Background Hospitalized patients with acute poisonings are a heterogenous group, both regarding their socio-economic background and the actual poisonings leading to their admittions. Aims: To study the correlation between ...

Abstract Purpose: In the summer of 1999 I got the disease Guillain Barré syndrom. During my recovery I wrote a text about my experiences at the hospital. In this paper I investigate the patient perspective by using that ...

Background: Patients` religious commitments and attachment to religious communities are known to influence their experiences of illness and their medical decisions. We know less about the religious characteristics of ...

Intimate partner violence is unfortunately a common problem in the society. This literature review tries to conclude on which factors are important in the understanding of this subject, and it focuses on male-to-female ...

The article is a literature-study focusing on the nature of identity development and self perception of third culture kids. A Third Culture Kid (TCK) is “a person who has spent a significant part of his or her developmental ...

Bakgrunn. Iskemisk hjertesykdom er i dag den sykdommen som tar flest liv globalt. Høyt kolesterol i serum er den viktigste enkeltrisiko, og sammen med røyking utgjør hyperkolesterolemi ca 60% av all risiko for koronarsykdom. ...