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Karen Marie Ingeborg Moland

Professor, Centre for International Health
  • E-mailKaren.Moland@uib.no
  • Phone+47 55 58 99 62
  • Visitor Address
    Overlege Danielssens hus, 4 floor, Årstadveien 21
    Room 
    434
  • Postal Address
    Postboks 7804
    5020 Bergen

Global health policy in local contexts 

Health services utilisation and provision 

Gender, culture and maternal health

Adolescent reproductive health and rights

HIV, risk and motherhood

Health systems

Culture and health

Qualitative research methods

Academic article
  • Show author(s) (2022). ‘There is nowhere to take the child’: a qualitative study of community members’ views on managing early childhood substance use in Mbale, Uganda. BMC Public Health. 13 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2022). ‘As soon as they can hold a glass, they begin taking alcohol’: a qualitative study on early childhood substance use in Mbale District, Uganda. BMC Public Health.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Norms and sexual relations among adolescents in the context of an intervention trial in rural Zambia. Global Public Health. 14 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2020). “The cord is the child”: meanings and practices related to umbilical cord care in Central Uganda. BMC Pediatrics. 1-9.
  • Show author(s) (2020). ‘I wanted to go, but they said wait’: Mothers’ bargaining power and strategies in careseeking for ill newborns in Ethiopia. PLOS ONE. 1-15.
  • Show author(s) (2020). When abortion becomes public - Everyday politics of reproduction in rural Zambia. Social Science and Medicine.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Vanilla bisquits and lobola bridewealth: Parallel discourses on early pregnancy and schooling in rural Zambia. BMC Public Health. 11 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Silent politics and unknown numbers: Rural health bureaucrats and Zambian abortion policy. Social Science and Medicine.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Opplevingar og erfaringar med å delta i ein organisert fritidsaktivitet for jenter med minoritetsbakgrunn- "Jentegruppen". Barn – forskning om barn og barndom i Norden. 11-22.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Juridification of maternal deaths in Ethiopia: A study of the Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) system. Health Policy and Planning. 900-905.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Beyond the law: Misoprostol and medical abortion in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Social Science and Medicine. 9 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2019). ‘An uneasy compromise’: strategies and dilemmas in realizing a permissive abortion law in Ethiopia. International Journal for Equity in Health.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Why teach sexuality education in school? Teacher discretion in implementing comprehensive sexuality education in rural Zambia. International Journal for Equity in Health. 1-10.
  • Show author(s) (2019). The challenge of community engagement and informed consent in rural Zambia: an example from a pilot study. BMC Medical Ethics. 45.
  • Show author(s) (2019). The access paradox: abortion law, policy and practice in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia. International Journal for Equity in Health.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Shaping the abortion policy – competing discourses on the Zambian termination of pregnancy act. International Journal for Equity in Health. 1-11.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Health, life and rights: a discourse analysis of a hybrid abortion regime in Tanzania. International Journal for Equity in Health.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Child mental illness and the help-seeking process: a qualitative study among parents in a Ugandan community. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health (CAPMH). 1-13.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Selling my sheep to pay for medicines - Household priorities and coping strategies in a setting without universal health coverage. BMC Health Services Research. 1-12.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Policy, paperwork and 'postographs': Global indicators and maternity care documentation in rural Burkina Faso. Social Science and Medicine. 28-35.
  • Show author(s) (2018). How do health professionals acknowledge web-based knowledge in pregnancy consultations? Health Care for Women International. 955-967.
  • Show author(s) (2018). "We shall count it as a part of kyogero": acceptability and considerations for scale up of single dose chlorhexidine for umbilical cord care in Central Uganda. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.
  • Show author(s) (2018). "We are like co-wives": Traditional healers' views on collaborating with the formal Child and Adolescent Mental Health System in Uganda. BMC Health Services Research. 1-9.
  • Show author(s) (2017). What if the baby doesn't survive? Health-care decision making for ill newborns in Ethiopia. Social Science and Medicine. 123-130.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Strengthening validity in studies of pelvic floor disorders through qualitative research: an example from Ethiopia. International Urogynecology Journal. 1-6.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Echoes of old HIV paradigms: Reassessing the problem of engaging men in HIV testing and treatment through women's perspectives. Reproductive Health.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Web-based discussion forums on pregnancy complaints and maternal health literacy in Norway: A qualitative study. Journal of Medical Internet Research.
