Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Concept Videos

Longitudinal Research02:20

Longitudinal Research

Sometimes we want to see how people change over time, as in studies of human development and lifespan. When we test the same group of individuals repeatedly over an extended period of time, we are conducting longitudinal research. Longitudinal research is a research design in which data-gathering is administered repeatedly over an extended period of time. For example, we may survey a group of individuals about their dietary habits at age 20, retest them a decade later at age 30, and then again...
Life Tables01:22

Life Tables

A life table is a statistical tool that summarizes the mortality and survival patterns of a population, providing detailed insights into the likelihood of survival or death across different age intervals within a cohort. By organizing data on survival probabilities and mortality rates, life tables offer a clear snapshot of population dynamics over time. They are extensively used in demography, public health, actuarial science, and ecology to analyze life expectancy, design health interventions,...
Pharmacokinetics in Geriatric Patients: Effect of Age on Drug Excretion01:18

Pharmacokinetics in Geriatric Patients: Effect of Age on Drug Excretion

In geriatric patients, renal physiology undergoes significant changes, including diminished renal blood flow and a lower glomerular filtration rate (GFR), leading to alterations in medication clearance. Drugs such as aminoglycoside antibiotics, lithium, and digoxin, which rely on glomerular filtration for removal from the body, particularly impact pharmacokinetics. These drugs tend to have slower clearance rates in older adults, necessitating careful dosage considerations.Evaluation of renal...
Obedience01:08

Obedience

According to obedience research, we may harm others under the forceful pressures of an authority figure (Milgram, 1974). How about if the inappropriate orders were delivered with less force? The increasing interdependence between nurses and physicians compelled Hofling and his colleagues to explore nurses’ reactions to a potentially harmful medical request made by the perceived authority figure, the doctor (Hofling, Brotzman, Dalrymple, Graves, & Pierce, 1966). In this situation, obedience...
Pharmacodynamics in Geriatric Patients: Effects of Age01:27

Pharmacodynamics in Geriatric Patients: Effects of Age

Age-related pharmacokinetic changes are extensively documented, but understanding age-related pharmacodynamic alterations is relatively limited. This knowledge gap can be partly attributed to the complexity of developing appropriate measures of drug responses compared to bioanalytical methods for determining drug concentrations.Most information regarding age-related differences in human pharmacodynamics originates from cross-sectional studies. However, these studies assume that observed mean...
Actuarial Approach01:20

Actuarial Approach

The actuarial approach, a statistical method originally developed for life insurance risk assessment, is widely used to calculate survival rates in clinical and population studies. This method accounts for participants lost to follow-up or those who die from causes unrelated to the study, ensuring a more accurate representation of survival probabilities.
Consider the example of a high-risk surgical procedure with significant early-stage mortality. A two-year clinical study is conducted,...

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Confined to a lunatic asylum for eleven years: the case of Haaken Bergh.

Tidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke·2026
Same author

What is burnout?

Tidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke·2026
Same author

Determining paternity before DNA - the significance of pregnancy duration.

Tidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke·2026
Same author

Tidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke·2026
Same author

Lifetime exposure to bullying and its association with health status and quality of life in the general Norwegian population: a cross-sectional study.

Frontiers in public health·2026
Same author

Doctors' job shifts between non-profit and for-profit healthcare organisations: evidence from a national panel of doctors.

BMC research notes·2026

Related Experiment Videos

Mortality among Norwegian doctors 1960-2000.

Olaf G Aasland1, Erlend Hem, Tor Haldorsen

  • 1The Research Institute, Norwegian Medical Association, Oslo, Norway. olaf.aasland@legeforeningen.no

BMC Public Health
|March 24, 2011
PubMed
Summary

Norwegian doctors experienced lower mortality than the general population, except for suicide. Over four decades, their mortality rates converged with other graduates, but the gap widened between these groups and the general population.

Related Experiment Videos

Area of Science:

  • Public Health
  • Epidemiology
  • Occupational Health

Background:

  • Examined mortality patterns in Norwegian doctors, human service occupations, other graduates, and the general population from 1960-2000.
  • Utilized a large dataset of 1,583,559 deaths for comprehensive analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate and compare mortality rates across different occupational groups and the general population.
  • To analyze trends in mortality by decade, gender, and age.

Main Methods:

  • Linked Norwegian census data (1960-1990) with 14 main causes of death data.
  • Employed stratified incidence-rate analysis and Mantel-Haenzel estimates, adjusting for age and period.

Main Results:

  • Doctors exhibited lower mortality than the general population for most causes, excluding suicide.
  • Mortality rate ratios for other graduates and human service occupations were 0.7-0.8 compared to the general population.
  • Doctors had lower mortality for endocrine, urogenital, digestive diseases, and sudden death, but higher than other graduates, potentially due to suicide rates.

Conclusions:

  • Mortality for doctors converged with other graduates and human service professionals between 1960-2000.
  • A widening mortality gap was observed between these educated groups and the general population.
  • Higher suicide rates may explain the slightly elevated mortality among doctors compared to other university graduates.