Anders Öhman
Biographic Data
| ID | 259242 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anders Öhman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anders |
| FAMILY NAME | Öhman |
| SIGNATURE | ÖHMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Umeå University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3083-106X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Metabolic profiles associated with exposure to ambient particulate air pollution
Introduction: Air pollution is a significant contributor to morbidity and mortality globally and has been linked to an increased risk of dementia. Previous studies within the Betula cohort in Northern Sweden have demonstrated associations between air pollution and dementia, as well as distinctive metabolomic profiles in dementia patients compared to controls. This study aimed to investigate whether air pollution is associated with quantitative ch…
Embodiment and the Risk of Reading
In this article, Anders Öhman discusses Gert J. J. Biesta's concept of the risk of education and what it could mean for the study of literature in the classroom. The article's point of departure is Bakhtin's theory of the utterance. The utterance, for Bakhtin, has to be embodied, that is, it has to be governed by a purpose: it must be uttered by someone, or at least the reader or listener must imagine that it is uttered by someone that speaks wit…
Playing the complex game of social status in school – a qualitative study
BACKGROUND: Research suggests that social status in school plays an important role in the social lives of adolescents and that their social status is associated with their health. Additional knowledge about adolescents' understanding of social hierarchies could help to explain inequalities in adolescents' health and guide public health interventions. OBJECTIVE: The study aimed to explore what contributes to subjective social status in school and …
Concerned and conscious, but defenceless - the intersection of gender and generation in child malnutrition in Indonesia
Background: Several studies in Indonesia have shown the protective effect of women-headed households on the double burden of malnutrition (coexistence of undernutrition and overnutrition in a household). Many other studies have presented a positive impact on children’s health and conditions when women are educated, have higher social capital and have control of income and its intra-household allocation. However, how women’s status affects the nut…
The public health turn on violence against women’
This article focuses on policy and law concerning violence against women as a public health issue. In Sweden, violence against women is recently recognized as a public health problem; we label this shift "The public health turn on violence against women". The new framing implies increased demands on the Swedish healthcare sector and its' ability to recognise violence and deal with it in terms of prevention and interventions. The aim was to descri…
Respectability and rights. Sexual and reproductive health and rights of Sri Lankan women formerly involved in prostitution
Women in prostitution are often disrespected and subject to health risks. The aim of this study is to explore how women formerly engaged in prostitution in Sri Lanka position themselves in relation to gendered norms of respectability, and to discuss the possible implications for their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with fifteen women formerly engaged in prostitution. Discour…
Intersections between gender and other relevant social determinants of health inequalities
Exploring self-rated health among adolescents
The use of a self-rated health question including the word 'feel' captured a holistic view of health among adolescents. Differences amongst response options should be acknowledged when analyzing self-rated health questions. If anonymity is not feasible when answering questions on self-rated health, a high level of privacy is recommended to increase the likelihood of reliability
Special Issue
No abstract available. (Published: 22 January 2014) Citation : Glob Health Action 2015, 8 : 27362 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v8.27362
Gender and health – aspects of importance for understanding health and illness in the world
No abstract available. (Published: 22 January 2015) Citation : Glob Health Action 2015, 8 : 26908 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v8.26908
Gender and health inequalities
The risk of disease, disability, and mortality as well as access to health services are unfairly distributed among the population, with certain groups bearing an unequally larger burden of ill health and poorer access to care due to gender, sexual identity/orientation, ethnic background, or class. According to the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH), these health inequalities emanate from socioeconomic and political factors (go…
‘Disrespectful men, disrespectable women’
BACKGROUND: Gender norms have been challenged by unmarried rural women's migration for employment to urban Sri Lankan Free Trade Zones (FTZ). Men are described as looking for sexual experiences among the women workers, who are then accused of engaging in premarital sex, something seen as taboo in this context. Increased sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) risks for women workers are reported. To improve SRHR it is important to unders…
