Browsing Institutt for helse og samfunn by Title
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)This thesis aimed at exploring means of integrating surveillance systems for disease and outbreak in Sudan; visiting both the national and the capital state, with emphasis on both the facility based statistics or Health ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background: Health literacy (HL) – the ability to seek, understand and utilize health information – is important for good health. Suboptimal HL has been associated with poorer health outcomes in other chronic conditions, ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Objectives Health literacy (HL) related to musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in adolescents is a field with limited previous evidence. This study aimed to review and synthesise studies on MSDs and HL as well as various ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background Low health literacy is associated with worse pain and poorer self-management. This study (1) examined the level of health literacy and associations with lifestyle habits, health status, chronic ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background Health literacy (HL) is a multidimensional concept with significance for self‐management and health outcomes in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD); however, research with a multidimensional perspective ...
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(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 ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)Since the expansion of the EU and the European economic crisis in the late-2000s, there has been a marked increase in the presence of migrating street-workers from Romania in Norway. Non-governmental organisations have ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Objective To compare health outcomes following initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for asymptomatic HIV-infected pregnant women at different CD4 levels. Methods We analyzed data from 706 asymptomatic HIV-infected ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)Background: Cost containment is a major policy challenge and one of the key drivers of health care reform. In this article, we focus on the role cost control has played as a reform driver in the Norwegian hospital sector ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)Background: Persons without legal residency have limited rights and access to health services. This can create health problems or worsen conditions they have. The Health Center for Undocumented Migrants in opened in 2009, ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)Myasthenia Gravis is a chronic autoimmune disease that causes weakness in the skeletal muscles. It is a rare disease with a relatively small amount of knowledge about the patients’ quality of life. The objective of this ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)β-thalassemia constitutes a major public health problem in the UAE and shows one of the highest carrier frequencies of β-thalassemia in the Gulf region. In spite of the advances in thalassemia treatment and increased ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background Huntington’s disease (HD) is a progressive genetic neurodegenerative disease accompanied by mental and neurocognitive disabilities, which requires long-term and comprehensive treatment and care. ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background Epilepsy is a public health issue in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where many people with the condition receive no treatment. Health-care services for epilepsy in this region have not been comprehensively assessed. ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Drawing on qualitative research in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, this article explores how men who engage in sex with other men perceive their interactions with healthcare providers, and how they would prefer healthcare services ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)BACKGROUND: Migration, for various reasons, continues to increase the immigrant population of Norway. Few studies compare adolescent ethnic Norwegians (EN) with adolescent immigrants for their health status and health ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)With increased utilization of digital technologies in the healthcare sector, the thesis follows current trends and compares the use of telehealth and in-person treatment. A traditional approach to health technology assessment ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)The founding disciplines of HTA are clearly scientific, and have been firmly based among the natural sciences. However, common definitions of HTA indicate that HTA is something more than the “pure application of science”. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)