This article brings the social science concept of 'deservingness' to bear on clinical cases of
transnational migrant patients. Based on the authors' medical social science research …

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown not only how life on our planet is closely connected,
enabling a zoonotic disease to spread rapidly across human societies worldwide, but also …

Antibiotic development and usage, and antibiotic resistance in particular, are today
considered global concerns, simultaneously mandating local and global perspectives and …

Background Patient-accessible electronic health records (PAEHRs) enable patients to
access their health records through a secure connection over the internet. Although previous …

Policy Points The current crisis of antibiotic resistance calls for policy reforms locally and
globally. Historical insight in different regulatory systems can inform current decision making …

This May the World Health Assembly quietly adopted the 11th version of the International
Classification of Disease (ICD-11), the first of its kind to be fully electronic. The digitalonly …

During the 1950s it became apparent that antibiotics could not conquer all microbes, and a
series of tests were developed to assess the susceptibility of microbes to antibiotics. This …

Background Medical certificates influence the distribution of economic benefits in welfare
states; however, the qualitative aspects of these texts remain largely unexplored. The …

The Norwegian radesyge, a mysterious and crippling skin disease, was regarded as one of
Norway's most serious health problems in the latter part of the eighteenth century and the …

When the patient applies for disability benefit in Norway, the general practitioner (GP) is
required by the National Insurance Administration (NAV) to confirm that the patient is unfit for …