Medical encounters with young unaccompanied refugees: a qualitative study among general practitioners and physicians in migrant health clinics in Norway and Denmark.

Objective: This study examines the experiences of clinical encounters with young unaccompanied refugees in Norway and Denmark among both general practitioners (GPs) and physicians in migrant health clinics (MHC physicians), and it identifies important aspects that should be taken into consideration for improving the quality of healthcare for these patients.

Methodology: Ten individual in-depth interviews with physicians in Norway and Denmark were conducted and analysed using interpretative phenomenology. Axel Honneth's theory of recognition was our theoretical lens.

Children as next of kin's experiences, practices, and voice in everyday life: a systematic review of studies with Norwegian data (2010-2022).

This systematic review aims to identify and describe how children of parents with mental illness, substance dependence, or severe physical illness/injury, experience and practise their everyday life. The review followed the four stepwise recommendations of Harden and colleagues when including quantitative and qualitative studies on peoples' experiences and views. In all, 23 studies with data from Norway (2010-2022) have been included.

Health and meaning through "doings": A qualitative study with young unaccompanied refugees in Norway.

Background: Young unaccompanied refugees who settle in a new country are at substantial risk of developing health problems while striving to uphold a meaningful, new life. We lack knowledge about how they use their personal agency to self-care in the context of their local communities. This article examines how young unaccompanied refugees create healthy identities and looks into the social structures that promote health in their everyday life.

Health Promotion and Identity Construction in Norwegian Kindergartens - A Qualitative Study on Children with and without Disabilities.

Unlabelled: This article focuses on how children, independent of abilities, create healthy identities and spaces in kindergarten,and is based on a qualitative CGT-study carried out in Norwegian Kindergartens. Data sources include Life-forminterviews with 24 children, with and without disabilities. Children placed health in the context of their daily-lifeexperiences.

From public health to public good: Toward universal wellbeing.

We aim to consolidate recent trends in public health into a reconceptualization of the field as public good. We build on several strands of theory, research and action to formulate a more impactful future for the field. Our argument comprises three main parts.

: experiences of using ICT to engage with services among young persons with disabilities.

Purpose: The use of Information and communications technologies (ICT) in the public sector is widespread and on the increase. There is a need to develop knowledge regarding the end users experiences of using ICT to engage with services. This study aims to provide knowledge regarding young persons with disabilities or chronic disease experience using ICT to engage with health- and social care services.

Pregnant women's experiences with a pelvic floor muscle training program in Nepal.

Background: In Nepal, pelvic floor disorders affect about 24% of the women in reproductive age whereof 10% suffer from pelvic organ prolapse (POP). Still, many do not seek health care. Strengthening exercises for the pelvic floor muscles for prevention and treatment of POP has shown strong evidence internationally, but for women in Nepal surgery is primarily offered.

Feeling Valued and Adding Value: A Participatory Action Research Project on Co-creating Practices of Social Inclusion in Kindergartens and Communities.

Contemporary public health problems connect to the social determinants of health, with a growing recognition of social inclusion as imperative to sustainable development. In this quest for social inclusion, early childhood and families are of particular interest. Although co-creation is suggested as viable path to support well-being, less is known how social inclusion might be co-created in practice.

«If you give them your little finger, they'll tear off your entire arm»: losing trust in biobank research.

Why do some people withdraw from biobank studies? To our knowledge, very few studies have been done on the reflections of biobank ex-participants. In this article, we report from such a study. 16 years ago, we did focus group interviews with biobank participants and ex-participants.

The art of maintaining everyday life: collaboration among older parents, their adult children, and health care professionals in reablement.

A shift in the work-divide among generations and an ageing population have altered the balance of care and support between families and welfare states. Although state policy has increasingly acknowledged that older adults ageing in place receive support from family members, how adult children perceive their collaboration with their parents and health care professionals in reablement services remains unclear. The aim of this study is to identify how adult children perceive the collaboration between older parents, family members, and health care professionals in reablement services.

When everyday life becomes a storm on the horizon: families' experiences of good mental health while hiking in nature.

Hiking in nature is often presented as a yearning for lost harmony premised on an alleged divide between nature as authentically healthy and society as polluted. This paper's aim is to question this strict divide and the strong belief in nature as having an innate health-providing effect, the biophilia hypothesis, by examining what Norwegian families with young children experience when walking in the forest. Twenty-four conversations with families during a hiking trip in the forest were recorded, and the data were analysed with Giorgi's descriptive phenomenological research method.

The "double life" of bulimia: patients' experiences in daily life interactions.

This qualitative study, using interviews with 38 subjects, explored how and why they conceal bulimic symptoms and the understanding of concealing in terms of social interaction. A "double life" was described as a dichotomy between being active and outgoing versus performing shameful bulimic behaviors and constantly living with fear of stigmatization, and striving against exposure. Concealing was well planned to avoid such fear, and to preserve dignity.