Open pre-schools at integrated health services-A program theory.

Introduction: Family centres in Sweden are integrated services that reach all prospective parents and parents with children up to their sixth year, because of the co-location of the health service with the social service and the open pre-school. The personnel on the multi-professional site work together to meet the needs of the target group. The article explores a program theory focused on the open pre-schools at family centres.

Sense of coherence of reindeer herders and other Samis in comparison to other Swedish citizens.

Background: Samis are indigenous people in north Europe. In the territory called Sápmi (Lapland), reindeer herding is the traditional base for the Sami economy. The relation between living conditions and positive health of the Swedish Samis has been sparsely studied.

How to minimize children's environmental tobacco smoke exposure: an intervention in a clinical setting in high risk areas.

Background: Despite the low prevalence of daily smokers in Sweden, children are still being exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), primarily by their smoking parents. A prospective intervention study using methods from Quality Improvement was performed in Child Health Care (CHC). The aim was to provide nurses with new methods for motivating and supporting parents in their efforts to protect children from ETS exposure.

Some lessons from Swedish midwives' experiences of approaching women smokers in antenatal care.

Objective: to describe the qualitatively different ways in which midwives make sense of how to approach women smokers.

Design, Setting And Participants: a more person-centred national project 'Smoke-free pregnancy' has been in progress in Sweden since 1992. Using a phenomenographic approach, 24 midwives who have been regularly working in antenatal care were interviewed about addressing smoking during pregnancy.

Making sense of the challenge of smoking cessation during pregnancy: a phenomenographic approach.

In general, most women are familiar with the need to stop smoking when they are pregnant. In spite of this, many women find it difficult to stop. Using a phenomenographic approach, this study explored Swedish pregnant and post-pregnant women's ways of making sense of smoking during pregnancy.

A salutogenic perspective could be of practical relevance for the prevention of smoking amongst pregnant women.

Objective: to use empirical data to assess the theoretical relevance of using a salutogenic, instead of a pathogenic, perspective to prevent smoking during pregnancy.

Design: quantitative study, a questionnaire was completed during the first trimester of pregnancy and an interview was conducted after the baby was born.

Setting: a geographically defined area in the south-east of Sweden.