[Health and social insurance in Nordic countries].

Background: There is no previous comparative review available of Nordic social insurance schemes for sickness benefits, rehabilitation allowance and disability pensions.

Methods: Based on existing publications, a Nordic expert group in social insurance and insurance medicine has compared important aspects of the Nordic schemes.

Results: The Nordic sickness benefit schemes have many similarities, but differ considerably in degree of compensation, with 100% coverage of salary in Denmark and Norway and less coverage in the other three countries.

[Mass screening against cervical cancer--what are the viewpoints of female general practitioners?].

Female general practitioners play a central role in the national programme for organized cervical mass screening. The article presents results from a study among Norwegian female general practitioners (n = 720) on their view of the benefit of the screening programme and about the recommendations they give their patients regarding routine Pap-smear. The response rate was 95%.

[Cervical cytological tests among female general practitioners. A study of health habits of physicians].

The authors present results from a study which focused on physicians' own routines for health controls, using pap-smear screening as example. The study was designed as a survey where a questionnaire was mailed to all Norwegian female general practitioners (720). The response rate was 95%.