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Fletta eftir höfundi "Bjarnason, Thoroddur"
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(Wiley, 2017-07-28)Introduction. Over the past two decades, alcohol consumption of Icelandic adolescents has decreased dramatically. The aim of this study was to quantify the extent of this reduction and compare it with the trend in cannabis use over a 20 year period and ... -
Adolescent migration intentions and population change: A 20-year follow-up of Icelandic communities (Wiley, 2014-04-27)Prior research has demonstrated that migration intentions are a moderate to strong predictor of individual-level migration across a wide range of countries, but their value for predicting community-level population change remains unclear. Analyses ...
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(Byggðastofnun, 2019)Helstu niðurstöður • Mikill hreyfanleiki einkennir minni byggðarkjarna á Íslandi og langflestir íbúanna hafa búið annars staðar en í heimabyggð. Meirihluti íbúanna hefur einhvern tímann búið á höfuðborgarsvæðinu og annars staðar á Íslandi og mörg þeirra ...
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(Elsevier BV, 2014-12)Work travel is an important alternative to out-migration in rural areas characterized by a limited range of jobs. The size of local labour markets is determined in part by geography and tradition, but advances in transportation have the potential to ...
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(Félagsfræðingafélag Íslands, 2015)The aim of this paper is to present a study on attitudes of the population in Fjallabyggð towards access to healthcare service and its diversity and quality, in an age of austerity, which the restructuring after the economic collapse of 2008 demanded, ...
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(Félagsfræðingafélags Íslands, 2018-11-02)Flest byggðarlög á Íslandi einkennast af miklum hreyfanleika og háu hlutfalli aðfluttra íbúa. Innan við helmingur fullorðinna íbúa Akureyrar, Dalvíkur og Húsavíkur eru innfædd og aðeins um 14% íbúanna hafa aldrei búið annars staðar. Um helmingur þeirra ...
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(SAGE Publications, 2009-05-20)Preferred emigration destinations among adolescents reflect images and stereotypes of other countries that continuously emerge in a multitude of local and global discourses and from concrete experiences with other countries. The affinities of Icelandic ...
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(Informa UK Limited, 2010-11-02)Rural communities in Iceland have been profoundly affected by natural resource management policies. As part of a regional development strategy, a large aluminum smelter and 650-megawatt hydroelectric plant were built in the sparsely populated Eastfjords ...
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(MDPI AG, 2018-07-20)This paper tests the hypothesis of whether being bullied in an environment where bullying is infrequent decreases adolescents’ life satisfaction. Analyses were based on the international standard questionnaire from the 2005/2006 Health Behaviour in ...
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(Háskólinn á Akureyri, 2020-12)
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(Springer Nature, 2010-06-09)Background. A positive association between time spent on sedentary screen-based activities and physical complaints has been reported, but the cumulative association between different types of screen-based activities and physical complaints has not been ...
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(2017-08-01)Iceland is sparsely populated but social justice and equity has been emphasised within healthcare. The aim of the study is to examine healthcare services in Fjallabyggð, in rural northern Iceland, from users’ perspective and evaluate social justice, ...
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(Taylor & Francis Open, 2017-01-01)Iceland is sparsely populated but social justice and equity has been emphasised within healthcare. The aim of the study is to examine healthcare services in Fjallabyggð, in rural northern Iceland, from users’ perspective and evaluate social justice, ...
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(Háskóli Íslands, 2016-12-16)Mikill munur er á menntunarstigi þjóðarinnar eftir landshlutum. Árið 2011 höfðu þannig 38% íbúa höfuðborgarsvæðisins á aldrinum 25–64 ára lokið háskólaprófi en 21–23% í flestum öðrum landshlutum. Þessi munur skýrist að hluta af takmörkuðu framboði ...
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(Elsevier BV, 2017-08)Low levels of education have serious social, economic and cultural ramifications in rural areas. In many countries, regional universities have explicitly been built to educate the local population, create professional jobs and stimulate innovation. ...
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(2023-12-20)Flugsamgöngur hafa mikil áhrif á efnahagslega, pól- itíska og menningarlega stöðu einstakra samfélaga. Á síðustu áratugum hefur fyrirkomulag flugs hefðbundinna flugfélaga um stóra tengiflugvelli skapað margvísleg sóknarfæri fyrir beint flug óhefðbundinna ...
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