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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
This thesis is investigating if the risk of childhood leukemia and cancer in the central nervous system (CNS) increases in relation to high levels of indoor radon concentrations at home or low parental socioeconomic status. ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2013)
Background: To be able to treat the patient with hand osteoarthritis (HOA) efficiently health professionals are dependent on information regarding patient experiences, clinical experience and research- based evidence. ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
Provision of equitable health care to migrants presents challenge to most health care systems, including the Norwegian health care system. However, access to and utilization of healthcare may not be the same across population ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
In this population-based study, we linked different Norwegian health registries (the Medical Birth Registry, the Cause of Death Registry, the Education Registry) and health surveys (County study, Age 40 Program, CONOR) to ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2013)
Diabetes mellitus places a considerable burden on patients in terms of morbidity and mortality and on society in terms of costs. The number of individuals with diabetes is estimated at 160 000 in Norway, 170 mill globally. ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
This thesis investigates two aspects of health in older ages, namely functional limitations and disability, and the influence of educational level on mortality and life expectancy.
Functional limitations and mild ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
Purpose. The overall aim of this thesis was to examine recovery of physical functioning in patients with hip osteoarthritis (OA) during the first year after total hip arthroplasty (THA). The specific aims were 1) to examine ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), and metabolic syndrome (MS) are related to reduced life expectancy, increased disability and significant socioeconomic burden. Data from Brazil for the related ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2013)
Denne avhandlingens hensikt er å undersøke makt i omsorgsrelasjoner, her kalt omsorgsmakt. Empiri fra norsk eldreomsorg belyses med teoretiske perspektiver på makt hentet fra den franske filosofen og historikeren Michel ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2012)
Støveksponering i norsk silisiumkarbidindustri gir lungesykdom
Gjennom epidemiologiske undersøkelser blant ansatte i norsk silisiumkarbid(SiC-)industri er det påvist økt forekomst av obstruktiv lungesykdom (KOLS) og ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
Good communication about vaccination is key to increasing children’s vaccine uptake. However, governments rarely give communication strategies sufficient attention or design them systematically. Using qualitative approaches, ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2012)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2012)
Low back pain (LBP) continues to be a major health problem causing personal suffering 4 and enormous socioeconomic costs 5-7. Most of the patients suffer from nonspecific LBP (NSLBP) 8-10, defined as not attributable to a ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2010)
Public health discussions of physical activity’s positive health effects have tended to focus on physical health benefits rather than mental health benefits. Mental health problems are a worldwide public health burden. ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2010)
Background<br>
Drugs for mental disorders have been on the market for more than 50 years, but there is still a need for more knowledge about the use and impact of these drugs in real-life conditions. Appropriate use of ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2010)
Proteiner som kan øke risikoen for hjerte-karsykdom
Lege og forsker Lars Henrik Høie og kollegaer på universitetssykehus i Norden og Tyskland har meget overraskende funnet at proteiner som er fremstilt med høy varme ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2007)
Our findings demonstrate that in addition to the “classic” and expected associations between the physical work requirement and health among unskilled women, significant associations existed between health and the psychosocial ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2008)
Infections transmitted by water continue to be a public health problem both in developing and in developed countries. In the developed countries, the classical waterborne diseases such as typhoid and cholera are almost ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2012)
Aims: The purpose of the study was to identify the extent of metabolic syndrome on the basis of ATP III and IDF definition in subjects aged 25 years and above from an urban population of Karachi. Also to see the association ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2009)
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are a major health problem in many parts of the developing world. STIs cause substantial morbidity and mortality, which disproportionately affect women. Because many of the complications ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2010)
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease which causes about two million deaths each year. In 1993, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared TB to be a “Global Emergency” due to an increasing number of TB cases and a ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2011)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2009)
We showed that a well established epidemic in rural Bangladesh represented a low rate of recent transmission. A majority of the strains belonged to the ancient East African- Indian (EAI) lineage (Paper I). <br>
Our study ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2013)
Background: Shoulder pain is a common cause of disability and lost work days. Rotator cuff disease, impingement syndrome or subacromial pain are similar labels used to describe the most common shoulder diagnosis. Similar ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2013)
Widespread use of antibiotics leads to development of antimicrobial resistance, an increasing threat to health worldwide. The strategy of delayed antibiotic prescribing reduces antibiotics use for respiratory tract infections ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
Home health care is increasingly preferred as the setting for care for older people who depend on daily and long-term care. During a long-term care trajectory in a context where home health care is a 24-hour service with ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
In this thesis we aimed to evaluate the method and the efficacy of acupuncture treatments for infantile colic.
We did a pilot study and then carried out a multi-centre randomised controlled trial. We did a systematic ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
Financial incentives in the health care sector are one important tool that has been employed to achieve objectives such as better access to- and efficient use of resources. However, in order to effectively use financial ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2011)
Det er lovpålagt for helsepersonell å sjekke om pasienter har forstått informasjonen, men det sies ikke noe om hvordan dette skal gjøres. I avhandlingen ”Hvis det fødes et sykt barn, hva tror du det skyldes?” En ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
The aim of this thesis was to investigate mHealth for diabetes self-management. A three-armed randomized controlled trial for persons with type 2 diabetes evaluated a mobile diabetes diary app with or without health ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
Aim
The aim of this longitudinal epidemiological study was to investigate possible associations between occupational exposure, respiratory symptoms and change in lung function among employees at a mineral fertiliser ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
In Norway, cervical cancer is the third most common cancer among mid-adult women who are in their productive social and working years. This is despite substantial reductions in cervical cancer incidence following more than ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2013)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
Background: EHR challenges to redesign health delivery systems in order to contribute to health care delivery that is safe, patient-centered, timely, efficient and equitable. The purpose of this work is to investigate one ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
Background
Suffering a stroke in the age span between 18-67 years means being threatened by a serious illness during a productive phase of life. During this phase, people usually focus on education, launching a career ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
Peer-led breastfeeding education and support provided during the antenatal and postnatal periods are known to improve optimal breastfeeding practices; however, there is a paucity of evidence on the effectiveness of such ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2011)
Psychiatric disorders and a history of suicide attempts are the best known risk factors for suicide. Thus, major changes in mental health services and interventions aimed at patients who have attempted suicide might affect ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2013)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
The thesis aimed to explore how respiratory tract infections are assessed and handled in out-of-hours clinics by telephone triage nurses and doctors and to assess the effect of an educational intervention for telephone ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
Background Sick leave rates in Norway and in the Western world in general are quite high, and despite the identification of a wide array of risk factors, much of the individual variation in sick leave remains unexplained. ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2015)
This study is about discourses on professional responsibility in the field of health and social services. More specifically it explores the ideal of addressing patients and clients as whole persons by examining how central ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
Norway has one of the highest rates of colorectal cancer (CRC) in the world. Cancer treatment causes distressing side effects, and patients with CRC can experience severe and distressing symptoms due to the disease and the ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2013)
The present study was based on self-reported data on health and work-related topics from The Oslo Health Study (HUBRO), linked to several Norwegian registries based on the unique personal identification number. The study ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2010)
Background<br>
Lack of knowledge about the occurrence of work-related health problems in the general population makes it difficult to estimate the potential for their prevention in the workplace. The impact of working ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2013)
This thesis stems from a wish to better understand human illness and patient care and the connection between them in medicine. A main assumption in the thesis is that the understanding of both patient and physician in ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2013)
Clinical practice guidelines are widely seen as important quality improvement tools that can contribute to evidence-based clinical practices. This thesis explores key processes aimed at improving neonatal care practices ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2010)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
Health literacy (HL) can be understood as personal and social abilities required to find, understand and use information to make informed decisions about health. There has been a lack of knowledge about how kidney transplant ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
Although anxiety and anxiety symptoms are common in older people with dementia, anxiety often goes unidentified by health care personnel due to overlapping symptoms with dementia and depression. A lack of validated, ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2012)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
This study focuses on the introduction of a nurse practitioner role, called advanced geriatric nurse (AGN) into the Norwegian healthcare system. The overall aim was to investigate the role of AGNs, what AGNs and their ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2013)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2013)
Background: Renal recipients’ knowledge about post-transplant aspects is essential in terms of coping with short-term problems posed by transplantation and the long-term outcome. This requires patient education programs ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2013)
Neisseria meningitidis (Nm), also referred to as meningococcus, is a human commensal colonising the oropharynx, transmittable by close contact between healthy people. The bacterium can act as an opportunistic pathogen and ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2013)
Background: The nutritional and weight status of the mother influences not only her own health and foetal growth, but also the offspring’s future risk of diet-related chronic diseases. Given the rise in the proportion of ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
Day care is assumed to play an important role in dementia care and is highlighted as an important service for home-dwelling persons with dementia. The aim of the day care is to provide attendees with activities, stimulation, ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
Based on fieldwork among Kurdish-Norwegians, Ingvild Bergom Lunde’s doctoral thesis shows how condemnation and silence are central in how research participants relate to female genital cutting (FGC). The stigma associated ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2009)
Omfanget av klinisk forskning i fysioterapi øker, men det har vært lite fokus på prosjekter som beskriver praksis, og som vurderer praksis i forhold til eksisterende forskningsbasert kunnskap eller faglige retningslinjer. ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
This PhD thesis indicates that immigrants in Oslo, including both immigrants and Norwegian-born with immigrant parents, utilize the walk-in services at the Oslo Accident and Emergency Outpatient clinic (OAEOC ) more than ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
Professional boundaries are necessary to establish and maintain therapeutic relationships between patients and healthcare professionals. The purpose of the study was to explore nurses’ perceptions of and experiences with ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2020)
Equal access to quality health care services, efficient resource use and cost containment are Norway’s health care policy objectives. To reach these goals, policymakers use financial incentives and organizational structures. ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
Many financial, organizational, regulatory, ethical and societal challenges may hinder or delay the provision of personalized medicine (PM) to people.
