Blar i Institutt for sosiologi og statsvitenskap på dokumenttype "Peer reviewed"
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29 recommendations to combat social inequalities in health. The Norwegian Council on Social Inequalities in Health
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)All political parties in Norway agree that social inequalities in health comprise a public health problem and should be reduced. Against this background, the Council on Social Inequalities in Health has taken action to ... -
A balancing act? Work-life balance, health and well-being in European welfare states
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Background: Recent analyses have shown that adverse psychosocial working conditions, such as job strain and effort–reward imbalance, vary by country and welfare state regimes. Another work-related factor with potential ... -
A Climate for Change? Norwegian Farmers’ Attitudes to Climate Change and Climate Policy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Climate change is one of the major challenges of our time, and particularly so for agriculture. Agriculture is a significant contributor to climate change and, according to projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on ... -
A randomised controlled study of the long-term effects of exercise training on mortality in elderly people: Study protocol for the generation 100 study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Introduction: Epidemiological studies suggest that exercise has a tremendous preventative effect on morbidity and premature death, but these findings need to be confirmed by randomised trials. Generation 100 is a randomised, ... -
A Research Literature Study of Enterprise Social Media Platforms in Organizations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Media scholars have examined the effects of social media on society at large. The complex ways the same technology is adopted and implemented into organizational life is rather unclear. This aspect relates to a lack of ... -
A tale of two trajectories: bottom-up social software adoption in differing organisational contexts
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)The inherent bottom-up nature of social software diffusion differs markedly from the adoption trajectories to which most organisational IT strategies are accustomed. Through case studies in two organisations, this paper ... -
Absolute and relative accelerometer thresholds for determining the association between physical activity and metabolic syndrome in the older adults: The Generation-100 study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background When assessing population adherence to physical activity (PA) recommendation using accelerometers, absolute intensity threshold definition is applied despite having limited validity in those with low cardiorespiratory ... -
Access to Areas for Algae Cultivation in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Marine macro algae may play a significant role in the transformation to the future post fossil fuel and low carbon society. Previous research shows that high expectations for future and large-scale algae cultivation in ... -
Accountability on the Fly - Accounting for Trouble in Space Operations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The International Space Station (ISS) is research infrastructure enabling experiments in a microgravity environment. Building on a study of one of the ground control rooms in the ISS network, this paper concentrates on ... -
Accounting for the money-made parenthood of transnational surrogacy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)In the last decade, transnational surrogacy has attracted world-wide attention for making babies and pregnancies exchangeable with money. Involuntarily childless couples and individuals travel abroad and pay to have the ... -
Achievement goal profiles, and perceptions of motivational climate and physical ability in male Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioners
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background and Study Aim: Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) is a martial art with high rates of attrition. At present, little is known about the achievement goals of martial arts practitioners, particularly in BJJ. Thus, our aim ... -
Achievement goal profiles, and perceptions of motivational climate and physical ability in male Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioners
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background and Study Aim: Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) is a martial art with high rates of attrition. At present, little is known about the achievement goals of martial arts practitioners, particularly in BJJ. Thus, our aim ... -
Actions to strengthen the contribution of small farms and small food businesses to food security in Europe
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This study stems from a participatory foresight exercise conducted in nine Mediterranean, Baltic, Nordic and Eastern European regions, aiming to strengthen the role of small farms and small food businesses in ensuring food ... -
Acute physiological and perceptual responses to Brazilian jiu-jitsu sparring: the role of maximal oxygen uptake
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Sparring is a training form in combat sports designed to simulate fighting. This study sought to assess physiological and perceptual responses to Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) sparring and their relationship with maximal oxygen ... -
Administrating disability: The case of "assistance need" registration in Norwegian health and care governance
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)The use of quantitative measurement is a widespread method in public management to govern at distance. However, this governance may cause conflict, due to the statistics themselves. In Norway, measuring disability for ... -
Aerobic interval training improves maximal oxygen uptake and reduces body fat in grapplers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)BACKGROUND: Despite regularly engaging in high-intensity grappling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) athletes have a moderate maximal oxygen uptake (V̇O2max). The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and feasibility of ... -
Ageing in Norwegian rural and urban communities
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This paper, based on data from two recent national surveys of the residents of municipalities in Norway, compares rural and urban elderly people’s degree of satisfaction with locally available services and their reported ... -
The Agenda-Setting-Effects of News Factor Exposure: A Field Study Comparing the Transmission Paths and Impact of Issue Exposure and News Factor Exposure
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This study explores how strongly and through which mechanisms issue exposure (amount and emphasis of coverage) and news factor exposure (content of coverage that provides newsworthiness reasons) stimulate individual-level ... -
Alcohol‐attributed disease burden in four Nordic countries between 2000 and 2017: Are the gender gaps narrowing? A comparison using the Global Burden of Disease, Injury and Risk Factor 2017 study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Introduction and Aims The gender difference in alcohol use seems to have narrowed in the Nordic countries, but it is not clear to what extent this may have affected differences in levels of harm. We compared gender ... -
Alienation: A useful concept for health inequality research
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Aims: While Marxist class analysis has strongly influenced the development of health inequality research, other aspects of Marx’s theory have received less attention. Among the most relevant of Marx’s theoretical contributions ...