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Norske Kvinners Sanitetsforening
The Norwegian Women's Public Health Association (''Norske Kvinners Sanitetsforening'') or NKS is the largest women's organisation and one of the leading humanitarian organisations of Norway. It is open to women and men and was founded on the initiative of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights in 1896. The organization's main areas of focus are women's health and living conditions. It is involved in humanitarian work, such as running hospitals and nursing homes. The association currently has 750 local branches and ca. 50,000 members, although at one point, it had 250,000 members. NKS is a member of the Norwegian Women's Lobby umbrella organization. History NKS was founded in 1896 following initiatives by Fredrikke Marie Qvam, Randi Blehr, Cecilie Thoresen Krog and Margrethe Vullum. It was established on the initiative of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights. In 1898, NKS opened a school for the education of nurses with military service. In 1899, the fight against ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredrikke Marie Qvam
Fredrikke Marie Qvam (née Gram) (31 May 184310 September 1938) was a Norwegian humanitarian leader, feminist, liberal politician and the wife of Prime Minister Ole Anton Qvam. She was the founder (1896) of the Norwegian Women's Public Health Association that grew to become Norway's largest women's organisation with 250,000 members, and served as its first President from 1896 to 1933, and as its Honorary President from 1933 until her death. She also served as president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights from 1899 to 1903. She was widely regarded as one of the most influential and successful political lobbyists of her time, and was described in the journal ''Samtiden'' in 1915 as the "Queen of the corridors." She was addressed as "Madam Cabinet Minister" ( no, Statsraadinde) and later as "Madam Prime Minister" ( no, Statsministerinde), using her husband's titles. Early life and marriage Qvam was born Fredrikke Marie Gram in Trondheim to merchant David Andreas Gram and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecilie Thoresen Krog
Ida Cecilie Thoresen Krog (née Thoresen; 7 March 1858 – 13 November 1911) was a Norwegian women's rights pioneer and Liberal Party politician, and the first female university student in Norway. She became famous when she was allowed to submit to examen artium in 1882, after an Act amendment had taken place. She was the first president of the women's rights association Skuld and a co-founder and vice president of its successor, the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights. She was also a co-founder and board member of the Norwegian Women's Public Health Association. She was active in the Liberal Party and her liberal views also colored her involvement in the women's rights movement. She was elected a deputy representative in Christiania City Council for the Liberal Party in 1901, as one of the first women elected to a political office in Norway. Personal life She was born in Eidsvoll as a daughter of physician Nils Windfeldt Thoresen (1822–1907) and Marie Johanne Benneche (182 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Medical And Health Organisations Based In Norway
Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness. Contemporary medicine applies biomedical sciences, biomedical research, genetics, and medical technology to diagnose, treat, and prevent injury and disease, typically through pharmaceuticals or surgery, but also through therapies as diverse as psychotherapy, external splints and traction, medical devices, biologics, and ionizing radiation, amongst others. Medicine has been practiced since prehistoric times, and for most of this time it was an art (an area of skill and knowledge), frequently having connections to the religious and philosophical beliefs of local culture. For example, a medicine man would apply herbs and say prayers for healing, or an ancie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constance Wiel Schram
Constance Wiel Schram (née Nygaard; 27 September 1890, Christiania – 18 September 1955, Oslo) was a Norwegian writer and translator. She was the daughter of William Martin Nygaard (1865–1912) and Constance Wiel (1866–1931). Constance was the eldest of seven siblings, one of her brothers was the publisher, Mads Wiel Nygaard . She married Finn Thomas Andreas Schram on 26 Jul 1912, and they had a son, Andreas. Partial works History and biographies * ''Norske Kvinners Sanitetsforening. Tiden og menneskene som skapte den. Vekst og virke i femti år. 1896-1946'' ("Norwegian Women's Public Health Association. The time and the people who created it. Growth and work in fifty years. 1896-1946"), Oslo 1946 * ''Florence Nightingale'', Oslo 1938 * ''Keiserarven. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte'', Oslo 1926 * ''Dronning Victoria. En Livsskildring'', Kristiania 1922 * ''Otto v, Bismarck. En livsskidring'', Kristiania 1916 Children's books * ''Truls på Lofoten'' 1927 * ''Truls og Inger og dyr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ole Anton Qvam
Ole Anton Qvam (5 August 1834 – 8 July 1904) was a Norwegian lawyer and Liberal politician, who was the Norwegian minister of Justice 1891–1893, 1898–1899 and 1900–1902, minister of the Interior 1899–1900, as well as head of the ministry of Auditing, ministry of Agriculture and ministry of Justice in 1900, and Norwegian prime minister in Stockholm 1902–1903. Biography Ole Anton Qvam was born in Bolsøy in today's Molde in Romsdal, Norway. He was the son of Ole Larsen Qvam (1782–1844) and Johanne Pedersdatter Ryen (1797–1850). Qvam worked as a teacher in Christiania, Arendal and Setesdal. He began studying law at the University of Christiania and became cand.jur. 1862. He founded the Sparbu and Egge savings bank in 1872, where he was chairman of the board 1873–1886. Mayor of Egge from 1869 to 1885. Qvam was elected to the Storting for Nordre Trondhjems (Nord-Trøndelag) from 1874 to 1885 and for Søndre Trondhjems (Sør-Trøndelag) from 1885 to 1888. He serve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Jacob Horst
