Eva Johansson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3629174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eva Johansson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eva |
| FAMILY NAME | Johansson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHANSSON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Karolinska Institutet |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6695-7989 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 249 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Belonging in Preschool—An Existential and Political Concern for Children
Preschool as a place of learning consists of various communities and belongings created in the intersection between children, teachers, and policy. The very essence of a good life in preschool is characterised by the sort of communities and the opportunities for belonging available to children. Being able to participate in various communities and to experience belonging is central to the wellbeing of every child in preschool. The aim of this stud…
The Health and Well-being of Swedish Deployed Military Veterans
This article gives a brief insight into the types of problems encountered by, and the well-being and health of, Swedish veterans who have deployed abroad since 1990 and onwards. More specifically, it gives an overview of work-related stressors and health outcomes among Swedish deployed military veterans related to (a) trauma exposure, PTSD, and moral distress/moral injury; (b) milder stress reactions/symptoms and everyday hassles and uplifts; and…
The travelling and embedding of discourses on quality in early childhood education and care
The present article is a meta-ethnographic analysis of 15 first-order ethnographic studies with a focus on quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC). The aim of the study is to investigate how neoliberal policy discourses on quality in early childhood education and care travel between global and local contexts and how they become embedded in local preschool practices. Central concepts in the analysis are institutional strategic respons…
The politics of belonging in early childhood contexts
This study aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of belonging in early educational institutions based on key findings developed within the international project Politics of belonging: promoting children’s inclusion in educational settings across border (85644). The research questions are: What are the main empirical and theoretical contributions to the understanding of belonging in early childhood institutions? and What kinds of critical …
Connecting people, plants and place
Native plants are often promoted for gardening, biodiversity conservation and ecological restoration. Native plant gardening can contribute to environmental sustainability by conserving water and creating biologically diverse habitat. Despite the many virtues of native plants, there are challenges to building relationships between people and plants, including limited plant availability and low level of general plant appreciation and literacy. Act…
How epistemic reflexivity enables teacher educators’ teaching for diversity
Recent research points to the importance of teacher educators teaching for diversity in initial teacher education programmes. Teaching for diversity is an approach to teacher education in which an understanding of specialist literature and a focus on critical thinking supports a social justice agenda as opposed to merely using different tips and tricks to prepare future teachers for teaching diverse learners in the classroom. In this study, we ex…
Children’s perspectives on why and when teachers listen to their ideas
The development of children's epistemic beliefs across the early years of elementary school
BACKGROUND: A growing body of research shows that the beliefs we hold about the nature of knowing and knowledge (epistemic beliefs) may mediate moral reasoning. However, a limitation of much of the research in the area of epistemic beliefs is the lack of a longitudinal approach. AIMS: The study investigated longitudinal changes in Australian elementary school children's beliefs about knowing and knowledge (epistemic beliefs) across three judgemen…
Young children's moral evaluations of inclusion and exclusion in play in ethnic and aggressive stereotypic peer contexts
Previous research has emphasised the importance of active citizenship in the early years for the development of tolerant and cohesive societies. This paper reports data from 174 children, aged 6–7 years, who were interviewed in the first year of a longitudinal study. Children were presented with two scenarios about inclusion of others in play. One scenario focussed on a peer from a different ethnic background and the other scenario was about a pe…
Values Education in Early Childhood Settings
A Potential Way to Decrease the Know-Do Gap in Hospital Infection Control in Vietnam
Adequate infection control plays a key role in preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). This study aimed to explore staff perceptions of hospital infection control in a rural and an urban hospital in Vietnam. Individual interviews were conducted with hospital managers, and focus group discussions were conducted with doctors, nurses and cleaning workers separately. Content analysis was applied. An interview guide including discussion po…
Changes in children’s reasoning about the social inclusion of aggressive children over the early years of elementary school
While there is growing understanding about children’s moral reasoning for social inclusion and exclusion, we know little about how children reason specifically about the inclusion of aggressive children in school settings. To investigate children’s decisions about such inclusion and how they justified those decisions, this study reports data from 172 children interviewed in Year 1 (female = 85, male = 87), between the ages of six and seven and 15…
