Research groups
- General practice
- Occupational and environmental medicine
- Physiotherapy
- Global health: ethics, economics & culture
- Lifestyle epidemiology
- Genetic epidemiology
- Registrybased studies of familial risks
- Quality of life
- Praxeology
- Socialepidemiology
- Social pharmacy
- Research Group for Life-world research in health care sciences
- Genetic counceling
The department is engaged in research and teaching wihtin a range of fields related to public health and primary health care.
Important areas of interest are among others:
- The study of prevalence of healthrelated issues in the population
- The identification of causes for disease in the population as specified by age, gender, work factors, social factors, etc
- The study of the public health system, and how society deals with health issues
- The study of how individuals deal with illness and poor health
- The evaluation of preventive health measures designed to promote good health
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GLOBAL HEALTH
A primer in life and death
Who receives medical care when resources are scarce? To make those hard decisions, researchers at UiB have worked on a guide with the World Health Organization.
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Highly accessed article: Attending work or not when sick -- what makes the decision?
In a qualitative study 263 car mechanics were interviewed to examine decisions of absence versus attendance when feeling ill.
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The predictive validity of the Örebro Musculoskeletal Pain Questionnaire (ÖMPQ) and the clinicians prognostic assessment
In a new publication based on master theses, the predictive validity of ÖMPQ was compared with the clinicians prognostic assessment of pain and functional outcome after 8 weeks of manual therapy treatment.
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NEW ARTICLE IN CJASN
Familial factors in the association between pre-eclampsia and later ESRD.
Familial aggregation of risk factors does not seem to explain increased ESRD risk after pre-eclampsia. These findings support the hypothesis that pre-eclampsia per se may lead to kidney damage.
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- One child mothers with pre-eclampsia at higher risk of heart problems (28.11.2012)
- Best poster award to CIH student (31.10.2012)
- Familial factors in the association between pre-eclampsia and later ESRD. (01.10.2012)
- Cancer in childhood, adolescence, and young adults: a population-based study of changes in risk of cancer death during four decades in Norway (27.08.2012)
- WFNR Melbourne 16-19 May (11.05.2012)
Open Positions
- Part-time permanent position as Associate Professor in Health Care Management at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry - Application deadline: 08.12.2012
- Permanent part-time position as Professor/ Associate Professor of Medicine (General Practice) at the Dept of Public Health and Primary Health Care - Application deadline: 15.12.2012
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