Marco J Haenssgen
Biographic Data
| ID | 159577 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marco J Haenssgen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marco J |
| FAMILY NAME | Haenssgen |
| SIGNATURE | HAENSSGEN M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chiang Mai University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5849-7131 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Heritage-sensitive interventions to support Indigenous peoples’ forest conservation
Global conservation policies increasingly recognize the vital role of local and Indigenous communities in ecosystem protection, but mechanisms to support such communities’ livelihoods in a conservation context remain limited. Based on participatory engagement with diverse highland communities in the northern Thai tropics, we co-designed a highland origin label with the intention to alleviate Indigenous livelihood pressures. This study assessed wh…
An evaluation case study of village-based relational community engagement activities in Lao PDR
Community engagement activities have rapidly gained recognition in global health policy, but comprehensive evaluations remain scarce. This article exemplifies the use of explicit evaluation criteria within a mixed-method and theory-guided evaluation, applied to village-based community engagement activities of a nationwide health Initiative in Lao PDR. The evaluation case study was one element in a multi-pronged evaluation approach and considered …
Community engagement to support public health
BACKGROUND: Community engagement has been recognized as a key tool for supporting national health agendas, and experiences from the COVID-19 pandemic can offer important lessons for tackling future global health challenges such as antimicrobial resistance. This paper provides much-needed evaluation knowledge on relational community engagement initiatives and their impact on COVID-19-related attitudes and practices. METHODS: A two-round mixed-meth…
I have already died in this PLACE
Conceptualising food environments as social activity spaces
The study of food environments helps the understanding of food and nutrition insecurity, but its static, quantitative and physical focus requires complementary research through people's "lived experiences." Through exploratory qualitative and participatory research, we aimed to capture communities' views of food environments, how they navigate these spaces, and what constitutes inequitable exclusion therein. We conducted participatory mapping and…
Trust in healthcare
BACKGROUND: Global health foregrounds trust as a key requirement for the achievement of international health initiatives, but it remains an elusive concept that is often mobilised without consideration of its dimensions, drivers and downstream behavioural consequences. This paper aims to contribute to the conceptual development and measurement of 'patient trust in primary healthcare' from the lower middle-income country perspective of rural Lao P…
Community engagement and local governance for health equity through trust
Community engagement and local governance are important components of health interventions aiming to empower local populations. Yet, there is limited evidence on how to effectively engage with communities and codevelop interventions, especially in Southeast Asian contexts. Despite rapid progress, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) still has high maternal and child mortality, with essential service coverage showing significant disparit…
The nature and determining factors of inter-household water transfers in Kabul, Afghanistan
Exploring the determinants of household water treatment in Kabul
Community engagement for stakeholder and community trust in healthcare
The CONNECT Initiative had considerable direct and systemic effects on community members' trust in their local health centers in the short term, which arose from strong stakeholder mobilization and gradual institutional learning. Relational community engagement approaches have the potential to create important synergies in health policy and broader cross-sectorial strategies, but also require contextual grounding to identify locally relevant dime…
The impact of conservation and land use transitions on the livelihoods of indigenous peoples
Aligning global health policy and research with sustainable development
Attaining Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3: Health and Well‐Being) faces a dual challenge of diminishing returns of established intervention designs, and a threat to future gains from complex inter‐connected global health challenges like antimicrobial resistance and global biodiversity loss. The growing movement of context‐sensitive approaches could help realise yet untapped potential for intervention designs, but contemporary global health …
Impact and effect mechanisms of mass campaigns in resource-constrained health systems
BACKGROUND: Mass campaigns are a key strategy for delivering life-saving interventions under Global Health Initiatives, especially in weak health system contexts. They are frequently designed parallel to the health system to rapidly achieve programme targets such as vaccination coverage, but we lack quantitative evidence demonstrating their impact and effect mechanisms on health system performance at sub-/national level. This longitudinal study r…
In a network of lines that intersect
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are rapidly spreading to meet global conservation targets, but new governance arrangements can have unintended impacts on socio-economic development that can undermine and counteract their intended outcomes. We use an exploratory mixed-method research design to understand these development impacts and their underlying mechanisms, guided by an innovative activity space framework that situates marine resource managemen…
