Blar i Faculty of Medicine på tidsskrift "Scandinavian Journal of Public Health"
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Can subjective well-being and body concern in adolescence predict prescribed medication in adulthood? Findings from the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study and the Norwegian Prescription Database
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Aim: To examine whether subjective well-being (SW) and body concern among adolescents aged 15–19 years has an impact on adult health, measured by medications dispensed on average 18 years later. Methods: Data collected in ... -
Developing and promoting qualitative methods in general practice research: Lessons learnt and strategies convened
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Fifty years ago, qualitative research methods were unknown in medicine. Biomedicine and the positivist paradigm were universal academic standards. In the late 1980s, however, humanist perspectives emerged as substantial ... -
Early screening outcomes among non-immigrants and immigrants targeted by BreastScreen Norway, 2010–2019
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Aims: This study aimed to analyse results on early screening outcomes, including recall and cancer rates, and histopathological tumour characteristics among non-immigrants and immigrants invited to BreastScreen ... -
Evaluating national guidelines for monitoring early growth using routinely collected data in Bergen, Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Aims: The overarching aim of this study was to evaluate the Norwegian guidelines for growth monitoring using routinely collected data from healthy children up to five years of age. We analysed criteria for both status ... -
Forensic autopsies in Norway 1996–2017: A retrospective study of factors associated with deaths undergoing forensic autopsy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Aims: Forensic autopsies are important for the investigation of deaths with a legal or public-health interest, as well as being a source for cause-of-death statistics. The aim of this study was to investigate the use of ... -
Heart failure describing the underlying cause of death – a misconception, lack of information on the true underlying causes or both?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Aim: The underlying cause of death represents the most important information on death certificates. Often, conditions that cannot represent a true underlying cause of death are listed as such. This phenomenon affects the ... -
How the Norwegian population was affected by non-pharmaceutical interventions during the first six weeks of the COVID-19 lockdown
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Aims The aim of this study was to examine how the Norwegian general adult population was affected by non-pharmaceutical interventions during the first six weeks of the COVID-19 lockdown. We assessed quarantine, symptoms, ... -
Ischemic heart failure as a complication of incident acute myocardial infarction: Timing and time trends: A national analysis including 78,814 Danish patients during 2000–2009
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Aim: Heart failure is a serious complication of acute myocardial infarction leading to poor prognosis. We aimed at exploring time trends of heart failure and their impact on mortality among patients with an incident acute ... -
Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic among migrants: An innovative, system-level, interdisciplinary approach is needed to improve public health
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are amplified among socially vulnerable groups, including international migrants, in terms of both disease transmission and outcomes and the consequences of mitigation measures. Migrants ... -
Migration health research in Norway: a scoping review
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Aims: To provide an overview of published research on migration and health conducted in Norway and identify gaps in the research field. Methods: Applying a scoping review methodology, we searched Medline for articles on ... -
Parental income gradients in child and adolescent mortality: Norwegian trends over half a century
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background: Child mortality has declined rapidly over the last century in many high-income countries. However, little is known about the socio-economic differences in this decline and whether these vary across causes of ... -
Patients participating as co-researchers in health research: A systematic review of outcomes and experiences
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Aims: We aimed to map out the scope and type of health research studies with patients involved as co-researchers throughout the research process and to explore the outcomes and experiences of such research. Methods: We ... -
Ten years’ of Healthy Life Centres – research and directions for future work
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The total prevalence of diagnosed diabetes and the quality of diabetes care for the adult population in Salten, Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Objective: To assess the total prevalence of types 1 and 2 diabetes and to describe and compare cardiovascular risk factors, vascular complications and the quality of diabetes care in adults with types 1 and 2 diabetes in ... -
Variation in use of Caesarean section in Norway: An application of spatio-temporal Gaussian random fields
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Aims: Caesarean section (CS) is a medical intervention performed in Norway when a surgical delivery is considered more beneficial than a vaginal. Because deliveries with higher risk are centralized to larger hospitals, ... -
Workplace gender composition and sickness absence: A register-based study from Sweden
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Aims: This study aimed to examine the association between gender composition in the workplace and sickness absence days during a one-year period. Methods The study population was drawn from the Northern Swedish Cohort (wave ... -
Young adults with depression: A registry-based longitudinal study of work-life marginalisation. The Norwegian GP-DEP study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Aims: To explore the association between a depression diagnosis in young adulthood and risk of marginalisation at age 29 years, among those who had completed upper secondary school and those who had not completed at age ...