Browsing Omsorgsbiblioteket by Subject "health"
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Ethical and methodological issues in research with Sami experiencing disability
(Journal article, 2016)Objectives: The main study was designed to examine and understand the everyday life, transitions between life stages and democratic participation of Norwegian Sami people experiencing disability. Hence, the purpose of this ... -
Ethnic discrimination and health: the relationship between experienced ethnic discrimination and multiple health domains in Norway's rural Sami population
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)OBJECTIVE: self-reported ethnic discrimination has been associated with a range of health outcomes. This study builds on previous efforts to investigate the prevalence of self-reported ethnic discrimination in the indigenous ... -
Feeling controlled or being in control? Apps for self-management among older people with neurological disability
(Journal article, 2019)Purpose: The aim of this paper was to describe how people living with a neurological disability such as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease and stroke reason regarding using apps to facilitate self-management in everyday ... -
Health culture within the context of the Northern environment
(Journal article, 2003)Objectives: this article is part of an ethnographic study that aims to describe and understand health as a phenomenon of the Sami culture. Study Design: the article is based on literature concerning the northern environment ... -
Important challenges for coordination and inter-municipal cooperation in health care services: A Delphi study
(Journal article, 2013)Background: Demographical changes have stimulated a coordination reform in the Norwegian health care sector, creating new working practices and extending coordination within and between primary and hospital care, increasing ... -
In the mountains one feels like a dog off the leash - Sámi perceptions of welfare and its influencing factors
(Journal article, 2010)The Sámi in Finland have statutory rights that recognize their cultural needs in customer service situations within social and Iwatili care. The aim of this study is to describe and understand Sami's perception of their ... -
Indigenous Life Stories as Narratives of Health and Resistance: a Dialogical Narrative Analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)The Sami people have historically been exposed to severe assimilation processes. The objective of this study was to explore elderly Samis’ experiences of health. A total of 19 elderly Sami individuals in Norway were ... -
The construction of Sami identity, health, and old age in policy documents and life stories: a discourse analysis and a narrative study
(Doctoral thesis, 2013)Dagens eldre samer har levd sine liv i en historisk periode preget av store sosiale endringer når det gjelder situasjonen til det samiske folk. De har opplevd den historiske perioden preget av assimilasjonspolitikk og ... -
The Sami-living conditions and health
(Journal article, 2008)The aim of this Special Issue is to show the diversity of living conditions among the Sami and their consequences on the health and rates of disease among this population living in the Sami areas of Norway, Sweden, Finland ...