt denied the opportunity to give birth (Denied Choice). The predominant reason for childlessness amongst the Active Choice women was not experiencing a strong ‘maternal instinct’, the Denied Choice group mainly cited infertility or the lack of a husband/partner, whilst the Constrained Choice group gave a mixture of voluntary and involuntary explanations. / This study developed a balance sheet approach to assessing both the positive and negative aspects of non-motherhood – the Consequence of Childlessness Balance Sheet (CCBS). It also introduced a technique for measuring ambivalence that was developed within social psychology. In contrast to the public discourse that depicts childlessness as a negative life outcome, participants in this study gave a favourable evaluation of their lives. Even so, more than half (55.6%) of the participants experienced moderate levels of ambivalence. Comparisons between the three childless groups revealed that as choice increased participants were more likely to give a higher rating to the positive aspects of their lives, a lower rating to the negative ones, and experience lower levels of ambivalence. However, Denied Choice women generally did not find childlessness a devastating experience. / Therefore, amongst the mid-aged participants in this study the experience of childlessness was complex and diverse, varying with the level of choice women had in never giving birth. Childlessness was not, however, a burdensome or detrimental life outcome for these women.

La tesi si compone di tre capitoli. Il primo capitolo è una rassegna critica che intende spiegare come mai la riforma del sistema sanitario in Cina non funziona come ci si aspettava. Comparando il caso cinese con le con le riforme avvenute in Messico e Vietnam, vengono individuate alcune ragioni metodologiche sia di policy design che di valutazione d’impatto. Il secondo capitolo propone una fusione tra la letteratura sulla spesa medica e la letteratura inerente alla misurazione multidimensionale della povertà. Viene così analizzato l’impatto della spesa medica non-rimborsabile sul benessere generale. Il nostro studio suggerisce che, nelle aree rurali dei paesi in via di sviluppo, specialmente lì dove il sistema sanitario è agli esordi, le famiglie tendono ad essere messe in condizione di povertà più per colpa di problematiche legate agli aspetti sanitari che per una vera e propria scarsità monetaria. Ne segue che il design e le valutazioni delle politiche di welfare dovrebbero avere un respiro più ampio e non focalizzarsi soltanto sulla povertà in termini di reddito. L’ultimo capitolo è un tentativo di valutare gli impatti di un esperimento sociale ‘block-randomized’ in Cina. E’ stata utilizzata la metodologia Difference-in-Difference per stimare l’average treatment effect con un insieme di variabili relative alle spese mediche non-rimborsabili. I risultati dimostrano come i poveri possano beneficiare di più da questo tipo di interventi. / The thesis consists three chapters. The first one, a critical review, aims at explaining why health care system reform in China does not work as expected. By comparing the case of China with the cases of Mexico and Vietnam, we try to find the explanation from the policy design and evaluation methodology. The second chapter proposes to combine catastrophic health expenditure literature with multidimensional poverty literature to analyze the impact of out-of-pocket health expenditure on overall well-being. Our study suggests that, in the rural area of developing countries, especially where health care system is in its infancy, households may be driven into poverty by health-related deprivation more than monetary deprivation. Therefore, policy-makers should evaluate and design welfare policy from a broader perspective other than only focusing on addressing the monetary poverty. The last chapter attempts to evaluate the impacts of a block-randomized social experiment in rural China, which implemented the provider payment intervention on outpatient services. Difference-in-difference methods are employed to estimate the average treatment effect with a set of outcome variables related to out-of-pocket health expenditure. We find that the poor may benefit more from the interventions.