  • Show author(s) (2016). The inescapable question of fairness in Pay-for-performance bonus distribution: A qualitative study of health workers' experiences in Tanzania. Globalization and Health. 1-12.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Rural-urban inequity in unmet obstetric needs and functionality of emergency obstetric care services in a Zambian district. PLOS ONE.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Reflections on the unintended consequences of the promotion of institutional pregnancy and birth care in Burkina Faso. PLOS ONE.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Reflections on the Unintended Consequencesof the Promotion of Institutional Pregnancyand Birth Care in Burkina Faso. PLOS ONE.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Lessons learned from the PMTCT program in Swaziland: challenges with accepting lifelong ART for pregnant and lactating women - a qualitative study. BMC Public Health. 1-11.
  • Show author(s) (2016). HIV-positive pregnant and postpartum women's perspectives about Option B+ in Malawi: A qualitative study. Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS).
  • Show author(s) (2016). Effectiveness of a girls’ empowerment programme on early childbearing, marriage and school dropout among adolescent girls in rural Zambia: study protocol for a cluster randomized trial. Trials. 15 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Boundaries of confidentiality in nursing care for mother and child in HIV programmes. Nursing Ethics. 576-586.
  • Show author(s) (2016). 'We saw she was in danger, but couldn't do anything': Missed opportunities and health worker disempowerment during birth care in rural Burkina Faso. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 1-11.
  • Show author(s) (2015). The social context of severe child malnutrition: A qualitative household case study from a rural area of the Democratic Republic of Congo. International Journal for Equity in Health.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Task-shifting and quality of HIV testing services: Experiences from a national reference hospital in Zambia. PLOS ONE. 1-15.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Introducing payment for performance in the health sector of Tanzania- the policy process. Globalization and Health.
  • Show author(s) (2014). ‘Born before arrival’: user and provider perspectives on health facility childbirths in Kapiri Mposhi district, Zambia. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Reflections on informed choice in resource-poor settings: The case of infant feeding counselling in PMTCT programmes in Tanzania. Social Science and Medicine. 22-29.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Mothering in Limpopo, South Africa: Perspectives of adolescents . Psychology & Society.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Mothering in Limpopo, South Africa: Perspectives of adolescents . Psychology & Society.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Mothering in Limpopo, South Africa: Perspectives of adolescents. Psychology & Society.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Challenges of disseminating clinical practice guidelines in a weak health system: the case of HIV and infant feeding recommendations in Tanzania. International Breastfeeding Journal. 13 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Born before arrival’: user and provider perspectives on health facility childbirths in Kapiri Mposhi district, Zambia. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.
  • Show author(s) (2014). "They ask whether this is real or fake": a qualitative Norwegian study of pregnancy complaints and access to social benefits. Health Care for Women International. 266-284.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Why give birth in health facility? Users' and providers' accounts of poor quality of birth care in Tanzania. BMC Health Services Research. 174-186.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Rethinking nursing care: An ethnographic approach to nurse-patient interaction in the context of a HIV preventive programme in rural Tanzania. International Journal of Nursing Studies. 1045-1053.
  • Show author(s) (2012). “Hoping for a Normal Life Again”: Reintegration After Fistula Repair in Rural Tanzania. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada. 927-938.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Why do health workers in rural Tanzania prefer public sector employment? BMC Health Services Research. 12 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Unfulfilled expectations to services offered at primary health care facilities: Experiences of caretakers of underfive children in rural Tanzania. BMC Health Services Research. 5 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Persisting stigma reduces the utilisation of HIV-related care and support services in Viet Nam. BMC Health Services Research.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Comparing HIV prevalence estimates from prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission programme and the antenatal HIV surveillance in Addis Ababa. BMC Public Health. 7 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Why caretakers bypass primary health care facilities for child care - a case from rural Tanzania. BMC Health Services Research.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Waiting for attention and care: birthing accounts of women in rural Tanzania who developed obstetric fistula as an outcome of labour. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.
  • Show author(s) (2011). The potential role of mother-in-law in prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV: a mixed methods study from the Kilimanjaro region, northern Tanzania. BMC Public Health. 12 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Current status of medication adherence and infant follow up in the prevention of mother to child HIV transmission programme in Addis Ababa: a cohort study. Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS). 10 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Being man enough: Fatherhood experiences and expectations among teenage boys in South Africa. Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Practice about Men as Fathers. 3-21.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Applying the theory of Planned Behaviour to explain HIV testing in antenatal settings in Addis Ababa- A cohort study. BMC Health Services Research.
