Blar i Bergen Open Research Archive på forfatter "Moland, Karen Marie"
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Translating global recommendations on HIV and infant feeding to the local context : the development of culturally sensitive counselling tools in the Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania
Leshabari, Sebalda Charles; Koniz-Booher, Peggy; Åstrøm, Anne Nordrehaug; De Paoli, Marina M.; Moland, Karen Marie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2006-10-03)Background: This paper describes the process used to develop an integrated set of culturally sensitive, evidence-based counselling tools (job aids) by using qualitative participatory research. The aim of the intervention ... -
‘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 ... -
Unfulfilled expectations to services offered at primary health care facilities: Experiences of caretakers of underfive children in rural Tanzania
Kahabuka, Catherine; Moland, Karen Marie; Kvåle, Gunnar; Hinderaker, Sven Gudmund (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012-06-14)Background: There is growing evidence that patients frequently bypass primary health care (PHC) facilities in favour of higher level hospitals regardless of substantial additional time and costs. Among the reasons given ... -
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 ... -
“We are like co-wives”: Traditional healers' views on collaborating with the formal Child and Adolescent Mental Health System in Uganda
Akol, Angela; Moland, Karen Marie; Babirye, Juliet N.; Engebretsen, Ingunn Marie S. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-04-10)Background: Early identification and management of mental illness in childhood and adolescence helps to avert debilitating mental illness in adulthood but the attention given to Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) ... -
‘We saw she was in danger, but couldn’t do anything’: Missed opportunities and health worker disempowerment during birth care in rural Burkina Faso
Melberg, Andrea; Diallo, Abdoulaye Hama; Tylleskär, Thorkild; Moland, Karen Marie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-09-29)Background: Facility-based births have been promoted as the main strategy to reduce maternal and neonatal death risks at global scale. To improve birth outcomes, it is critical that health facilities provide quality care. ... -
"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
Mukunya, David; Haaland, Marte Emilie Sandvik; Tumwine, James K.; Ndeezi, Grace; Namugga, Olive; Tumuhamye, Josephine; Sommerfelt, Halvor; Rujumba, Joseph; Tylleskär, Thorkild; Moland, Karen Marie; Nankabirwa, Victoria (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-12-04)Background: Cleansing the umbilical cord with chlorhexidine reduces neonatal morbidity and mortality, particularly in communities where newborn deaths and home births are common. As a result, the World Health Organization ... -
Web-based discussion forums on pregnancy complaints and maternal health literacy in Norway: A qualitative study
Fredriksen, Eva Haukeland; Harris, Janet; Moland, Karen Marie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-05-26)Background: The Internet is one of the fastest growing information sources for pregnant women and seems to be used across social and economic strata. However, we still lack knowledge on how interaction in Web-based discussion ... -
What if the baby doesn't survive? Health-care decision making for ill newborns in Ethiopia
Onarheim, Kristine Husøy; Sisay, Mitike Molla; Gizaw, Muluken; Moland, Karen Marie; Miljeteig, Ingrid (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-12)Despite efforts to improve access to and quality of care for newborns, the first month after birth remains the most dangerous period of life. Given high neonatal mortality in low-income countries, saving newborn lives is ... -
Why caretakers bypass Primary Health Care facilities for child care - a case from rural Tanzania
Kahabuka, Catherine; Kvåle, Gunnar; Moland, Karen Marie; Hinderaker, Sven Gudmund (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-11-17)Background: Research on health care utilization in low income countries suggests that patients frequently bypass PHC facilities in favour of higher-level hospitals - despite substantial additional time and financial costs. ... -
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. ...