Neil Andersson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 119093 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Neil Andersson |
| NOMBRES | Neil |
| APELLIDO | Andersson |
| FIRMA | ANDERSSON N |
| AFILIACIONES | Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5220-2136 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 73 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1987 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Why urban communities in low- and middle-income countries participate in global health research
BACKGROUND: Although community participation is a key strategy for decolonizing global health research, there are significant difficulties in the meaningful engagement of urban communities in low- and middle-income countries. Addressing barriers and leveraging enablers before beginning research could facilitate more equitable collaborations. To guide researchers in this endeavour, this scoping review mapped available evidence and identified facto…
Exploring the Presenting Problems and Services Received by Youth with Diverse Mental Health Presentations in Integrated Youth Mental Health Services Across Canada
Variability in service delivery confirms the need for greater standardization of core service offerings across sites. Future research should assess the appropriateness of services for different presentations to ensure equitable support is provided for all youth
Co-designing Culturally Safe Indigenous Birth in High-Risk Obstetrics
Introduction . Maternal evacuation—the transfer of women from remote communities to urban hospitals for childbirth—negatively affects many Indigenous Peoples in Canada. A working group of perinatal service providers in Montreal sought to enhance cultural safety in a high-risk obstetrical unit serving evacuee Indigenous families. This article describes co-design, implementation, and evaluation of short-term cultural safety interventions with Indig…
Four analysis moments for fuzzy cognitive mapping in participatory research
Fuzzy cognitive mapping (FCM) is a practical tool in participatory research. Its main use is clarifying causal understandings from several knowledge sources. It provides a shared substrate or language for sharing views of causality. This makes it easier for different interest groups to agree what to do next. Each map is a collection of causal relationships with three elements: factors (cause and outcome), arrows linking factors, and weights indic…
Prevalence and associated factors of binge drinking among high school students in Acapulco, Mexico
Youth binge drinking is an important health problem with notable psychosocial consequences. This study estimated the prevalence of and identified factors associated with binge drinking among high school students in Acapulco, Mexico. A cross-sectional study included 5177 students from five high schools. After informed consent, participants received a supervised self-administered questionnaire that collated demographic, socioeconomic, and psycho-af…
Vulnerable young women and frontline service providers identify options to improve the HIV-sensitivity of social protection programmes in Botswana
Poverty, lack of education and gender inequality make unemployed and out-of-school young women extremely vulnerable to HIV infection. Promotive social protection programmes aim to increase livelihood and capabilities and could empower this priority population to act on HIV prevention choices. In Botswana, they rarely benefit from such programmes.A modified Policy Delphi engaged a panel of 22 unemployed and out-of-school young women and eight fron…
Community perceptions of causes of violence against young women in Botswana
Violence against young women is a problem worldwide. Understanding its causes in a particular setting can inform context-specific interventions. We used Fuzzy cognitive mapping (FCM), a visual method for collating local knowledge about causes of health outcomes, to explore community views of factors that cause or prevent violence against young women in rural communities in southeast Botswana. In three communities, groups of young men, young women…
Shared perceived causes of suicide among young men and violence against young women offer potential for co-designed solutions
Violence against young women (VAW) and suicide among young men are serious concerns in Botswana and elsewhere. We examined the overlap in locally perceived causes of these two forms of violence in Botswana using the results from separate studies that used fuzzy cognitive mapping (FCM) to explore perceived causes of the two outcomes. FCM depicts perceived causes of an outcome and their links to the outcome and each other, with weights denoting the…
Community perceptions about causes of suicide among young men in Botswana
Suicide is common in Botswana, particularly among young men. Fuzzy cognitive mapping (FCM) can support participatory research by depicting local stakeholder knowledge about causes of health outcomes. This study used FCM to explore local perceptions about causes of suicide among young men in rural communities close to the capital, Gaborone. In nine sessions, groups of young men, young women, older men, and older women separately mapped their knowl…
Shifting paradigm from biomedical to decolonised methods in Inuit public health research in Canada
