Flemming Konradsen

Biographic Data

ID1736790
NAMEFlemming Konradsen
GIVEN NAMESFlemming
FAMILY NAMEKonradsen
SIGNATUREKONRADSEN F
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Copenhagen
ORCID0000-0003-1036-6949
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS35
TOTAL CITATIONS34
AUTHOR COUNT35
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Preventing suicide by restricting access to Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs)

    Open AccessBruna Rubbo, Chao-Ying Tu et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide. A previous systematic review showed that regulations limiting access to highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) were successful in preventing suicides. As the WHO strongly supports regulation of pesticides, we aimed to update and strengthen the evidence on the effectiveness of HHP bans. We conducted a systematic review by searching MEDLINE, Embase, and PsycINFO databases in March 2024 for manuscripts publ…

  • Feedback encounters in doctoral supervision

    Open AccessLasse X Jensen, Margaret Bearman et al.ARTICLEAssessment & Evaluation in Higher…2025

    Effective doctoral supervision is heavily dependent upon dialogic feedback. The rise of generative artificial intelligence chatbots raises the question how interactions with a chatbot align with, or diverge from, authentic feedback practices with supervisors. This self-study from a supervision team employs a novel method of combining rich data from authentic supervisory feedback encounters with simulated chatbot conversations. Supervisor and chat…

  • “Ad hoc policy decisions” in the news

    Open AccessLisa Schölin, Pramila Hashini et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Modern agriculture relies on pesticides to maximise outputs. While many highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) are banned in places like the European Union due to concerns about harm to the environment and human health, their use continues in many low- and middle-income counties (LMICs). Pesticide suicide is a public health problem unique to countries where HHPs are used, and Sri Lanka has successfully implemented several HHP bans as part of a suicid…

  • Evaluating the programme and behavior change theories of a community alcohol education intervention in rural Sri Lanka

    Open AccessJane Brandt Sørensen, Kelly Kiyeon Lee et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2023

    Risky alcohol use is a major public health problem globally and in Sri Lanka. While a reduction in alcohol consumption can result in physical, mental, and social benefits, behaviour change is difficult to achieve. Effective, context-adapted interventions are required to minimise alcohol-related harm at a community level. THEATRE is a complex, community-based intervention evaluating whether a promising Sri Lankan pilot study that utilised arts-bas…

  • Making Sense or Non-Sense? Communicating Covid-19 Guidelines to Young Adults at Danish Folk High Schools

    Open AccessThilde Vildekilde, Julie Jakobsen Connelly et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    Little is known about young people's behaviors and responses under outbreaks of infectious diseases such as the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in institutional settings. This research investigated the reactions of young adults residing at Danish folk high schools (FHSs) towards COVID-19 guidelines and the communicative styles used to enforce COVID-19 guidelines. The qualitative data consists of focus group discussions (FGDs) with students, intervi…

  • Digital ethnography in higher education teaching and learning—a methodological review

    Open AccessLasse X Jensen, Margaret Bearman et al.ARTICLEHigher Education2022

    To understand how the digitalization of higher education influences the inter-relationship between students, teachers, and their broader contexts, research must account for the social, cultural, political, and embodied aspects of teaching and learning in digital environments. Digital ethnography is a research method that can generate rich contextual knowledge of online experiences. However, how this methodology translates to higher education is l…

  • Scaling up context-tailored clinical guidelines and training to improve childbirth care in urban, low-resource maternity units in Tanzania

    Open AccessNanna Maaløe, Natasha Housseine et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2022

    While facility births are increasing in many low-resource settings, quality of care often does not follow suit; maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity remain unacceptably high. Therefore, realistic, context-tailored clinical support is crucially needed to assist birth attendants in resource-constrained realities to provide best possible evidence-based and respectful care. Our pilot study in Zanzibar suggested that co-created clinical prac…

  • Scaling up Locally Adapted Clinical Practice Guidelines for Improving Childbirth Care in Tanzania

