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Articles by Are Brean
Light in the darkness
- Are Brean
13.12.2021:
The pandemic has changed the world. There is more inequality and injustice. But there is also some light ahead. Two years have now passed since the previously unknown SARS-CoV-2 respiratory virus was first diagnosed in Wuhan, China. Before the end of the year, nearly 50 million people across the...
Ordinary people's health service
- Are Brean
19.10.2021:
The Hurdal platform paves the way for strengthening the public health service. However, the promises are numerous and somewhat vague. How well will they stand the test in the daily political grind and when confronted with the parliamentary majority? On 13 October 2021, the Labour Party and the...
Health and safety first
- Are Brean
06.09.2021:
The traditional health policy issues have failed to turn up the heat in this year's election campaign. The greatest threat to public health comes from elsewhere. 'Health and safety first'. Such was the motto that the 2020 Annual Representative Meeting of the Norwegian Medical Association adopted as...
Register first, report later
- Are Brean
28.06.2021:
The number of clinical trials conducted in Norway is set to double by 2025. This matters little unless the results are reported. Clinical research helps provide better and safer treatment, gives patients access to new diagnostics and methods of treatment, helps rationalise the health services and...
Constrained research
- Are Brean
22.03.2021:
When researchers are threatened, harassed and forcibly silenced, this is an attack on public enlightenment – and on democracy. Jonas F. Ludvigsson, paediatrician and professor of clinical epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet, was completely unprepared for what was to come. On 6 January 2021, the...
Openness and trust
- Are Brean
14.12.2020:
Trust based on openness has been crucial in tackling the coronavirus pandemic so far. The first vaccines will be approved soon. This has put openness and trust to a new test. If anyone had said a year ago that in the lead-up to Christmas 2020, we would be discussing in all seriousness how many...
The Corona Voyage
- Are Brean
30.10.2020:
Navigating uncharted dangerous waters calls for prudence and level-headedness, not poorly judged sudden turns. This applies to the coronavirus pandemic as well. There is a great deal that we do not know: When will the first vaccines appear, how effective will they be and for how long will the...
Unhealthy emissions
- Are Brean
26.10.2020:
The National Health Service in the UK has adopted the world's first national plan for a climate-neutral healthcare sector. Who can launch a similar commitment in Norway? Anthropogenic climate change is the greatest threat to public health of our time (1). To limit global warming and reduce its...