OBJECTIVE We aim to describe medical services provided by Nordic general practitioners (GPs), and to explore possible differences between the countries. DESIGN AND SETTING We did a comparative analysis of selected data from the Nordic part of the study Quality and Costs of Primary Care in Europe (QUALICOPC). SUBJECTS A total of 875 Nordic GPs (198 Norwegian, 80 Icelandic, 97 Swedish, 212 Da...

background : the association of the mobile phone use and risk of brain tumor remains controversial among radiationepidemiologists. methods : we hypothesized if an association between brain tumor and mobile phone use exists, this association will be manifested as a cohort effect (as a proxy of association between mobile phone use and brain tumor) in the incidence rates of brain tumor during the ...

Citation: Horvat O, Mijatović V, Milijasević B, Tomas A, Kusturica MP, Tomić Z and Sabo A (2018) Are There Striking Differences in Outpatient Use of Antibiotics Between South Backa District, Serbia, and Some Scandinavian Countries? Front. Public Health 6:91. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2018.00091 are There striking Differences in Outpatient Use of antibiotics Between south Backa District, serbia, and so...

background: precarious employment is a major social determinant of health and health inequalities with effects beyond the health of workers. objective: to investigate the association between precarious employment and sickness absence in 4 nordic countries, denmark, finland, norway, and sweden. methods: logistic regression analyses were conducted separately for each country on data from 4186 res...

INTRODUCTION We review the current knowledge of CT screening for lung cancer and present an expert-based, joint protocol for the proper implementation of screening in the Nordic countries. MATERIALS AND METHODS Experts representing all the Nordic countries performed literature review and concensus for a joint protocol for lung cancer screening. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Areas of concern and ca...

OBJECTIVES Women aged 40-44 years in 2005 ought to have been subjected to much more influence on attitudes and knowledge on contraceptive methods during their fertile period than women who were in the same age span in 1975 when the abortion laws were introduced. MATERIAL From official statistics, the rates of induced abortion and birth rates in women aged 40-44 years were collected for Sweden...

in this article economic loss means those losses occurring independently of physical damage to things or to a person's body or health. there are two main positions about reparability of these losses: in some countries like french, belgium, spain, italy and luxembourg as a principle rule economic loss is recoverable and there is no difference between economic loss and other losses. but in s...

Abstract This chapter compares the quality of aspects teacher education in Nordic countries. Scandinavian countries employ nationwide surveys higher that provide essential information for authorities each country; these measurements are used public sector debates concerning education, and individual environments. The results from can be benchmarking. various across via a survey student teachers...

The Nordic Council is a forum for cooperation between the Nordic parliaments and governments. The Council consists of 87 parliamentarians from the Nordic countries. The Nordic Council takes policy initiatives and monitors Nordic cooperation. The Nordic Council of Ministers is a forum for cooperation between the Nordic governments. The Nordic Council of Ministers implements Nordic cooperation. T...