Impact of Integrated Watershed Management on Complex Interlinked Factors Influencing Health
Lack of access to water has a significant impact on the health of people in tribal areas, where water in households as well as for productive purposes is essential for life. In resource-limited settings such as hilly tribal areas, implementation of an integrated watershed management programme (IWMP) can have a significant impact on public health by providing a solution to water scarcity and related problems. The professional stakeholders in rural…
Promoting social inclusion in the early years of elementary school
As classrooms continue to diversify, there is an increasing need to understand children’s inclusive behaviours and moral reasoning. Research shows that epistemic beliefs (beliefs about knowing and knowledge) can influence reasoning for adults, but we know little about this relationship in younger children or how classroom contexts relate to epistemic beliefs for moral reasoning. Thirty-one elementary school children (mean age 6.5 years) participa…
Critical values education in the early years
Democracy, caring and competence
The aim of the study is to explore how Nordic Early Childhood Education and Care policies frame values education in preschools with a special focus on the values of democracy, caring and competence. The study is part of a larger Nordic project, Values education in Nordic preschools: Basis of education for tomorrow, the aim of which is to explore values education from various perspectives, policy levels, institutional levels and personal levels. T…
Do the pre-service education programmes for midwives in India prepare confident ‘registered midwives’? A survey from India
Objective The graduates of the diploma and degree programmes of nursing and midwifery in India are considered skilled birth attendants (SBAs). This paper aimed to assess the confidence of final-year students from pre-service education programmes (diploma and bachelor's) in selected midwifery skills from the list of midwifery competencies of the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM). Design A cross-sectional survey was conducted in Gujarat…
Fogging the issue of HIV - Barriers for HIV testing in a migrated population from Ethiopia and Eritrea
In bridging the gap between the two cultures, Swedish authorities need to find ways to meet the needs of both earlier and newly arrived immigrants as well as the second generation of immigrants. This will require adjusting and updating the information that is given to these different sub-groups of Ethiopian and Eritrean immigrants. Appropriate access to healthcare for a diverse population obviously requires more than simply providing the healthca…
Community perceptions of infectious diseases, antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance in context of environmental changes
Background The public health impact of environmental changes and the faceless threat of antibiotic resistance are currently among the top global health challenges. Community understanding of health, diseases and medicines in relation to the changing environment is necessary to mitigate the impact of these changes on health and for prudent use of antibiotics. Objective The objective is to explore community perceptions of infectious diseases, antib…
Doctoral Education and Institutional Research Capacity Strengthening
Improvement in health and empowerment of families as a result of watershed management in a tribal area in India - a qualitative study
BACKGROUND: Tribal people in India, as in other parts of the world, reside mostly in forests and/or hilly terrains. Water scarcity and health problems related to it are their prime concern. Watershed management can contribute to resolve their health related problems and can put them on a path of socio-economic development. Integrated management of land, water and biomass resources within a watershed, i.e. in an area or a region which contributes …
The transition of childbirth practices among tribal women in Gujarat, India - a grounded theory approach
BACKGROUND: Under the National Rural Health Mission, the current emphasis is on achieving universal institutional births through incentive schemes as part of reforms related to childbirth in India. There has been rapid progress in achieving this goal. To understand the choices made as well as practices and perceptions related to childbirth amongst tribal women in Gujarat and how these have been influenced by modernity in general and modernity bro…
Keep going in adversity – using a resilience perspective to understand the narratives of long-term social assistance recipients in Sweden
Social assistance recipients in this study demonstrated agency in ways of managing long lasting difficulties, sometimes caused by "core problems", which were often accumulated into complex difficulties. Resilience was about keeping going and resisting these difficulties. To find ways out of social assistance required help from different welfare agencies and professionals and was hindered by the fragmentation of services. This study shows that the…
Hopelessness as a basis for tuberculosis diagnostic delay in the Arkhangelsk region
The main contributing factor to unsuccessful health-seeking behaviour for patients with tuberculosis was identified as "being overpowered by hopelessness." This should be taken into consideration when creating any preventive programs and diagnostic algorithms aimed at increasing knowledge about TB, improving the health system, decreasing alcohol consumption and reducing the poverty of the people in Arkhangelsk
Sensory Pedagogy