  • Show author(s) (2011). "It is her responsibility": partner involvement in prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV programmes, northern Tanzania. Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS). 12 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2011). "I am nothing": experiences of loss among women suffering from severe birth injuries in Tanzania. BMC Women's Health.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Ways ahead: protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in the context of HIV. International Breastfeeding Journal.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Reflections on global policy documents and the WHO's infant feeding guidelines: lessons learnt. International Breastfeeding Journal.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Poisonous milk and sinful mothers: the changing meaning of breastfeeding in the wake of the HIV epidemic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. International Breastfeeding Journal.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Infant feeding counselling in Uganda in a changing environment with focus on the general population and HIV-positive mothers - a mixed method approach. BMC Health Services Research. 9 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Gendered perceptions on infant feeding in Eastern Uganda: continued need for exclusive breastfeeding support. International Breastfeeding Journal. 13.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Breastfeeding and HIV: experiences from a decade of prevention of postnatal HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa. International Breastfeeding Journal.
  • Show author(s) (2010). ?HIV and infant feeding: Lessons learnt and the ways ahead? Thematic series. International Breastfeeding Journal 2010:5. International Breastfeeding Journal.
  • Show author(s) (2010). "A defeat not to be ultra-fit" : expectations and experiences related to pregnancy and employment in contemporary Norway. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. 167-184.
  • Show author(s) (2009). The context of HIV risk behaviours among HIV-positive injection drug users in Viet Nam: Moving toward effective harm reduction. BMC Public Health. 9.
  • Show author(s) (2009). The context of HIV risk behaviours among HIV-positive injection drug users in Viet Nam: Moving toward effective harm reduction. BMC Public Health.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Technologies of hope? Motherhood, HIV and infant feeding in eastern Africa. Anthropology & Medicine. 105-118.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Technologies of hope? Motherhood, HIV and infant feeding in eastern Africa. Anthropology & Medicine. 105-118.
  • Show author(s) (2008). 'No sister, the breast alone is not enough for my baby'A qualitative assessment of potentials and barriers in the promotion of exclusive breastfeeding in southern Zambia. International Breastfeeding Journal. 362.
  • Show author(s) (2008). 'No sister, the breast alone is not enough for my baby': a qualitative assessment of potentials and barriers in the promotion of exclusive breastfeeding in southern Zambia. International Breastfeeding Journal. 12.
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Listen to your body" A qualitative text analysis of internet discussions related to pregnancy health and pelvic girdle pain in pregnancy. Patient Education and Counseling. 294-299.
  • Show author(s) (2007). HIV and infant feeding counselling: challenges faced by nurse-counsellors in northern Tanzania. Human Resources for Health.
  • Show author(s) (2007). HIV and infant feeding counselling: challenges faced by nurse-counsellors in northern Tanzania. Human Resources for Health. 18-29.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Experiences of orphan care in Amach, Uganda: assessing policy implications. SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS. 532-543.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Experiences of orphan care in Amach, Uganda: assessing policy implications. SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS. 532-543.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Difficult choices: Infant feeding experiences of HIV-positive mothers in northern Tanzania. SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS. 544-555.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Difficult choices: Infant feeding experiences of HIV-positive mothers in northern Tanzania. SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS. 544-555.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Continuity and change in reproductive attitudes of teenage women, their mothers, and maternal grandmothers in South africa. South African Journal of Psychology. 856-877.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Continuity and change in reproductive attitudes of teenage women, their mothers, and maternal grandmothers in South Africa. South African Journal of Psychology. 856-877.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Translating global recommendations on HIV and infant feeding to the local context: the development of culturally sensitive counselling tools in the Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania. Implementation Science. 14 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2006). The varying vulnerability of African orphans - The case of the Langi, northern Uganda. Childhood.
  • Show author(s) (2006). The varying vulnerability of African orphans - The case of the Langi, northern Uganda. Childhood. 267-284.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Mother's milk - an ambiguous blessing in the era of AIDS?The case of the Chagga in Kilimanjaro. African Sociological Review. 83-99.
Report
  • Show author(s) (2023). Kvinners erfaringer med abortnemnder. .
  • Show author(s) (2007). The DOLSA/SCNE Project on FGM and Other Harmful Traditional Practices North Gondar Zone. .
  • Show author(s) (2006). Praksis i Sør - pedagogiske og institusjonelle utfordringer. 1. 1. .
  • Show author(s) (2000). The idea of community and the ideology of community participation. A discussion of community, solidarity and self. 58. 58. .
  • Show author(s) (1999). Community based health promotion: The potential of tradtional and modern institutions. Proceedings from a workshop. .
  • Show author(s) (1999). Community based health promotion: The potential of tradtional and modern institutions. Proceedings from a workshop. .
