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Eivind Meland er professor emeritus ved Institutt for global helse og samfunnsmedisin, Universitetet i Bergen og veileder for ALIS-leger i Bergen kommune.
Articles by Eivind Meland
Quality requirements can be a barrier to public health
- Eivind Meland
17.12.2024:
Researchers can offer valuable insights despite the systemic bias in research. Examples from studies of families with divorced parents illustrate this. A proposed amendment to the current Children Act has been put out for consultation by the Norwegian Ministry of Children and Families. As part of...
We also need to talk about men's health
- Eivind Meland,
- Dag Furuholmen
21.11.2022:
Three public reports on women's health have previously been published, and the new women's health committee is working on a fourth. However, there are currently no studies of men's health, despite challenges in several areas. International Men's Day is held on 19 November every year, and it is an...
Public health pioneer and shaman
- Eivind Meland
29.06.2020:
James R. Walker (1849–1926) was a doctor and public health champion, ethnographer and folklorist. His work brought him into close contact with religious leaders and 'medicine men' from the indigenous American population. He was trained and inducted as a shaman of the Lakota Nation. Do we, the...
An integrated understanding of subjective disorders in clinical practice
- Aksel Tveråmo,
- Ine Baug Johnsen,
- Eivind Meland
25.11.2014:
In clinical practice we frequently encounter health complaints in patients who also face challenges in significant areas of their lives, such as with partners or at work. Such complaints are often accompanied by a lack of coping and vitality. By using a biopsychosocial model of health, as well as...
Better legal protection of doctoral research fellows
- Eivind Meland
08.04.2014:
Research ethics does not only concern norms and legal requirements. It is also concerned with realising the old Oriental proverb that love is greater than truth. Having been urged by the Parliamentary Ombudsman, the ministry has now proposed legal amendments that will reinforce the legal protection...
PSA measurement and prostate cancer – overdiagnosis and overtreatment?
- Hans Johan Breidablik,
- Eivind Meland,
- Kristin Moberg Aakre,
- Olav Helge Førde
03.09.2013:
It has long been known that some cancer changes exhibit great heterogeneity with respect to the progress from the start of cell changes until the disease manifests itself. Cell changes may also show total or partial regression (1, 2). The problem is that with current methods it is not always...
Use of emergency services before and after implementation of the Regular General Practitioner Scheme
- Ivar Halvorsen,
- Eivind Meland,
- Anders Bærheim
04.01.2007:
The emergency services in Norway are primarily meant to cover the population’s need for immediate medical aid at any time of the day or night (1). Immediate aid means «the first aid the medical services or a health worker is obliged to provide without any unavoidable delay when the available...