In the present article we aim to explore the link between Merleau-Pontyan phenomenology and what we call sensory pedagogy. The latter connects to recent sensory ethnography as presented by S. Pink (Sensory ethnography. London: Sage; 2009). We discuss how these thoughts can be put to work in toddler pedagogy. This kind of sensory pedagogy challenges teachers to understand and encounter children through their embodied mind and senses
On the Vote-Purchasing Behavior of Incumbent Governments
In this paper we investigate whether there are any tactical motives behind the distribution of grants from central to lower-level governments. We use a temporary grant program that is uniquely suitable for testing theories of vote-purchasing behavior of incumbent governments. The temporary grant program differs from traditional intergovernmental grants in several aspects, most importantly in the sovereign decision-making power given to the incumb…
Gendered Portraits of Depression in Swedish Newspapers
Mass media are influential mediators of information, knowledge, and narratives of health and illness. In this article, we report on an examination of personal accounts of illness as presented in three Swedish newspapers, focusing on the gendered representation of laypersons' experiences of depression. A database search identified all articles mentioning depression during the year 2002. Twenty six articles focusing on personal experiences of depre…
Different tuberculosis in men and women
Young Sex-Workers in Ho Chi Minh City Telling Their Life Stories
In this study the life stories of 22 sex-workers (age 15-18 years) in Vietnam are organized into three thematic narratives depicting how the girls presented their lives. Poverty, lack of job alternatives and the responsibility to share in the support of their families led the girls into prostitution. Strong family ties gave many girls connectedness; earning a well-needed income provided them with purpose and meaning; and the need for self-suffici…
Child domestic servants in Hanoi. Who are they and how do they fare
Child labour has been receiving much attention and the opinions of what is “ thebest interest of the child” and what is possible to achieve go wide apart.Children themselves and organizations working with them have very differentviews on the causes for and consequences of child work and what should bedone about it (Woodhead, 1999).The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) prohibits economicexploitation of children and their involvement in w…
Promoting social inclusion in the early years of elementary school
As classrooms continue to diversify, there is an increasing need to understand children’s inclusive behaviours and moral reasoning. Research shows that epistemic beliefs (beliefs about knowing and knowledge) can influence reasoning for adults, but we know little about this relationship in younger children or how classroom contexts relate to epistemic beliefs for moral reasoning. Thirty-one elementary school children (mean age 6.5 years) participa…
Teachers’ and children’s personal epistemologies for moral education
Trust and Transparency in Human Encounters in Tuberculosis Control
The purpose of this study was to elucidate understanding of mechanisms of the tuberculosis sickness trajectory in Vietnam. In-depth interviews with 24 TB patients and 16 health care providers involved in TB care were concurrently conducted, coded, and analyzed according to the grounded theory method. A need for quality interaction based on transparency and trust among patient, family, society, and provider was observed. Providers lacked an awaren…
Sensory Pedagogy
In the present article we aim to explore the link between Merleau-Pontyan phenomenology and what we call sensory pedagogy. The latter connects to recent sensory ethnography as presented by S. Pink (Sensory ethnography. London: Sage; 2009). We discuss how these thoughts can be put to work in toddler pedagogy. This kind of sensory pedagogy challenges teachers to understand and encounter children through their embodied mind and senses
To Be a Shoeshine Boy in Hanoi
Birgitta Rubenson, Dinh Phuong Hoa, Nguyen Van Chinh, Bengt Höjer, Eva Johansson, To Be a Shoeshine Boy in Hanoi: A Different Childhood Narrative, Health and Human Rights, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2004), pp. 138-158
The Role of Peacekeepers in the 1990s
In recent years there has been a development towards more complex forms of UN peacekeeeping. One example of this is the UN mission in former Yugoslavia (UNPROFOR), to which Sweden has contributed troops since 1992. A questionnaire study was conducted to gain information about the role of peacekeepers in this new kind of UN mission. The study includes data from four Swedish mechanized infantry battalions, which were deployed in Bosnia for six mont…
Changes in children’s reasoning about the social inclusion of aggressive children over the early years of elementary school
While there is growing understanding about children’s moral reasoning for social inclusion and exclusion, we know little about how children reason specifically about the inclusion of aggressive children in school settings. To investigate children’s decisions about such inclusion and how they justified those decisions, this study reports data from 172 children interviewed in Year 1 (female = 85, male = 87), between the ages of six and seven and 15…
Critical values education in the early years
Educational policy for citizenship in the early years in Australia
Understandings of young children as active and capable citizens, while evident in discourses of early childhood education and research, are not widely reflected in the policy for the early years of schooling in Australia. This paper makes an analysis of the gaps and tensions between discourses of young children as active citizens and policy for citizenship education at the national level in Australia and at the Queensland State level. There is a …