BACKGROUND Rehabilitation therapies are effective for older persons in home-based settings, and have the potential to save money for the health system, while also improving the quality of life for older adults who may otherwise be hospitalized or institutionalized. Although there is evidence that home-based rehabilitation can improve functional outcomes in older adults, research has shown that many older home care clients do not receive the rehabilitation services they need. Despite the home care sector’s increasing importance within Ontario’s health care system, we have a limited understanding of the population that currently utilizes these services and how these services are allocated in the province. This dissertation project aims to enhance the understanding of this domain using a large provincial data repository of home care client information (RAI-HC information system). METHODS Using the Andersen-Newman Framework to guide this research from a conceptual standpoint, and combining it with the CRoss Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM) as an organizational framework, this dissertation focuses on examining data collected on older long-stay home care clients. Prior to the data mining modeling procedures, knowledge of the rehabilitation services in home care was developed through a series of semi-structured interviews with key informants. The results of this qualitative study were then used to inform quantitative analyses that included creating rehabilitation service user profiles using the K-means clustering algorithm, and the development of predictive models of rehabilitation service provision using a Random forest algorithm and multilevel models. RESULTS Older home care clients who receive occupational therapy and physiotherapy in the Ontario Home Care System form a complex and heterogeneous client population. These services are often provided to clients following an acute event, yet many older adults who could benefit from therapy services for functional improvement and maintenance are not provided services due to limited resources. K-means clustering analyses resulted in the creation of seven profiles of rehab service users illustrating the multidimensional diversity of the service user population. Predictive models were able to identify client characteristics that are commonly associated with service provision. These models confirmed the large amount of regional variation found across the province and highlighted the differences between factors that lead to occupational therapy and physiotherapy service provision. CONCLUSIONS Using multiple methods to systematically examine rehabilitation services for long-stay clients, new insights into the current user population and the client characteristics related to service provision were obtained. Future research activities should focus on ways to use the regularly collected standardized data to identify older long-stay home care clients who would benefit most from the rehabilitation therapy services provided by the provincial home care system.

BACKGROUND Rehabilitation therapies are effective for older persons in home-based settings, and have the potential to save money for the health system, while also improving the quality of life for older adults who may otherwise be hospitalized or institutionalized. Although there is evidence that home-based rehabilitation can improve functional outcomes in older adults, research has shown that many older home care clients do not receive the rehabilitation services they need. Despite the home care sector’s increasing importance within Ontario’s health care system, we have a limited understanding of the population that currently utilizes these services and how these services are allocated in the province. This dissertation project aims to enhance the understanding of this domain using a large provincial data repository of home care client information (RAI-HC information system). METHODS Using the Andersen-Newman Framework to guide this research from a conceptual standpoint, and combining it with the CRoss Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM) as an organizational framework, this dissertation focuses on examining data collected on older long-stay home care clients. Prior to the data mining modeling procedures, knowledge of the rehabilitation services in home care was developed through a series of semi-structured interviews with key informants. The results of this qualitative study were then used to inform quantitative analyses that included creating rehabilitation service user profiles using the K-means clustering algorithm, and the development of predictive models of rehabilitation service provision using a Random forest algorithm and multilevel models. RESULTS Older home care clients who receive occupational therapy and physiotherapy in the Ontario Home Care System form a complex and heterogeneous client population. These services are often provided to clients following an acute event, yet many older adults who could benefit from therapy services for functional improvement and maintenance are not provided services due to limited resources. K-means clustering analyses resulted in the creation of seven profiles of rehab service users illustrating the multidimensional diversity of the service user population. Predictive models were able to identify client characteristics that are commonly associated with service provision. These models confirmed the large amount of regional variation found across the province and highlighted the differences between factors that lead to occupational therapy and physiotherapy service provision. CONCLUSIONS Using multiple methods to systematically examine rehabilitation services for long-stay clients, new insights into the current user population and the client characteristics related to service provision were obtained. Future research activities should focus on ways to use the regularly collected standardized data to identify older long-stay home care clients who would benefit most from the rehabilitation therapy services provided by the provincial home care system.