PM aims to adapt prevention, diagnosis and treatment to the molecular ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2011)
Flått (Ixodidae) er viktige sykdomsvektorer for dyr og mennesker. I rike, tempererte land er det de humanmedisinske aspektene som har mest oppmerksomhet, men i tropiske og subtropiske land har flåttbårne sykdommer enorme ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
Background. Two undeniable challenges facing modern medicine are the increasing problems of antimicrobial resistance and the lack of new antibiotics to combat infections. Alone these problems are serious, but the synergy ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
Surgical site infections (SSIs) constitute about one quarter of all healthcareassociated infections in Norway and are associated with a substantial cost for hospitals, patients and the community. Surveillance with feedback ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
Background
Armed conflict has been described as creating a public health problem and an important contributor to the social and political determinants of health and a driver of poverty and health inequity. Of the armed ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2010)
Hensikten med denne avhandlingen er å frembringe kunnskap om de erfaringer kvinner har gjort når den rutinemessige ultralydundersøkelsen viser noe unormalt med fosteret. Den visuelle fremstillingen av fosteret i mors liv ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
Neck pain is very common and costly to both society and individuals. Knowing how neck pain progresses over time could improve our understanding as well as aid in pain management. Although prognosis is mostly favorable in ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2010)
Pelvic girdle pain (PGP) is frequently reported in pregnancy and impacts the women’s activity level. Both prevalence and severity of PGP is uncertain. Most women recover after delivery, but a considerable number develop ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2009)
Background: The Lønning II white paper asks for more knowledge on clinical priorities in different areas of health care. This in particular goes for resources used in intensive care units. Thanks to improvements in medical ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2011)
Today the practice of most medical disciplines is almost unrecognisable without modern radiology. Imaging technology is fascinating, is developing rapidly, and is without doubt beneficial, but there are also concerns about ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2015)
Background: The number of people with cognitive impairment and dementia is increasing worldwide. This development will put considerable strain on health services, and it will be increasingly important to help people with ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
This thesis is concerned with knowledge translation in participatory research. The background for the thesis is the concerted efforts within medicine and health care to promote uptake of research-based knowledge in practice, ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2015)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
This project aimed to assess the associations between various hearing disorders in childhood and hearing loss, tinnitus and dizziness in adulthood. Especially, we examined childhood otitis media and childhood sensorineural ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2015)
The effectiveness of biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been documented in randomized controlled clinical trials (RCTs). The medical costs of using ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2015)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2015)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
Approximately 70–80% of all persons who live in nursing homes have dementia. Enhancing communication and interactions that promote mutuality, dignity, and respect can be challenging because of the residents’ decreased ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2015)
Background: Musculoskeletal pain is prevalent both in adolescents and in the general working population. The neck and shoulder region is most commonly affected. Mechanical workload such as work in awkward postures, sustained ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2015)
Background: Spiritual care is included in nurses’ holistic care. Descriptions of spirituality in research highlight humans search for the sacred, experiences of self-transcendence and connectedness (to self, to others and ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2015)
Communication between health care providers is essential for the safe delivery of care to patients. The health care service is fragmented and the tools designed to support communication between health care providers has ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
The aim of this thesis is to increase the understanding of how we can use health registry data in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) research and provide knowledge on the epidemiology and treatment of IBD in Norway. IBD ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
Background: About 10% of the Norwegian population between 18 and 67 years of age receive disability insurance. Norwegian general practitioners (GPs) are required to act as experts in matters relating to disability insurance ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
In her thesis Dignity and indignity experienced by immigrant women on long-term sick leave, Line Nortvedt has studied immigrant women with chronic pain during a rehabilitation period. The main aim of the study was to explore ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
Amyotrofisk lateral sklerose (ALS) er en sykdom som fører til gradvis muskelsvinn. Forventet levetid varierer mellom 2 til 5 år, men enkelte kan leve betydelig lengre. Det er ingen kjent kur. Avhandlingen følger ALS gjennom ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
The study objectives were to (a) describe steps and moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity (MVPA) from pregnancy and postpartum across ethnic groups, (b) test prognostic factors for early identification of pregnant ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2012)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
Patients with Huntington’s disease (HD) need tailored multidisciplinary healthcare to maintain and optimize function and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The aims of this thesis were to describe the levels and ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the only disease whose ageadjusted mortality continues to increase. The disease trajectory for the patients involves years of chronic illness, interrupted with ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2010)
Quality of life (QoL) assessment is an important aspect of nursing care. With increased older adult longevity, nurses are attending to lifestyles issues that accompany the QoL of both healthy and sick adults. Though the ...