background: little attention has been given to the relationship between work-life balance and sickness absence. objective: to investigate the association between poor work-life balance and sickness absence in 4 nordic welfare states. methods: multivariable logistic regression analysis was performed on pooled cross-sectional data of workers aged 15–65 years from denmark, finland, sweden, and nor...

The aim was to estimate outpatient consumption of psychotropic drugs in Croatia in correlation with Scandinavian countries. Data on drug utilization, from Zagreb Municipal Pharmacy, were used to calculate the number of defined daily doses (DDD) and DDD per 1000 inhabitants per day (DDD/TID) using Anatomical-Therapeutic-Chemical methodology (ATC) by WHO. Data of the Nordic Medico-Statistical Com...

A Nordic WelfAre Model? The Nordic countries are all established welfare states, and there has for some time existed a notion of a distinctive Nordic or Scandinavian welfare state; it is often understood in terms of broad, tax-financed public responsibility and legislated, collective, and universalistic solutions that respect employment interest yet aim at welfare and equity goals (1). Lately, ...

1 Scandinavian Studies in Law 50 Years ................................................. 14 2 The Themes of the Article ...................................................................... 15 3 Scandinavian or Nordic Law? Terminology and Basic Legal Setting ................................................................................. 15 4 The Classification of Scandinavian Law Within the ...

ISLEX is a multilingual Scandinavian dictionary, with Icelandic as a source language and Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Faroese and Finnish as target languages. Within ISLEX are in fact contained several independent, bilingual dictionaries. While Faroese and Finnish are still under construction, the other languages were opened to the public on the web in November 2011. The use of the dictionary is...

Research) in 1957 with the aim of informing Swedish and Nordic readers about progress in nutritional sciences. It was directed to professionals working with nutrition such as dieticians, nutrition-ists, medical doctors and nurses, teachers of home economics, and not the least the Swedish food industry that was keen on applying new results for nutritional improvements of their products. In 1961,...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to describe oral prosthetics in a context intended for other, primarily Nordic, health professionals and health authorities. MATERIALS AND METHODS An article describing oral prosthetics for the general public was formulated on the basis of recent data and publications in prosthodontics from Scandinavian authors. A draft was presented to the educational co...

This special issue on Scandinavian Researcher Career Retrospectives (RCR) includes five articles from within the Nordic information systems (IS) research community. Two of the papers are from Finland (Iivari and Nurminen), two from Sweden (Flensburg and Lundeberg), and one from Denmark (Bjørn-Andersen with Clemmensen). Each of these articles illuminates the history of Scandinavian IS research, ...

also implies that there will not be a paper version of the Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care in your mailbox anymore. You now have to make sure that you, if not already, have signed up for an e-mail version of the journal using the link below. With this change a fantastic and important era with a paper journal from the Nordic countries has ended. Nevertheless, the Scandinavian Journal...

Fertility preservation has gained increased acceptance, and many reproductive medicine centers have established programs for this service. A recent report, which collected data from all Nordic university hospitals that had initiated programs for fertility preservation (N = 14), found that breast cancer is the most common diagnosis among women who underwent procedures aimed at fertility preserva...