This thesis examines a psychological model of health and well-being from an ancient Indian philosophical thought system called the tri-guna model. After an introduction in the first chapter, the second chapter establishes the theoretical basis of the model. The third chapter describes the development and psychometric properties of the Tri-Guna Scales which measure the components of the tri-guna model. The fourth chapter presents an intervention study that is focused on an intervention that was conceptualized on the basis of the tri-guna model and aimed at increasing well-being, followed by the last chapter that draws conclusions. As the second chapter illustrates, the tri-guna model proposes that the psyche is influenced by three energies that function in dependence on one another and each strive for dominance, pushing the other two aside when they gain strength. These three energies are called sattva, rajas and tamas. In short, when sattva is dominant in a person, the person has strong well-being, is calm, happy, motivated and persevering. Dominant rajas leads to stress, over-activity and restlessness. When tamas becomes dominant, it makes a person pessimistic, depressed and unmotivated. The implication of the tri-guna model is that sattva should be the dominant guna in order for a person to experience high well-being. Sattva can be strengthened by a number of interventions such as meditation, increasing spiritual awareness, self-regulation and developing virtues. Studies examining the tri-guna model have demonstrated that many of the theorized relations are supported by empirical data. The quality of the inventories used to measure the gunas in the past does not meet current methodological standards, for which reason new tri-guna scales were developed in two studies. The inventory items were derived from the working model discussed in the second chapter of the thesis. Originally, the goal was to develop one large tri-guna scale that is clearly composed of three factors, of which each corresponds to one of the gunas. However, because of the wide range of behavioral aspects that are determined by the gunas, the first exploratory factor analysis found factors that corresponded not only to one of the gunas, but also to one of the many behavioral facets inherent in the one comprehensive scale (e.g. cognition, motivation, social behavior etc.). Therefore, the items were grouped into nine separate scales that each measure the gunas in one single behavioral category. The reliability of the majority of the 27 scales corresponds to reliability values of established personality inventories: Cronbach’s α of 24 subscales is above .7. The internal consistencies of the other three subscales don’t meet this standard, but their values are still above .6. Measures determining the validity of the inventory are very good. The exploratory factor analysis of the second study shows that all scales consist of three factors, each of which can be related to one of the gunas. The correlations of the subscales amongst each other are consistent with the hypotheses and previous research, the sattva scales correlate negatively with the rajas and tamas scales, and the rajas and tamas scales have positive correlations. Furthermore, the correlations of the scales to relevant external criteria provide further evidence for the validity of the scales. As expected, the sattva scales correlate positively with measures of well-being and negatively with measures of stress, whereas the rajas and tamas scales correlate positively with measures of stress and negatively with measures of well-being. The tri-guna model not only aims at describing and explaining behavior, but also at changing it, so that well-being can increase. The fourth chapter of this thesis describes an intervention study that tested a training aimed at increasing sattva and decreasing rajas and tamas, in a multiple baseline study. 24 participants took part in an eight-week training which included a variety of the interventions detailed in the second chapter: meditation, cognitive restructuring, managing energy and will-power, and mindful decision-making and social behavior. The study results show that the training was effective: sattva increased and rajas and tamas decreased with medium to large effects. Other significant changes include an increase in psychological and physical well-being and self-regulation. All in all, this thesis demonstrates the potential of the contribution of the guna model to explaining and increasing well-being. This research provides a thorough description of the model and summary of empirical evidence in connection to the gunas. Furthermore, this work has made it possible to measure the gunas with a questionnaire of high academic standards. This will support future research on the gunas and other fields investigating interventions with an Indian background like meditation or yoga. Finally, this thesis shows how the guna model can be applied practically in a psychological