BACKGROUND: The National Inuit Strategy on Research focuses on advancing Inuit governance in research, increasing ownership over data and building capacity. Responding to this call for Inuit self-determination in research, academic researchers should consider cultural safety in research and ways to promote Inuit-led methods. METHODS: This scoping review collated academic literature on public health research in Inuit communities in Canada between …
How Adolescent Mothers Interpret and Prioritize Evidence About Perinatal Child Protection Involvement
Pregnant and parenting adolescents are more likely than adults to live with economic and social vulnerability, contributing to a higher risk of poorer maternal and newborn health outcomes. These same factors contribute to higher rates of postpartum child protection investigations among adolescents. This study describes an innovative approach to contextualize evidence on factors contributing to perinatal child protection involvement in the perspec…
Universal home visits improve male knowledge and attitudes about maternal and child health in Bauchi State, Nigeria
BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization recommends increased male involvement to improve maternal and newborn health in low- and middle-income countries, but few studies have measured the impact of male-engagement interventions on targeted men. A trial of universal home visits to pregnant women and their spouses in Nigeria improved maternal and child health outcomes. This analysis examines the impact of the visits on male spouses. METHODS: test…
Combining Conceptual Frameworks on Maternal Health in Indigenous Communities-Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping Using Participant and Operator-independent Weighting
A recurring issue in intercultural research is whose knowledge informs conceptualization and design of projects or interventions. Fuzzy cognitive mapping uses arrows and weights to represent stakeholder knowledge on causal relationships and can generate composite theories to inform research and action. Cognitive mapping is accessible across different cultures, but participant weighting is not always straightforward. We describe a procedure to com…
Evidence‐based priorities of under‐served pregnant and parenting adolescents
Young marginalized women are disproportionately affected by inequities in perinatal outcomes, yet their perspectives are rarely centered in efforts to address these inequities. This research addresses health inequities by presenting a robust, transparent and participatory approach to priority setting as a way to better represent the perspectives of those who carry the greatest burden of health inequities in evidence syntheses. In our work, margin…
Weight of Evidence
Mixed methods research is well-suited to grapple with questions of what counts as valid knowledge across different contexts and perspectives. This article introduces Weight of Evidence as a transformative procedure for stakeholders to interpret, expand on and prioritize evidence from evidence syntheses, with a focus on engaging populations historically excluded from planning and decision making. This article presents the procedure's five steps us…
Bridging Western and Indigenous knowledge through intercultural dialogue
Indigenous communities in Latin America and elsewhere have complex bodies of knowledge, but Western health services generally approach them as vulnerable people in need of external solutions. Intercultural dialogue recognises the validity and value of Indigenous standpoints, and participatory research promotes reciprocal respect for stakeholder input in knowledge creation. As part of their decades-long community-based work in Mexico’s Guerrero St…
Acceptability and challenges of introducing an educational audio-drama about gender violence and HIV prevention into schools in Botswana
Structural interventions for HIV prevention are typically complex and evaluation should include measurement of implementation. In a trial of a structural intervention for HIV prevention in Botswana we trained teachers to use an audio-drama about gender violence and HIV (BVV). We measured the use of BVV by the trained teachers, and the factors related. In three-day workshops we trained guidance teachers in primary and secondary schools to use the …
Can social network analysis help to include marginalised young women in structural support programmes in Botswana? A mixed methods study
Since marginalised young women seek support from others like themselves, outreach programs could use networks of women to identify and engage those who most need help from government structural support programs. Methods that rely on social networks alone may be insufficient, and so a combination of approaches, including, for instance, peers, door-to-door recruitment, and key community informants, should be explored as a strategy for reaching marg…
Safe Birth and Cultural Safety in southern Mexico
BACKGROUND: Indigenous women in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero face poor maternal health outcomes. Living as they do at the very periphery of the Western health system, they often receive low-quality care from health services that lack human and financial resources. Traditional health systems remain active in indigenous communities where traditional midwives accompany women through motherhood. Several interventions have explored training …
Access of choice-disabled young women in Botswana to government structural support programmes