Precarity and clinical determinants of healthcare-seeking behaviour and antibiotic use in rural Laos and Thailand
BACKGROUND: The social determinants of health are a decisive yet persistently understudied area for tackling global health challenges like antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Precarity is one determinant whose importance is increasingly recognised, which we define here as 'a form of pernicious self-dependence that undermines individuals' control over their own lives and limits their ability to flexibly respond to crises'. We aimed to assess the relat…
Tales of treatment and new perspectives for global health research on antimicrobial resistance
Global health champions modernism and biomedical knowledge but tends to neglect knowledge, beliefs and identities of rural communities in low-income and middle-income countries. The topic of antimicrobial resistance represents these common challenges, wherein the growing emphasis on public engagement offers a yet underdeveloped opportunity to generate perspectives and forms of knowledge that are not typically incorporated into research and policy…
You’ve got a friend in me
The seeming “ubiquity” of mobile phones has spawned a wave of interventions that use mobiles as platforms for health service delivery (mHealth). Operating in more than 100 countries, mHealth interventions commonly aspire to make healthcare more inclusive and efficient. Yet, mobile phone diffusion also stimulates locally emerging forms of health-related phone use that could create new digital inequalities among marginalised groups or compete with …
Manifestations, Drivers, and Frictions of Mobile Phone Use in Low- and Middle-Income Settings
Against the backdrop of alleged mobile phone ubiquity and the enthusiasm about the developmental value of mobile technology, this paper examines the manifestations, drivers, and frictions of mobile phone use in two low- and middle-income settings where mobile technology has diffused rapidly. Qualitative data from 231 participants and survey data from 800 adults in rural Rajasthan and Gansu provide consistent and strong support for the claim that …
New impulses from international development for more comprehensive and balanced public engagement evaluation
Public engagement in health research has gained popularity because of its potential to co-create knowledge, generate dialogue, and ground research in the priorities and realities of the target groups. However, public engagement that achieves these objectives could still entail unforeseen negative consequences or a wasteful use of resources. Although the evaluation of public engagement has evolved in recent years, we lack consistent evaluation cri…
The social role of C-reactive protein point-of-care testing to guide antibiotic prescription in Northern Thailand
After Access
Aided by the increasing availability of internet-enabled low-cost mobile phones, recent years have witnessed rapid growth in internet accessespecially in low-and middle-income
The Social Implications of Technology Diffusion
After three decades of mobile phone diffusion, thousands of mobile-phone-based health projects worldwide (“mHealth”), and hundreds of thousands of smartphone health applications, fundamental questions about the effect of phone diffusion on people’s healthcare behavior continue to remain unanswered. This study investigated whether, in the absence of specific mHealth interventions, people make different healthcare decisions if they use mobile phone…
The struggle for digital inclusion
Impact of high-intensity polio eradication activities on children’s routine immunization status in Northern India
The objective of this article is to analyse and quantify the side effects of the Polio Eradication Initiative on routine immunization performance in India. Past studies have faced methodological challenges in assessing these side effects. This article offers a methodological alternative for health policy analysts. The research uses secondary household survey data from the Indian District-Level Household and Facility Survey (DLHS), focusing on chi…
Healthcare access
It is widely accepted that healthcare-seeking behaviour is neither limited to nor terminated by access to one single healthcare provider. Yet the sequential conceptualisation of healthcare-seeking processes has not diffused into quantitative research, which continues to analyse healthcare access as a "one-off" event. The ensuing lack of understanding healthcare behaviour is problematic in light of the immense burden of premature death especially …
The struggle for digital inclusion
The social role of C-reactive protein point-of-care testing to guide antibiotic prescription in Northern Thailand
The Social Implications of Technology Diffusion
After three decades of mobile phone diffusion, thousands of mobile-phone-based health projects worldwide (“mHealth”), and hundreds of thousands of smartphone health applications, fundamental questions about the effect of phone diffusion on people’s healthcare behavior continue to remain unanswered. This study investigated whether, in the absence of specific mHealth interventions, people make different healthcare decisions if they use mobile phone…
Conceptualising food environments as social activity spaces
The study of food environments helps the understanding of food and nutrition insecurity, but its static, quantitative and physical focus requires complementary research through people's "lived experiences." Through exploratory qualitative and participatory research, we aimed to capture communities' views of food environments, how they navigate these spaces, and what constitutes inequitable exclusion therein. We conducted participatory mapping and…