training in order to improve the well-being of its participants. / Diese Dissertation untersucht ein psychologisches Modell für Gesundheit und Wohlbefinden aus der indischen Philosophie, genannt das Tri-Guna Modell. Nach einer Einleitung im ersten Kapitel, beschreibt das zweite Kapitel die theoretischen Grundlagen des Modells. Das dritte Kapitel beschreibt die Entwicklung und psychometrischen Eigenschaften der Tri-Guna Skalen, welche die Komponenten des Tri-Guna Modells messen. Im vierten Kapitel wird eine Interventionsstudie dargestellt, die ein Training untersucht, das auf der Grundlage des Tri-Guna Modells entworfen wurde und darauf abzielt Wohlbefinden zu stärken. Im Anschluss folgt das letzte Kapitel, in welchem Schlussfolgerungen und ein Ausblick dargestellt werden. Wie das zweite Kapitel darstellt, wird die Psyche laut dem Tri-Guna Modell von drei Energien beeinflusst, die in Abhängigkeit voneinander arbeiten. Jede strebt nach Stärke und verringert die Auswirkung der anderen beiden, wenn sie an Kraft zunimmt. Diese drei Energien heißen Sattva, Rajas und Tamas. Kurz gefasst erfährt eine Person Wohlbefinden, Ruhe, Glück, Motivation und Ausdauer, wenn Sattva am stärksten ist. Vorherrschendes Rajas führt zu Stress, übermäßiger Aktivität und Ruhelosigkeit. Wenn Tamas vorherrscht, ist die Person pessimistisch, depressiv und unmotiviert. Insgesamt erfährt eine Person das höchste Ausmaß an Wohlbefinden, wenn Sattva die stärkste Guna ist. Laut Tri-Guna Modell kann Sattva durch verschiedene Maßnahmen gestärkt werden, wie zum Beispiel Meditation, spirituelle Bewusstheit, Selbstregulation und das Umsetzen von Tugenden. Studien, welche das Tri-Guna Modell untersucht haben, konnten zeigen, dass viele der in dem Modell beschriebenen Beziehungen von empirischen Daten belegt werden. Die Qualität der bisher vorhandenen Inventare zur Erfassung der Gunas wird gängigen methodischen Ansprüchen nicht gerecht, weshalb in zwei Studien neue Tri-Guna Skalen entwickelt wurden. Die Items des Inventars wurden aus dem Arbeitsmodell, das im zweiten Kapitel der Disseration dargestellt wird, abgeleitet. Zuerst war das Ziel eine umfangreiche Tri-Guna Skala zu entwickeln, die aus drei Faktoren besteht, von denen jeder einer der Gunas entspricht. Aufgrund der großen Bandbreite an Verhaltensaspekten, die von den Gunas beeinflusst werden, zeigte die erste exploratorische Faktorenanalyse mehrere Faktoren, die nicht nur einzelnen Gunas entsprachen, sondern sich auch auf Teilaspekte der Gunas in bestimmten Verhaltenskategorien bezogen, die alle in der einen umfangreichen Skala enthalten waren (z.B. Kognition, Motivation, Umgang mit anderen etc.). Deshalb wurden die Items auf neun separate Skalen aufgeteilt, die jede die Gunas in einer einzigen Verhaltenskategorie messen. Die Reliabilität von 24 der 27 Subskalen entspricht den Reliabilitätswerten von etablierten Persönlichkeitsinventaren – Cronbachs α dieser Skalen ist über .7. Die inneren Konsistenzen der anderen drei Skalen werden diesem Wert nicht gerecht, ihre Werte sind jedoch über .6. Maße, welche die Validität der Skalen untersuchen, zeigen gute Werte. Die exploratorische Faktorenanalyse der zweiten Studie zeigt, dass die Items aller Skalen jeweils auf drei Faktoren laden, von denen jeder einer der Gunas zugeordnet werden kann. Die Korrelationen der Subskalen untereinander sind hypothesenkonform und entsprechen dem Bild, das sich auch bei älteren Guna-Inventaren zeigt – die Sattva-Skalen korrelieren negativ mit den Rajas- und Tamas-Skalen und die Rajas- und Tamas-Skalen korrelieren positiv. Desweiteren belegen Korrelationen der Skalen mit relevanten Außenkritieren die Validität der Skalen. Wie erwartet korrelieren die Sattva-Skalen positiv mit Maßen für Wohlbefinden und negativ mit Maßen für Stress, während die Rajas- und Tamas-Skalen positiv mit Maßen für Stress und negativ mit Maßen für Wohlbefinden korrelieren. Das Tri-Guna Modell zielt nicht nur darauf ab Verhalten zu beschreiben und zu erklären, sondern auch darauf es zu ändern, damit das Wohlbefinden zunehmen kann. Das vierte Kapitel dieser Dissertation beschreibt eine Interventionsstudie, die im Rahmen eines Multiple Baseline Designs ein Training untersucht, welches Sattva stärken und Rajas und Tamas mindern sollte. 24 Teilnehmer/innen nahmen an einem acht-wöchigem Training teil, das eine Zusammenstellung der Interventionen enthielt, welche im zweiten Kapitel beschrieben wurden: Meditation, kognitive Umstrukturierung, Energie- und Willenskraft-Management, und achtsames Entscheiden und Verhalten gegenüber anderen. Die Ergebnisse der Studie zeigen, dass das Training wirksam war: Sattva nahm zu und Rajas und Tamas nahmen ab mit mittleren bis starken Effekten. Andere signifikante Veränderungen schließen eine Zunahme an psychischem und körperlichem Wohlbefinden und Selbstregulation ein. Insgesamt demonstriert diese Dissertation den potentiellen Beitrag des Guna-Modells zur Erklärung und Stärkung von Wohlbefinden. Diese Arbeit liefert eine detaillierte Beschreibung des Modells und eine Zusammenfassung des empirischen Forschungsstandes in Bezug auf die Gunas. Desweiteren macht diese Forschung es nun möglich die Gunas mit Skalen von hohem akademischem Niveau zu messen. Das wird zukünftige Forschung zu den Gunas und anderen Themen, die Interventionen mit indischem Hintergrund untersuchen, wie Mediation oder Yoga, unterstützen. Schließlich zeigt diese Dissertation wie das Guna Modell in einem psychologischen Training praktisch angewandt werden kann, um das Wohlbefinden der Teilnehmer/innen zu stärken.

