Stefán Hjörleifsson

Associate Professor

Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care

E-mailStefan.Hjorleifsson@uib.no
Phone+47 55 58 60 90
Visitor Address
Institutt for global helse og samfunnsmedisin

Bergen
Postal Address
Postboks 7804

5020 Bergen

Overdiagnosis and overmedicalization, medical ethics and clinical communication, disease as a product of biology, culture and (loss of) meaning, intercultural issues in the medical encounter.

Ethics of biomedical research, clinical ethics, communication and consultation skills, psychiatry in general practice, gastroenterology in general practice.

Academic article

Show author(s) (2023). Besinnelse for bærekraft. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening.

Show author(s) (2022). Patient experiences with depression care in general practice: a qualitative questionnaire study. Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care. 253-260.
Show author(s) (2022). Discovering strengths in patients with medically unexplained symptoms–a focus group study with general practitioners. Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care. 405-413.
Show author(s) (2022). Conditions for gatekeeping when GPs consider patient requests unreasonable: a focus group study. Family Practice. 125-129.

Show author(s) (2021). Trends in treatment for patients with depression in general practice in Norway, 2009–2015: nationwide registry-based cohort study (The Norwegian GP-DEP Study). BMC Health Services Research.
Show author(s) (2021). Shame in medical clerkship: “You just feel like dirt under someone’s shoe”. Perspectives on Medical Education (PME). 265-271.
Show author(s) (2021). Komplekse problemstillinger – allmennlegens ekspertområde. Michael. 17-39.
Show author(s) (2021). Digital Consumer Health: Negotiating Multiple Voices in the Clinical Consultation. Professions and Professionalism.

Show author(s) (2019). The when and how of the gynaecological examination: a survey among Norwegian general practitioners. Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care. 264-270.
Show author(s) (2019). Patient-reported depression treatment and future treatment preferences: an observational study in general practice. Family Practice. 771-777.
Show author(s) (2019). Dilemmas of medical overuse in general practice?A focus group study. Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care. 135-140.

Show author(s) (2018). Trustingly bewildered. How first-year medical students make sense of their learning experience in a traditional, preclinical curriculum. Medical Education Online. 1-9.

Show author(s) (2017). General practitioners' strategies in consultations with immigrants in Norway - practice-based shared reflections among participants in focus groups. Family Practice. 216-221.

Show author(s) (2015). Residents’ perceptions of their own sadness - a qualitative study in Norwegian nursing homes. BMC Geriatrics. 1-7.

Show author(s) (2014). Prevalence of depression among recently admitted long-term care patients in Norwegian nursing homes: Associations with diagnostic workup and use of antidepressants. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders. 154-162.
Show author(s) (2014). Immigrant and native regular general practitioners in Norway. A comparative registry-based observational study. European Journal of General Practice. 93-99.

Show author(s) (2013). Impact of divorce and loss of parental contact on health complaints among adolescents. Journal of Public Health (Berlin). 278-285.

Show author(s) (2011). Treatment decisions on antidepressants in nursing homes: A qualitative study. Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care. 252-256.
Show author(s) (2011). Immigrant general practitioners in Norway: A special resource? A qualitative study. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. 239-244.

Show author(s) (2008). Decoding the genetics debate: hype and hope in Icelandic news media in 2000 and 2004. New genetics and society (Print). 377-394.

Show author(s) (2007). Geneticization and bioethics: advancing debate and research. Medicine, Health care and Philosophy. 417-431.

Show author(s) (2006). Scientific rationality, uncertainty and the governance of human genetics: an interview study with researchers at deCODE genetics. European Journal of Human Genetics.

Show author(s) (2005). Health as a genetic planning project: Enthusiasm and second thoughts among biomedical researchers and their research subjects. Genomics, Society and Policy. 52-65.

Show author(s) (2000). Legen - den enøyde samaritan? Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 1207-1209.

Lecture

Show author(s) (2017). Key Writings in General Practice: The Core of a Discipline and Formation of its Practitioners.

Academic lecture

Show author(s) (2022). The role of general practice in care for young adults with depression who fall out of education and employment.
Show author(s) (2022). Sustainable Healthcare starting in your GP's office- ideas for a complex intervention.
Show author(s) (2022). Patient experiences with depression care in general practice.
Show author(s) (2022). Avancerad hvardagsmedicin - Kompleksitetsteori för almenläkare.

Show author(s) (2021). Promoting sustainable work participation for workers with depression through improved collaboration in depression care: a focus group study.

Show author(s) (2019). Time trends in GPs’ provision of depression care during 2008-2016.

Show author(s) (2017). The non-linear relationship between evidence and practice – with homebirth as an emotionally charged case.
Show author(s) (2017). Self-reported depression in patients visiting their general practitioner.
Show author(s) (2017). Overdiagnosis in general practice: How can it be limited?
Show author(s) (2017). General practitioners’ gender and the gynecological examination - A survey among GPs in Western Norway.

Show author(s) (2015). Trustingly bewildered. First-year medical students’ reflections on the ideals of medicine and the realities of medical school.
Show author(s) (2015). Pelvic examination in general practice. A survey from Western Norway.

Show author(s) (2014). Sadness as perceived by nursing home patients.

Show author(s) (2013). Depression in newly admitted patients.

Show author(s) (2012). Depresjon hos nyinnlagte sykehjemspasienter.

Show author(s) (2011). Treatment decisions with regard to antidepressants.

Show author(s) (2010). Many pills, less of time – a qualitative study about treatment decisions regarding depression in nursing homes.

Show author(s) (2005). Biobanks as National Constructs - Iceland and Norway.

Show author(s) (2003). Sjúkdómsvæðing - Inngangur.

Show author(s) (2002). When more is worse - Medical expansion as a threat to health.
Show author(s) (2002). Siðfræði og heilbrigðisþjónusta [Etikk og helsetjenester].
Show author(s) (2002). How genetics alters the course of history.
Show author(s) (2002). Gode hensikter, utilsiktede følger?
Show author(s) (2002). Gode hensikter, utilsiktede følger?
Show author(s) (2002). Forskning og samfunn, om utilsiktede følger av medisinsk forskning.
Show author(s) (2002). Erfðafræði og samfélag [Genetikk og samfunn].

Editorial

Show author(s) (2020). Kan vi gjøre klokere valg? Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening.

Reader opinion piece

Show author(s) (2019). Fastlegegarantien. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening.

Show author(s) (2018). Svangerskapsomsorgen må være kunnskapsbasert. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 799-799.

Non-fiction book

Show author(s) (2017). God praksis. Om medisin og etikk. Fagbokforlaget.
Show author(s) (2017). God praksis – om medisin og etikk. Fagbokforlaget.