Aligning global health policy and research with sustainable development
Attaining Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3: Health and Well‐Being) faces a dual challenge of diminishing returns of established intervention designs, and a threat to future gains from complex inter‐connected global health challenges like antimicrobial resistance and global biodiversity loss. The growing movement of context‐sensitive approaches could help realise yet untapped potential for intervention designs, but contemporary global health …
You’ve got a friend in me
The seeming “ubiquity” of mobile phones has spawned a wave of interventions that use mobiles as platforms for health service delivery (mHealth). Operating in more than 100 countries, mHealth interventions commonly aspire to make healthcare more inclusive and efficient. Yet, mobile phone diffusion also stimulates locally emerging forms of health-related phone use that could create new digital inequalities among marginalised groups or compete with …
Healthcare access
It is widely accepted that healthcare-seeking behaviour is neither limited to nor terminated by access to one single healthcare provider. Yet the sequential conceptualisation of healthcare-seeking processes has not diffused into quantitative research, which continues to analyse healthcare access as a "one-off" event. The ensuing lack of understanding healthcare behaviour is problematic in light of the immense burden of premature death especially …
After Access
Aided by the increasing availability of internet-enabled low-cost mobile phones, recent years have witnessed rapid growth in internet accessespecially in low-and middle-income
The Social Implications of Technology Diffusion
After three decades of mobile phone diffusion, thousands of mobile-phone-based health projects worldwide (“mHealth”), and hundreds of thousands of smartphone health applications, fundamental questions about the effect of phone diffusion on people’s healthcare behavior continue to remain unanswered. This study investigated whether, in the absence of specific mHealth interventions, people make different healthcare decisions if they use mobile phone…
The struggle for digital inclusion
Impact of high-intensity polio eradication activities on children’s routine immunization status in Northern India
The objective of this article is to analyse and quantify the side effects of the Polio Eradication Initiative on routine immunization performance in India. Past studies have faced methodological challenges in assessing these side effects. This article offers a methodological alternative for health policy analysts. The research uses secondary household survey data from the Indian District-Level Household and Facility Survey (DLHS), focusing on chi…
The social role of C-reactive protein point-of-care testing to guide antibiotic prescription in Northern Thailand
Manifestations, Drivers, and Frictions of Mobile Phone Use in Low- and Middle-Income Settings
Against the backdrop of alleged mobile phone ubiquity and the enthusiasm about the developmental value of mobile technology, this paper examines the manifestations, drivers, and frictions of mobile phone use in two low- and middle-income settings where mobile technology has diffused rapidly. Qualitative data from 231 participants and survey data from 800 adults in rural Rajasthan and Gansu provide consistent and strong support for the claim that …
New impulses from international development for more comprehensive and balanced public engagement evaluation
Public engagement in health research has gained popularity because of its potential to co-create knowledge, generate dialogue, and ground research in the priorities and realities of the target groups. However, public engagement that achieves these objectives could still entail unforeseen negative consequences or a wasteful use of resources. Although the evaluation of public engagement has evolved in recent years, we lack consistent evaluation cri…
Precarity and clinical determinants of healthcare-seeking behaviour and antibiotic use in rural Laos and Thailand
BACKGROUND: The social determinants of health are a decisive yet persistently understudied area for tackling global health challenges like antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Precarity is one determinant whose importance is increasingly recognised, which we define here as 'a form of pernicious self-dependence that undermines individuals' control over their own lives and limits their ability to flexibly respond to crises'. We aimed to assess the relat…
Tales of treatment and new perspectives for global health research on antimicrobial resistance
Global health champions modernism and biomedical knowledge but tends to neglect knowledge, beliefs and identities of rural communities in low-income and middle-income countries. The topic of antimicrobial resistance represents these common challenges, wherein the growing emphasis on public engagement offers a yet underdeveloped opportunity to generate perspectives and forms of knowledge that are not typically incorporated into research and policy…
You’ve got a friend in me
The seeming “ubiquity” of mobile phones has spawned a wave of interventions that use mobiles as platforms for health service delivery (mHealth). Operating in more than 100 countries, mHealth interventions commonly aspire to make healthcare more inclusive and efficient. Yet, mobile phone diffusion also stimulates locally emerging forms of health-related phone use that could create new digital inequalities among marginalised groups or compete with …
