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Martine Rostadmo er seniorrådgiver i Helsedirektoratet og overlege på Overgrepsmottaket i Oslo.
Articles by Martine Rostadmo
No one is free until everyone is free
- Martine Rostadmo
25.02.2022:
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Norway. Can we learn from the past and address our own prejudices and culture? 'Everyone took it well!' My brother had just come out of the closet. He was clearly relieved and happy. I shared his joy at first, but then...
Everybody knows that the Plague is coming
- Martine Rostadmo
22.11.2021:
And everybody knows that we are not all equal. In 2019, only months before the outbreak of the pandemic, the WHO published the report A World at Risk (1). It describes how the world should 'prepare for the worst: a rapidly spreading, lethal respiratory pathogen pandemic'. The description of what...
Black skin is thicker than white
- Martine Rostadmo
01.02.2021:
Unequal outcomes are observed for different ethnicities in Norway's public health service. In order to address this, we need to confront our own prejudices first. Stillbirth and neonatal death are harsh and tragic outcomes. We have long known that the probability of such an outcome is twice as high...
Norway needs more children
- Martine Rostadmo
17.09.2020:
Half of all the world's refugees are children. 'Norway needs more children,' prime minister Erna Solberg said in her New Year's speech in 2018 (1). On Lesbos, newborn infants are sleeping on the street, and there are more refugees in the world today than there were during the Second World War. Close...
A piece of the puzzle
- Martine Rostadmo
11.03.2019:
The case report is the oldest genre in medicine. It remains as important as ever. The case report sits at the bottom of the pyramid that ranks medical research (1), and when the enthusiasm surrounding evidence-based medicine was at its height, the case report was somewhat overshadowed. Did it seem...
Breastfeeding as a global public health measure
- Martine Rostadmo
28.05.2018:
Breastfeeding is a personal, intimate and private practice, but it is also a matter of public health. More than 800 000 infant mortalities could be prevented each year if mothers in low-income countries would breastfeed their babies rather than use infant formula. 'Breast is best.' We have known...
Zika – more than just bad luck
- Martine Rostadmo
24.05.2016:
Mosquitoes bite, and some are bitten more often than others. The consequences of the zika epidemic affect women, and poor pregnant women are most severely affected In Uganda, mosquito-borne diseases are nothing new – in a lush forest called Zika, research on mosquito-borne viruses has been...