Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021BIOMED001.
Background: Dementia is a syndrome characterized by progressive cognitive impairment, psychological and behavioural symptoms, and functional deficits. It is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide; its impact and the associated costs are enormous. Consequently, dementia is a global public health priority, and so is Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common cause of dementia in late...
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Thèse de doctorat : Médiathèque Valais, 2014.
Thèse. Biologie. Médecine. 2014.
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2017 ; 2017COM008.
Even though the efficacy and safety of immunization have been widely proven (Plotkin, 2014), an increasing number of parents have refused to vaccinate their children against serious infectious diseases in the past twenty years (Dubé, Gagnon, Nickels, Jeram, & Schuster, 2014). A recent shift in the study of vaccination decision- making has seen scholars moving beyond the idea that mere lack of...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2015 ; COM2015004.
Health literacy, defined as “(…) the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.” (IOM, 2004), has been found to be an important concept in explaining differences in health. Limited health literacy has been linked, amongst others, to worse general health (Wolf,...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2014 ; 2014COM008.
Chronic pain sufferers with diseases such as Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) are a category of patients that feels stigmatized, lacking understanding and support from the surrounding social environment (Davison et al., 2000). The invisible and unpredictable character of RA makes it very difficult to be recognized and understood by family, friends, colleagues, and so on, and patients often complain...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2014 ; 2014COM001.
In general practice consultation, the doctor characteristically gives the patient advice concerning the patient’s medical situation. Such advice may, for instance, pertain to a diagnosis or prognosis of the patient’s health condition, the recommended treatment plan, or the prevention of an illness. Bound by the legal rules (e.g., informed consent), ethical standards (e.g., patient centered...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2011 ; 2011COM006.
Public information campaigns have played an important role in increasing awareness of organ donation and the need for more organ donors. In a recent study, it was found that awareness and knowledge, regarding organ donation, represented only two of several factors in people’s decisions to engage in organ donation-related behaviors (Schulz et al., 2006). In addition, it was noted that the...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2012 ; 2012COM001.
Introduction: Promoting health and physical activity in the workplace is advocated by public health institutions across the globe. There is a need to find effective ways to understand the determinants of participation in physical activity in order to outline appropriate communication strategies to promote physical activity behaviour change in the workplace setting. E-mails and text messages...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2007 ; 2007COM009.
Medical decisions are paradigmatically uncertain. Awareness of this uncertainty at the policy level has produced a strict regulation of the information exchange related to medical issues, e.g. by means of the institute of the informed consent or through tight administrative norms regulating the pharmaceutical communication towards the public. As a special support of such sort of information,...
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2008 ; Nr. 1592.
After injury to the adult central nervous system (CNS), permanent deficits remain to a large part due to limited cell renewal, axonal regeneration and reestablishment of functional connectivity. Evidence indicate that the lack of axonal regeneration is partly due to the myelin-associated inhibitory factor Nogo-A. A therapeutical strategy to overcome this inhibition is to prevent the neurite...
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