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Primary care doctors in acute call-outs to severe trauma incidents in Norway–associations with factors related to patients and doctors
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Objective Severe trauma patients need immediate prehospital intervention and transfer to a specialised trauma hospital. In Norway, primary care doctors (PCDs) are an integrated part of the prehospital trauma care. The aim ... -
The primary care perspective on the Norwegian national strategy against antimicrobial resistance
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)A national strategy to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been subject to cyclic processes in Norway since 1998. In 2020, a renewed process cycle was launched. Here, we describe the process and the approach of the ... -
Primary health care delivery in a Sidama community undergoing demographic transition
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-12-14)Lav bruk av helsetjenester på den etiopiske landsbygd. Rundt halvparten av verdens befolkning har liten tilgang på livsviktige helsetjenester. Og, spesielt ilavinntektsland,er registreringen av sykelighets, fødsels og ... -
Prioritering, styring og likebehandling: Utfordringer i norsk helsetjeneste
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Prioriteringspraksis og ventetid. En undersøkelse av helseforetak i Helse Midt-Norge
(Master thesis, 2011-01-05)Background: The Act on Patients Rights should ensure that people should have equal access to health services of good quality, regardless of age, gender, economy and place of residence. Several studies show that there are ... -
Prioritizing Child Health Interventions in Ethiopia: Modeling Impact on Child Mortality, Life Expectancy and Inequality in Age at Death
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012-08-07)Background: The fourth Millennium Development Goal calls for a two-thirds reduction in under-5 mortality between 1990 and 2015. Under-5 mortality rate is declining, but many countries are still far from achieving the goal. ... -
Prioritizing Health-Sector Interventions for Noncommunicable Diseases and Injuries in Low- and Lower-Middle Income Countries: National NCDI Poverty Commissions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Health sector priorities and interventions to prevent and manage noncommunicable diseases and injuries (NCDIs) in low- and lower-middle-income countries (LLMICs) have primarily adopted elements of the World Health Organization ... -
Priority setting for the implementation of artemisinin-based combination therapy policy in Tanzania: evaluation against the accountability for reasonableness framework
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012-03-18)Background: Priority setting for artemisinin-based antimalarial drugs has become an integral part of malaria treatment policy change in malaria-endemic countries. Although these drugs are more efficacious, they are also ... -
Priority to the newborn? Real-life priority setting and intra-household resource allocation for newborn health in Ethiopia
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-04-13)Background: Worldwide, 2.6 million newborns die every year. Despite attention to newborn health in policies and plans in Ethiopia, coverage of services remains low, and the decline in mortality is slower than it has been ... -
Priority-setting dilemmas, moral distress and support experienced by nurses and physicians in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background: The global COVID-19 pandemic has imposed challenges on healthcare systems and professionals worldwide and introduced a ´maelstrom´ of ethical dilemmas. How ethically demanding situations are handled affects ... -
Private Sector Drug Shops in Integrated Community Case Management of Malaria, Pneumonia, and Diarrhea in Children in Uganda
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012)We conducted a survey involving 1,604 households to determine community care-seeking patterns and 163 exit interviews to determine appropriateness of treatment of common childhood illnesses at private sector drug shops in ... -
Probing key informants’ views of health equity within the World Health Organization’s Urban HEART initiative
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)To date, no studies have assessed how those involved in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) work understand the concept of health equity. To fill the gap, this research poses the question, “how do Urban Health Equity ... -
The processing, preparation, and cooking practices of small fish among poor Ghanaian households: An exploratory qualitative study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Small fish are an important part of the diet in Ghana, but malnutrition rates remain high. The nutritional quality of fish consumed in Ghana may be affected by food processing and cooking practices, but the extent to which ... -
Profession Based Hierarchies as Barriers for Genuine Learning Processes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This chapter describes how profession based hierarchies (stratified social orders between professions) may appear in a teaching context of interprofessionality involving a variety of health professions presenting challenges ... -
Prognostic Impact of In-Hospital and Postdischarge Heart Failure in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Nationwide Analysis Using Data From the Cardiovascular Disease in Norway (CVDNOR) Project
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-03)Background: Heart failure (HF) is a serious complication of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). We explored the excess mortality associated with HF as an early or late complication of AMI and describe changes over time in ... -
Progress towards the 2020 fast track HIV/ AIDS reduction targets across ages in Ethiopia as compared to neighboring countries using global burden of diseases 2017 data
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.3, targets to eliminate HIV from being a public health threat by 2030. For better tracking of this target interim Fast Track milestones for 2020 and composite complementary ... -
Projected health impact of post-discharge malaria chemoprevention among children with severe malarial anaemia in Africa
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Children recovering from severe malarial anaemia (SMA) remain at high risk of readmission and death after discharge from hospital. However, a recent trial found that post-discharge malaria chemoprevention (PDMC) with ... -
Proliferation of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli strain TW11681 in stools of experimentally infected human volunteers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-10-16)Background: As part of the efort to develop an enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) human challenge model for testing new heat-stable toxin (ST)-based vaccine candidates, a controlled human infection model study based ... -
Promising outcomes of a national programme for the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission in Addis Ababa: a retrospective study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010-09-09)Background Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission (PMTCT) is still the most effective intervention in combating new HIV infections. In 2008, revised national PMTCT guidelines that incorporated new policies on HIV ... -
Promoters and inhibitors for quality improvement work in general practice: a qualitative analysis of 2715 free-text replies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background Continuous quality improvement (QI) is necessary to develop and maintain high quality general practice services. General Practitioners (GPs’) motivation is an important factor in the success of QI initiatives. ...