Background Payment for performance (P4P) strategies, which provide financial incentives to health workers and/or facilities for reaching pre-defined performance targets, can improve healthcare utilisation ...

Background Rett syndrome (RTT) is a neurodevelopmental disorder. In more than 95% of females with classic RTT a pathogenic mutation in MECP2 has been identified. This leaves a small fraction of classic cases ...

I dag står verden overfor store digitaliseringsutfordringer og -muligheter. Så langt har noen digitale plattformer vokst fram og blitt dominerende, slik som Google og Facebook. Disse har etablert mer eller mindre åpne ...

Background Mental disorders often have onset early in life, contribute substantially to the global disease burden, and may interfere with young people’s ability to complete age-relevant tasks in important ...

After the Cold War, the Norwegian Armed Forces was without a job, and a gradual shift turned the Norwegian soldiers away from their initial role-perception of a citizen soldier towards a more professional warrior-role. ...

This ethnographic thesis is based on six months of fieldwork on the island of Ureparapara in 2017. This island is located in the Pacific Ocean and is part of the Banks group, north in Vanuatu. A minimal amount of ethnographic ...

This thesis is a case study of public health innovation in the Oslo and Copenhagen regions. The two cases were chosen because they closely fit the ideal for a most similar systems design, as the Norwegian and Danish societies ...

Morgendagens helseutfordringer kan bare løses dersom norsk helsesektor tilpasser seg endringene som kommer. For å lykkes i omstillingsarbeidet må sektoren preges av evnen til lære og innovere. En arena der mye av dette vil ...