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Laser diverticulotomy for Zenker's diverticulum-does it improve quality of life?
(European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology;270(9), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-09)To determine quality of life (QoL) in individuals with dysphagia related to identified Zenker’s diverticulum before (T1) and one year after undergoing endoscopic laser diverticulotomy surgery (T2). A total of 43 individuals ... -
Leaving care in Norway in a historic and current perspective: As a function of the Nordic welfare model
(Child & Family Social Work;Volume 26, Issue 2. Special Issue: Young People's Transitions from Care to Adulthood: Exploring Historical Narratives, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-04-15)Care leavers need support in the transition to adulthood. Care leavers in Norway benefit from the universalistic and somewhat generous Nordic welfare model. However, this model is constructed to meet general needs identified ... -
Legal norms, Profesional values, and practical ethics in local government: Elderly care in Latvia, Lithuania, and Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)This article reports findings from a comparative study of the influence of values and norms on the delivery of administrative and professional services in the public sector at the local gov-ernment level in three selected ... -
Liminalitet og appropriering: Antropologiske blikk på sosialt arbeid
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Både sosialantropologi og sosialt arbeid er opptatt av det som skjer i praksis mellom individer og samfunnsmessige og kulturelle prosesser som virker inn på sosialt samspill. Sosialt arbeid har mål om å motarbeide ... -
Livet etter løslatelse
(Bachelor thesis, 2023)Ved løslatelse fra fengsel og tilbake til samfunnet møter de straffedømte på ulike utfordrende situasjoner. Oppgaven tar sikte på å undersøke noen av disse, hvordan ting kan gjøres annerledes og hva som har vist seg å ... -
Living happily alone in Plato's cave? on loneliness, technology and the metaphysics of presence
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)In a lot of research on loneliness and technology, there is an underlying premise that actual, physical presence is more real than ’virtual’ presence. This premise is rarely explicit, yet it implies a hierarchy of reality, ... -
Logistics of care: Trust-reform and self-managing teams in municipal home care services
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The central idea in trust-reform is to improve service delivery by granting professional autonomy and acknowledging the experiential knowledge of professionals. In this article, we study trust-reform bottom-up from the ... -
Logistics of care: Trust-reform and self-managing teams in municipal home care services
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The central idea in trust-reform is to improve service delivery by granting professional autonomy and acknowledging the experiential knowledge of professionals. In this article, we study trust-reform bottom-up from the ... -
‘The Long and Winding Road’ — Collective action among people experiencing homelessness
(International Journal of Action Research;Vol. 16, No. 2-2020, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)What possibilities exist for collective action among marginalised people? Through participatory action research (PAR), we study possibilities for collective action among people affected by homelessness and substance use. ... -
Lost in culture: Language discordance and culturalization in social work with migrants
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Social work carried out without a shared language, can be referred to as language discordant social work. In this article we discuss links between language discordance and culturalization in social work, based on data from ... -
Lovfestet kjærlighet
(Bachelor thesis, 2023)Denne bacheloroppgaven undersøker kjærlighetens inntreden i barnevernloven. Innledningsvis gjøres det rede for den noe polariserte diskusjonen i forkant av lovendringen i 2018, som fortsatt ser ut til å være like aktuell ... -
Maintaining normality when serving a prison sentence in the digital society
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Making and managing medical anomalies: Exploring the classification of ‘medically unexplained symptoms’
(Social Studies of Science;Vol 50, Issue 6, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-01)This article explores the making and management of anomaly in scientific work, taking ‘medically unexplained symptoms’ (MUS) as its case. MUS is a category used to characterize health conditions that are widely held to be ... -
Making and managing medical anomalies: Exploring the classification of ‘medically unexplained symptoms’
(Social Studies of Science;Vol 50, Issue 6, 2020, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-15)This article explores the making and management of anomaly in scientific work, taking ‘medically unexplained symptoms’ (MUS) as its case. MUS is a category used to characterize health conditions that are widely held to be ... -
Making Neighbor Relations Through Materialities and Senses
(Space and Culture;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Many scholars have turned to neighboring, or neighbor interactions and practices, as an open-ended process rather than a finished ideal. In doing so, they have disrupted the romanticization of the neighborhood as a ... -
Making sense of the digital co-production of welfare services: using digital technology to simplify or tailor the co-production of services
(Public Management Review;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-12-03)This paper offers a theoretical framework for digital co-production in public services and considers the benefits and limitations such services can have for citizens. Based on examples from the Norwegian Labour and Welfare ... -
Makten i barnevernet - På hvilken måte kan makt utspille seg når barnevernsarbeidere skal vurdere klienters hjelpebehov?
(Bachelor thesis, 2023)Barnevernsfeltet er en del av sosialfaglig arbeid og er et felt preget av både hjelp, kontroll og makt, hvor barnevernsarbeiderne står i en posisjon til å fatte beslutninger og foreta vurderinger som kan få store konsekvenser ... -
Mapping European Welfare Models: State of the Art of Strategies for Professional Integration and Reintegration of Persons with Chronic Diseases
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background: Persons with chronic diseases (PwCDs) often experience work-related problems, and innovative actions to improve their participation in the labor market are needed. In the frame of the European (EU) Pathways ... -
Marginalised groups protest against social welfare and public health: conceptualising the challenge for social workers
(European Journal of Social Work;Volume 23, 2020 - Issue 6: Social work research, humans right and social justice in a changing welfare society, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-16)As neoliberalisation and other global disruptions change the understanding of human rights and social justice for social workers, how are protests organised by marginalised groups against social welfare and public health ... -
Material deprivation and health: A longitudinal study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-08-08)Background Does material deprivation affect the consequences of ill health? Answering this question requires that we move beyond the effects of income. Longitudinal data on material deprivation, longstanding illness and ...