Tough, sensitive and sincere
This study aimed to explore adolescent boys' views of masculinity and emotion management and their potential effects on well-being. Interviews with 33 adolescent boys aged 16-17 years in Sweden were analysed using grounded theory. We found two main categories of masculine conceptions in adolescent boys: gender-normative masculinity with emphasis on group-based values, and non-gender-normative masculinity based on personal values. Gender-normative…
Who is using the morning-after pill? Inequalities in emergency contraception use among ever partnered Nicaraguan women; findings from a national survey
This study provides sound evidence supporting the hypothesis that there are inequalities in HEC use even in countries where inequalities in use to other forms of contraceptive technology has been reduced. HEC use among Nicaraguan women is strongly influenced by individual factors such as age, residency, educational level, socioeconomic status, and exposure to different forms of IPV. It is paramount that actions are taken to diminish these gaps
Easy to Oppose, Difficult to Propose
Debates are ongoing on whether man can engage in gender change and challenge hegemonic masculinities. The study aimed to analyze in what ways young Ecuadorian men—currently or recently involved in activism to advance gender equality and reproductive rights—defined different masculinities, hegemonic and alternative. We used Grounded Theory to collect and analyze three focus group discussions and 15 individual interviews with 30 young activist men …
Challenging gender and violence
Development policies, intimate partner violence, Swedish gender equality and global health
Living Close to the Edge
Although self-reported stress-related problems are common among Swedish adolescent girls and young women, few qualitative studies have been carried out of young people's own understandings and descriptions of their lived embodied experiences of stress-related illness. The aim of the present study, therefore, was to explore and analyze the lived embodied experiences of stress among adolescent girls and young women who had sought help at a youth he…
A community intervention for behaviour modification
A community-empowerment approach can encourage community participation which in turn may improve the citizen's knowledge of the danger impact of CVD. Thus, a bottom-up approach may improve citizens' acceptance of a program, and be a feasible way to prevent and control CVD in urban communities within a low income country
Negotiating Respectability
Migration has implications for women's sexual and reproductive health and rights. Our purpose with this study was to explore unmarried migrant women's perceptions of relationships and sexuality in the context of Sri Lankan Free Trade Zones. Sixteen semi-structured qualitative interviews were analyzed using thematic analysis. We found that the women's perceptions were influenced by gendered hegemonic notions of respectability and virginity. Comple…
When Sex is Hardly About Mutual Pleasure
This study explores gendered discourses about sexuality in Ecuador, the consequences of these discourses for young people's sexual health, and the possibility of the emergence of resistance and challenge. We analyzed and compared individual interviews and focus-group discussions with: young women, youth service providers, ordinary young men, and activist young men. Five interpretative repertoires emerged: (1) becoming sexually respectable women, …
‘Expanding your mind’
BACKGROUND: Traditional forms of masculinity strongly influence men's and women's wellbeing. OBJECTIVE: This study has two aims: (i) to explore notions of various forms of masculinities in young Nicaraguan men participating in programs addressing sexual health, reproductive health, and/or gender equality and (ii) to find out how these young men perceive their involvement in actions aimed at reducing violence against women (VAW). DESIGN: A qualita…
Condemning violence without rejecting sexism? Exploring how young men understand intimate partner violence in Ecuador
BACKGROUND: This study aims to explore young men's understanding of intimate partner violence (IPV) in Ecuador, examining similarities and differences between how ordinary and activist young men conceptualize IPV against women. METHODS: We conducted individual interviews and focus group discussions (FGDs) with 35 young men--five FGDs and five interviews with ordinary young men, and 11 interviews with activists--and analysed the data generated usi…
Antecknat
In this article I discuss the importance of plot not only in narratives but as a means of creating coherence and meaning in existence. There is a delicate balance of plot and characterization that is crucial in every narrative. The plot is a guideline, a means of discovery, and the characters and the content of the narrative are the stations that the plot visits, so to speak. It is crucial to acknowledge both plot and content in a narrative
Can the impact of gender equality on health be measured? a cross-sectional study comparing measures based on register data with individual survey-based data