How epistemic reflexivity enables teacher educators’ teaching for diversity
Recent research points to the importance of teacher educators teaching for diversity in initial teacher education programmes. Teaching for diversity is an approach to teacher education in which an understanding of specialist literature and a focus on critical thinking supports a social justice agenda as opposed to merely using different tips and tricks to prepare future teachers for teaching diverse learners in the classroom. In this study, we ex…
Young children's moral evaluations of inclusion and exclusion in play in ethnic and aggressive stereotypic peer contexts
Previous research has emphasised the importance of active citizenship in the early years for the development of tolerant and cohesive societies. This paper reports data from 174 children, aged 6–7 years, who were interviewed in the first year of a longitudinal study. Children were presented with two scenarios about inclusion of others in play. One scenario focussed on a peer from a different ethnic background and the other scenario was about a pe…
Peacekeeping in a Turbulent World
In recent years, the number of peace operations1 launched by the UN or NATO has increased dramatically. Since the mid 1990s many countries also developed new peace operations doctrines in order to
The Role of Peacekeepers in the 1990s
In recent years there has been a development towards more complex forms of UN peacekeeeping. One example of this is the UN mission in former Yugoslavia (UNPROFOR), to which Sweden has contributed troops since 1992. A questionnaire study was conducted to gain information about the role of peacekeepers in this new kind of UN mission. The study includes data from four Swedish mechanized infantry battalions, which were deployed in Bosnia for six mont…
A model for understanding stress and daily experiences among soldiers in peacekeeping operations
This article is based on research that aimed to develop a deeper theoretical understanding of the UN peacekeeping soldiers’ experiences of their daily service, from their own perspective, using a grounded theory approach. Study participants were Swedish UN peacekeeping personnel who served in former Yugoslavia from Autumn 1993 to Autumn 1995. A model was developed, according to which UN peacekeeping soldiers’ experiences of their daily service ar…
Different tuberculosis in men and women
Swedish peacekeepers in Bosnia and Herzegovina
This article describes the prototypical peacekeeping soldier and his experiences, based on a sample of all male soldiers serving in mechanized infantry companies in the first four Swedish UN battalions in Bosnia and Herzegovina (N = 1,238). A questionnaire was administered as a part of the demobilization programme. The prototypical peacekeeper is male, 20–25 years old, single, serves in a mechanized infantry company, and is on his first UN missio…
Morality in Children's Worlds – Rationality of Thought or Values Emanating from Relations
Trust and Transparency in Human Encounters in Tuberculosis Control
The purpose of this study was to elucidate understanding of mechanisms of the tuberculosis sickness trajectory in Vietnam. In-depth interviews with 24 TB patients and 16 health care providers involved in TB care were concurrently conducted, coded, and analyzed according to the grounded theory method. A need for quality interaction based on transparency and trust among patient, family, society, and provider was observed. Providers lacked an awaren…
On the Vote-Purchasing Behavior of Incumbent Governments
In this paper we investigate whether there are any tactical motives behind the distribution of grants from central to lower-level governments. We use a temporary grant program that is uniquely suitable for testing theories of vote-purchasing behavior of incumbent governments. The temporary grant program differs from traditional intergovernmental grants in several aspects, most importantly in the sovereign decision-making power given to the incumb…
Intergovernmental grants as a tactical instrument
Adaptation of Health Care Seeking Behavior During Childbirth
The aim of this study was to explore how various factors influenced women's decisions regarding place of confinement in Luanda, Angola. Ten focus group discussions were conducted with pregnant and nonpregnant women residing in suburban areas of Luanda and the data were analyzed using the grounded theory technique. Four patterns of action of the main theme, "the molding of women's care-seeking behavior during childbirth," were identified: (I) the …
To Be a Shoeshine Boy in Hanoi
Birgitta Rubenson, Dinh Phuong Hoa, Nguyen Van Chinh, Bengt Höjer, Eva Johansson, To Be a Shoeshine Boy in Hanoi: A Different Childhood Narrative, Health and Human Rights, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2004), pp. 138-158
Child domestic servants in Hanoi. Who are they and how do they fare
Child labour has been receiving much attention and the opinions of what is “ thebest interest of the child” and what is possible to achieve go wide apart.Children themselves and organizations working with them have very differentviews on the causes for and consequences of child work and what should bedone about it (Woodhead, 1999).The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) prohibits economicexploitation of children and their involvement in w…
Young Sex-Workers in Ho Chi Minh City Telling Their Life Stories
