Revisiting the Nordic welfare model; museums and disability in the Nordic countries

Financing the Nordic Welfare States: The Challenge of Globalization to Taxation in the Nordic countries

APL in the Nordic Countries

After serving one year in the army, he transferred to the Royal Canadian Air Force and served as a flight engineer specializing in reconnaissance. During his service, he took advantage of the Canadian Legion's offer of correspondence education and almost finished high school. He enjoyed teaching his service mates mathematics, and when he left the service it was with a promise to his counsellors...

Evaluation in the Nordic Countries

Evaluation in the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden varies substantially with regard to how well developed it is, as well as in the extent to which it is used. However, in all these countries evaluation has been developed within the public sector, whereas evaluation as a separate field of research and study hardly exists. This is to some extent changing with the establishm...

The Nordic Model: Monitoring Social Welfare and Health Care Services

This paper and our presentation at the ISI meeting in Helsinki have three major themes: Presentation of the Nordic model for organising and monitoring social welfare and health care services and the Nordic co-operation (Chapters 1-3), Demonstration of the Nordic model of information steering and easy availability of high quality data (Chapter 4), and Discussion about the future trends in dissem...

Occupation and cancer in the Nordic countries.

The papers on occupation and cancer from the Nordic Occupational Cancer project (NOCCA) in this issue of Acta Oncologica [1,2] provide an important resource to aid in our understanding of the role of occupational exposures in the etiology of cancer. This effort updates the earlier work by Andersen et al. [3] that also used the unique resources in Nordic countries for data linkage to study cance...