No association was found between gender equality in companies, measured by register-based index (OGGI), and health. However, perceived gender equality at work positively affected women's self-rated health but not men's. Further investigations are necessary to determine whether the results are fully credible given the contemporary health patterns and positions in the labour market of women and men or whether the results are driven by selection pat…
Young women facing multiple and intersecting stressors of modernity, gender orders and youth
He Messed Me Up”
This article illuminates two Swedish adolescent girls' experiences of living in a violent relationship as teenagers and how this has affected their lives and health over time. Interviews were conducted in a youth health center. A combination of qualitative content analysis and narrative analysis describes violation, stress, trauma, coping, and agency during the period of adolescence and transition into adulthood. Despite Swedish progressive publi…
Tough, sensitive and sincere
This study aimed to explore adolescent boys' views of masculinity and emotion management and their potential effects on well-being. Interviews with 33 adolescent boys aged 16-17 years in Sweden were analysed using grounded theory. We found two main categories of masculine conceptions in adolescent boys: gender-normative masculinity with emphasis on group-based values, and non-gender-normative masculinity based on personal values. Gender-normative…
Easy to Oppose, Difficult to Propose
Debates are ongoing on whether man can engage in gender change and challenge hegemonic masculinities. The study aimed to analyze in what ways young Ecuadorian men—currently or recently involved in activism to advance gender equality and reproductive rights—defined different masculinities, hegemonic and alternative. We used Grounded Theory to collect and analyze three focus group discussions and 15 individual interviews with 30 young activist men …
Living Close to the Edge
Although self-reported stress-related problems are common among Swedish adolescent girls and young women, few qualitative studies have been carried out of young people's own understandings and descriptions of their lived embodied experiences of stress-related illness. The aim of the present study, therefore, was to explore and analyze the lived embodied experiences of stress among adolescent girls and young women who had sought help at a youth he…
Challenging gender and violence
Development policies, intimate partner violence, Swedish gender equality and global health
How gender hierarchies matter in youth activism
Despite a growing body of research on youth activism, few studies examine how this intersects with gender. Our study aimed to explore whether and how young activists themselves perceived gender hierarchies as needing to be addressed through their collective action on sexual health in Peru and Ecuador. Using Grounded Theory (GT), qualitative data were collected and analyzed from young activists across four cases. Cases ranged in complexity from a …
The Supportive Process for Ending Intimate Partner Violence After Pregnancy
This grounded theory study found that Nicaraguan mothers exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV) during pregnancy eventually acted to protect their children and themselves. They experienced ending abuse as an empowerment process characterized by a cognitive change in women's attitudes toward partner abuse and the emergence of help-seeking strategies that lead to ending violence with or without ending the relationship. This process was facilita…
Respectability and rights. Sexual and reproductive health and rights of Sri Lankan women formerly involved in prostitution
Women in prostitution are often disrespected and subject to health risks. The aim of this study is to explore how women formerly engaged in prostitution in Sri Lanka position themselves in relation to gendered norms of respectability, and to discuss the possible implications for their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with fifteen women formerly engaged in prostitution. Discour…
Den kulturella cirkeln
In recent years Cultural Studies has spread throughout the world, transforming Departments of Literature into particular Departments of Cultural Studies. In this article I attempt to examine the importance of Cultural Studies through an analysis of my own development as a scholar and teacher. In the beginning of my career in the early eighties, I was attracted to Cultural Studies becaise of its serious treatment of popular culture. The cultural c…
Äventyraren, passionen och kvinnan
This artiele deals with adventure-ideology and its role in the formation of male identity. Adventureideology is therefore crucial in determining relations beteween men and women. According to Michael Nerlich, who has studied the emergence of adventure-ideology, this ideology is a corner-stone of modernity in Western Europé. For the first time in western civilization, change is regarded as a positive value, and adventure entails the active search …
Topografier, klichéer och verkligheter
In this essay I discuss literary topography in relation to the notion of reality and to the cliché. I argue that mapping is essential to writing, even if it in literature means to deal with textual topos. J. Hillis Miller has shown in his book Topographies that the relation between literary topography and reality is an almost unsolvable paradox. That is, there is certainly an external terrain outside the text, but it is through the text that this…