    Open AccessJane Brandt Sørensen, Natasha Housseine et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2022

    Effective, low-cost clinical interventions to improve facility-based care during childbirth are critical to reduce maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity in low-resource settings. While health interventions for low- and lower-middle-income countries are often developed and implemented top-down, needs and circumstances vary greatly across locations. Our pilot study in Zanzibar improved care through locally co-created intrapartum clinical p…

  • Not an ‘either/or’

    Open AccessBishal Gyawali, Mary C Harasym et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2021

  • Assessment of the core and support functions of the integrated disease surveillance and response system in Zanzibar, Tanzania

    Open AccessFatma Saleh, Jovin Kitau et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    The IDSR system in Zanzibar is weak and inadequate for early detection and response to infectious disease epidemics. The performance of both core and support functions are hampered by several factors including inadequate human and material resources as well as lack of motivation for IDSR implementation within the healthcare delivery system. In the face of emerging epidemics, strengthening of the IDSR system, including allocation of adequate resou…

  • Suicide risk and prevention during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessDavid Gunnell, Louis Appleby et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Psychiatry2020

  • Emerging pesticides responsible for suicide in rural Sri Lanka following the 2008–2014 pesticide bans

    Open AccessManjula Weerasinghe, Melissa Pearson et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Ingestion of pesticides remains the most important means of suicides in rural Sri Lanka. The pesticides that were once responsible for most pesticide suicides have now been replaced by carbosulfan and profenofos. Their regulation and replacement in agriculture with less hazardous pesticides will further reduce the incidence of both pesticide and overall suicides in rural Sri Lanka

  • Estimating the government health-care costs of treating pesticide poisoned and pesticide self-poisoned patients in Sri Lanka

    Open AccessHannah Ahrensberg, Lizell B Madsen et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2019

    Background: Pesticide self-poisoning as a method of suicide is a major global health problem.Objectives: To estimate the cost and per patient cost of treating pesticide self-poisoning at different hospital levels in a Sri Lankan district, and to examine the distribution of cost components. Another objective was to investigate changes in total cost of treatment of pesticide poisoning for all causes at different administrative levels in Sri Lanka i…

  • A qualitative exploration of rural and semi-urban Sri Lankan men’s alcohol consumption

    Open AccessJane Brandt Sørensen, Flemming Konradsen et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2019

    Harmful alcohol drinking can have health and socio-economic consequences. However, consumption is also associated with pleasure and symbolic meanings. Alcohol intake is increasing in Sri Lanka. In-depth explorations of alcohol patterns are needed to inform interventions and policies. Qualitative data were collected over 11 months in 2014 and 2015 in the North Central Province of Sri Lanka. Ten focus group discussions were conducted in gender, age…

  • A review of the use of virtual reality head-mounted displays in education and training

    Open AccessLasse X Jensen, Flemming KonradsenARTICLEEducation and Information…2018

  • Vendor-based restrictions on pesticide sales to prevent pesticide self-poisoning - a pilot study

    Open AccessManjula Weerasinghe, Flemming Konradsen et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    Our study suggests that vendor-based sales restriction in regions with high rates of self-poisoning has the potential to reduce access to pesticides for self-poisoning. A large-scale study of the effectiveness and sustainability of this approach is needed

  • Secrets, shame and discipline

    Thilde Rheinländer, Margaret Gyapong et al.ARTICLEHealth Care For Women International2018

    Women and girls need proper sanitation and hygiene facilities to maintain health and dignity. In this study we show how schoolgirls from a peri-urban community of Ghana, experience severe multidimensional 'hygiene poverty' when attending schools. Hygiene poverty was characterized by poor water and sanitation infrastructures and serious social and emotional challenges, including shaming and disciplining of their sanitation and menstrual practices,…

  • Perceptions of using low-quality irrigation water in vegetable production in Morogoro, Tanzania

