Blar i Faculty of Medicine på forfatter "Blystad, Astrid"
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The lucky ones get cured: Health care seeking among women with pelvic organ prolapse in Amhara Region, Ethiopia
Gjerde, Janne Lillelid; Rørtveit, Guri; Adefris, Mulat; Mekonnen, Hibste; Belayneh, Tadesse; Blystad, Astrid (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-11-26)Background: The majority of women suffering from maternal morbidities live in resource-constrained settings with diverse barriers preventing access to quality biomedical health care services. This study aims to highlight ... -
Norms and sexual relations among adolescents in the context of an intervention trial in rural Zambia
Svanemyr, Joar; Moland, Karen Marie Ingeborg; Blystad, Astrid; Zulu, Joseph M.; Sandøy, Ingvild Fossgard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)High levels of adolescent pregnancy and child marriage rates in low- and middle-income countries is an issue of concern to many stakeholders, including in Zambia where almost one-third of women give birth before age 18. ... -
Perceived unfairness in working conditions: the case of public health services in Tanzania
Songstad, Nils Gunnar; Rekdal, Ole Bjørn; Massay, Deodatus Amadeus; Blystad, Astrid (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-02-12)Background: The focus on the determinants of the quality of health services in low-income countries is increasing. Health workers’ motivation has emerged as a topic of substantial interest in this context. The main objective ... -
Poisonous milk and sinful mothers: the changing meaning of breastfeeding in the wake of the HIV epidemic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Koricho, Absera Teshome; Moland, Karen Marie; Blystad, Astrid (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010-10-26)Background Breastfeeding remains normative and vital for child survival in the developing world. However, knowledge of the risk of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) transmission through breastfeeding has brought to attention ... -
Practicing provider-initiated HIV testing in high prevalence settings: consent concerns and missed preventive opportunities
Njeru, Mercy Karimi; Blystad, Astrid; Shayo, Elizabeth H.; Nyamongo, Isaac K.; Fylkesnes, Knut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-04-21)Background: Counselling is considered a prerequisite for the proper handling of testing and for ensuring effective HIV preventive efforts. HIV testing services have recently been scaled up substantially with a particular ... -
Reflections on global policy documents and the WHO's infant feeding guidelines: lessons learnt
Blystad, Astrid; Esterik, Penny van; De Paoli, Marina M.; Sellen, Daniel W.; Leshabari, Sebalda Charles; Moland, Karen Marie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010-10-26)As the papers in this thematic series have illustrated, the postnatal prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) strategy has struggled with lack of local relevance. In an attempt to increase our understanding ... -
Researcher-researched relationship in qualitative research: Shifts in positions and researcher vulnerability
Råheim, Målfrid; Magnussen, Liv Heide; Sekse, Ragnhild Johanne Tveit; Lunde, Åshild; Jacobsen, Torild; Blystad, Astrid (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-06-14)Background: The researcher role is highly debated in qualitative research. This article concerns the researcher-researched relationship. Methods: A group of health science researchers anchored in various qualitative research ... -
The seven Cs of the high acceptability of home-based VCT: Results from a mixed methods approach in Zambia
Jürgensen, Marte; Sandøy, Ingvild Fossgard; Michelo, Charles Cheembo; Fylkesnes, Knut Martin; Mwangala, Sheila; Blystad, Astrid (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-11)HIV testing and counselling is a critical gateway to prevention and treatment. Yet, coverage remains insufficient, few couples are tested together and gender differences in access exist. We used an embedded mixed methods ... -
Shaping the abortion policy – competing discourses on the Zambian termination of pregnancy act
Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik; Haukanes, Haldis; Zulu, Joseph M.; Moland, Karen Marie; Michelo, Charles Cheembo; Munakampe, Margarate Nzala; Blystad, Astrid (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-01-28)Introduction: The Zambian Termination of Pregnancy Act permits abortion on socio-economic grounds, but access to safe abortion services is limited and this constitutes a considerable problem for rights to sexual and ... -
Silent politics and unknown numbers: Rural health bureaucrats and Zambian abortion policy
Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik; Haukanes, Haldis; Zulu, Joseph; Moland, Karen Marie; Blystad, Astrid (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article addresses the gaps between knowledge, policy and practice in reproductive health by exploring the processes involved in translating Zambian abortion policy from paperwork to practice in a predominantly rural ... -
«Skammen slår beina under meg» – om hvordan mennesker med depresjon erfarer skam
Bygstad-Landro, Marte; Giske, Tove; Blystad, Astrid; Martinsen, Kari Marie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Hensikten med denne artikkelen er å belyse hvordan mennesker med depresjonsdiagnose erfarer skamfølelse. Forskning indikerer at skamfølelsen spiller en vesentlig rolle i forhold til de fleste psykiske lidelser og flere ... -
Stakeholders' participation in planning and priority setting in the context of a decentralised health care system: the case of prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV programme in Tanzania
Shayo, Elizabeth H.; Mboera, Leonard E. G.; Blystad, Astrid (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-07-12)Background: In Tanzania, decentralisation processes and reforms in the health sector aimed at improving planning and accountability in the sector. As a result, districts were given authority to undertake local planning and ... -
A systems perspective on the importance of global health strategy developments for accomplishing today's Sustainable Development Goals
Byskov, Jens; Maluka, Stephen; Marchal, Bruno; Shayo, Elizabeth Henry; Blystad, Astrid; Bukachi, Salome A.; Zulu, Joseph Mumba; Michelo, Charles; Hurtig, Anna-Karin; Bloch, Paul (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-07-30)Priority setting within health systems has not led to accountable, fair and sustainable solutions to improving population health. Providers, users and other stakeholders each have their own health and service priorities ... -
Vanilla bisquits and lobola bridewealth: parallel discourses on early pregnancy and schooling in rural Zambia
Blystad, Astrid; Moland, Karen Marie Ingeborg; Munsaka, Ecloss; Sandøy, Ingvild Fossgard; Zulu, Joseph Mumba (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background Adolescent pregnancy is a complex socio-economic phenomenon ranking high on the global health policy agenda. Early childbearing is associated with early marriage and school drop-out, and is defined as a problem ... -
Ways ahead: protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in the context of HIV
Moland, Karen Marie; Esterik, Penny van; Sellen, Daniel W.; De Paoli, Marina M.; Leshabari, Sebalda Charles; Blystad, Astrid (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010-10-26)The HIV epidemic coupled with the assumed benefits of infant formula for the children of all HIV-infected mothers have in complex ways changed public ideas about infant feeding and represents a threat to well establish ... -
When abortion becomes public - Everyday politics of reproduction in rural Zambia
Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik; Zulu, Joseph Mumba; Moland, Karen Marie Ingeborg; Haukanes, Haldis; Blystad, Astrid (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article takes the public reaction to the discovery of an aborted foetus in a rural Zambian community as the empirical starting point for exploring the everyday politics of reproduction. It builds on eleven months of ... -
When the law makes doors slightly open: ethical dilemmas among abortion service providers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
McLean, Emily; Desalegn, Dawit Nima; Blystad, Astrid; Miljeteig, Ingrid (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-09-05)Background: In 2005, Ethiopia changed its abortion law to curb its high maternal mortality. This has led to a considerable reduction in deaths from unsafe abortions. Abortion is now legal if the woman’s pregnancy is a ... -
Why do health workers in rural Tanzania prefer public sector employment?
Songstad, Nils Gunnar; Moland, Karen Marie; Massay, Deodatus Amadeus; Blystad, Astrid (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012-04-05)Background: Severe shortages of qualified health workers and geographical imbalances in the workforce in many low-income countries require the national health sector management to closely monitor and address issues related ... -
Why teach sexuality education in school? Teacher discretion in implementing comprehensive sexuality education in rural Zambia
Zulu, Joseph M.; Blystad, Astrid; Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik; Michelo, Charles; Haukanes, Haldis; Moland, Karen Marie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-09-27)Background: Reproductive health problems such as HIV, unwanted pregnancy and unsafe abortion among adolescents are closely linked to insufficient knowledge about sexuality and reproduction and lack of access to contraceptives. ...