Structural factors like poverty, poor education, gender inequality, and gender violence are important in the HIV epidemic in southern Africa. Such factors constrain many people from making choices to protect themselves against HIV. The INSTRUCT cluster randomised controlled trial of a structural intervention for HIV prevention includes workshops for young women which link them with existing government structural support programmes. Fieldworkers i…
Mobilising communities for Aedes aegypti control
ISRCTN27581154
Household costs for personal protection against mosquitoes
( ISRCTN27581154 )
Informed community mobilization for dengue prevention in households with and without a regular water supply
ISRCTN27581154
Community cost-benefit discussions that launched the Camino Verde intervention in Nicaragua
ISRCTN27581154
Camino Verde (The Green Way)
ISRCTN27581154
Apartheid and health in the 1980s
The state, class and the allocation of health resources in Southern Africa
Collecting Reliable Information About Violence Against Women Safely in Household Interviews
This article describes the first national survey of violence against women in Pakistan from 2001 to 2004 covering 23,430 women. The survey took account of methodological and ethical recommendations, ensuring privacy of interviews through one person interviewing the mother-in-law while another interviewed the eligible woman privately. The training module for interviewers focused on empathy with respondents, notably increasing disclosure rates. Onl…
Challenging the myths about madaris in Pakistan
Who pays for measles? The economic arguments for sustained immunization
Increasing international commitment to Universal Child Immunization (UCI) intensifies pressures on already scarce health resources. The costs of the 1989/90 measles epidemic were measured in the State of Guerrero, Mexico, from the perspective of the health services and 43 representative communities. Financial loss was incurred from illness in families of 70% of the 1211 measles cases in a study population of 50294. Some 30% of these families did …
Health, apartheid and the frontline states
Minority Health and Small Numbers Epidemiology
Objective. We sought to test methods for generating epidemiological evidence on health conditions of small, dispersed minority communities. Methods. We used community-based mixed methods including a cross-sectional survey in 5 purposely selected settlements of Khorakané Romá (Gypsies of Muslim culture) in Italy to study the living conditions and health status of children aged from birth to 5 years. Results. In the 15 days prior to the survey, 32%…
Issues in the political economy of health in Southern Africa
Over the past few years there have been major political developments in southern Africa. In the Republic of South Africa, the National Party's short-lived reformist strategy designed to buy off black discontent and to restructure apartheid in order to meet the changing demands of the economy has simply further fuelled black aspirations for their legitimate share of political and economic power. While some of the reforms may change the character o…
Community perceptions about causes of suicide among young men in Botswana
Suicide is common in Botswana, particularly among young men. Fuzzy cognitive mapping (FCM) can support participatory research by depicting local stakeholder knowledge about causes of health outcomes. This study used FCM to explore local perceptions about causes of suicide among young men in rural communities close to the capital, Gaborone. In nine sessions, groups of young men, young women, older men, and older women separately mapped their knowl…
Weight of Evidence
Mixed methods research is well-suited to grapple with questions of what counts as valid knowledge across different contexts and perspectives. This article introduces Weight of Evidence as a transformative procedure for stakeholders to interpret, expand on and prioritize evidence from evidence syntheses, with a focus on engaging populations historically excluded from planning and decision making. This article presents the procedure's five steps us…
Mine smartness and the community voice in mine-risk education
Mine-risk education programmes will fall short of their intended impact for as long as they fail to take into account local responses—knowledge, logic and everyday practices—to mine threats. Community information, systematically collected through household and institutional surveys, can help to define and understand endogenous ‘mine smartness’. The same evidence provides insight into the impact of mine-risk education, including its unintended con…
The use of community-based data in health planning in Mexico and Central America
Sentinel site surveillance methodology is used in Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama and in the Mexican state of Guerrero to collect reliable planning-oriented health information at community level. Limited resources available for health measurement can be concentrated in these sites which, when taken together, reflect the diversity of health conditions; some sites include health facilities and others do not, in proportion with t…
Work and health in Namibia
Work and health in Namibia
Issues in the political economy of health in Southern Africa
Over the past few years there have been major political developments in southern Africa. In the Republic of South Africa, the National Party's short-lived reformist strategy designed to buy off black discontent and to restructure apartheid in order to meet the changing demands of the economy has simply further fuelled black aspirations for their legitimate share of political and economic power. While some of the reforms may change the character o…