Impact and effect mechanisms of mass campaigns in resource-constrained health systems
BACKGROUND: Mass campaigns are a key strategy for delivering life-saving interventions under Global Health Initiatives, especially in weak health system contexts. They are frequently designed parallel to the health system to rapidly achieve programme targets such as vaccination coverage, but we lack quantitative evidence demonstrating their impact and effect mechanisms on health system performance at sub-/national level. This longitudinal study r…
In a network of lines that intersect
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are rapidly spreading to meet global conservation targets, but new governance arrangements can have unintended impacts on socio-economic development that can undermine and counteract their intended outcomes. We use an exploratory mixed-method research design to understand these development impacts and their underlying mechanisms, guided by an innovative activity space framework that situates marine resource managemen…
The impact of conservation and land use transitions on the livelihoods of indigenous peoples
Aligning global health policy and research with sustainable development
Attaining Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3: Health and Well‐Being) faces a dual challenge of diminishing returns of established intervention designs, and a threat to future gains from complex inter‐connected global health challenges like antimicrobial resistance and global biodiversity loss. The growing movement of context‐sensitive approaches could help realise yet untapped potential for intervention designs, but contemporary global health …
Trust in healthcare
BACKGROUND: Global health foregrounds trust as a key requirement for the achievement of international health initiatives, but it remains an elusive concept that is often mobilised without consideration of its dimensions, drivers and downstream behavioural consequences. This paper aims to contribute to the conceptual development and measurement of 'patient trust in primary healthcare' from the lower middle-income country perspective of rural Lao P…
Community engagement and local governance for health equity through trust
Community engagement and local governance are important components of health interventions aiming to empower local populations. Yet, there is limited evidence on how to effectively engage with communities and codevelop interventions, especially in Southeast Asian contexts. Despite rapid progress, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) still has high maternal and child mortality, with essential service coverage showing significant disparit…
The nature and determining factors of inter-household water transfers in Kabul, Afghanistan
Exploring the determinants of household water treatment in Kabul
Community engagement for stakeholder and community trust in healthcare
The CONNECT Initiative had considerable direct and systemic effects on community members' trust in their local health centers in the short term, which arose from strong stakeholder mobilization and gradual institutional learning. Relational community engagement approaches have the potential to create important synergies in health policy and broader cross-sectorial strategies, but also require contextual grounding to identify locally relevant dime…
Community engagement to support public health
BACKGROUND: Community engagement has been recognized as a key tool for supporting national health agendas, and experiences from the COVID-19 pandemic can offer important lessons for tackling future global health challenges such as antimicrobial resistance. This paper provides much-needed evaluation knowledge on relational community engagement initiatives and their impact on COVID-19-related attitudes and practices. METHODS: A two-round mixed-meth…
I have already died in this PLACE
Conceptualising food environments as social activity spaces
The study of food environments helps the understanding of food and nutrition insecurity, but its static, quantitative and physical focus requires complementary research through people's "lived experiences." Through exploratory qualitative and participatory research, we aimed to capture communities' views of food environments, how they navigate these spaces, and what constitutes inequitable exclusion therein. We conducted participatory mapping and…
Heritage-sensitive interventions to support Indigenous peoples’ forest conservation
Global conservation policies increasingly recognize the vital role of local and Indigenous communities in ecosystem protection, but mechanisms to support such communities’ livelihoods in a conservation context remain limited. Based on participatory engagement with diverse highland communities in the northern Thai tropics, we co-designed a highland origin label with the intention to alleviate Indigenous livelihood pressures. This study assessed wh…
An evaluation case study of village-based relational community engagement activities in Lao PDR
Community engagement activities have rapidly gained recognition in global health policy, but comprehensive evaluations remain scarce. This article exemplifies the use of explicit evaluation criteria within a mixed-method and theory-guided evaluation, applied to village-based community engagement activities of a nationwide health Initiative in Lao PDR. The evaluation case study was one element in a multi-pronged evaluation approach and considered …
Economics (12 works) · Health care (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Business (9 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (9 works) · Nursing (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Geography (7 works)