Abstract
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Highlights
Rather than trying to repeat Dalgard’s descriptions, I will delimit the description of old Norwegian psychiatric epidemiology to listing a few milestones and in a little more detail, try to give a picture of epidemiological research on mental health in Norway during the last two decennia
In Norway, epidemiology was quite suddenly brought to broader attention after “Health, Environment, and Life Conditions” (HEMIL) was appointed scientific priority by the Norwegian parliament’s White Paper on research in 1985 and was started as a program in the Research Council of Norway (RCN) in 1986
A new appreciation of the importance of both epidemiology and mental health in general arose from the 1980s
Summary
In Norway, epidemiology was quite suddenly brought to broader attention after “Health, Environment, and Life Conditions” (HEMIL) was appointed scientific priority by the Norwegian parliament’s White Paper on research in 1985 and was started as a program in the Research Council of Norway (RCN) in 1986. Medical Faculty, UiO, including the university hospitals belonging to Oslo, according to this approximate estimation produces 37% of the MHE publications in Norway during the last three decades. According to the result from the literature search, some highly productive MHE researchers are Lars Lien, Hedmark University College, Geir Selbæk, Head of Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Ageing and Health, Ingunn Skre, Institute of Psychology, University of Tromsø, Tore Wentzel-Larsen, RBUP South and East, and Lars Wichstrøm, Department of Psychology, NTNU. Dahl established a group of MHE researchers mostly from Bergen and Trøndelag, using the data material on mental health from the HUNT2 in 1995-97 and other population based studies, like Hordaland Health Study (HUSK) Dahl and his former PhD students have published a large number of epidemiological studies based on HUNT, HUSK, and other data materials. His great merit has been his ability to bring new highly needed knowledge, especially on personality disorders, for which results on occurrence and genetic effects were for a long period scarce
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