Margrete Gaski disputerer med avhandlingen Aspects of health services in Sami areas

20.01.2012

Statsviter Margrete Gaski fra Deatnu/Tana, har forsvart sin avhandling ved Helsevitenskapeligfakultet i Tromsø. Prøveforelesningen hadde tittelen Sykdomsforståelse og sykdomsbegreper i samisk kultur. Gaski har beriket det faglige miljøet på NSDM gjennom mange år. Vi gratulerer!

Fra avhandlingens innledning:

Better health services for Sami people has been lifted on the political and professional agenda for many years and from several sides. As a response on a situastion with difference in health gradients between the northernmost county of Finnmark, where many Sami live, and the counties further south in Norway, goverment actions has been implemented since the 1960s to strengthen the Sami people. Since 1980, problems of under-utilization of health services and communication between health workers and Sami patients are brought into focus, and Sami spokesmen still claim that the health services do not ensure the needs of Sami patients. The litterature concerning helath services for Sami patients indicate an early conclusion that the existence of health services research in the field of health care utilisation among Sami is limited to a few studies, not very wide-ranging. Along with the lack of knowledge about results of govermental action following the political and professional concerns related to health services for Sami, reserach needs for this thesis were identified. The overal aim of the thesis is to explore empirically aspects of health services in Sami municipalities, and compare with other indigenous people. This work is carried out in the interface between several fields and disciplines. It draws upon theory and research from political science, geography, antropology, and health science. It is based on three seperate studies.

Use of health care in the main area of Sami habitation in Norway - catching up with national expenditure rates. Gaski M, Melhus M, Deraas T, Førde OH. Rural Remote Health. 2011 Apr-Jun;11(2):1655. Epub 2011 May 31.

Forty years of allocated seats for Sami medical students - has preferential admission worked? Gaski M, Abelsen B, Hasvold T. Rural Remote Health. 2008 Apr-Jun;8(2):845. Epub 2008 Apr 10.

A comparative study of strategies for recruting young indigenous people to become physicians. Nearly fifty years of preferential admission and support. Gaski M. (conditionally accepted in Human resources for health)