Maare Tamm
Biographic Data
| ID | 6515757 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maare Tamm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maare |
| FAMILY NAME | Tamm |
| SIGNATURE | TAMM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Luleå University of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Disability and social network. A comparison between children and adolescents with and without restricted mobility
The purpose of this study was to compare the social network (with particular emphasis on roles, relationships and activities) of school children and adolescents with restricted mobility (investigated group) with the social network of non‐disabled school children and adolescents (comparison group). The group investigated consisted of 23 children and adolescents aged 7 to 19 years from northern Sweden. The results were compared with a group of 23 c…
Are playgrounds in Norrland (Northern Sweden) accessible to children with restricted mobility
The purpose of this study was to investigate the accessibility of playgrounds to children with restricted mobility in Norrland. The investigation was carried out as a descriptive postal survey study. The questions in the survey were retrospective, i.e. addressed the issue of what had or had not been done to adapt the playgrounds for children with restricted mobility. The questionnaire was sent out to all the 54 municipalities in the province of N…
Rehabilitation in the home ‐ interplay and conflicts between different parties
In this article an organisational and professional perspective is combined with a user approach to analyse the difficulties and obstacles that arise when rehabilitation takes place in the home. The reason for this is that organisations appear to play an increasingly important role in the implementation of welfare policies such as care, home help services and rehabilitation in step with decreasing stringency of central government steering. This in…
The meaning of death for children and adolescents
Personification of life and death among swedish health care professionals
The aim of this study was to determine how people working in health care in Sweden personify life and death. The questions of special interest were whether there are archetypal notions of life and death, and what emotional tone is associated with them, especially with death. Totals of 22 women and 25 men working in health care were interviewed individually. The results showed that 84% of the men and 65% of the women personified death as an old ma…
The meaning of death for children and adolescents
The purpose of this study was twofold: to investigate the qualitative differences in children's concepts of death, as reflected in their drawings and to study the gender differences in children's death concepts. Subjects were 431 children. of four age groups (9, 12, 15, and 18 years) and both sexes. The children were asked to draw their impression of the word death and to give a verbal commentary on what they had drawn. The drawings were analyzed…
Models of health and disease
This paper describes and analyses six models of health and disease. These are: religious, biomedical, psychosomatic, humanistic, existential and transpersonal. Of these six models, only one was unequivocally reductionist: the biomedical. The others were all holistic. The religious, humanistic and transpersonal models could be considered as health models, the biomedical, psychosomatic and existential models as disease or illness models. The differ…
The meaning of death for children and adolescents
The purpose of this study was twofold: to investigate the qualitative differences in children's concepts of death, as reflected in their drawings and to study the gender differences in children's death concepts. Subjects were 431 children. of four age groups (9, 12, 15, and 18 years) and both sexes. The children were asked to draw their impression of the word death and to give a verbal commentary on what they had drawn. The drawings were analyzed…
Are playgrounds in Norrland (Northern Sweden) accessible to children with restricted mobility
The purpose of this study was to investigate the accessibility of playgrounds to children with restricted mobility in Norrland. The investigation was carried out as a descriptive postal survey study. The questions in the survey were retrospective, i.e. addressed the issue of what had or had not been done to adapt the playgrounds for children with restricted mobility. The questionnaire was sent out to all the 54 municipalities in the province of N…
Personification of life and death among swedish health care professionals
The aim of this study was to determine how people working in health care in Sweden personify life and death. The questions of special interest were whether there are archetypal notions of life and death, and what emotional tone is associated with them, especially with death. Totals of 22 women and 25 men working in health care were interviewed individually. The results showed that 84% of the men and 65% of the women personified death as an old ma…
Disability and social network. A comparison between children and adolescents with and without restricted mobility
The purpose of this study was to compare the social network (with particular emphasis on roles, relationships and activities) of school children and adolescents with restricted mobility (investigated group) with the social network of non‐disabled school children and adolescents (comparison group). The group investigated consisted of 23 children and adolescents aged 7 to 19 years from northern Sweden. The results were compared with a group of 23 c…
Models of health and disease
This paper describes and analyses six models of health and disease. These are: religious, biomedical, psychosomatic, humanistic, existential and transpersonal. Of these six models, only one was unequivocally reductionist: the biomedical. The others were all holistic. The religious, humanistic and transpersonal models could be considered as health models, the biomedical, psychosomatic and existential models as disease or illness models. The differ…
Models of health and disease
This paper describes and analyses six models of health and disease. These are: religious, biomedical, psychosomatic, humanistic, existential and transpersonal. Of these six models, only one was unequivocally reductionist: the biomedical. The others were all holistic. The religious, humanistic and transpersonal models could be considered as health models, the biomedical, psychosomatic and existential models as disease or illness models. The differ…
The meaning of death for children and adolescents
The purpose of this study was twofold: to investigate the qualitative differences in children's concepts of death, as reflected in their drawings and to study the gender differences in children's death concepts. Subjects were 431 children. of four age groups (9, 12, 15, and 18 years) and both sexes. The children were asked to draw their impression of the word death and to give a verbal commentary on what they had drawn. The drawings were analyzed…
The meaning of death for children and adolescents
Personification of life and death among swedish health care professionals
The aim of this study was to determine how people working in health care in Sweden personify life and death. The questions of special interest were whether there are archetypal notions of life and death, and what emotional tone is associated with them, especially with death. Totals of 22 women and 25 men working in health care were interviewed individually. The results showed that 84% of the men and 65% of the women personified death as an old ma…
Rehabilitation in the home ‐ interplay and conflicts between different parties
In this article an organisational and professional perspective is combined with a user approach to analyse the difficulties and obstacles that arise when rehabilitation takes place in the home. The reason for this is that organisations appear to play an increasingly important role in the implementation of welfare policies such as care, home help services and rehabilitation in step with decreasing stringency of central government steering. This in…
Are playgrounds in Norrland (Northern Sweden) accessible to children with restricted mobility
The purpose of this study was to investigate the accessibility of playgrounds to children with restricted mobility in Norrland. The investigation was carried out as a descriptive postal survey study. The questions in the survey were retrospective, i.e. addressed the issue of what had or had not been done to adapt the playgrounds for children with restricted mobility. The questionnaire was sent out to all the 54 municipalities in the province of N…
Disability and social network. A comparison between children and adolescents with and without restricted mobility
The purpose of this study was to compare the social network (with particular emphasis on roles, relationships and activities) of school children and adolescents with restricted mobility (investigated group) with the social network of non‐disabled school children and adolescents (comparison group). The group investigated consisted of 23 children and adolescents aged 7 to 19 years from northern Sweden. The results were compared with a group of 23 c…
Psychology (7 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Psychotherapist (3 works) · Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders (2 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (2 works) · Family and Disability Support Research (2 works) · Health care (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works)