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Distributional impact of infectious disease interventions in the Ethiopian Essential Health Service Package: a modelling study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Objectives Reducing inequalities in health and financial risk are key goals on the path toward universal health coverage, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries. The design of the health benefit package ... -
The disvalue of death in the global burden of disease
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)In the Global Burden of Disease study, disease burden is measured as disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). The paramount assumption of the DALY is that it makes sense to aggregate years lived with disability (YLDs) and ... -
Diversity of Rotavirus Strains in Children; Results From a Community-Based Study in Nepal
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Objective: The objectives of this study were to describe the incidence and genetic diversity of Rotavirus (RV) infection among children up to 3 years of age in a community in Nepal. Methods: We investigated community-acquired ... -
'The divorce program': gendered experiences of HIV positive mothers enrolled in PMTCT programs - the case of rural Malawi
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010-10-26)Background For HIV infected mothers in developing countries, choosing to enroll in a prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV program is supposed to represent the first step towards protecting their child ... -
DNA methylation in newborns conceived by assisted reproductive technology
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Assisted reproductive technology (ART) may affect fetal development through epigenetic mechanisms as the timing of ART procedures coincides with the extensive epigenetic remodeling occurring between fertilization and embryo ... -
Do Genetic Variants Modify the Effect of Smoking on Risk of Preeclampsia in Pregnancy?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Objective: Maternal smoking is associated with as much as a 50% reduced risk of preeclampsia, despite increasing risk of other poor pregnancy outcomes that often co-occur with preeclampsia, such as preterm birth and fetal ... -
Do interprofessional teams matter? : A survey-based study of patients and team members in hospitals and rehabilitation centres in secondary health care in Western Norway.
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-05-28)Background Health care today is becoming more complex, and patients must interact with an array of health care professionals working within and between various health care settings. Coordinated health services meeting the ... -
Do medical students and young physicians assess reliably their self-efficacy regarding communication skills? A prospective study from end of medical school until end of internship
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-06-30)Background: This prospective study from end of medical school through internship investigates the course and possible change of self- reported self-efficacy in communication skills compared with observers’ ratings of such ... -
Do parental stimulation practices modify the effect of child’s health status on early developmental risk? Findings from a hospitalized cohort
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The current study conducted in Pakistan aimed to test if parental stimulation practices modify the effect of general child health status on early developmental risks in hospitalized children. Development was assessed using ... -
Do people use methods or tricks to fall asleep? A comparison between people with and without chronic insomnia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The present study estimated the frequency of using methods or tricks to fall asleep in the general Norwegian population. Further, people with chronic insomnia were compared with people without chronic insomnia. A representative ... -
Do smoking and fruit and vegetable intake mediate the association between socio-economic status and plasma carotenoids?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)Background: The aim was to study whether the association between educational attainment and antioxidant status is mediated by smoking and fruit and vegetable intake. Methods: Cross-sectional analyses of the Oslo Youth Study ... -
Do young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) have more health problems than their peers? A cross-sectional study among Norwegian adolescents
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05-09)Objectives: An increasing proportion of young Norwegians are categorised as too ill to attend upper secondary education, and poor physical and mental health may reduce their opportunities to return to school or find paid ... -
Doctors’ learning experiences in end-of-life care – a focus group study from nursing homes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-01-31)Background: Doctors often find dialogues about death difficult. In Norway, 45% of deaths take place in nursing homes. Newly qualified medical doctors serve as house officers in nursing homes during internship. Little is ... -
Does caesarean delivery in the first pregnancy increase the risk for adverse outcome in the second? A registry-based cohort study on first and second singleton births in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Objective To explore if newborns in the second pregnancy following a previous caesarean delivery (CD) have higher risk of perinatal mortality or cerebral palsy than newborns in pregnancies following a previous vaginal ... -
Does child and adolescent mental health in-service training result in equivalent knowledge gain among cadres of non-specialist health workers in Uganda? A pre-test post-test study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-08-24)Background: Early identification and management of child and adolescent mental health (CAMH) disorders helps to avert mental illness in adulthood but a CAMH treatment gap exists in Uganda. CAMH integration into primary ... -
Does Free Public Health Care Increase Utilization and Reduce Spending? Heterogeneity and Long-Term Effects
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Zambia removed user fees in publicly supported–government and faith-based–health facilities in 54 out of 72 districts in 2006. This was extended to rural areas of previously unaffected districts in 2007. The natural ... -
Does Information and Communication Technology Add Value to Citizen-Led Accountability Initiatives in Health? Experiences from India and Guatemala
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Information and Communication Technology (ICT) may facilitate the collection and dissemination of citizen-generated data to enhance governmental accountability for the fulfillment of the right to health. The aim of this ... -
Does linear equating improve prediction in mapping? Crosswalking MacNew onto EQ‑5D‑5L value sets
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Purpose: Preference-based measures are essential for producing quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) that are widely used for economic evaluations. In the absence of such measures, mapping algorithms can be applied to estimate ... -
Does mhGAP training of primary health care providers improve the identification of child- and adolescent mental, neurological or substance use disorders? Results from a randomized controlled trial in Uganda
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Background. Integrating child and adolescent mental health (CAMH) into primary health care (PHC) using the WHO mental health gap action program (mhGAP) is recommended for closing a mental health treatment gap in low- and ... -
Does paracetamol improve quality of life, discomfort, pain and neuropsychiatric symptoms in persons with advanced dementia living in long-term care facilities? A randomised double-blind placebo-controlled crossover (Q-PID) trial
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background The objectives of this study are to determine the effects of regularly scheduled administration of paracetamol (acetaminophen) on quality of life (QoL), discomfort, pain and neuropsychiatric symptoms of persons ...