Det excellenta universitetet
In this article I discuss the change in the universities in Sweden in recent years. Today the trend is not to ask questions of how knowledge develops and changes immanently in different disciplines, but to ask what knowledge means for its commercial or societal use. According to Bill Readings in his book The University in Ruins, this is a change from the university of culture to the university of excellence. The university of culture belonged to …
Ending Intimate Partner Violence after pregnancy
A considerable proportion of women reported end of violence. This might be related to a favourable change in women's norms and attitudes toward gender roles and violence and a more positive attitude towards interventions from people outside their family to end abuse. Maintaining and improving social resources and decreasing partner control and isolation are key interventions to ending abuse. Abuse inquiring may also play an important role in this…
Risk factors for pregnancy among adolescent girls in Ecuador's Amazon basin
The study found that early sexual debut, non-use of contraception during first sexual intercourse, living in a very poor household, having suffered from sexual abuse during childhood-adolescence, and family disruption (living extended periods of life without both parents) were associated with adolescent pregnancy in Orellana
‘Maintaining balance and harmony’
UNLABELLED: Community intervention programmes to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors within urban communities in developing countries are rare. One possible explanation is the difficulty of designing an intervention that corresponds to the local context and culture. OBJECTIVES: To understand people's perceptions of health and CVD, and how people prevent CVD in an urban setting in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. METHODS: A qualitative study wa…
Mobilising a disadvantaged community for a cardiovascular intervention
INTRODUCTION: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a burden for developing countries, yet few CVD intervention studies have been conducted in developing countries such as Indonesia. This paper outlines the process of designing a community intervention programme to reduce CVD risk factors, and discusses experiences with regard to design issues for a small-scale intervention. DESIGN PROCESS: THE DESIGN PROCESS FOR THE PRESENT COMMUNITY INTERVENTION CONS…
Adolescent pregnancies and girls' sexual and reproductive rights in the amazon basin of Ecuador
BACKGROUND: Adolescent pregnancies are a common phenomenon that can have both positive and negative consequences. The rights framework allows us to explore adolescent pregnancies not just as isolated events, but in relation to girls' sexual and reproductive freedom and their entitlement to a system of health protection that includes both health services and the so called social determinants of health. The aim of this study was to explore policy m…
He Messed Me Up”
This article illuminates two Swedish adolescent girls' experiences of living in a violent relationship as teenagers and how this has affected their lives and health over time. Interviews were conducted in a youth health center. A combination of qualitative content analysis and narrative analysis describes violation, stress, trauma, coping, and agency during the period of adolescence and transition into adulthood. Despite Swedish progressive publi…
Young women facing multiple and intersecting stressors of modernity, gender orders and youth
Increasing physical activity, but persisting social gaps among middle-aged people
BACKGROUND: Physical activity is identified as one important protective factor for chronic diseases. Physical activity surveillance is important in assessing healthy population behaviour over time. Many countries lack population trends on physical activity. OBJECTIVE: To present trends in physical activity levels in Västerbotten County, Sweden and to evaluate physical activity among women and men with various educational levels. METHODS: Populati…
Gender equality in couples and self-rated health - A survey study evaluating measurements of gender equality and its impact on health
Men and women perceive and report gender equality differently. This means that it is necessary not only to be conscious of the methods and measurements used to quantify men's and women's opinions of gender equality, but also to be aware of the implications for health outcomes
Sickness absence in gender-equal companies A register study at organizational level
Even though employees at gender-equal companies had more days on sickness benefit, the differences between men and women in this measure were smaller in gender-equal companies. Gender equality appears to alter health patterns, converging the differences between men and women
Measuring the gender gap in organizations
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a register‐based index that could provide a practical tool for gathering information and increasing our knowledge on gender equality at organizational level. Design/methodology/approach Based on Swedish gender policy and information available in public registers, six variables were chosen. For each variable, a gender gap was calculated as the ratio between the sexes, with the larger figure always tr…
