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Research Leaders Warn Against Cuts in Global Health Research (16.01.2017)
Professor and Director of the Centre for International Health, Bente Elisabeth Moen, and Arvid Hallén, Director General of the Research Council of Norway (RCN), both express deep concerns about the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation’s (NORAD’s) recent recommendation of cuts to the Global Health and Vaccination Research Programme’s funding (GLOBVAC).
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The Norwegian student introductory week: who takes part, and is participation associated with better social integration and satisfaction among students? (09.12.2016)
In this study we found that more than 70% of students were satisfied with the introductory week and the opportunity it provided for getting to know other students.
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Prevention of cardiovascular disease in Tanzania is cost-effective (01.12.2016)
Today Frida Ngalesoni defended her highly impressive and important dissertation “Economics of non-communicable diseases prevention. Cost-effectiveness and equity impact of primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in Tanzania.” The research group warmly congratulate!
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'Small Fish and Food Security' workshop (01.12.2016)
For the first time the potential of small fish to reach the sustainable development goals was discussed across disciplines, with a case focus on Ghana.
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BSRS 2017: Global Challenges (25.11.2016)
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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Survivors of cancer in young age are more financially dependent (25.08.2016)
A new study recently published in Cancer studied all individuals born in Norway over a 20-year period (1965-1985), and compared those who received a cancer diagnosis before age 25 with those without cancer, with regards to receipt of governmental financial assistance, employment, income- and occupation discrepancies.
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Erik Berg in radio interview (17.08.2016)
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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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Translating research into clinical practice. An update on neurorehabilitation from an interdisciplinary perspective (30.06.2016)
The first Nordic Summer School for Neurorehabilitation will take place in Falsterbo, Sweden, from 21. – 23. September 2016.
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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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Reduced physical function in health workers on sick leave (13.06.2016)
Tove Ask will defend her PhD Thesis on Thursday, 22. June 2016 at the University of Bergen. Title of the thesis: “Functional evaluation and work participation in health care workers with musculoskeletal disorders”

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