Karen Marie
Moland
Professor
Visit Address:
Kalfarveien 31
5018 Bergen
Postal Address:
Postboks 7804
5018 Bergen
Phone:
+47 55 58 99 62
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Health services, maternal health, HIV and infant feeding
Culture and health, qualitative research methods
Books
- 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. 171 pages. ISBN: 8278151210.
Journal articles
- 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. 35: 266-284. doi: 10.1080/07399332.2013.794463
- 2014. ‘Born before arrival’: user and provider perspectives on health facility childbirths in Kapiri Mposhi district, Zambia. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 14.
- 2014. Reflections on informed choice in resource-poor settings: The case of infant feeding counselling in PMTCT programmes in Tanzania. Social Science and Medicine. 105: 22-29. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.01.005
- 2013. Why give birth in health facility? Users' and providers' accounts of poor quality of birth care in Tanzania. BMC Health Services Research. 13: 174-186. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-174
- 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. 18: 186-186.
- 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. 50: 1045-1053. doi: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2012.11.025
- 2012. Persisting stigma reduces the utilisation of HIV-related care and support services in Viet Nam. BMC Health Services Research. 12. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-428
- 2012. Unfulfilled expectations to services offered at primary health care facilities: Experiences of caretakers of underfive children in rural Tanzania. BMC Health Services Research. 12. 5 pages. Published 2012-06-14. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-158
- 2012. Obstetric care in primary health centres in rural Burkina Faso from a health worker perspective. Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica. 91: 113-113.
- 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. 12. 7 pages. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-1113
- 2012. “Hoping for a Normal Life Again”: Reintegration After Fistula Repair in Rural Tanzania. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada. 34: 927-938.
- 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. 8:33. 13 pages. doi: 10.1186/1744-8603-8-33
- 2012. Why do health workers in rural Tanzania prefer public sector employment? BMC Health Services Research. 12. 12 pages. Published 2012-04-05. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-92
- 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. 11. 12 pages. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-551
- 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. 14. 12 pages. doi: 10.1186/1758-2652-14-21
- 2011. Why caretakers bypass primary health care facilities for child care - a case from rural Tanzania. BMC Health Services Research. 11. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-11-315
- 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. 14. 10 pages. doi: 10.1186/1758-2652-14-50
- 2011. Applying the theory of Planned Behaviour to explain HIV testing in antenatal settings in Addis Ababa- A cohort study. BMC Health Services Research. 11. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-11-196
- 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. 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2393-11-75
- 2011. "I am nothing": experiences of loss among women suffering from severe birth injuries in Tanzania. BMC Women's Health. 11. doi: 10.1186/1472-6874-11-49
- 2011. Financial incentives for health worker motivation: the case of health services in Tanzania. Tropical medicine & international health. 16: 341-341.
- 2011. 'What counts': health workers' preferences for public health facilities or church-run health facilities in Tanzania. Tropical medicine & international health. 16: 340-340.
- 2011. Being man enough: Fatherhood experiences and expectations among teenage boys in South Africa. Fathering. 9: 3-21.
- 2010. Reflections on global policy documents and the WHO's infant feeding guidelines: lessons learnt. International Breastfeeding Journal. 5. doi: 10.1186/1746-4358-5-18
- 2010. Gendered perceptions on infant feeding in Eastern Uganda: continued need for exclusive breastfeeding support. International Breastfeeding Journal. 5: 13. Published 2010-10-26. doi: 10.1186/1746-4358-5-13
- 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. 10. 9 pages. Published 2010-09-06. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-10-260
- 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. 18: 167-184. doi: 10.1080/08038740.2010.498766
- 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. 5. doi: 10.1186/1746-4358-5-12
- 2010. ?HIV and infant feeding: Lessons learnt and the ways ahead? Thematic series. International Breastfeeding Journal 2010:5. International Breastfeeding Journal. 5.
- 2010. Breastfeeding and HIV: experiences from a decade of prevention of postnatal HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa. International Breastfeeding Journal. 5. doi: 10.1186/1746-4358-5-10
- 2010. Ways ahead: protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in the context of HIV. International Breastfeeding Journal. 5. doi: 10.1186/1746-4358-5-19
- 2010. Breastfeeding and HIV: experiences from a decade of prevention of postnatal HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa. International Breastfeeding Journal. 5.
- 2010. Ways ahead: protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in the context of HIV. International Breastfeeding Journal. 5.
- 2009. Technologies of hope? Motherhood, HIV and infant feeding in eastern Africa. Anthropology & Medicine. 16: 105-118. doi: 10.1080/13648470902940655
- 2009. Technologies of hope? Motherhood, HIV and infant feeding in eastern Africa. Anthropology & Medicine. 16: 105-118.
