• Å bevege seg med tiden : en studie av polygynier i Gambia 

      Kiil, Mona Anita (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2009-06-05)
      Med utgangspunkt i sosialt liv, hovedsaklig, i en urban kontekst, ønsker jeg gjennom denne oppgaven å utfordre forestillinger om polygyni som representativt for det tradisjonelle landsbylivet i Gambia- eller som en slags arkaisk sosial institusjon. Polygyni i Gambia er et omfattende felt, og formålet med prosjektet har derfor vært å identifisere og diskutere noen trekk ved det som pekte seg ut som ...
    • Embodied health practices:The use of Traditional Healing and Conventional Medicine in a North Norwegian Community 

      Kiil, Mona Anita; Salamonsen, Anita (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013-11)
      Scandinavian welfare states like Norway represent a cultural context in which citizens who become ill are supposed to trust and receive health care within the conventional health care system that is officially subsidized and based on biomedical knowledge. Despite this officially initiated health practice, unofficial and non-commercial health practices exist in many North Norwegian communities, ...
    • In Home we trust. An ethnographic study of mental health and the use of traditional medicine in a North Norwegian community 

      Kiil, Mona Anita (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2019-05-24)
      Traditional healing practices used when faced with illness or crisis, exist in many North Norwegian communities. Northern Troms has a historical multi-ethnicity of Sami, Kven and Norwegian. The notion of culture appears ambivalent and ambiguous, particularly concerning the Sami identity, but cultural diversity is nevertheless manifested through the use of traditional healing practices such as reading. ...
    • "My cancer is not my deepest concern": life course disruption influencing patient pathways  and health care needs among persons living with colorectal cancer 

      Salamonsen, Anita; Kiil, Mona Anita; Kristoffersen, Agnete Egilsdatter; Stub, Trine; Berntsen, Gro R. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-08-17)
      <b>BACKGROUND: </b> The concept of "patient pathways" in cancer care is most commonly understood as clinical pathways, operationalized as standardized packages of health care based on guidelines for the condition in question. In this understanding, patient pathways do not address multimorbidity or patient experiences and preferences. This study explored patient pathways understood as the individual ...
    • Use of traditional folk medicine among cancer patients in Northern Norway 

      Kristoffersen, Agnete Egilsdatter; Stub, Trine; Salamonsen, Anita; Kiil, Mona Anita (Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2015-11-14)