Browsing Department of Health Promotion and Development by Title
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A qualitative study of adolescent girls’ experiences of menarche and menstruation in rural Tamil Nadu, India
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background: In low- and middle-income countries, women and girls experience menstrual hygiene management-related health and social challenges such as urinary tract infections, social stigma, and school and workplace ... -
A Qualitative Study of Collaboration between Principals, Teachers and the Parents of Children with special needs
(Master thesis, 2014-05-20)Purpose: The purpose of this study was to contribute to an optimal educational situation for children with special needs, by setting focus on facilitating and inhibiting factors in the collaboration between the home and ... -
A qualitative study on the experiences of southern European immigrant parents navigating the Norwegian healthcare system
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-01-21)Background Patients’ experiences with health providers and their diagnostic and treatment expectations are shaped by cultural health beliefs and previous experiences with healthcare services in home country. This study ... -
Råd og veiledning som tiltak i barnevernet
(Master thesis, 2017-06-27)Råd og veiledning er det hjelpetiltaket barneverntjenestene i Norge oftest benytter. Formålet med denne studien har vært undersøke hvordan tiltaket råd og veiledning begrunnes av barnevernstjenestene, hva som er formålet, ... -
Reaching the hard to reach: longitudinal investigation of adolescents' attendance at an after-school sexual and reproductive health programme in Western Cape, South Africa
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-07-04)Background: Adolescents need access to effective sexual and reproductive health (SRH) interventions, but face barriers accessing them through traditional health systems. School-based approaches might provide accessible, ... -
Recovery at the Clubhouse: challenge, responsibility and growing into a role
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Purpose: To explore how people with mental illness experience recovery in the Clubhouse context, and which ingredients of the model they find active in promoting recovery. Methods: Hermeneutic–phenomenological design. ... -
Reducing Inequality through Social Policies - The Case of the "Bolsa Família" Program: A Social Determinants View
(Master thesis, 2018-12-19)Background: In the past thirty years, poverty has been reduced significantly; however, its eradication is still a global challenge. Efforts have been made in the international context to tackle poverty and inequality. ... -
Reducing maternal deaths in Ethiopia: Results of an intervention programme in Southwest Ethiopia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-01-03)Background: In a large population in Southwest Ethiopia (population 700,000), we carried out a complex set of interventions with the aim of reducing maternal mortality. This study evaluated the effects of several coordinated ... -
Reduction in sick leave by a workplace educational low back pain intervention: A cluster randomized controlled trial
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-06-15)Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate whether a workplace educational low back pain intervention had an effect on sick leave at the individual level and to identify possible predictors of the effect of intervention. ... -
Refugees and social media in a digital society: how young refugees are using social media and the capabilities it offers in their lives in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The proliferation of social media-based initiatives aimed at asylum seekers and refugees in recent years is evidence of growing interest in the potential of social media for delivering interventions and messages to refugee ... -
Rehabilitering og medverknad i eit helsefremmande perspektiv. Ei kasus studie med ni pasientar i to ulike rehabiliteringsopplegg.
(Master thesis, 2010-06-04)Purpose: To measure the status and change of performance of Activities of daily living (ADL) in stroke patients receiving home-based rehabilitation (HR) compared to patients receiving hospital-based rehabilitation (Usual ... -
Relations between job insecurity and job satisfaction, subjective health complaints, and organizational attitudes among industrial workers in Norway
(Master thesis, 2004)In order to stay vital and competitive in a changing labour market, organizations engage in various adaptive strategies such as downsizing and mergers. Adaptation strategies may vary but they all have one ting in common; ... -
Reliability of demographic and socioeconomic variables in predicting early initiation of breastfeeding: a replication analysis using the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey data
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-06-17)Objectives Examine the reliability of sociodemographic variables in predicting initiation of breastfeeding within an hour of birth (EarlyBF), using data from 1998, 2003 and 2008–2009. Study design A replication ... -
Resiliens hos unge i fosterhjem
(Master thesis, 2021-05-20)Barn og unge i fosterhjem blir ofte sett på som en spesielt sårbar gruppe, da mange har blitt utsatt for overgrep, mishandling eller omsorgssvikt. Unge i fosterhjem har høye forekomster av psykiske lidelser og mange står ... -
Resources for Thriving among Female porters in Accra. A Qualitative study of Migrants from Northern Ghana to Greater Accra Region. A Salutogenic Approach
(Master thesis, 2012-05-19)Migration of people has become a common economic activity that individuals depend on to improve their status. Women in the Northern part of Ghana have found migration and working as female porters in the Greater Accra ... -
Resources in raising a child with autism in Ethiopia: parents' perspectives
(Master thesis, 2016-05-20)Background: This thesis contributes to the topic of autism in an African context by studying the experiences of parents raising a child with autism in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The majority of publications that focus on autism ... -
Results-Based Financing (RBF) in the health sector of a low-income country. From agenda setting to implementation: The case of Tanzania
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-10-28)Background: During the last decade there has been growing concern about lack of results in the health sector of many low-income countries. Prompted by a need to achieve progress, Results-Based Financing (RBF) has become ... -
Returning disability pensioners with back pain to work
(Doctoral thesis, 2007-03-15)The main purpose of this thesis was to investigate whether a group of disability pensioners with back pain would have a potential for a successful return to work. Perceived barriers against work, physical and mental ... -
The Role of "Islamic feminism" in Somali Immigrant Women's Intra-and Extra-Household Bargaining Power and in Mitigating the Negative Effects of the Image Problem in their Integration in Norway
(Master thesis, 2013-05-31)This research explores the aspirations and life experiences of Somali immigrant women in Bergen as they embark on gender-tuned interpretation of the Quran as a source of bargaining power within the household and in the ... -
The role of community conversations in facilitating local HIV competence: case study from rural Zimbabwe
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-04-17)Background: This paper examines the potential for community conversations to strengthen positive responses to HIV in resource-poor environments. Community conversations are an intervention method through which local people ...