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Health-Related Quality of Life, Subjective Health Complaints, Psychological Distress and Coping in Pakistani Immigrant Women With and Without the Metabolic Syndrome : The InnvaDiab-DEPLAN Study on Pakistani Immigrant Women Living in Oslo, Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010)The increasingly high number of immigrants from South-East Asia with The Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) is an important challenge for the public health sector. Impaired glucose is essential in MetS. The blood glucose concentration ... -
Healthcare Access and Quality Index based on mortality from causes amenable to personal health care in 195 countries and territories, 1990-2015: a novel analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-07)Background: National levels of personal health-care access and quality can be approximated by measuring mortality rates from causes that should not be fatal in the presence of effective medical care (ie, amenable mortality). ... -
Healthcare Challenges and Future Solutions in Dental Practice: Assessing Oral Antibiotic Resistances by Contemporary Point-Of-Care Approaches
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Antibiotic resistance poses a global threat, which is being acknowledged at several levels, including research, clinical implementation, regulation, as well as by the World Health Organization. In the field of oral health, ... -
Healthcare databases in Europe for studying medicine use and safety during pregnancy
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-06)Purpose The aim of this study was to describe a number of electronic healthcare databases in Europe in terms of the population covered, the source of the data captured and the availability of data on key variables required ... -
Healthcare professionals’ perceptions of dignity-preserving care for older home-dwelling women with incurable cancer in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Municipal end-of-life care for older home-dwelling patients with cancer is a complex matter requiring healthcare professionals (HCPs) to recognize gender differences in a social, historical and organizational context. A ... -
Healthcare professionals’ perspectives on mental health service provision: a pilot focus group study in six European countries
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background The mental healthcare treatment gap (mhcGAP) in adult populations has been substantiated across Europe. This study formed part of MentALLY, a research project funded by the European Commission, which aimed to ... -
Healthcare staff perceptions of patient safety culture in nursing home settings - a cross-sectional study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)In nursing homes, knowledge about patient safety culture is still limited. This study investigates staff perceptions of patient safety culture in Norwegian nursing homes, measured with the Nursing Home Survey on Patient ... -
Healthcare utilization and catastrophic health expenditure in rural Tanzania: does voluntary health insurance matter?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background Over 150 million people, mostly from low and middle-income countries (LMICs) suffer from catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) every year because of high out-of-pocket (OOP) payments. In Tanzania, OOP payments ... -
Healthcare workers’ perceptions and experiences of communicating with people over 50 about vaccination: a qualitative evidence synthesis (Protocol)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (qualitative). The objectives are as follows: To explore healthcare workers' perceptions and experiences of communication between themselves and older adults about vaccination. -
Healthcare workers’ perceptions and experiences of communicating with people over 50 years of age about vaccination: a qualitative evidence synthesis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background: Infectious diseases are a major cause of illness and death among older adults. Vaccines can prevent infectious diseases, including against seasonal influenza, pneumococcal diseases, herpes zoster and COVID‐19. ... -
‘Healthism’ and public health in the Norwegian welfare state : A discursive theory of science approach to the translation of public health science and policy into practice
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-02-19)This dissertation employs discourse analytic reading strategies in order to examine lifestyle intervention as knowledge practices realizing public health science and policy in the Norwegian welfare state. It addresses a ... -
Healthy and unhealthy eating after a behaviour change intervention in primary care
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background: To prevent and reduce non-communicable diseases, the Norwegian Directorate of Health encourages Healthy Life Centres (HLCs) in all municipalities. Aims: This study investigates whether the behaviour change ... -
Healthy kidney segmentation in the dce-mr images using a convolutional neural network and temporal signal characteristics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Quantification of renal perfusion based on dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) requires determination of signal intensity time courses in the region of renal parenchyma. Thus, selection of voxels ... -
Healthy Nordic diet and associations with plasma concentrations of metabolites in the choline oxidation pathway: a cross-sectional study from Northern Sweden
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-05-17)Background: The choline oxidation pathway and metabolites involved have been linked to diseases including cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and cancer. A healthy Nordic diet is a recently defined dietary pattern ... -
Hearing as an Independent Predictor of Postural Balance in 1075 Patients Evaluated for Dizziness
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Objective To evaluate the association between hearing and postural balance. Study Design Retrospective cross-sectional study. Setting Tertiary care otolaryngology clinic. Subjects and Methods Patients examined for ... -
Hearing loss in the royal Norwegian navy: a cross-sectional study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-10-07)Objectives Prior studies have indicated a high prevalence of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) among Navy personnel; however, it is not clear whether this is caused by work on board. The present study aimed to assess the ... -
Hearing threshold and physical performance in older people: a cross-sectional study from the HUNT4 cohort
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Purpose: To evaluate the association between increased hearing loss and reduced physical performance in older people. Methods: Cross-sectional population-based study using data from the fourth wave of the Trøndelag Health ... -
The Heart and a Fibrotic Interstitium
(Master thesis, 2009-05-29)Several acute and chronic diseases disposes for myocardial oedema and fibrosis, leading to impaired cardiac function, presumably as a result of an increased chamber stiffness. Mechanisms and adverse effects of both oedema ... -
Heart Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme and Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 Gene Expression Associated With Male Sex and Salt-Sensitive Hypertension in the Dahl Rat
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE 2) in the heart including its sex dependency in the hypertensive heart, has not been much studied compared to ACE. In the present study, we used the Dahl salt-sensitive rat exposed to ...