Blar i Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care på tittel
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Neurological symptoms among dental assistants: a cross-sectional study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008-05-18)Background Dental assistants help the dentist in preparing material for filling teeth. Amalgam was the filling material mostly commonly used in Norway before 1980, and declined to about 5% of all fillings in 2005. Amalgam ... -
Neurology in Africa: Clinical Skills and Neurological Disorders
(Book, 2012)Neurology in Africa is a new textbook on neurological disorders in Sub-Saharan Africa where they are a common cause of death and disability. The author has spent many years working as physician and neurologist in Tanzania. ... -
Nevrodynamiske tester ved patellofemorale smerter
(Master thesis, 2010-11-01)Background: Patellofemoral pain syndrom (PFPS) is a common musculoskeletal disorder which can develop to a chronic problem. There is no consensus in medical literature concerning the etiology of PFPS. Recent studies indicate ... -
A new approach to chromosome-wide analysis of X-linked markers identifies new associations in Asian and European case-parent triads of orofacial clefts
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-09-06)Background: GWAS discoveries on the X-chromosome are underrepresented in the literature primarily because the analytical tools that have been applied were originally designed for autosomal markers. Our objective here is ... -
New approaches to ranking countries for the allocation of development assistance for health: Choices, indicators and implications
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-02)The distributions of income and health within and across countries are changing. This challenges the way donors allocate development assistance for health (DAH) and particularly the role of gross national income per capita ... -
New knowledge on the impact of sleep disturbances illustrates the urgent need to address sleep problems in nursing home residents
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A new pathway for elective surgery to reduce cancellation rates
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012-06-11)Background: The cancellation of planned surgeries causes prolonged wait times, harm to patients, and is a waste of scarce resources. To reduce high cancellation rates in a Norwegian general hospital, the pathway for elective ... -
New quality regulations versus established nursing home practice: a qualitative study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012-06-07)Background: Western governments have initiated reforms to improve the quality of care for nursing home residents. Most of these reforms encompass the use of regulations and national quality indicators. In the Norwegian ... -
New strides towards fair processes for financing universal health coverage
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Fair processes in health financing decisions should not be undervalued or perceived as secondary to the goals of universal health coverage. By integrating fair-process principles and criteria into health financing decisions, ... -
Newborn Care Practices in Northern Uganda : Studies on breastfeeding, decision-making and hypothermia
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-02-13)Background: Early initiation and exclusive breastfeeding reduce neonatal morbidity and mortality. One of the key mechanisms through which optimal breastfeeding reduces neonatal mortality is by reducing neonatal hypothermia. ... -
Newborn health benefits or financial risk protection? An ethical analysis of a real-life dilemma in a setting without universal health coverage
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Introduction: High healthcare costs make illness precarious for both patients and their families’ economic situation. Despite the recent focus on the interconnection between health and financial risk at the systemic level, ... -
Night shift work, chemical coexposures and risk of female breast cancer in the Norwegian Offshore Petroleum Workers (NOPW) cohort: a prospectively recruited case-cohort study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Objectives This study examined the association between night shift work and risk of breast cancer, overall and by hormone receptor subtype, among females in the Norwegian Offshore Petroleum Workers (NOPW) cohort. We also ... -
Nightmares in People with COVID-19: Did Coronavirus Infect Our Dreams?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Introduction: A growing number of studies have demonstrated that the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic has severely affected sleep and dream activity in healthy people. To date, no investigation has examined dream ... -
Nile Issues: Small Streams from the Nile Basin Research Programme
(Book, 2010)This popular book presents some of the results from the Nile Basin Research Programme. The Nile Basin region faces huge challenges in the future. The ways the Nile issues are solved will have enduring consequences for the ... -
Nine-fold higher risk of acute myocardial infarction in subjects with type 1 diabetes compared to controls in Norway 1973–2017
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background We aimed to study the cumulative incidence and risk factors (sex, age, calendar year of diabetes onset, country of origin and educational level) of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in subjects with type 1 ... -
No association between osteoporosis and AO classification of distal radius fractures: an observational study of 289 patients
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-12)Background: It is mechanically plausible that osteoporosis leads to more severe peripheral fractures, but studies investigating associations between BMD and radiographically verified complexity of distal radius fractures ... -
No cry at birth : Neonatal resuscitation in low-resource settings: role of the laryngeal mask airway
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-03-27)Background: Approximately 2.5 million newborn infants died in the first month of life in 2019, despite the global rate being halved since 1990. The current newborn mortality rate in Sub-Saharan Africa is > 20 times higher ... -
No effect of a self-help book for insomnia in patients with obstructive sleep apnea and comorbid chronic insomnia – a randomized controlled trial.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-11-29)Objective: To compare the effects of a self-help book for insomnia to that of sleep hygiene advice in a randomized controlled trial with follow-up after about 3 months among patients who were diagnosed with obstructive ... -
'No sister, the breast alone is not enough for my baby'. A qualitative assessment of potentials and barriers in the promotion of exclusive breastfeeding in southern Zambia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008-11-05)Background: Appropriate feeding practices are of fundamental importance for the survival, growth, development and health of infants and young children. The aim of the present study was to collect baseline information on ... -
Non-ionizing fields in sight - a possible influence on male fertility?
(Doctoral thesis, 2013-03-18)Background. Our society is increasingly using equipment that produces and emits non-ionizing electromagnetic fields (EMF), and little is known regarding exposure to such fields and the possible impact on male reproductive ...