Lecture
  • Show author(s) (2023). The access paradox in safe abortion care.
  • Show author(s) (2015). North South Partnerships in Higher Education.
Popular scientific lecture
  • Show author(s) (2007). Evaluation report: The DOLSA/SCNE project on FGM and other harmful practices in North Gondar Zone, Ethiopia.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Morsmelk-til skade eller velsignelse? HIV positive mødres dilemma.
Academic lecture
  • Show author(s) (2021). “There is nowhere to take the child”- Managingchildhood substance use in Mbale District, Uganda: Aqualitative study.
  • Show author(s) (2018). The Access Paradox in Safe Abortion Care. The cases of Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia .
  • Show author(s) (2013). Handling PMTCT guidelines in non-choice contexts: The case of infant feeding counselling and decision making in PMTCT programmes, Tanzania.
  • Show author(s) (2007). The politics of mother to child transmission of HIV: global discourse and local lives.
  • Show author(s) (2007). The illusion of informed choie in prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV: Global politics in local worlds.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Hope, faith and holy water: Resistance in PMTCT programs in Addis Ababa.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Counting on mother's love: The global politics of mother to child transmission in eastern Africa.
  • Show author(s) (2007). A note on applied locally grounded research and the challenging dynamics between health related research and policy making.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Samarbeid og utveksling med institusjoner i sør.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Motherhood, risk and responsible subjects: Discourses and practices in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Mother's milk: An ambiguous blessing in the era of AIDS: The case of the Chagga in Kilimanjaro.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Hygiene, salvation and development: The constitution of nursing as a legitimate profession in Tanzania.
  • Show author(s) (2002). The orphan issue in Tanzania.
  • Show author(s) (2002). HIV prevention and AIDS care in Moshi/Arusha.
Editorial
  • Show author(s) (2010). Breastfeeding and HIV: experiences from a decade of prevention of postnatal HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa. International Breastfeeding Journal.
Reader opinion piece
  • Show author(s) (2020). Reproductive health and the politics of abortion. International Journal for Equity in Health. 1-4.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Ways ahead: protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in the context of HIV. International Breastfeeding Journal.
Non-fiction book
  • Show author(s) (2005). Gender, generation and communication in times of AIDS: The potential of 'modern' and 'traditional' institutions. Proceedings from a workshop held in Bagamoyo, Tanzania, 23-25 November 2004. Centre for International Health.
Thesis at a second degree level
  • Show author(s) (1992). The changing role of local midwives in Addis Ababa: Community participation in Primary Health Care.
Masters thesis
  • Show author(s) (2013). Increasing demand for health facility birth. A qualitative study exploring barriers and facilitators for skilled care utilization in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Rebuilding life: A journey through the lives of women who have endured and been treated for obstetric fistula in Tanzania.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Knowledge about puberty related issues among school children in Sigowet, Kenya.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Utilization of PMTCT services in Awassa town, Ethiopia.
  • Show author(s) (2008). How could I take my pills when I can't even afford food?
  • Show author(s) (2007). The Role of Men in the Maintenance and Change of Female Genital Cutting in Eritrea.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Mothers’ knowledge on exclusive breastfeeding in Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania.
Popular scientific article
  • Show author(s) (2011). A cohort study on obstetric care for HIV positive women in Addis Ababa: Intrapartum transfers and associated delays. Journal of Public Health and Epidemiology.
Feature article
  • Show author(s) (2023). Abortlov til vurdering. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Kvinnekroppen som forhandlingskort. Bergens Tidende, Debattsider.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Kvinnekroppen som forhandlingskort. Bergens Tidende, Debattsider.
  • Show author(s) (2017). The paradox of access - abortion law, policy and misoprostol. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 1-6.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Kan Trump stoppe kvinners abortrett? Bergens Tidende.
Doctoral dissertation
  • Show author(s) (2021). Beyond the Law - An Ethnography of Zambian Abortion Politics.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Priority to the newborn? Real-life priority setting and intra-household resource allocation for newborn health in Ethiopia .
  • Show author(s) (2018). Access to Child and Adolescent Mental Health services in Uganda: Investigating the role of Primary Health Care and Traditional Healers.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Experiences of the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV program in Southern Africa: A three country qualitative study .
  • Show author(s) (2016). Results-Based Financing (RBF) in the health sector of a low-income country; from agenda setting to implementation: The case of Tanzania.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Determinants of child malnutrition. Studies from a rural area in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Giving birth in Kilimanjaro: The politics of knowledge in moral contexts.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Giving birth in Kilimanjaro. The politics of knowledge in moral contexts. X, 280 s. -.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Show author(s) (2024). Anthropology of abortion. 16 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Counting on Mother's Love: The Global Politics of Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Eastern Africa. 33 pages.