    Open AccessWinfrida Mayilla, Bernard Keraita et al.ARTICLEEnvironment Development and…2017

    This study was conducted to examine perceptions of the farmers and key informants on the use of low-quality irrigation water for vegetable production in urban and peri-urban areas in Morogoro, Tanzania. The methods used to collect data were farmer surveys ( n = 60), focus group discussions ( n = 4) and key informants interviews ( n = 15). The results showed that the respondents had a positive perception on using low-quality irrigation water for v…

  • Sanitation investments in Ghana

    Open AccessY Awunyo-Akaba, Joan Awunyo-Akaba Joan Awunyo-Akaba et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2016

    The study states that poor land rights, the history of settlements, in-migration and insecure tenancy are key components that are associated with local livelihoods and investments in private sanitation in rapidly changing rural and peri-urban communities of Ghana. Sanitation policy makers and programme managers must acknowledge that these profound local, ethnic and economic forces are shaping people's abilities and motivations for sanitation inve…

  • Suicide in Sri Lanka 1975–2012

    Open AccessDuleeka Knipe, Duleeka W Knipe et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2014

    The epidemiology of suicide in Sri Lanka has changed noticeably in the last 30 years. The introduction of pesticide regulations in Sri Lanka coincides with a reduction in suicide rates, with evidence of limited method substitution

  • Teaching minority children hygiene

    Thilde Rheinländer, Helle Samuelsen et al.ARTICLEEthnicity and Health2014References: 5

    Kindergartens can be important institutions for the promotion of safe hygiene practices among children, but they must invest in the maintenance of hygiene and sanitation infrastructures and adopt a strong practice-based teaching approach in daily work and in teacher's education. To support highland minority children in particular, teaching styles must take local living conditions and caregiver structures into account and teach in local languages.…

  • Teaching handwashing with soap for schoolchildren in a multi-ethnic population in northern rural Vietnam

    Open AccessLe Thi Thanh Xuan, Thilde Rheinländer et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2013

    BACKGROUND: In Vietnam, initiatives have been started aimed at increasing the practice of handwashing with soap (HWWS) among primary schoolchildren. However, compliance remains low. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to investigate responses to a teacher-centred participatory HWWS intervention in a multi-ethnic population of primary schoolchildren in northern rural Vietnam. DESIGN: This study was implemented in two phases: a formative research project ov…

  • Sanitation behavior among schoolchildren in a multi-ethnic area of Northern rural Vietnam

    Open AccessLe Thi Thanh Xuan, Luu Ngoc Hoat et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2012

    The paper shows that the current school based sanitation promotion is insufficient to change sanitation behavior of school children irrespective of their ethnicity. It is important that schools, households and communities work more closely together to increase use and uptake of latrine use among schoolchildren. Also, the contractors of latrine facilities must work more closely with local school management when constructing latrines, including ide…

  • Hygiene and sanitation promotion strategies among ethnic minority communities in Northern Vietnam

    Open AccessThilde Rheinländer, L T Thanh Xuan et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2012References: 14

    Effective rural hygiene and sanitation promotion (RHSP) is a major challenge for many low-income countries. This paper investigates strategies and stakeholders' roles and responsibilities in RHSP implementation in a multi-ethnic area of northern Vietnam, in order to identify lessons learned for future RHSP. A stakeholder analysis was performed, based on 49 semi-structured individual interviews and one group interview with stakeholders in RHSP in …

  • A community-based cluster randomised trial of safe storage to reduce pesticide self-poisoning in rural Sri Lanka

    Open AccessMelissa Pearson, Flemming Konradsen et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2011

    This paper describes a large effectiveness study of a community intervention to reduce the burden of intentional poisoning in rural Sri Lanka. The study builds on a strong partnership between provincial health services, local and international researchers, and local communities. We discuss issues in relation to randomisation and contamination, engaging control villages, the intervention, and strategies to improve adherence