In this study the life stories of 22 sex-workers (age 15-18 years) in Vietnam are organized into three thematic narratives depicting how the girls presented their lives. Poverty, lack of job alternatives and the responsibility to share in the support of their families led the girls into prostitution. Strong family ties gave many girls connectedness; earning a well-needed income provided them with purpose and meaning; and the need for self-suffici…
Mozambican Midwives' Views on Barriers to Quality Perinatal Care
Our purpose in this study was to explore the midwives' perception of factors obstructing or facilitating their ability to provide quality perinatal care at a central labor ward in Maputo. In-depth interviews were undertaken with 16 midwives and were analyzed according to grounded theory technique. Barriers to provision of quality perinatal care were identified as follows: (i) the unsupportive environment, (ii) nonempowering and limited interactio…
Processes and Outcomes of HIV Serostatus Disclosure to Sexual Partners among People Living with HIV in Uganda
Strategies Applied by Women in Coping With ad-hoc Demands for Unauthorized User Fees During Pregnancy and Childbirth. A Focus Group Study From Angola
Our aim in this study was to explore women's responses to reported ad-hoc demands for unauthorized user fees during pregnancy and childbirth in Luanda, Angola. Ten focus group discussions were conducted and data were analysed using grounded theory. Women were found to apply six strategies as they "endeavored to cope with demands for unauthorized user fees" (core category): (i) blowing the whistle, (ii) searching for comprehension, (iii) manipulat…
Health and social situation of adolescents in Hanoi, Vietnam
Primary education in Vietnam is free and compulsory for five years. The majority of school-aged children continue into lower secondary school, but significant numbers drop out. This study investigated the health and social situation of adolescents aged 11–16 years (between primary education and legal employment age) to compare the situation of adolescents in school with those working, including possible gender differences. The data were collected…
Empathy or Intersubjectivity? Understanding the Origins of Morality in Young Children’
Peacekeeping in a Turbulent World
In recent years, the number of peace operations1 launched by the UN or NATO has increased dramatically. Since the mid 1990s many countries also developed new peace operations doctrines in order to
Barriers of Mistrust
India has one of the most highly privatized health care systems in the world. The dominant private health sector functions alongside a traditional tiered public health sector. There has been an overall lack of collaboration between the two sectors despite international policy recommendations and local initiatives. It has been postulated that "conflicting perceptions" might contribute to the uncooperative attitude between the two sectors. But ther…
Gendered Portraits of Depression in Swedish Newspapers
Mass media are influential mediators of information, knowledge, and narratives of health and illness. In this article, we report on an examination of personal accounts of illness as presented in three Swedish newspapers, focusing on the gendered representation of laypersons' experiences of depression. A database search identified all articles mentioning depression during the year 2002. Twenty six articles focusing on personal experiences of depre…
"Who am I? Where am I?" Experiences of married young women in a slum in Islamabad, Pakistan
Knowledge about sexuality could prepare them better for the future life and give them more control of their fertility. Adolescent development and life skills education need to be addressed at a national level. There is need for innovative interventions to reach out and provide support to young women in disadvantaged homes
Endurance of Aloneness Among Tibetan Indigenous Women in Western China
In this article we describe Tibetan indigenous women's perceptions and experiences of their own health and life situation in Shichuan Province, China. Fifteen focus group discussions (FGDs) and 10 interviews were conducted. Repeat FGDs were used to empower the women and as a tool to collect data. Content analysis was used to analyze the data, and three subthemes were identified: 'shouldering responsibility in family life,' "enduring reproductive …
Antibiotic use, resistance development and environmental factors
Generally, the interviewees perceived that although behavioural and social environmental factors are major contributors to resistance development, changes in the physical and natural environment also influence development of antibiotic resistance. The respondents also perceived that there is a lack of information about, and poor awareness of, what constitutes prudent use of antibiotics. They suggested a need for information, education, disseminat…
Security lies in obedience - Voices of young women of a slum in Pakistan
The study demonstrates how, in a culture of silence around sexuality, young women's socialization into submissiveness lays the foundation for the lack of control over the future reproductive health that they experience
Living on social assistance with chronic illness
From this study it is evident that the way in which individuals on social assistance interact with services and how they are treated by professionals plays an important role in their well-being, in combination with what kind of help and support is available for recipients through the welfare system. In this respect, persons living on social assistance with chronic illness are particularly vulnerable. This study suggests that more effort should be…
Psychology (41 works) · Sociology (41 works) · Political science (31 works) · Medicine (28 works) · Nursing (18 works) · Qualitative research (18 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Focus group (15 works) · Public health (15 works) · Environmental health (14 works)