Lars Ake Persson

Biographic Data

ID315877
NAMELars Ake Persson
GIVEN NAMESLars Ake
FAMILY NAMEPersson
SIGNATUREPERSSON L A
AFFILIATIONSUppsala University
ORCID0000-0003-0710-7954
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS58
TOTAL CITATIONS114
AUTHOR COUNT56
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5

  • Rebuilding research capacity in fragile states

    Open AccessAbdirisak Dalmar, Abdirisak Ahmed Dalmar et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2017

    This paper presents an initiative to revive the previous Somali-Swedish Research Cooperation, which started in 1981 and was cut short by the civil war in Somalia. A programme focusing on research capacity building in the health sector is currently underway through the work of an alliance of three partner groups: six new Somali universities, five Swedish universities, and Somali diaspora professionals. Somali ownership is key to the sustainability…

  • Using health and demographic surveillance for the early detection of cholera outbreaks

    Open AccessDell D Saulnier, Lars Ake Persson et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2016

    BACKGROUND: Cholera outbreaks are a continuing problem in Bangladesh, and the timely detection of an outbreak is important for reducing morbidity and mortality. In Matlab, the ongoing Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) data records symptoms of diarrhea in children under the age of 5 years at the community level. Cholera surveillance in Matlab currently uses hospital-based data. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study is to determine…

  • Socio-economic resources, young child feeding practices, consumption of highly processed snacks and sugar-sweetened beverages

    Open AccessMariela Contreras, Elmer Zelaya Blandón et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2015

    Higher level of education was associated with both more and less adherence to the WHO recommended feeding practices as well as with more consumption of HP snacks and SSBs. Regardless of educational strata, the children in the community were exposed to suboptimal feeding practices conducive to both under- as well as overnutrition

  • Women’s autonomy and social support and their associations with infant and young child feeding and nutritional status

    Open AccessShirin Ziaei, Mariela Contreras et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2015

    Objective To evaluate the associations of women’s autonomy and social support with infant and young child feeding practices (including consumption of highly processed snacks and sugar-sweetened beverages) and nutritional status in rural Nicaragua. Design Cross-sectional study. Feeding practices and children’s nutritional status were evaluated according to the WHO guidelines complemented with information on highly processed snacks and sugar-sweete…

  • Effect of an integrated community-based package for maternal and newborn care on feeding patterns during the first 12 weeks of life

    Open AccessPetrida Ijumba, Tanya Doherty et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2015

    Objective To analyse the effect of community-based counselling on feeding patterns during the first 12 weeks after birth, and to study whether the effect differs by maternal HIV status, educational level or household wealth. Design Cluster-randomized trial with fifteen clusters in each arm to evaluate an integrated package providing two pregnancy and five postnatal home visits delivered by community health workers. Infant feeding data were collec…

  • Trends and social differentials in child mortality in Rwanda 1990–2010

    Open AccessAimable Musafili, Birgitta Essén et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2015Cited by: 1References: 14

    BACKGROUND: Rwanda has embarked on ambitious programmes to provide equitable health services and reduce mortality in childhood. Evidence from other countries indicates that advances in child survival often have come at the expense of increasing inequity. Our aims were to analyse trends and social differentials in mortality before the age of 5 years in Rwanda from 1990 to 2010. METHODS: We performed secondary analyses of data from three Demographi…

  • Consumption of highly processed snacks, sugar‐sweetened beverages and child feeding practices in a rural area of N icaragua

    Open AccessMariela Contreras, Elmer Zelaya Blandón et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2014

    Appropriate feeding behaviours are important for child growth and development. In societies undergoing nutrition transition, new food items are introduced that may be unfavourable for child health. Set in rural Nicaragua, the aim of this study was to describe the infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices as well as the consumption of highly processed snack foods (HP snacks) and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). All households with at least …

  • Equity in adherence to and effect of prenatal food and micronutrient supplementation on child mortality

    Open AccessRubina Shaheen, Peter Kim Streatfield et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2014

    ISRCTN16581394

  • Nutritional status and childhood wheezing in rural Bangladesh

    Open AccessMohammad Delwer Hossain Hawlader, Emiko Noguchi et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2014

    Objective To investigate the association between current childhood nutritional status and current wheezing among pre-school children in rural Bangladesh. Design Cross-sectional study. Setting Matlab region, rural Bangladesh. Subjects Children ( n 912) aged 4·5 years. Anthropometric measurements of the mothers and their children were taken during a 1-year period from December 2007 to November 2008. Current wheezing was identified using the Interna…

  • Risk of childhood undernutrition related to small-for-gestational age and preterm birth in low- and middle-income countries

    Polly Christian, Parul Christian et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2013

    BACKGROUND: Low- and middle-income countries continue to experience a large burden of stunting; 148 million children were estimated to be stunted, around 30-40% of all children in 2011. In many of these countries, foetal growth restriction (FGR) is common, as is subsequent growth faltering in the first 2 years. Although there is agreement that stunting involves both prenatal and postnatal growth failure, the extent to which FGR contributes to stu…

  • Early prenatal food supplementation ameliorates the negative association of maternal stress with birth size in a randomised trial

    Open AccessAmy L Frith, Amy Frith et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2013

    Low birthweight increases the risk of infant mortality, morbidity and poor development. Maternal nutrition and stress influence birth size, but their combined effect is not known. We hypothesised that an early-invitation time to start a prenatal food supplementation programme could reduce the negative influence of prenatal maternal stress on birth size, and that effect would differ by infant sex. A cohort of 1041 pregnant women, who had delivered…

  • Free formula milk in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission programme

    Open AccessPetrida Ijumba, Tanya Doherty et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2013Cited by: 1References: 32

