Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care

Research groups

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

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.
News

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.
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.