News archive for Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care

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

Presentations at the World Congress for Neurorehabilitation in Philadelphia (15.04.2016)

The Physiotherapy Research Group participates at the WCNR in Philadelphia, 10 - 13th May, 2016.

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

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.

Male cancer survivors are less likely to reproduce (15.02.2016)

In a new study recently published in British Journal of Cancer, scientists at the department of Global Public Health and Primary care studied all males born in Norway during 1965-1985, and compared those diagnosed with cancer before the age of 25 with the cancer-free male references, for analyses on paternity, marriage, and offspring outcomes.

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.

A new proposal for priority setting in Norway: Open and Fair (10.02.2016)

A new article discusses the new, comprehensive framework for priority setting laid out by the third Norwegian Committee on Priority Setting in the Health Sector in November 2014. The authors also discuss the debate and work that followed in the wake of the Committee’s report.

Every child everywhere benefits from breastfeeding (25.01.2016)

21st Century women – in rich and poor countries alike – do not receive the support they need to breastfeed.

Supplemental folic acid in pregnancy and risk of maternal and childhood cancer (19.01.2016)

A new study from IGS shows no association between folic acid use before and during pregnancy and the risk of maternal and childhood cancer. The study included more than 430,000 women and 690,000 children in the period 1999-2010, and 3,780 women and 800 children developed cancer. Information on supplement use was obtained from the Medical Birth Registry of Norway.

New Head of Department at IGS (11.01.2016)

Guri Rørtveit kicked off her leadership job at the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care (IGS) with an open meeting where she outlined her plans and ideas for the next 4-year period.

Access to surgical services in rural Ethiopia - balancing health, finance and equity (04.01.2016)

Surgical disease cause a high disease burden and there is limited access to surgical services in low- and middle-income countries. In a new article published in Health Policy and Planning , a DCP-Ethiopia and Priorities2020 team examined how policies to expand access to surgery in rural Ethiopia would impact health, impoverishment and equity.

Decision-making in job attendance within health care (16.12.2015)

Kine Melfald Tveten and Tone Morken explored what makes nursing staff with musculoskeletal complaints choose work attendance or sick leave. The article has now been pusblished in Occupational Medicine.

Pneumonia interventions can provide large health and financial benefits in Ethiopia (15.12.2015)

Vaccine and treatment interventions for children can bring large health and financial benefits to households in Ethiopia, most particularly among the poorest socio-economic groups.

Ethical judgement in research - new book pubslihed (12.11.2015)

How, and in what specific ways, can research institutions provide opportunities for their scientific employees to exercise well-qualified, ethical judgement in their research? Kristine Bærøe discusses this question in a recently published anthology on ethical judgment in research.

Reablement in community-dwelling older adults: A randomised controlled trial (08.11.2015)

In this first randomised controlled trial on reablement conducted in Europe, reablement was shown to be a superior intervention than usual care.

George Ruhago successfully defended his PhD (06.11.2015)

Research group member George Ruhago successfully defended his PhD thesis "Economic evaluation and equity impact analysis of interventions or maternal and child health in Tanzania" on Friday 6yh of November.

Cerebral palsy runs in families (03.11.2015)

People born into families in which someone already has cerebral palsy are themselves at elevated risk, depending on their degree of relatedness.

How to scale-up neuropsychiatric interventions in Ethiopia (28.10.2015)

A contextualized cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) of neuropsychiatric interventions in Ethiopia could advise authorities to prioritize between treatments. Epilepsy treatment is most cost-effective, while treatment for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder avert fewer DALYs.

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