- 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. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-98
- 2009. ADVISING GLOBAL INFANT FEEDING RECOMMENDATIONS WITH LOCAL INSIGHT: HEALTH WORKERS KNOWLEDGE OF INFANT FEEDING PRACTICES IN EASTERN UGANDA. Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism. 55: 233-233. doi: DOI:10.1159/000248545
- 2009. FATHERS' AND MOTHERS' PERCEPTIONS ABOUT INFANT FEEDING PRACTICES IN EASTERN UGANDA. Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism. 55: 625-626.
- 2009. Fathers’ and mothers’ perceptions about infant feeding practices in Eastern Uganda. Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism. 55: 233-233. doi: DOI:10.1159/000248286
- 2009. 'No new born feeds on breast milk only:' Infant feeding perceptions among men and women in Eastern Uganda. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 63: 18-18.
- 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: 9.
- 2008. Breast cancer. Women's coping and social support awaiting primary surgery. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being. 3. 36.
- 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. 3: 12.
- 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. 8: 362. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-362
- 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. 73: 294-299. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2008.02.002
- 2007. Difficult choices: Infant feeding experiences of HIV-positive mothers in northern Tanzania. SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS. 4: 544-555.
- 2007. HIV and infant feeding counselling: challenges faced by nurse-counsellors in northern Tanzania. Human Resources for Health. 5: 18-29.
- 2007. Difficult choices: Infant feeding experiences of HIV-positive mothers in northern Tanzania. SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS. 4: 544-555.
- 2007. HIV and infant feeding counselling: challenges faced by nurse-counsellors in northern Tanzania. Human Resources for Health. 5. Published 2007-07-24. doi: 10.1186/1478-4491-5-18
- 2007. Experiences of orphan care in Amach, Uganda: assessing policy implications. SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS. 4: 532-543.
- 2007. Experiences of orphan care in Amach, Uganda: assessing policy implications. SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS. 4: 532-543.
- 2007. Continuity and change in reproductive attitudes of teenage women, their mothers, and maternal grandmothers in South africa. South African Journal of Psychology. 37: 856-877.
- 2007. Continuity and change in reproductive attitudes of teenage women, their mothers, and maternal grandmothers in South Africa. South African Journal of Psychology. 37: 856-877.
- 2006. Fra Bergen til Tanzania, Fagartikkel; Komplekse problem og sterke inntrykk: Pedagogiske og personlige utfordringer knyttet til praksis i Sør. Tidsskriftet sykepleien. 3.
- 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. 1. 14 pages. doi: 10.1186/1748-5908-1-22
- 2006. The varying vulnerability of African orphans - The case of the Langi, northern Uganda. Childhood. 13: 267-284.
- 2006. The varying vulnerability of African orphans - The case of the Langi, northern Uganda. Childhood. 13. doi: 10.1177/0907568206062943
- 2004. Mother's milk - an ambiguous blessing in the era of AIDS?The case of the Chagga in Kilimanjaro. African Sociological Review. 8: 83-99.
Reports and theses
- 2007. The DOLSA/SCNE Project on FGM and Other Harmful Traditional Practices North Gondar Zone. Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, NORAD, Addis Abeba. 24 pages.
- 2006. Praksis i Sør - pedagogiske og institusjonelle utfordringer. 1. Høgskolen i Bergen.
- 2002. Giving birth in Kilimanjaro. The politics of knowledge in moral contexts. X, 280 s. Dr.polit.. -.
- 2002. Giving birth in Kilimanjaro: The politics of knowledge in moral contexts. Universitetet i Bergen, Bergen. 280 pages.
- 2000. The idea of community and the ideology of community participation. A discussion of community, solidarity and self. 58. Institutt for Organisasjon og Administrasjonsvitenskap, Universitetet, Bergen. 17 pages.
- 1999. Community based health promotion: The potential of tradtional and modern institutions. Proceedings from a workshop. Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen. 136 pages.
- 1999. Community based health promotion: The potential of tradtional and modern institutions. Proceedings from a workshop. Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen. 136 pages.
- 1992. The changing role of local midwives in Addis Ababa: Community participation in Primary Health Care. University of Bergen, Bergen. 143 pages.
Book sections
- 2009. Counting on Mother's Love: The Global Politics of Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Eastern Africa. 16, pages 447-479. In:
- 2009. Anthropology and public health : bridging differences in culture and society. Oxford University Press. 730 pages. ISBN: 978-0-19-537464-3.
More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)
Registered Nurse, Dr polit, political science
Research groups
Current projects
- NUFU Gender, generation and social mobilisation. Challenges of reproductive health and rights among vulnerable groups in Ethiopia, Sudan and Tanzania.
- NOMA: Regional masters in Nursing in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda