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Ragnhild Ørstavik er assisterende sjefredaktør i Tidsskriftet. Hun er dr.med. og har en bistilling som seniorforsker ved Folkehelseinstituttet.
Articles by Ragnhild Ørstavik
Inoculation against vaccine hesitancy?
- Ragnhild Ørstavik
12.01.2022:
Over a short time, science has produced effective vaccines against COVID-19, but has yet to fully answer the question of how we can persuade as many as possible to be vaccinated. One morning in 1962, Roald Dahl sat at his daughter Olivia's bedside. She was recuperating after a bout of measles. 'How...
Whom do you cite?
- Ragnhild Ørstavik
11.10.2021:
Science is losing out due to the lack of diversity in academia. The list of references in an academic article is there to substantiate arguments and guide the readers to other interesting articles on the same topic. Citations are also important for those who are cited: in applications for...
What the abortion figures say
- Ragnhild Ørstavik
07.06.2021:
It's time to change the role of abortion boards. However, my search for systematic knowledge that could inform me about a difficult topic threw up very little. The current abortion law has largely remained unchanged since its introduction in 1978 (1). There are now calls to update it – primarily to...
Preprints are here to stay
- Ragnhild Ørstavik
08.03.2021:
Researchers want openness and discussion, and for their findings to be disseminated independently of editor-controlled scientific journals. In the autumn of 2017, the editor-in-chief of the medical journal JAMA wrote that 'Progress in human health is measured in years, not days, weeks, or months' (1...
The best of one, but not both worlds
- Ragnhild Ørstavik
11.01.2021:
Many thousands of volunteers are participating in clinical studies of vaccines against COVID-19. What happens to those of them who were not vaccinated when the vaccine is rolled out to the rest of the population? Over the next few months, parts of the population will be offered a vaccine against...
Hunger
- Ragnhild Ørstavik
23.11.2020:
There will be no gala banquet to celebrate the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize in December. It will not be the most important meal that some people will have to skip this year. At our end of the world's dining table we are struggling with an obesity epidemic. Around the table, however, there are many who are...
Licence to live
- Ragnhild Ørstavik
15.06.2020:
People who have been infected with COVID-19 avoid quarantine after exposure to infection or a stay abroad. The regulation is a sensible one, but it should not be a first step towards discrimination on the grounds of immunity. Once in the 1830s, the German immigrant Gustav Dresel arrived in New...
Covid-19: The right amount of wolf
- Ragnhild Ørstavik
06.03.2020:
The health authorities should provide information on the new corona virus without causing unnecessary anxiety. But is it possible? In early January 2015, the Coming Attractions Bridal & Formal shop in Ohio closed down after 30 years in business (1). A few months earlier, the nurse Amber Vinson had...