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FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

International workshop to determine standard questionnaire when investigating population use of CAMAn international survey.

Background: There are no international consensus-based guidelines for how to monitor use of CAM. Wide discrepancies exist between culturally similar countries and regions. Objective: The aim of the present workshop is to discuss challenges in registering population CAM use, and develop a set of c...

Awarded: NOK 0.43 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2006

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

The Hordaland Homocysteine and Health Studies - biobanks and follow-up studies

This is a joint application to cover staff (0.5 position) for project and data management, statistical and laboratory services plus running project expences for the Hordaland Homocysteine Study and the Hordaland Health Study. The Norwegian Research Counci l has previously provided such support an...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Vestland

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

Enigmatic geographical differences: A study of contextual determinants of health inequalities in Norway

In current international public health research, prominent themes are the significance of area-level income inequality and contextual influences (ie, place effects) on population health. The starting point for the project is previous findings indicating c onsiderably higher mortality in the Metro...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Oslo

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

The epidemiology of prescription drug use. A record-linkage study in Norway

Three surveys will form the basis of this project: a) The Cardiovascular Survey Progamme in Norway 1972-2004, b) The Youth part of a) 2000-2004, c) Norwegian Epidemiological Osteoporosis Studies (NOREPOS) 1994-2001. The information in these databases wil l be supplemented with information on soc...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

Health Inequalities: Psychosocial Mechanisms in Childhood and Adolescence

Ingrid Leversen disputerte 10.desember 2012 for ph.d-graden med avhandlingen ?Adolescents? leisure activity participation and their life satisfaction: The role of demographic characteristics and psychological processes?. I sin avhandling tar Leversen for seg norske 15- og 16-åringers deltakel...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2015

Location: Vestland

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

Promoting healthy weight among school children

Increasing rates of overweight and obesity is seen as a major public health problem. In Norway, the prevalence of overweight and obesity among school children has increased during the past decade. While the aetiology of obesity is not fully understood, ch ildren are seen as key target groups for ...

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Oslo

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

Food and eating among young Norwegians. A sociological analysis of teenagers' food ideologies and practices in an everyday context

The project will focus on the socio-cultural aspects of teen girls and boys food choice and eating patterns. In the qualitative part we will focus on how teenagers describe, explain and give reasons for their food and eating patterns, while the quantitati ve part will map eating behaviour, motiva...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

Early detection and prevention of psychiatric disorders among preschoolers in the community

Young children have psychiatric disorders to a comparable extent with that of any other age group, and they endure. If undetected, problems may escalate and become more resistant to change. However, far fewer young children with psychiatric disorders rece ive treatment than do school age children...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

RUSMIDDEL-Rusmiddelforskning

Game over? An evaluation study of policy measures to reduce problem gambling with focus on youth gambling

Problem gambling among youth is strongly associated with mental health problems, alcohol and drug use, and delinquency. The Norwegian gambling machine market has increased dramatically, and legal regulations are liberal compared to most countries. Followi ng a Parliament decision restrictions on ...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Oslo

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

Evaluation of an intervention to prevent type 2 diabetes/Metabolic Syndrome among Pakistani immigrants, with main focus on nutrition.

The prevalence of type 2 diabetes (DM2) is rising in all parts of the world. There is a higher prevalence of (DM2)among some immigrant groups, compared to the native population in the Western world. Women from the Indian subcontinent seem to be particular ly predisposed. People originating from P...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Oslo

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

Evaluation of an intervention to prevent diabetes type 2/metabolic syndrom among Pakistani women immigrants, main focus on physical activity

The prevalence of type 2 diabetes (DM2) is rising in all parts of the world. There is a higher prevalence of (DM2)among some immigrant groups, compared to the native population in the Western world. Women from Pakistanseem to be particularly predisposed. People originating from Pakistan are the l...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Oslo

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

Attachment, risk and resilience among school-age children in a multi-cultural context

The aim of this study is to determine and model how mental health and mental disorders among young immigrants are influenced by their attachment patterns (quality of relationships with parents). This will be modeled as the interaction between attachment p atterns, ethnicity, family stress, social...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Oslo

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

The influence of areas through the life course. A multilevel analysis of the longitudinal area effect on mortality

Health inequality is a major public health issue even in Nordic countries with comprehensive welfare systems. Researchers have in recent years looked at determinants above the individual level that may explain such inequalities. Whatever their individual socio-economic position, people living in ...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Oslo

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

Pharmacologization of food and feeding: an ethnographic study of everyday food in transition

Food and hence feeding is focal in the public discourse on risk and (ill)health. At present, food is undergoing what we may refer to as pharmacologization; that is, food is conceptualised in terms of its relation to the health of the human person who eats it. Although the medical application of ...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Oslo

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT CORRELATES OF CHILDREN'S AND ADOLESCENTS' PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

It is well documented that physical activity has positive effects on both physical and emotional health. The vast majority of studies have addressed the cognitive, affective, and social influences when trying to understand physical activity. Very few stud ies have addressed environmental issues a...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Vestland

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

Doctors in-the-making - Professional identity among medical students

Project summary This project is an ethnographic study of the development of professional identity among medical students in the medical study. The fostering of professional identity and forms of knowledge was a central idea in the Oslo96 reform of the stu dy. The ability to update oneself on new ...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Oslo

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

Promoting Healthy Eating: Computer-Tailored Interventions

There is a great need for developing effective interventions that contribute to promoting healthy dietary habits. Personally tailored nutrition feedback is proven to be far more effective than are general, non-tailored advices. Only recently has the oppor tunity to give such personally tailored a...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2011

Location: Oslo

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

Abortion and teenage birth: A longitudinal study of girls and young women

In the new Norwegian “Action plan to prevent unwanted pregnancy and abortions 2004-2008” (Ministry of Health 2003), it was argued that vulnerable women with limited resources are more likely than others to experience unwanted pregnancies. This included “y outh who in critical situations may act o...

