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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)
Tuberculosis (TB) is a global public health problem. The World Health Organization has developed the End TB Strategy to end the global TB epidemic by 2035. Achieving the End TB targets requires the establishment of efficient ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
This PhD thesis studies induced abortion in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A main finding is that the abortion legislation gives healthcare personnel plenty of scope for their own interpretations. In practice, it is often up to ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)
When allocating scarce medical resources, we strive to do the best we can with the available resources. However, while we aspire to provide as “much health” as possible, we also care about who the beneficiaries are. Severity ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
Relatives of persons with psychotic disorders provide important informal care. Systematic family interventions consistently demonstrate positive patient outcomes, and have also been found significant for the relatives ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)
Social media (SoMe) is a user-friendly, and easy way of communicating through smartphones, and may be a novel way to communicate about local quality of care in busy intensive care units (ICU). The aim of this doctoral ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
Perinatal outcomes are important indicators of maternal and fetal health on a population level, as well as important predictors of later health on an individual level. Although much is known about predictors of perinatal ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
The overall aim of this thesis is to explore how real-world evidence can be used to support priority setting and planning in the cancer care. The thesis includes four published papers in which data from Norwegian health ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)
Scientific evidence suggests that family interventions lead to significantly improved outcomes for persons with psychotic disorders, their relatives, and the public health and welfare services, yet the implementation in ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
In recent years, there has been a growing focus on essential reproductive health commodities, including drugs and supplies for safe motherhood, contraceptives to control fertility and drugs like misoprostol, which has been ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
Humans are exposed to ever-increasing number of synthetic chemicals released into the environment. However, safety regulations often lag behind, and only a small fraction of these chemicals are extensively studied for their ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
Colorectal cancer (CRC) accounts for nearly a million deaths worldwide each year. Endoscopy of the large intestine can reduce CRC incidence and mortality by removing polyps and by detecting CRC at an early stage. Screening ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
Chest pain is a frequent presenting symptom in emergency primary care, challenging due to the lack of sensitive diagnostic tools to exclude an acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The consequent clinical uncertainty contributes ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
Developments in cancer care are characterized by functional and organizational fragmentation resulting in complex structures and processes that still are closely interdependent. We rely on demanding processes of coordination ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)
The Norwegian Agreement on a More Inclusive Working Life (IA Agreement) is an initiative by the Norwegian government and organisations representing employers and employees. The aim of the IA Agreement is to reduce withdrawal ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
Post-stroke fatigue (PSF) is a highly prevalent condition which negatively impacts the lives of stroke survivors. Currently, there is a lack of evidence-based treatments for PSF, and a major barrier to further progress is ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
Background. Patient safety was brought into the forefront of public debate with the groundbreaking report “To Err is Human” (Kohn Lt 1999) calling for quality to be a critical component of high-performing health systems. ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
Women with FGC, particularly those subjected to the most severe type (i.e., infibulation), require specialized healthcare interventions such as deinfibulation, a minor surgical procedure performed to prevent or manage ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
We are learning from high performing professionals why things go right in healthcare. Using a mixed method approach, a combination of six conditions for successful services and improvements were found:
(1) Invisible web ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
I de senere årene har det vært økt fokus på at hjerte/kar-sykdom også rammer kvinner. Globalt er hjerte/kar-sykdom den ledende dødsårsaken blant kvinner. Mange av risikofaktorene for å få slik sykdom er de samme for menn ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)
In many countries, general practitioners (GPs) play a fundamental role in primary healthcare services. Owing to their prominent role in healthcare, the increasing difficulty many Nordic countries experience in recruiting ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
Physical fitness, disease activity and cardiovascular health in patients with ankylosing spondylitis
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
Pasienter med revmatisk inflammatorisk ryggsykdom (spondyloartritt) bør anbefales å trene kondisjon- og styrketrening for å forebygge komorbiditet. Også pasienter som er i en aktiv fase av sykdommen kan trene høyintensivt ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
Strengthening the students’ perception of correlations between different forms of knowledge, education arenas and life spheres is an explicit goal in the education of professionals. However, the education is criticised for ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2021)
In line with international trends, the public healthcare system in Norway is under increasing pressure. The composition of the population is changing and the number of elderly is rising, resulting in a growing need for ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
A total of 420 long-term sick-listed employees were included continuously in a controlled study of the effects of “brief intervention” given as a one-day multidisciplinary intervention. The patients were referred from the ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
Introduction, adoption, and facilitation of standardized care plans in municipal healthcare services
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2021)
To ensure patient safety and continuity of care, nurses need access to accurate and timely information. Standardized care plans (SCPs) were implemented in Norwegian municipalities to improve the quality of the patient ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
Obesity is a major public health challenge and childhood obesity represents a growing threat to health. The aim of this epidemiological PhD project was to describe the current prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)
Medical and clinical psychology students strive to be good professionals. In addition to acquiring academic knowledge and skills, they also need to build affective and inter-personal capacities. Doing so will help them to ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
For approximately six decades, Research Ethics Committees (RECs), also known as Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), have played an integral part in the identification of ethical issues before the commencement of clinical ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
In Norway, the Mental Health Act provides the opportunity to use coercion in the treatment of people with mental disorder. Patients with an outpatient commitment (OC) decisions live in their own homes in the municipality, ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
An increasing number of elderly people are living longer with chronic illnesses. Many need healthcare from different health care professionals at various levels in the health care services. It is known that patient and ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2015)
Frail, older individuals are especially vulnerable in the discharge process due to complex continuing care needs. Patients and informal caregivers frequently experience the discharge planning as fragmented. Informal ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)
Medical students' self-reported empathy has been shown to decline when initiating their clinical years. However, the interactional aspects of students' empathy have received sparse attention.
The aims of this thesis were ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2015)
Sexually transmitted infections (STI) represent a high global burden in mortality and morbidity. Evidence from a number of countries suggests worrisome increases of STI among men who have sex with men (MSM). Sex between ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
Introduction
Universal health coverage (UHC) aims to provide all people with access to needed healthcare without financial hardship. Many Low- and Middle-Income Countries, including The Gambia, explore innovative financing ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
Introduction: Ethical challenges arise daily in the municipal health service. These challenges can be addressed systematically, and ethics committees can play a vital role to facilitate such discussions. The purpose of ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
People with disabilities are less active than people without disabilities.
- Can access to a “tailored” tricycle lead to increased mastery and cycling activity and general activity level?
- Can specific tests predict ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)
Pain after orthopedic surgery is a considerable clinical problem. There is a lack of knowledge on acute pain trajectories, as well as how psychological, clinical, surgical, and lifestyle risk factors may be related to ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)
The PhD project Sexual Health and Burden of Late Effects in Long-Term Breast Cancer Survivors demonstrates that younger breast cancer survivors and those treated with intensive systemic therapies are at increased risk of ...