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New paper series on global challenges (07.11.2016)
UiB Global and CROP launch working paper series on global challenges.
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Seminar in the Global Mental Health Research Group (02.11.2016)
The research group held a seminar on Mental health and child and adolescent health programs in Cambodia and South-East-Asia in October.
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Reproductive history and risk of colorectal cancer (18.10.2016)
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How to incorporate equity indicators in randomized controlled trials? (05.10.2016)
On September 22nd and 23rd, researchers from Global Health Priorities and Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health (CISMAC) co-organized a symposium at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston (USA) on how to incorporate concerns to health equity into randomized control trials (RCTs).
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Patients experience burdensome deaths in Norwegian Nursing Homes (04.10.2016)
Almost 50 % of nursing home patients in Norway die with moderate to severe pain. Reidun Sandviks PhD-study takes a closer look at end of life care in nursing homes.
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Making a unique national resource more accessible (22.09.2016)
Health registries contain a vast treasure trove of unique and valuable data; they are a national resource that give Norway a competitive advantage in a knowledge-based economy.
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Pain, Psychosis and Agitation in People with Dementia (04.08.2016)
For people with dementia it is common to experience neuropsychiatric symptoms, such as delusions, hallucinations and agitation. This study aims to investigate the relationship between pain and psychosis and agitation.
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Death in secular societies (23.06.2016)
Death is a classical topic in philosophy. In a new article, PhD-candidate Carl Tollef Solberg, Research Assistant Preben Sørheim, and Associate Professor Espen Gamlund gives a diagnosis of contemporary philosophers’ views on death – and some prescriptions on how we should treat death in a secular societies.
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It is time to rename Earth (13.06.2016)
Professor Terje Tvedt criticizes Social Sciences for being “water blind”.
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Treatment after a heart attack varies with educational level (30.05.2016)
A new study from the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care (IGS) has shown that patients with lower levels of education were less likely to receive coronary angiography and hence revascularization compared to their counterparts with higher education.
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Department Day (26.05.2016)
IGS’s Department Day 11 May 2016 was a HUGE success! The weather and setting alone would have made it one of the most memorable ever!
Angela Akol
Global Health Conference in Bergen (28.04.2016)
Our research group participated in the Global Health Conference in Bergen, entitled "Norwegian Global Health Networks with Impact". Find posters and pictures here.
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Associate professor Johansson comments on new article on mental health in the New York Times (25.04.2016)
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New Disease Control Priorities Volumes released (25.04.2016)
Associate professor Kjell Arne Johansson has contributed to two new volumes on the important project Disease Control Priorities. In the new volumes just released, world leading experts provide new insight to the literature on investments in Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (Volume two) and on Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders (Volume four).
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When is the worst time to die? (18.04.2016)
The badness of death and its possible implications for priority setting in global health is the subject in a new article by PhD-candidate Carl Tollef Solberg from the Global Health Priorities Group and Associate Professor Espen Gamlund. In the article just published in BMC Medical Ethics they present possibly the first systematic discussion on philosophical considerations of the badness of death... Read more
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Expanding teaching of teachers (ToT) in medical ethics to seven new universities in Ethiopia (14.03.2016)
The Addis Ababa University (AAU) and our research group Global Health Priorities at UoB are collaborating on training the teachers of medical students in medical ethics. Just after 25 teachers at AAU had completed a three year program of training in ethical theory, methods and handling of clinical ethical dilemmas, the Minister of health in Ethiopia, dr. Kesete asked professor Norheim and... Read more
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Joint PhD degree programme recruiting students (17.02.2016)
Recently, Hawassa University in South Ethiopia and the University of Bergen agreed on a joint PhD degree programme. The programme is now recruiting students.
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Losing weight can bring challenges! (15.02.2016)
Recent results from the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care (IGS) show that bariatric surgery patients need more than just physical follow-up.

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