Awarded: NOK 0.92 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Oslo

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

Predictors of changes in depressive symptoms, suicidality, and eating problems in adolescence and early adulthood

Results are in conflict whether there has been an increase in adolescent internalizing problems (e.g. eating problems, depression, and suicidality) in the Western World during recent decades. Using identical procedures in 1992 and 2002, we ask whether sel f-reports of depressive symptoms, disorde...

Awarded: NOK 0.69 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Oslo

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

Environmental support - Development of a national research center in physical activity and health research

Over the past 10 years there has been a growing recognition of the significance of physical activity as a preventive measure for a number of the major diseases and as a means of promoting mental health and well-being. The preventive potential of lifestyle physical activity is significant and thi...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Oslo

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

Can information and communication technology (ICT) enhance diabetes control by increasing self-efficacy?

This project will evaluate ICT tools for supporting self management of diabetes. It will further contribute to development of a theoretical base for such interventions. On a more general level the project will contribute to knowledge about how ICT best ca n be exploited for health promoting and d...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

Vulnerability as a strength - how can disempowerment experiences be transformed to health resources?

This crossdisciplinary network of 16 researchers from medicine, physiotherapy, psychology, and social sciences has been developed since 2002. Network members have ongoing or planned projects exploring the possibilities for people from marginalized or high risk groups (lesbian women, heavy drinke...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Vestland

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

Gestational diabetes among immigrant south Asian women in Oslo

Svangerskapsdiabetes gir økt risiko for utvikling av diabetes type 2 senere i livet, og risikoen for sykdom hos den gravide, ved fødsel og at tilstanden gjentar seg i senere svangerskap, er også økt. Behandlingen av denne tilstanden hos kvinner med annen etnisk bakgrunn enn norsk, kompliseres av ...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2009

Location: Oslo

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

Hvilken nytte, for hvem og til hvilken kostnad? En prospektiv studie av stoffmisbrukere i behandling

Undersøkelsen dreier seg om en videreføring av en nytte-kostnad analyse av behandling for stoffmisbrukere. Utvalget på 482 klienter ble i perioden 1998-2000 intervjuet i 20 behandlingstiltak som er de mest brukte i Norge dag (tradisjonelle døgninstitusjon er, hierarkiske terapeutiske samfunn, kol...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2006

Location: Oslo

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

The influence of the Physical and the Social Environment on Morbidity - A population based multilevel study in Oslo, Norway

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Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2007

Location: Oslo

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

Sosial ulikhet i helse: Miljøstøtte og prosjektstøtte

Søknaden ønsker finansiering av fire miljø- og forskningsaktiviteter. Disse kan behandles separat, men de henger nært sammen. 1. Søknaden gjelder miljøstøtte til NOVA i perioden 2004-2007. Miljøstøtten vil finansiere lønnsutgifter forbundet med nettverksa rbeide samt driftskostnader. Miljøstøtten...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2007

Location: Oslo

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

Kontroverser om barnemat - Kunnskap, risikoforståelse og politikk.

EUs barnematdirektiv ble vedtatt i 1996 og forutsatt å skulle innlemmes i EØS-landenes næringsmiddellovgivning. Direktivet åpner for beriking av barnemat med vitaminer og næringsstoffer. Av hensyn til barnehelsa var Norges ønske å videreføre opprinnelig n orsk praksis når det gjelder industrielt ...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2007

Location: Vestland

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

Skolemiljø og psykisk helse: Risiko- og ressursfaktorer i skolemiljøet som mål for primærforebyggende arbeid med barn og unge

Så mye som 10 % av ungdommen har til enhver tid så store psykiske problemer (internaliserende eller eksternaliserende) at de har behov for profesjonell hjelp eller assistanse. Tiltak for å forebygge psykiske helseproblemer blant barn og unge er derfor et viktig helsepolitisk innsatsområde. Formå...

Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2006

Location: Vestland

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

"Steg for steg" - Virker det? Skolebaserte tiltak for å fremme sosial kompetanse og empati og redusere aggressive atferd

Dette evalueringsprosjektet vil være del av miljøsatsningen ved HEMIL-senteret der barn og unges psykiske helse og virkemidler for å fremme positiv psykisk helse og redusere aggressive atferd står i fokus. Forskere antar at økt vektlegging av sosial kompe tanseutvikling i skolen vil ha positiv be...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2006

Location: Vestland

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

Kroppsbilder blant ungdom - En undersøkelse av variasjoner mellom grupper, endringer over tid og utvikling med alder

Tidligere studier viser at ungdoms kroppsbilde (opplevd tilfredshet med egen kropp) har stor betydning for deres generelle selvbilde og mentale helse. Hovedinntrykket fra internasjonale undersøkelser er at andelen som er misfornøyd med egen kropp eller ut seende har økt de siste tiårene. Hvordan ...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Oslo

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