Blar i Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care på tittel
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Intra-tester reliability of the Resource Oriented Assessment of Movement (ROAM) applied in healthy young adolescents
(Master thesis, 2009-05-25)Background and purpose: With the knowledge of the Norwegian Global Physiotherapy Examination (GPE) method, an examination method based on psychosomatic physiotherapy with tests related to general aspects of respiration, ... -
Intrauterine foetal and child growth in the context of Ethiopian Health system: Implications for Prenatal care : Intrauterine foetal growth and child linear growth in Ethiopia
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-03-09)Fostervekst og vekst hos små barn på den etiopiske landsbygd. Etiopia er fortsatt et av verdens fattigste land, og bruken av helsetjenester er lav. Mødre dødeligheten er også høy. Og, mange barn har både akutt og kronisk ... -
Intrauterine growth patterns in rural Ethiopia compared with WHO and INTERGROWTH-21st growth standards: A community-based longitudinal study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Introduction Children’s well-being is highly influenced by their fetal growth. Adequate intrauterine growth (IUG) is a basic feature of a healthy pregnancy. The aim of our study was to assess IUG patterns in a rural and ... -
Introducing debate as a pedagogical tool in pharmacy education
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Communication skills are crucial for pharmacists’ role in counselling and providing information to patients, other healthcare practitioners, and the community. This study explores the implementation of debate as a pedagogical ... -
Introducing post-discharge malaria chemoprevention (PMC) for management of severe anemia in Malawian children: a qualitative study of community health workers’ perceptions and motivation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-12-19)Severe malarial anaemia is one of the leading causes of paediatric hospital admissions in Malawi. Post-discharge malaria chemoprevention (PMC) is the intermittent administration of full treatment courses of antimalarial ... -
Introduction of birth dose of hepatitis B virus vaccine to the immunization program in Ethiopia: An economic evaluation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is an important cause of morbidity and mortality with a very high burden in Africa. The risk of developing chronic infection is marked if the infection is acquired perinatally, ... -
The Inverse Association of Body Mass Index with Lung Cancer: Exploring Residual Confounding, Metabolic Aberrations and Within-Person Variability in Smoking
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background: The inverse observational association between body mass index (BMI) and lung cancer risk remains unclear. We assessed whether the association is explained by metabolic aberrations, residual confounding, and ... -
Investigating trends in HIV transmission and risk factors in Zambia
(Doctoral thesis, 2008-04-25)The objective of HIV surveillance is to document trends in HIV prevalence and transmission risk in order to make informed policies and to guide prevention and care/treatment programmes. Zambia established a comprehensive ... -
Investigation of mechanisms leading to early aseptic loosening of hip prostheses. A retrieval study of 27 failed cases of cemented Spectron EF stem in combination with Reflection acetabular cup
(Master thesis, 2016-05-18)Background: More than 1 million people with arthroplasties undergo total hip arthroplasty (THA) surgery every year worldwide. In Norway more than 10 % of the THA cases needed revision operations due to aseptic loosening. ... -
Involvement in emergency situations by primary care doctors on-call in Norway - a prospective population-based observational study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010-03-06)Background: Primary care doctors on-call in the emergency primary health care services in Norway are, together with the ambulances, the primary resources for handling emergencies outside hospitals. There is a lack of ... -
Involvement of the Private Retail Pharmacies in Pakistan Tuberculosis Control
(Master thesis, 2015-11-29)Tuberculosis is the second leading cause of death globally from a contagious disease. Pakistan is at 4th position among the twenty two high TB burden countries. National tuberculosis control programme (NTP) Pakistan has ... -
Involving people with diabetes and the wider community in diabetes research: a realist review protocol
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-11-04)Background: Patient and public involvement in diabetes research is now actively encouraged in different countries because it is believed that involving people with experience of the condition will improve the quality and ... -
Iodine concentration in breastmilk and urine among lactating women of Bhaktapur, Nepal
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-04-28)Adequate iodine concentration in breastmilk (BMIC) is essential for optimal neonatal thyroid hormone synthesis and neurological development in breastfed infants. For many decades, iodine deficiency has been a public health ... -
Iodine in Early Life : A cross-sectional study of children 0–2 years of age and their mothers in Norway
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-06-10)Bakgrunn: Jod trengs for produksjonen av tyreoideahormoner, som er viktige for metabolismen og for normal vekst og utvikling av hjernen og nervesystemet. Både for mye og for lite jod kan medføre endringer i produksjonen ... -
Iodine Nutrition and Iodine Supplement Initiation in Association with Thyroid Function in Mildly-to-Moderately Iodine-Deficient Pregnant and Postpartum Women
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background: Whereas the adverse effects of severe iodine deficiency during pregnancy are well documented, the effects of mild-to-moderate deficiency are not well established. Objectives: We aimed to explore whether ... -
Iodine Nutrition in Children ≤2 years of Age in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background As a component of the thyroid hormones (THs), iodine is vital for normal neurodevelopment during early life. However, both deficient and excess iodine may affect TH production, and data on iodine status in ... -
IP-10 dried blood spots assay monitoring treatment efficacy in extrapulmonary tuberculosis in a low-resource setting
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-03-07)Treatment efficacy is difficult to evaluate in extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) patients. Interferon-γ inducible protein (IP-)10 has been suggested as a biomarker for response to treatment. We have investigated if IP-10 ... -
IPLOS-registrering mellom statlige styringsidealer og lokale realiteter, hvordan varierer praksis i kartlegging av omsorgsbehov? Kvalitativ intervjuundersøkelse med IPLOS-kontakter i ni kommuner i Vest-Agder
(Master thesis, 2011-11-10)Background: IPLOS (individual-based care and care statistics) are part of health personnel documentation required for care and services to users who seek or receive local care services. National Target by introducing IPLOS ... -
Iron deficiency anemia among children aged 2–5 years in southern Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background: Iron-deficiency anemia (IDA) is a common type of nutritional anemia in low-income countries, including Ethiopia. However, there is limited data on iron deficiency anemia prevalence and associated factors in ... -
Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Neuroimaging-based Biomarkers
(Master thesis, 2020-09-01)