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, 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, 2010.
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2009.
This dissertation examines the question, how Swiss German media cover the topic of overweight. Over the last years overweight has gained an increased interest in the Swiss media. The public awareness for overweight and obesity in Switzerland was raised in the mid 1980ies. In newspapers the topic gained public interest in the 1990ies, parallel to the publication of the fourth Swiss report on...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2009.
Discussion on the introduction of the smoking ban in Ticino has all the characteristics of a debate, where every participant takes a position. In this context, observing argumentative content means reconstructing the core of the discussion. However, understanding argumentative content is difficult because argumentation is a complex activity. Content analysis allows reconstruction of a small...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2007 ; 2007COM008.
Over the last decade a constantly growing prevalence of the obesity problem in industrialized nations has intensified the health and lifestyle discussion, particularly regarding the topics of nutrition and physical exercise. This elevated attention is also due to an increased awareness towards these topics by various information sources, in particular by the mass media. Whilst the market of...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2003 ; 2003COM004.
Ranging between humanities and technological studies, this dissertation aims at clarifying what happens when literary texts we are used to read in a “book form” are transposed in hypertexts and hypermedia, namely which are the effects of this transposition on the act of reading the literary text. The work is based on an interdisciplinary approach, comprising a semiotic-hermeneutic perspective...
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