Background: Increased use of wellness allowance among employees could be a key tool to promote health and well-being which could reduce the risk of illnesses, enhance productivity and keep a work-life balance. The purpose of this study was to investigate and gain an increased understanding of the underlying factors and the employees' experience of unused wellness allowance. Methods: This is a qualitative study with semi-structured interviews. A qualitative content analysis was conducted to analyze the interview data through the meaning unit, condense meaning unit and category. Results: Four main categories were found based on content analysis: (1) aspects regarding wellness allowance, (2) organizational culture with the subcategory’s topic of conversation and dissemination of information, (3) attitudes regarding wellness allowance and (4) obstacles to physical activity. The main result of the study was about the employees' attitudes to the wellness allowance. There are obstacles for the employees regarding physical activity and the organizational culture has a contributing factor to the utilization of the wellness allowance. Conclusion: This study found that there is no negative experience with the wellness allowance from the respondents' perspective. The organizational culture can be considered as a factor in why employees do not choose to use the wellness allowance. The respondents themselves were not familiar with what they can use their wellness allowance for. / Bakgrund: Ökad användning av friskvårdsbidrag bland anställda kan vara ett nyckelverktyg för att främja hälsa och välbefinnande. Friskvårdsbidrag kan minska risken för sjukdomar, öka produktiviteten och hålla en balans mellan arbete och privatliv. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka och få en ökad förståelse för bakomliggande faktorer och medarbetarnas upplevelse av outnyttjat friskvårdsbidrag. Metod: Detta är en kvalitativ studie med semistrukturerade intervjuer. En kvalitativ innehållsanalys genomfördes för att analysera intervjudata genom meningsbärande enhet, kondenserad enhet och kategori. Resultat: Fyra huvudkategorier hittades utifrån innehållsanalys: (1) aspekter gällande friskvårdsbidrag, (2) organisationskultur med underkategorins samtalsämne och informationsspridning, (3) attityder kring friskvårdsbidrag och (4) hinder för fysisk aktivitet. Huvudresultatet av studien handlade om de anställdas inställning till friskvårdsbidraget. Det finns hinder för medarbetarna när det gäller fysisk aktivitet och organisationskulturen har en bidragande orsak till utnyttjandet av friskvårdsbidraget. Slutsats: Denna studie fann att det inte finns några negativa erfarenheter av friskvårdsbidraget ur respondenternas perspektiv. Organisationskulturen kan ses som en faktor till varför anställda inte väljer att använda friskvårdsbidraget. Respondenterna var inte själva insatta i vad de kan använda sitt friskvårdsbidrag till.

Die gebaute Umwelt spielt eine entscheidende Rolle in unserem täglichen Leben und beeinflusst maßgeblich unser Wohlbefinden, insbesondere im Kontext von Krankenhäusern und Pflegeeinrichtungen. Dies wird in aktuellen Forschungserkenntnissen verdeutlicht. Ziel ist das Entwerfen von nutzerzentrierten und zukunftsfähigen Gebäuden, die den Anforderungen des medizinischen und technologischen Fortschritts sowie den gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen gerecht werden. Das ARCH4HEALTH Student Research Lab ist eine regelmäßige Serie von Lehrveranstaltungen an der Professur für Sozial- und Gesundheitsbauten. Die Studierenden widmen sich aktuellen Fragestellungen zu einem semesterbegleitenden Thema. Im Sommersemester 2023 fokussierten sich die studentischen Forschungsprojekte auf den Themenschwerpunkt „Psyche & Raum”. Dabei sollten innovative Ideen und Lösungsansätze für die Schnittstelle zwischen der gebauten Umwelt und dem Wohlbefinden der Nutzer:innen entwickelt werden. [... aus dem Text]

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:10:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcia Ribeiro Landsmann.pdf: 3673404 bytes, checksum: 5cfae40fc8597c4ecbf0eb954dcd35d8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-09-02 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research investigates the types of communication contracts established in magazines specialized in health and well-being, considering the enunciator - enunciatee relationship based on the thematic agenda of the narratives of the journalistic discourse. The corpus of works consists of articles from magazines that are references in these themes, whose circulation, according to the IVC (Circulation Verification Institute), ranked at the top during the period of July 2008 to June 2009, namely: Bons Fluídos, Saúde! é Vital, Vida Natural & Equilíbrio, Vida Simples and Viva Saúde. The discourse analysis was based on Fairclough s discourse theory, and the study was guided by the theory of communication contracts of Charaudeau. Sfez, Bauman, Foucault, Boaventura Santos, Sennet, Lipovetsky, Petrini, Pelbart and Prado to examine the contracts of communication and regimes of visibility that govern the agendas writers propose to their readers to encourage them in their search for well-being, health and lifestyle values. The focus on utopian ideals of the