    BACKGROUND: In 2001, South Africa began implementing the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) programme. This programme included distribution of free formula milk for infants up to 6 months of age at all public health facilities. Effective from 1 January 2011, KwaZulu-Natal became the first province to phase out free formula milk from its PMTCT programme. On 23 August 2011, the South African National Department of Health adop…

  • Social circumstances that drive early introduction of formula milk

    Open AccessPetrida Ijumba, Tanya Doherty et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2012

    Breastfeeding is widely endorsed as the optimal strategy for feeding newborns and young infants, as well as improving child survival and achieving Millennium Development Goal 4. Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the first 6 months of life is rarely practised in South Africa. Following the 2010 World Health Organization (WHO) infant feeding recommendations (EBF for HIV-positive mothers with maternal or infant antiretroviral treatment), South Afric…

  • Early invitation to food and/or multiple micronutrient supplementation in pregnancy does not affect body composition in offspring at 54 months

    Open AccessAshraful Islam Khan, Iqbal Kabir et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2012

    Growth patterns in early life are associated with later health. The effect of nutrition during in utero development on later body composition is unclear. We evaluated whether prenatal early invitation to food and/or multiple micronutrient supplementation (MMS) in pregnancy has an effect on offspring body composition at 54 months of age. In Maternal and Infant Nutrition Interventions in Matlab trial (ISRCTN16581394) in Bangladesh, 4436 pregnant wo…

  • Progress towards millennium development goal 1 in northern rural Nicaragua

    Open AccessWilton Pérez, Elmer Zelaya Blandón et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2012

    Sustainable interventions reduced poverty in the rural areas studied by about one-third

  • Effects of psychosocial stimulation on improving home environment and child-rearing practices

    Open AccessBaitun Nahar, Md Iqbal Hossain et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2012

    Child-rearing practices of mothers of severely malnourished children and the quality of their home environment can be improved through community-based psychosocial stimulation with or without food supplementation. This may be of importance to promote child development

  • Tracking progress towards equitable child survival in a Nicaraguan community

    Open AccessWilton Pérez, Rodolfo Pena et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2011

    After the reduction of high under-five mortality that coincided with improved equity in survival in this Nicaraguan community, the current challenge is the neonatal mortality where questions of an equitable perinatal care of good quality must be addressed

  • SP1-44 Association between allergic diseases and nutritional status among children in Bangladesh

    H M D Hossain, Hamid Hossain et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2011

    Introduction Interest has been arisen whether nutritional status is related to development of allergic diseases in children. Our aim was to investigate the association between nutritional status and serum IgE level in the developing country. Methods This cross-sectional study was nested into a large scale nutrition intervention trial among pregnant women in rural Bangladesh. In this follow-up study, we collected venous blood to measure serum tota…

  • Distance decay in delivery care utilisation associated with neonatal mortality. A case referent study in northern Vietnam

    Open AccessMats Målqvist, Nazmul Sohel et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2010

    Distance to the closest health facility was negatively associated with neonatal mortality risk. Health care utilisation in the prenatal period could partly explain this risk elevation since there was a distance decay in health system usage prior to and at delivery. The geographical dimension must be taken into consideration when planning interventions for improved neonatal survival, especially when targeting socio-economically disadvantaged group…

  • Dowry and Spousal Physical Violence Against Women in Bangladesh

    Open AccessRuchira T Naved, Ruchira Tabassum Naved Ruchira Tabassum Naved et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Issues2010Cited by: 7References: 42

    This article explores whether payment issues or presence of dowry demand in marriage reflecting patriarchal attitude of marital family underlies the positive relationship between dowry and wife abuse using a sample of reproductive-age women ( N = 2,702) from a population-based survey conducted in urban and rural Bangladesh in 2001. Regression results show that absence of dowry demand in marriage lowered the likelihood of physical wife abuse in th…

  • Household food security is associated with growth of infants and young children in rural Bangladesh

    Open AccessKuntal Kumar Saha, Edward A Frongillo et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2009

    Objective Despite a strong relationship between household food security and the health and nutritional status of adults and older children, the association of household food security with the growth of infants and young children has not been adequately studied, particularly in developing countries. We examined the association between household food security and subsequent growth of infants and young children in rural Bangladesh. Design We followe…

  • Unreported births and deaths, a severe obstacle for improved neonatal survival in low-income countries; a population based study

    Open AccessMats Målqvist, Leif Eriksson et al.ARTICLEBMC International Health and…2008

    BACKGROUND: In order to improve child survival there is a need to target neonatal mortality. In this pursuit, valid local and national statistics on child health are essential. We analyze to what extent births and neonatal deaths are unreported in a low-income country and discuss the consequences at local and international levels for efforts to save newborn lives. METHODS: Information on all births and neonatal deaths in Quang Ninh province in No…

  • Burning “Centre Bolt”

    Open AccessWanjiku Kaime-Atterhög, Gunilla Lindmark et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2007Cited by: 6References: 16

  • Prevalence of arsenic exposure and skin lesions. A population based survey in Matlab, Bangladesh

    Md Mizanur Rahman, Mahfuzar Rahman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2006Cited by: 1References: 13

    Study objective: To assess prevalence of arsenic exposure through drinking water and skin lesions, and their variation by geographical area, age, sex, and socioeconomic conditions. Design, setting, and participants: Skin lesion cases were identified by screening the entire population above 4 years of age (n = 166 934) living in Matlab, a rural area in Bangladesh, during January 2002 and August 2003. The process of case identification involved ini…

  • Physical violence by husbands

    Open AccessRuchira T Naved, Safia Azim et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2006Cited by: 53References: 10