When Sex is Hardly About Mutual Pleasure
This study explores gendered discourses about sexuality in Ecuador, the consequences of these discourses for young people's sexual health, and the possibility of the emergence of resistance and challenge. We analyzed and compared individual interviews and focus-group discussions with: young women, youth service providers, ordinary young men, and activist young men. Five interpretative repertoires emerged: (1) becoming sexually respectable women, …
‘Expanding your mind’
BACKGROUND: Traditional forms of masculinity strongly influence men's and women's wellbeing. OBJECTIVE: This study has two aims: (i) to explore notions of various forms of masculinities in young Nicaraguan men participating in programs addressing sexual health, reproductive health, and/or gender equality and (ii) to find out how these young men perceive their involvement in actions aimed at reducing violence against women (VAW). DESIGN: A qualita…
Condemning violence without rejecting sexism? Exploring how young men understand intimate partner violence in Ecuador
BACKGROUND: This study aims to explore young men's understanding of intimate partner violence (IPV) in Ecuador, examining similarities and differences between how ordinary and activist young men conceptualize IPV against women. METHODS: We conducted individual interviews and focus group discussions (FGDs) with 35 young men--five FGDs and five interviews with ordinary young men, and 11 interviews with activists--and analysed the data generated usi…
Antecknat
In this article I discuss the importance of plot not only in narratives but as a means of creating coherence and meaning in existence. There is a delicate balance of plot and characterization that is crucial in every narrative. The plot is a guideline, a means of discovery, and the characters and the content of the narrative are the stations that the plot visits, so to speak. It is crucial to acknowledge both plot and content in a narrative
Can the impact of gender equality on health be measured? a cross-sectional study comparing measures based on register data with individual survey-based data
No association was found between gender equality in companies, measured by register-based index (OGGI), and health. However, perceived gender equality at work positively affected women's self-rated health but not men's. Further investigations are necessary to determine whether the results are fully credible given the contemporary health patterns and positions in the labour market of women and men or whether the results are driven by selection pat…
Subjective health complaints in older adolescents are related to perceived stress, anxiety and gender – a cross-sectional school study in Northern Sweden
The results indicate that mental and subjective health complaints are prevalent during adolescence, especially in girls, and furthermore, that perceived stress and demands may be important explanatory factors. Future studies should pay attention to the balance between gender-related demands, perceived control and social support, particularly in the school environment, in order to prevent negative strain and stress-related ill-health. The gender g…
How gender hierarchies matter in youth activism
Despite a growing body of research on youth activism, few studies examine how this intersects with gender. Our study aimed to explore whether and how young activists themselves perceived gender hierarchies as needing to be addressed through their collective action on sexual health in Peru and Ecuador. Using Grounded Theory (GT), qualitative data were collected and analyzed from young activists across four cases. Cases ranged in complexity from a …
The Supportive Process for Ending Intimate Partner Violence After Pregnancy
This grounded theory study found that Nicaraguan mothers exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV) during pregnancy eventually acted to protect their children and themselves. They experienced ending abuse as an empowerment process characterized by a cognitive change in women's attitudes toward partner abuse and the emergence of help-seeking strategies that lead to ending violence with or without ending the relationship. This process was facilita…
A community intervention for behaviour modification
A community-empowerment approach can encourage community participation which in turn may improve the citizen's knowledge of the danger impact of CVD. Thus, a bottom-up approach may improve citizens' acceptance of a program, and be a feasible way to prevent and control CVD in urban communities within a low income country
Negotiating Respectability
Migration has implications for women's sexual and reproductive health and rights. Our purpose with this study was to explore unmarried migrant women's perceptions of relationships and sexuality in the context of Sri Lankan Free Trade Zones. Sixteen semi-structured qualitative interviews were analyzed using thematic analysis. We found that the women's perceptions were influenced by gendered hegemonic notions of respectability and virginity. Comple…
Medicine (26 works) · Sociology (26 works) · Political science (20 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Gender Studies (16 works) · Public health (16 works) · Nursing (15 works) · Demography (12 works) · Environmental health (12 works) · Population (12 works)