Charlotte Haug

13.01.2015: Who will select and provide quality assurance of published knowledge in the future? Information technology is transforming societies, cultures and power relationships. When sharing information becomes cheaper and easier, unexpected opportunities for development, democratisation and decentralisation...

09.12.2014: Emerging economies have the opportunity to rethink the provision of health services completely – and are doing so. Dare we learn from them? «We definitely study the organisation of health services in Northern Europe an thed USA,» Subramaniam Sathasivan told me. «We wish to learn – not least what we...

09.12.2014: Emerging economies have the opportunity to rethink the provision of health services completely – and are doing so. Dare we learn from them? «We definitely study the organisation of health services in Northern Europe an thed USA,» Subramaniam Sathasivan told me. «We wish to learn – not least what we...

02.09.2014: Comparisons and rankings are fun – especially when one emerges with flying colours Norway has been ranked as the best country in the world in which to live for many years in succession, because we score highest on the UN Human Development Index – HDI. The index is calculated according to a formula...

27.05.2014: That virtually all clinical studies are commercially funded is a major problem for medicine. But we must not in addition halt studies aimed at checking the results. In October 2013, Abramson te al. published a study in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) which showed that giving statins to people with...

08.04.2014: Is our domestic debate on the right to conscientious objection in some way related to the atrocities that were perpetrated during the Second World War? Perhaps. I'm in trouble, she said / to him. That was the first / time in history that anyone / had ever spoken of me. Alden Nowlan (1933 – 83) «With...

11.03.2014: New opportunities for diagnostics and treatment leave us with more rather than fewer dilemmas that we need to relate to. «I was also ridding the family of a calamity,» the midwife said to the author Xinran in the documentary book Message from an unknown Chinese mother –stories of love and loss (1...

14.01.2014: Perhaps we should manage the health services a little more like a metropolis such as New York City than like an enterprise such as Toyota? «What was needed to plan something like this?» my travel companion asked me as I slumped exhausted on to a bench after having strolled the streets of New York...