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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2006)
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An increasing proportion of immigrants to Western countries in the past decade are from war affected countries. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of war experience among ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2006)
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Knowledge of how work demands vary between different practice areas could give us a better understanding of the factors that influence the working conditions in the health services, and could ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2006)
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The aim of this study was to assess the incidence of sickness absence with psychiatric diagnoses from 1994–2000, and the distribution across gender, age groups, diagnostic groups and regions in ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2006)
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Measles remains a major public health problem in Mozambique despite significant efforts to control the disease. Currently, health authorities base their outbreak control on data from the routine ...
Inequalities in health: a comparative study between ethnic Norwegians and Pakistanis in Oslo, Norway
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2006)
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The objective of the study was to observe the inequality in health from the perspective of socio-economic factors in relation to ethnic Pakistanis and ethnic Norwegians in Oslo, Norway.
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2006)
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Congenital syphilis is recognized as a substantial public health problem in Sub-Saharan Africa. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of syphilis among antenatal care attendees ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2006)
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To explore what domains of work are important for job satisfaction among doctors, nurses and auxiliaries and to discuss differences between professional groups in the perspective of micro team ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2006)
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In an elderly, community based population we aimed at investigating antihypertensive and lipid lowering medication use in relation to own and familiar cardiovascular morbidity and diabetes mellitus, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2006)
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In the Norwegian context, higher mental distress has been reported for the non-Western immigrants compared to the ethnic Norwegians and Western immigrants. This high level of distress is often ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2006)
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Delay in start of tuberculosis (TB) treatment has an impact at both the individual level, by increasing the risk of morbidity and mortality, and at the community level, by increasing the risk of ...