Browsing Department of Health Promotion and Development by Author "Blystad, Astrid"
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“I came to escort someone”: Men’s experiences of antenatal care services in urban Ghana—a qualitative study
Ampim, Gloria Abena; Blystad, Astrid; Kpoor, Albert; Haukanes, Haldis (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background Male involvement in maternal healthcare has been widely recognized as essential for positive health outcomes for expectant mothers and their unborn babies. However, few studies have explored men’s experiences ... -
I Do Not Want Her to be Doing Anything Stressful’: Men’s Involvement in Domestic Work during pregnancy in Ghana
Ampim, Gloria Abena; Haukanes, Haldis; Blystad, Astrid; Kpoor, Albert (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Drawing on qualitative research from rural and urban areas, this article contributes to evolving social research in Ghana on possible changes in the gendered distribution of domestic labour. Formulated within debates on ... -
Making Fathers: Masculinities and Social Change in the Ghanaian Context
Ampim, Gloria Abena; Haukanes, Haldis; Blystad, Astrid (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Framed within recent debates about hegemonic masculinity and in-depth historical and contemporary research on fatherhood and gender roles in Ghana, this article explores current ways of becoming and being a father in Ghana. ... -
‘An uneasy compromise’: strategies and dilemmas in realizing a permissive abortion law in Ethiopia
Tadele, Getnet; Haukanes, Haldis; Blystad, Astrid; Moland, Karen Marie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-09-27)Introduction At the turn of the century, when the Millennium Development Goals placed maternal mortality reduction high on the global agenda, Ethiopia relaxed its restrictive abortion law to expand grounds on which a woman ...