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A SOCIAL ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON CANNABIS USE AMONG NORWEGIAN ADOLESCENTS - A multilevel study
(OsloMet-Storbyuniversitetet, 2020)Aim of the study: The main aim of this study is to explore the impact of the school-class on individual cannabis use, and the following research questions have been formulated; To what extent does the schoolclass influences ... -
Fertility, Gap Between Ideal and Reality: Cross-Sectional Analysis of Fertility Decline in 17 High-Income Countries
(OsloMet-Storbyuniversitetet, 2020)To maintain the current population of a country in the long run, the key threshold of the fertility level is 2.1 births per women. Among the approximately 80 countries that so far have reached this so-called replacement ... -
Ageing well in different community context - A quantitative study of life satisfaction among adults over 50 years of age in association with living environment and municipality population size in Norway.
(OsloMet-Storbyuniversitetet, 2020)In Norway, an increased proportion of the population are relocating from less central areas to be closer to the bigger cities. Moving tendencies towards more central locations are on historic highs but it is important to ... -
Is social media useful for migrations? The perspective of Turkish young adults in Oslo
(OsloMet-Storbyuniversitetet, 2020)Previous studies have demonstrated that migration can be a very hard and stressful process. However, new social media websites may be able to alleviate the problems, making it easier for the migrants to develop and use ... -
A study of Homelessness in Canada and the application of the Housing First model; The extent of clients’ choice of housing
(OsloMet-Storbyuniversitetet, 2020)Housing First has gained grounds in Canada starting from the year 2009 after an evidence-based research (At Home/Chez Soi (AC/CS)), funded by the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC), demonstrated with supported ... -
Front-line experiences of work on victims of domestic violence in Peru. An approach to considering front-line workers’ perspectives
(OsloMet-Storbyuniversitetet, 2020)Domestic violence in Peru is becoming more recurrent and brutal, with a total of 181,885 cases being reported to the Women’s Emergency Center in 2019, equating to approximately 400 cases per day. Those who work directly ... -
Narratives of Motherhood: Polish Mothers Living in Norway
(OsloMet-Storbyuniversitetet, 2020)In brief, the purpose of this research project is to shed light on the experiences of Polish women living in Norway and to highlight the positions and themes most significant to them, utilizing their own narratives relating ... -
“We can always return to the forest” Narratives of European labour migrants navigating the informal rental market in Oslo
(OsloMet-Storbyuniversitetet, 2020)The focus of this study is the housing careers, housing strategies and experiences of five European labour migrants who are currently living, or who have at some point, lived informally in Oslo. There has been little focus ... -
Post-earthquake challenges to access to Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) services in the daily life of people in rural Sindhuli, Nepal and its impact on girls and women
(OsloMet-Storbyuniversitetet, 2020)This dissertation is an attempt to explore how the WASH services in Bitizor, a rural village located in the Sindhuli district of Nepal, were impacted by the devastating earthquake of 2015. The study also tries to see the ... -
Masculinity through the Lens of the Introduction Program among Ethiopian Immigrant Men in Oslo: Work Inclusion
(OsloMet-Storbyuniversitetet, 2019)Norwegian Introduction Program has been studied and understood fairly from the perspective of the female migrant. However, it is less understood how experience and perception of masculinity in an intersection with class ... -
Exposure to physical and sexual violence, mental health and help-seeking behaviors among Norwegian youth: A cross-sectional study using data from Ungvold, 2015.
(OsloMet-Storbyuniversitetet, 2019)This thesis is written with consideration of adolescents’ mental health by looking at the connections with help-seeking and two types of violence, physical and sexual. The purpose was to investigate the association between ... -
Experiences of Filipino Nurses in Migration and Workforce Integration in Norway
(OsloMet-Storbyuniversitetet, 2019)The study is centralized on Filipino nurse migration and workforce integration into Norway. The Philippines is the leading exporter of nurses in developed countries, and this export-oriented strategy is placed by ... -
Domestic Violence: A study on the physical abuse of women and children in Teshie, Ghana
(OsloMet-Storbyuniversitetet, 2019)Women and children are mostly at the receiving end of abuse in homes and societies. Abuse against women and children has been documented for many decades and is very common in many countries, especially the developing ... -
House of Belonging-Integration in Social Housing A comparative study of ethnic minorities’ position in the social housing market in Oslo and Copenhagen
(OsloMet-Storbyuniversitetet, 2019)Aims and objectives: In what follows, my aim is to shed light on the social housing sector in Oslo, and how it impacts the ethnic minorities living there. Based on the Norwegian government’s goal for everyone to live well ... -
Off the Beaten Track: Lifestyle Migration in Rural Isaan
(OsloMet-Storbyuniversitetet, 2019)The thesis aims to give an insight into the ‘lifestyle migrations’ of Western men migrating to Isaan, the rural north-eastern region of Thailand. Perceptions of men migrating to Thailand are often negative, often assumed ... -
Conditional cash transfers as a risk management and poverty reduction strategy: a literature review and an assessment of barriers that hinder the full implementation of livelihood empowerment against poverty (LEAP) in Ghana
(OsloMet-Storbyuniversitetet, 2019)Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) is the largest social intervention policy in Ghana directed mainly to the poor and vulnerable. Since its first implementation in 2008, the aim of the LEAP programme is the ... -
An Investigation on the Responsiveness of International Clinical Trials on the Gravest Needs of the Population: A look at three LMICs with a high number of international clinical trials
(OsloMet-Storbyuniversitetet, 2019)The paper is a qualitative research paper done to assess whether the clinical trials carried out in low and middle-income nations like India, Brazil and Philippines were to address the gravest needs of those nations. To ... -
Conflicts between nurses and next of kin with an ethnic minority background: a qualitative study
(OsloMet-Storbyuniversitetet, 2019)Background: Through the years, the Norwegian society has gone from being a homogeneous society to being a multicultural society. This means that nurses and other healthcare personnel in Norway are having to deal with ... -
Who Cares for Caregivers? Exploring social health among family caregivers of people living with dementia
(OsloMet-Storbyuniversitetet, 2019)This thesis explores social health among caregivers of people living with dementia. Secondary analysis of qualitative interview data draws new information and perspectives from existing data. This analysis is a secondary ... -
Has NCMS improved equity in access to healthcare for the Chinese rural population? - An assessment based on the framework “benchmarks of fairness”
(OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University, 2019)Introduction: The collapse of the previous medical insurance made most of the rural population restricted to healthcare services. The launching of NCMS since 2003 has been expected to help change this severe situation. ...
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