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Allmennmedisinsk forskningsenhet
Institutt for samfunnsmedisin og sykepleie
NTNU
Hun har bidratt med idé, utforming, design, analyse og tolkning av data, litteratursøk, utarbeiding og revisjon av manus og godkjenning av innsendte manusversjon.
Linn Getz er lege, professor i medisinske atferdsfag og leder av Allmennmedisinsk forskningsenhet ved NTNU.
Articles by Linn Getz
Adverse life experiences among patients with morbid obesity
- Elin Stranden,
- Ida Foyn Gundersen,
- Linn Getz,
- Anna Luise Kirkengen,
- Kai Brynjar Hagen,
- Bente Prytz Mjølstad
09.11.2020:
Obesity is one of the great health challenges of our time. This development is linked to complex dynamics between dietary habits, physical activity, physiology, genetics and epigenetics in a globalised world, where the access to high-energy foods has become virtually unlimited for many people (1, 2)...
Complex issues in general practice – a prevalence study
- Tor Magne Johnsen,
- Børge Lønnebakke Norberg,
- Frode Helgetun Krogh,
- Johann Agust Sigurdsson,
- Linn Getz
29.06.2020:
The contract GP scheme was established in Norway in 2001. The reform entailed a greater responsibility conferred on the municipalities for ensuring medical services to the population, while the inhabitants had the opportunity to choose a permanent GP. In a full curative position, the contract GPs...
The human biology – saturated with experience
- Linn Getz,
- Anna Luise Kirkengen,
- Elling Ulvestad
08.04.2011:
Human beings have unique characteristics that distinguish them from all other known organisms – a capacity for self-reflection, for designing sophisticated symbolic structures, for attaching metaphorical concepts to experiences and for building models and categories with the aid of the imagination...
General practitioners who do not adhere to guidelines - do they have valid reasons?
- Irene Hetlevik,
- Linn Getz,
- Anna Luise Kirkengen
09.10.2008:
Clinical guidelines for prevention of cardiovascular disease have been developed and implementation of them attempted since the 1980s. Although the guidelines have been especially tailored to general practice, studies have shown that general practitioners tend not to adhere to them although they...
A different cardiovascular epidemiology
- Anna Luise Kirkengen,
- Linn Getz,
- Irene Hetlevik
09.10.2008:
A Doctor’s Prayer If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching Or cool one Pain Or help one fainting Robin Unto his Nest again I shall not live in Vain. Emily Dickinson Biomedical knowledge regarding «correct» treatment of human hearts – including...