National health care registries in the Nordic countries share many attributes, but different legal and ethical frameworks represent a challenge to promoting effective joint research. Internationally, there is a lack of knowledge about how ethical matters are considered in Nordic registry-based research, and a lack of knowledge about how Nordic ethics committees operate and what is needed to obt...

In spite of many challenges faced by the Baltic States during the recent economic and nancial crisis, their progress since independence in 1991 has been remarkable. In about two decades those countries have been transformed from being centrally planned economies and part of the former Soviet Union, into modern countries that are rmly integrated into the global economy. Since the independence ...

This study has dealt with the formation of regional partnerships in four Nordic states – Norway, Denmark, Finland and Sweden. It has proved that regional development activity as a rule is increasingly based on different forms of partnership arrangements. In fact the partnership model is apparent within the frame of regional development policies in all the selected Nordic countries. The ambition...

In this paper we analyze Nordic long-run economic performance and wages by focusing on convergence (or divergence) over time among the Nordic countries and whether they converged toward the economic leaders, such as Europe, UK and USA, in particular time periods. Our first comparative mirror was the development of real GDP per capita from the early 19 century to 2010 – it seems that there was a...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS In the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden), the prevalence of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is relatively low in the general population, but is much higher among people who inject drugs (PWID). We conducted an exploratory study to investigate the extent to which these countries have policies supporting key elements of the public health re...

BACKGROUND Immigration to the Nordic countries has increased in the last decades and foreign-born inhabitants now constitute a considerable part of the region's population. Several studies suggest poorer self-reported health among foreign-born compared to natives, while results on mortality and life expectancy are inconclusive. To date, few studies have summarized knowledge on mortality differe...