Hans Jacob Horst (7 November 1848 – 17 March 1931) was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party. He graduated with a master's degree in liberal arts in 1874, becoming a teacher and later principal. He became active in the Liberal Union and the Workers' Union in Tromsø in 1881, and was then elected to the municipal council. He was one of the founders of the newspaper '' Nordposten''. He sat in the Parliament of Norway from 1889 to 1903 and from 1906 to 1909, when he sat in the Ecclesiastical Affairs Committee. He was President of the Odelsting from 1892 to 1900 and President of the Lagting from 1900 to 1903. He was chair of the parliament Peace Association from 1900 and a member of the International Court of Arbitration in The Hague from 1906 to 1929. He was a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee The Norwegian Nobel Committee ( no, Den norske Nobelkomité) selects the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize each year on behalf of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel's estate, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by '' Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. Most infections show no symptoms, in which case it is known as latent tuberculosis. Around 10% of latent infections progress to active disease which, if left untreated, kill about half of those affected. Typical symptoms of active TB are chronic cough with blood-containing mucus, fever, night sweats, and weight loss. It was historically referred to as consumption due to the weight loss associated with the disease. Infection of other organs can cause a wide range of symptoms. Tuberculosis is spread from one person to the next through the air when people who have active TB in their lungs cough, spit, speak, or sneeze. People with Latent TB do not spread the disease. Active infection occurs more often in people with HIV/AIDS and in those who smoke. Diagnosis of active TB is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margrethe Vullum
Margrethe Vullum (born Lehmann; first married name Rode; 14 February 1846 – 14 August 1918) was a Danish-born Norwegian journalist, literary critic and proponent for women's rights. Personal life She was born in Copenhagen, a daughter of statesman Orla Lehmann and his artist wife Maria Puggaard, who had died young. She was thus a grand-daughter of the wealthy merchant and shipowner Hans Puggaard and his painter wife Bolette Puggaard. Her first marriage was with teacher and writer Gotfred Rode, with whom she had two sons, the politician Ove Rode and the writer Helge Rode. In 1879 she married journalist Erik Vullum. Career Vullum settled in Norway in 1879, became a journalist for the newspaper ''Dagbladet'', and later for ''Verdens Gang''. She was a pioneering female voice in the public debates of the time. Among her contributions was a favorable review of the confiscated novel '' Albertine''. Her interests gradually turned more into politics. She was among the principal spea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randi Blehr
Randi Marie Blehr (née Nilsen; 12 February 1851 – 13 June 1928) was a Norwegian feminist, liberal politician, suffragist, peace activist and women's rights activist. She was married to Prime Minister of Norway Otto Blehr, and was therefore addressed as "Madam Prime Minister" ( no, Statsministerinde) during her lifetime. She was one of the preeminent leaders of the Norwegian women's rights movement from the 1880s and co-counded the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights, serving as its President from 1895 to 1899 and from 1903 to 1922. She also initiated the establishment of the Norwegian Women's Public Health Association that grew to become a humanitarian organisation with 250,000 members. She was a leading advocate of Norwegian independence from Sweden and took on representative duties for Norway during her husband's tenure as Prime Minister. Background Blehr was born Randi Nilsen in 1851 in Bergen to ship broker, Andreas Rasmussen Nilsen 1822–98) and Margrethe Andrea T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humanitarian
Humanitarianism is an active belief in the value of human life, whereby humans practice benevolent treatment and provide assistance to other humans to reduce suffering and improve the conditions of humanity for moral, altruistic, and emotional reasons. One aspect involves voluntary emergency aid overlapping with human rights advocacy, actions taken by governments, development assistance, and domestic philanthropy. Other critical issues include correlation with religious beliefs, motivation of aid between altruism and social control, market affinity, imperialism and neo-colonialism, gender and class relations, and humanitarian agencies. A practitioner is known as a humanitarian. An informal ideology Humanitarianism is an informal ideology of practice; it is "the doctrine that people's duty is to promote human welfare." Humanitarianism is based on a view that all human beings deserve respect and dignity and should be treated as such. Therefore, humanitarians work towards advan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Women’s Lobby
Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway *Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including the two official written forms: **Bokmål, literally "book language", used by 85–90% of the population of Norway **Nynorsk, literally "New Norwegian", used by 10–15% of the population of Norway *The Norwegian Sea Norwegian or may also refer to: Norwegian *Norwegian Air Shuttle, an airline, trading as Norwegian **Norwegian Long Haul, a defunct subsidiary of Norwegian Air Shuttle, flying long-haul flights *Norwegian Air Lines, a former airline, merged with Scandinavian Airlines in 1951 *Norwegian coupling, used for narrow-gauge railways *Norwegian Cruise Line, a cruise line *Norwegian Elkhound, a canine breed. *Norwegian Forest cat, a domestic feline breed *Norwegian Red, a breed of dairy cattle *Norwegian Township, Schuylkill County, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
