Browsing Institutt for helse og samfunn by Title
Now showing items 1851-1870 of 4616
-
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)Background. Health providers need to know which measures to take and children to prioritize in order to decrease costs associated with head lice infestations. Objective. Our aim was to determine the most important predictors ...
-
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background: Although guidelines for prophylactic human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination recommend two doses for girls ages 9–14 years, several studies have demonstrated similar protection with one dose. Our objective was ...
-
The health and economic impacts of switching from the bivalent to the nonavalent HPV vaccine in Norway: A model-based analysisRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
-
(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 ...
-
Health behaviours and attitudes among women with a previous history of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Mauritius: A qualitative study.Restricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
-
(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 ...
-
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)Background: Little is known about the organization of clinical services for Huntington’s disease (HD). Objective: To describe how health care services are organized and delivered in HD-clinics taking part in or eligible ...
-
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background The increasing complexity and variability in radiology have significantly fueled the need for guidelines. There are many methods for disseminating and implementing guidelines however; and obtaining ...
-
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)Background Priority setting in population health is increasingly based on explicitly formulated values. The Patients Rights Act of the Norwegian tax-based health service guaranties all citizens health care ...
-
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Background: Noninvasive telemonitoring (TM) can be used in heart failure (HF) patients to perform early detection of decompensation at home, prevent unnecessary health care utilization, and decrease health care costs. ...
-
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background: Telehealth seems feasible for use in home-based palliative care (HBPC). It may improve access to health care professionals (HCPs) at patients’ homes, reduce hospital admissions, enhance patients’ feelings of ...
-
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Background Tuberculosis (TB) remains the prime killer disease among infectious diseases. TB control depends on early case detection and treatment in a directly observed treatment short course (DOTS) programme. ...
-
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Introduction The incidence of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is increasingly common in older adults aged ≥65 years, forming a growing public health problem. However, older adults are underrepresented in TBI research. ...
-
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is a great concern, considering all the potential health implications. Use of health care services related to FGM/C by women who have been subjected to ...
-
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion, 2022)Much health communication during the COVID-19 pandemic has been designed to persuade people more than to inform them. For example, messages like “masks save lives” are intended to compel people to wear face masks, not to ...
-
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)Objective: Health complaints attributed to dental amalgam fillings comprise both intraoral and general health complaints. There are data suggesting that patients with medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS) attributed ...
-
Health economic evaluation of Ramucirumab plus Docetaxel in second-line treatment for stage IV non-small lung cancer. A cost-utility analysis in a Norwegian setting.Restricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
-
Health economic evaluation of S-1 for metastatic colorectal cancer An explorative cost-utility analysis in a Norwegian settingRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
-
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Objectives: Through a scoping review, we examine in this survey what ways health equity has been promoted in clinical research informatics with patient implications and especially published in the year of 2021 (and some ...
-
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)In this special issue, we bring together anthropological and historical work that considers successive aspirations towards ‘health for all’: their pasts, their futures, and their diverse meanings and iterations. Across the ...