perfect body, abiding health and eternal youth builds contracts of communication that bring into the limelight thosewho seek perfect health for themselves, and extends it, in some cases, to family and community / Esta pesquisa investiga os tipos de contratos de comunicação construídos nas revistas especializadas em saúde e bem-estar, considerando a relação entre enunciador e enunciatário, a partir do agendamento temático das narrativas do discurso jornalístico. O corpus de trabalho são reportagens das revistas que são referência em tais temas e têm tiragens entre as maiores do IVC: Bons Fluídos, Saúde! é Vital, Vida Natural & Equilíbrio, Vida Simples e Viva Saúde, no período que compreende julho de 2008 a junho de 2009. A análise discursiva se baseou na teoria do discurso de Fairclough e na teoria sobre contratos de comunicação de Charaudeau. Sfez, Bauman, Foucault, Boaventura Santos, Sennet, Lipovetsky, Petrini, Pelbart e Prado nortearam esse trabalho com o objetivo de examinar os contratos de comunicação e os regimes de visibilidade que presidem os agenciamentos propostos pelos enunciadores aos leitores, para que busquem os valores de bem-estar, saúde e estilo de vida. O foco em ideais utópicos de corpo perfeito, saúde inabalável e juventude eterna constroem contratos de comunicação que projetam enunciatários que buscam a saúde perfeita para si estendendo-a, em alguns casos, à família e à comunidade

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:17:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Viviane Lima Martins.pdf: 20066492 bytes, checksum: ffe09e9b3394a5e64f386867e7134e7e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-10-07 / The present research had for objective to carry through the discursive analysis of the news articles of cover of the magazines Veja, Época and IstoÉ on the subjects health and wellbeing . The choice for these subjects was made from the comment of that the after-modern society of consumption involves its values, desires, habits, likes and necessities in a scale extremely intensified. Today, one perceives that the images that transfer health and beauty, by body and mind, take space each bigger time in this society that starts to absorb such values as standards of social ascension and personal satisfaction. Moreover, the body is changeable since the birth until the aging and the consumption society does not support the marks and signals of the time in the body. The aesthetic search for perfect, the medicine longevity and sprouting new and cures for illnesses are subjects, each time more recurrent in the weekly media, characterizing, thus, an interesting object of study. The subjects had been categorized in sub-groups, in accordance with the focus of each news article, such as aesthetic beauty and, alternative medicine, remedies, treatments and prevention of illnesses, feeding, chemical dependence, behavior and science. The analyzed period sweeps all the existence of the magazines, since end of years 1960, up to 2006. As method, we will adopt the discursive analysis, with you arrive in port of the semiotics to examine the news articles, collating the respective speakers of the magazines and identifying, also, the narrative citizens and its values, beyond the thematic and figurative construction, composing specific communicative contracts between magazine and reader. Other aspects to study are made positive or negative by each periodic one the mediating function and, the values relevance thematic in the aftermodern society of the magazines / A presente pesquisa teve por objetivo realizar a análise discursiva das reportagens de capa das revistas Veja, Época e Istoé sobre os temas saúde e bem-estar . A escolha por estes temas foi feita a partir da observação de que a sociedade de consumo pós-moderna envolve seus valores, desejos, hábitos, gostos e necessidades numa escala extremamente intensificada. Hoje, percebe-se que as imagens que transpassam saúde e beleza, de corpo e mente, tomam espaço cada vez maior nesta sociedade que passa a absorver tais valores como padrões de ascensão social e satisfação pessoal. Além disso, o corpo é mutável desde o nascimento até o envelhecimento e a sociedade de consumo não suporta as marcas e sinais do tempo no corpo. A busca por estética perfeita, longevidade e o surgimento de novos medicamentos e curas para doenças são temas, cada vez mais recorrentes na mídia semanal, caracterizando, assim, um interessante objeto de estudo. Os temas foram categorizados em subgrupos, de acordo com o foco de cada reportagem, tais como beleza e estética, medicina alternativa, remédios, tratamentos e prevenções de doenças, alimentação, dependência química, comportamento e ciência. O período analisado varre toda a existência das revistas, desde final dos anos 1960, até 2006. Metodologicamente adotaremos a análise discursiva, com aportes da semiótica para examinar as reportagens, confrontando os respectivos enunciadores das revistas e identificando, também, os sujeitos narrativos e seus valores, além da construção temática e figurativa, compondo contratos comunicativos específicos entre revista e leitor. Outros aspectos a estudar são os valores positivados ou negativados por cada periódico, a relevância da temática na sociedade pós-moderna e a função mediadora das revistas