Abstract
  • Show author(s) (2013). Born before arrival: user and provider perspectives on home deliveries and barriers to health facility childbirth in Kapiri Mposhi, Zambia. Tropical medicine & international health. 186-186.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Obstetric care in primary health centres in rural Burkina Faso from a health worker perspective. Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica. 113-113.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Financial incentives for health worker motivation: the case of health services in Tanzania. Tropical medicine & international health. 341-341.
  • Show author(s) (2011). 'What counts': health workers' preferences for public health facilities or church-run health facilities in Tanzania. Tropical medicine & international health. 340-340.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Fathers’ and mothers’ perceptions about infant feeding practices in Eastern Uganda. Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism. 233-233.
  • Show author(s) (2009). FATHERS' AND MOTHERS' PERCEPTIONS ABOUT INFANT FEEDING PRACTICES IN EASTERN UGANDA. Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism. 625-626.
  • Show author(s) (2009). ADVISING GLOBAL INFANT FEEDING RECOMMENDATIONS WITH LOCAL INSIGHT: HEALTH WORKERS KNOWLEDGE OF INFANT FEEDING PRACTICES IN EASTERN UGANDA. Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism. 233-233.
  • Show author(s) (2009). 'No new born feeds on breast milk only:' Infant feeding perceptions among men and women in Eastern Uganda. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 18-18.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Breast cancer. Women's coping and social support awaiting primary surgery. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being. 36.
Poster
  • Show author(s) (2020). Early Childhood Alcohol Use in Mbale District, Uganda: A Qualitative Study.
  • Show author(s) (2017). We shall count it as a part of kyogero?. Acceptability of single dose 7.1% chlorhexidine di-gluconate solution for umbilical cord care among women in Kampala and Mukono district, central Uganda: A qualitative study.
  • Show author(s) (2017). High participation in cluster randomized controlled trial on the effectiveness of a girls’ empowerment programme in rural Zambia .
  • Show author(s) (2015). Are mental health problems in children being neglected? Preliminary results from SeeTheChild – Mental Child Health in Uganda.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Accountability and health worker performance in primary care maternities in rural Burkina Faso.
  • Show author(s) (2013). 'There is no choice in this area'. Nurse counselling in prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV programmes in Tanzania.
  • Show author(s) (2013). 'There is no choice in this area'. Nurse counselling in prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV programmes in Tanzania.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Referral as relief: Health workers' experience of obstetric referrals from primary health care facilities in rural Burkina Faso.
  • Show author(s) (2009). ‘No new born feeds on breast milk only’: Infant feeding perceptions among men and women in Eastern Uganda.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Low acceptability for exclusive replacement feeding among Eastern Ugandan fathers.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Fathers’ and mothers’ perceptions about infant feeding practices in Eastern Uganda.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Advicing global infant feeding recommendations with local insight’: health workers knowledge of infant feeding practices in Eastern Uganda.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Breast cancer: Women's coping and social support awaiting primary surgery.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Breast cancer Women¿s coping and social support awaiting primary surgery.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Continuity and change i reproductive attitudes of teenage women, their mothers and maternal grandmothers in South Africa.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Choice and adherence to choice of infant feeding method among HIV positive mothers in northern Tanzania.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Continuity and change in reproductive attitudes of teenage women, their mothers and maternal grandmothers in South Africa.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Continuity and change in reproductive atitudes of teenage women, their mothers and maternal grandmothers in South Africa.
Academic literature review
  • Show author(s) (2019). 'Maternal deaths should simply be 0': Politicization of maternal death reporting and review processes in Ethiopia. Health Policy and Planning. 492-498.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Development and challenges to breastfeeding in sub-Saharan Africa. Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz. 937-944.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Assessing performance enhancing tools: experiences with the open performance review and appraisal system (OPRAS) and expectations towards payment for performance (P4P) in the public health sector in Tanzania. Globalization and Health. 13 pages.
Article in business/trade/industry journal
  • Show author(s) (2006). Fra Bergen til Tanzania, Fagartikkel; Komplekse problem og sterke inntrykk: Pedagogiske og personlige utfordringer knyttet til praksis i Sør. Tidsskriftet sykepleien.

More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)

  • MATRISET Reporting in context: An interdisciplinary initiative to strengthen maternal health services and surveillance in Ethiopia and Tanzania. (RCN) 2021-2026. PI Astrid Blystad
  • Competing discourses impacting girls' and women's rights: Fertility control and safe abortion in Ethiopia, Zambia and Tanzania (SAFEZT) NORGLOBAL 2016-2019. PI Astrid Blystad
  • Research Initiative to support the empowerment of girls (RISE) (2015-2020). PI Ingvild Sandøy

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