OBJECTIVE Excess mortality from diseases and medical conditions (natural death) in persons with psychiatric disorders has been extensively reported. Even in the Nordic countries with well-developed welfare systems, register based studies find evidence of an excess mortality. In recent years, cardiac mortality and death by diseases of the circulatory system has seen a decline in all the Nordic c...

The aim of this study was to compare the performance of hospital care in four Nordic countries: Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark. Using national discharge registries and cost data from hospitals, cost efficiency in the production of somatic hospital care was calculated for public hospitals. Data were collected using harmonized definitions of inputs and outputs for 184 hospitals and data enve...

The purpose of the Nordic research project, Nord-VET, is to generate new knowledge on the strengths and weaknesses of the different models of vocational education and training (VET) at upper secondary level in the four Nordic countries. This research is expected to strengthen the knowledge base required for developing VET for the future. The main purpose of this project is to shed light on the ...

Health care services are undergoing major change and reform, with restructuring and re-engineering taking place world-wide. Many factors have influenced these changes. They include: (1) the use of high technology with the increased possibility of medical interventions, (2) people living longer and thus the number of older people needing health care increasing, (3) changes in family structure wi...

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NorduGrid offers reliable Grid services for academic users over an increasing set of computing & storage resources spanning through the Nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. A small group of scientists has already been using the NorduGrid as their daily computing utility. In the near future we expect a rapid growth both in the number of active users and available resources thank...

There is relatively close contact among the Nordic countries with regard to drugs. Co-operation exists, for example, between enforcement agencies and customs services, on questions of policy, as well as in research activities. Nordic "co-operation" also takes place at the level of the drug users. Denmark, and particularly Copenhagen, has long been identified as a Nordic "Mecca" for buying drugs...

The aim of this paper is to study the link relationships in the Nordic academic web space – comprised of 23 Finnish, 11 Danish and 28 Swedish academic web domains with the European one. Through social networks analysis we intend to detect sub-networks within the Nordic network, the position and role of the different university web domains and to understand the structural topology of this web sp...