Blar i Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care på forfatter "Olsen, Øystein Evjen"
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The accountability for reasonableness approach to guide priority setting in health systems within limited resources - findings from action research at district level in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia
Byskov, Jens; Marchal, Bruno; Maluka, Stephen; Zulu, Joseph; Bukachi, Salome A.; Hurtig, Anna-Karin; Blystad, Astrid; Kamuzora, Peter; Michelo, Charles; Nyandieka, Lillian N.; Ndawi, Benedict; Bloch, Paul; Olsen, Øystein Evjen; the REACT Consortium (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-08-20)Background: Priority-setting decisions are based on an important, but not sufficient set of values and thus lead to disagreement on priorities. Accountability for Reasonableness (AFR) is an ethics-based approach to a ... -
Accountable priority setting for trust in health systems - the need for research into a new approach for strengthening sustainable health action in developing countries
Byskov, Jens; Bloch, Paul; Blystad, Astrid; Hurtig, Anna-Karin; Fylkesnes, Knut; Kamuzora, Peter; Kombe, Yeri; Kvåle, Gunnar; Marchal, Bruno; Martin, Douglas K.; Michelo, Charles Cheembo; Ndawi, Benedict; Ngulube, Thabale J.; Nyamongo, Isaac; Olsen, Øystein Evjen; Onyango-Ouma, Washington; Sandøy, Ingvild Fossgard; Shayo, Elizabeth H.; Silwamba, Gavin; Songstad, Nils Gunnar; Tuba, Mary (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2009-10-24)Abstract Despite multiple efforts to strengthen health systems in low and middle income countries, intended sustainable improvements in health outcomes have not been shown. To date most priority setting initiatives in ... -
Achieving progress in maternal and neonatal health through integrated and comprehensive healthcare services - experiences from a programme in northern Tanzania
Evjen-Olsen, Bjørg; Olsen, Øystein Evjen; Kvåle, Gunnar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2009-07-30)Background: An integrated and comprehensive hospital/community based health programme is presented, aimed at reducing maternal and child mortality and morbidity. It is run as part of a general programme of health care at ... -
Actual clinical leadership: a shadowing study of charge nurses and doctors on-call in the emergency department
Husebø, Sissel Iren Eikeland; Olsen, Øystein Evjen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-01-08)Background: The provision of safe, high quality healthcare in the Emergency Department (ED) requires frontline healthcare personnel with sufficient competence in clinical leadership. However, healthcare education curriculum ... -
Balancing efficiency, equity and feasibility of HIV treatment in South Africa - development of programmatic guidance
Baltussen, Rob; Mikkelsen, Evelinn; Tromp, Noor; Hurtig, Anne Karin; Byskov, Jens; Olsen, Øystein Evjen; Bærøe, Kristine; Hontelez, Jan A.; Singh, Jerome; Norheim, Ole Frithjof (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-10-09)South Africa, the country with the largest HIV epidemic worldwide, has been scaling up treatment since 2003 and is rapidly expanding its eligibility criteria. The HIV treatment programme has achieved significant results, ... -
Barriers to Implementing Emergency Obstetric Care in Northern Tanzania: Balancing Quality and Quantity
Olsen, Øystein Evjen (Doctoral thesis, 2010-06-04)Background: Improving obstetric care is one key factor for the achievement of the millennium development goals concerning maternal and child mortality. Earlier studies of barriers to implementation of health policies, ... -
Existence and functionality of emergency obstetric care services at district level in Kenya: theoretical coverage versus reality
Echoka, Elizabeth; Kombe, Yeri; Dubourg, Dominique; Makokha, Anselimo; Evjen-Olsen, Bjørg; Mwangi, Moses; Byskov, Jens; Olsen, Øystein Evjen; Mutisya, Richard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-03-25)Background: The knowledge on emergency obstetric care (EmOC) is limited in Kenya, where only partial data from sub-national studies exist. The EmOC process indicators have also not been integrated into routine health ... -
Human resources for emergency obstetric care in northern Tanzania: distribution of quantity or quality?
Olsen, Øystein Evjen; Ndeki, Sidney; Norheim, Ole Frithjof (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2005-07-29)Background: Health care agencies report that the major limiting factor for implementing effective health policies and reforms worldwide is a lack of qualified human resources. Although many agencies have adopted policy ... -
The impact of global health initiatives on trust in health care provision under extreme resource scarcity: presenting an agenda for debate from a case study of emergency obstetric care in Northern Tanzania
Olsen, Øystein Evjen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010-05-25)Background Through the nearly three decades that have passed since the Alma Ata conference on Primary Health Care, a wide range of global health initiatives and ideas have been advocated to improve the health of people ... -
Using the unmet obstetric needs indicator to map inequities in life-saving obstetric interventions at the local health care system in Kenya
Echoka, Elizabeth; Dubourg, Dominique; Makokha, Anselimo; Kombe, Yeri; Olsen, Øystein Evjen; Mwangi, Moses; Evjen-Olsen, Bjørg; Byskov, Jens (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-12-12)Background: Developing countries with high maternal mortality need to invest in indicators that not only provide information about how many women are dying, but also where, and what can be done to prevent these deaths. The ...