Health, apartheid and the frontline states
Apartheid and health in the 1980s
The use of community-based data in health planning in Mexico and Central America
Sentinel site surveillance methodology is used in Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama and in the Mexican state of Guerrero to collect reliable planning-oriented health information at community level. Limited resources available for health measurement can be concentrated in these sites which, when taken together, reflect the diversity of health conditions; some sites include health facilities and others do not, in proportion with t…
The state, class and the allocation of health resources in Southern Africa
Who pays for measles? The economic arguments for sustained immunization
Increasing international commitment to Universal Child Immunization (UCI) intensifies pressures on already scarce health resources. The costs of the 1989/90 measles epidemic were measured in the State of Guerrero, Mexico, from the perspective of the health services and 43 representative communities. Financial loss was incurred from illness in families of 70% of the 1211 measles cases in a study population of 50294. Some 30% of these families did …
Mine smartness and the community voice in mine-risk education
Mine-risk education programmes will fall short of their intended impact for as long as they fail to take into account local responses—knowledge, logic and everyday practices—to mine threats. Community information, systematically collected through household and institutional surveys, can help to define and understand endogenous ‘mine smartness’. The same evidence provides insight into the impact of mine-risk education, including its unintended con…
Household cost-benefit equations and sustainable universal childhood immunisation
This project proposes knowledge translation as a two-way communication that can be augmented by local and international evidence. We will document cultural and contextual barriers to immunisation in the context of household cost-benefit equations. The project makes this information accessible to health managers, and reciprocally, makes information on immunisation effects and side effects available to communities. We will measure the impact of thi…
Reduction of inequalities in health
Evidence-based planning tools have much to offer the goal of equitable health development
Gender and evidence-based planning
Epidemiological combined with experiential evidence from communities can produce important and sometimes surprising insights into gender relations, to inform policies that address changing needs. CIET has standardised a community-based cross-design for the gender-sensitive collection and analysis of three types of evidence: impact, coverage, and costs. Five steps help to ensure that women's voices are heard in planning. Gender-stratified analysis…
Development of AMSTAR
Community views about routine HIV testing and antiretroviral treatment in Botswana
BACKGROUND: The Botswana government began providing free antiretroviral therapy (ART) in 2002 and in 2004 introduced routine HIV testing (RHT) in government health facilities, aiming to increase HIV testing and uptake of ART. There have been concerns that the RHT programme might be coercive, lead to increased partner violence, and drive people away from government health services. METHODS: We conducted a household survey of 1536 people in a strat…
Gender-based violence and HIV
Gender-based violence (GBV) is common in southern Africa. Here we use GBV to include sexual and non-sexual physical violence, emotional abuse, and forms of child sexual abuse. A sizeable literature now links GBV and HIV infection.Sexual violence can lead to HIV infection directly, as trauma increases the risk of transmission. More importantly, GBV increases HIV risk indirectly. Victims of childhood sexual abuse are more likely to be HIV positive,…
Reasons for Equity in Sexual Offences Legislation
This study uncovers endemic sexual abuse of male children that was suspected but hitherto only poorly documented. Legal recognition of the criminality of rape of male children is a first step. The next steps include serious investment in supporting male victims of abuse, and in prevention of all childhood sexual abuse
Dispareunia en mujeres después del parto
Dyspareunia was related to complications with episiotomy and its possible sequelae, such as infection, episiorrhaphy dehiscence, and constricted introitus. More attention should be given to the episiotomy site during the postpartum period and greater selectivity is needed when deciding which women require an episiotomy
Minority Health and Small Numbers Epidemiology
Objective. We sought to test methods for generating epidemiological evidence on health conditions of small, dispersed minority communities. Methods. We used community-based mixed methods including a cross-sectional survey in 5 purposely selected settlements of Khorakané Romá (Gypsies of Muslim culture) in Italy to study the living conditions and health status of children aged from birth to 5 years. Results. In the 15 days prior to the survey, 32%…
Equity and vaccine uptake
BACKGROUND: Achieving equity means increased uptake of health services for those who need it most. But the poorest families continue to have the poorest service. In Pakistan, large numbers of children do not access vaccination against measles despite the national government's effort to achieve universal coverage. METHODS: A cross-sectional study of a random sample of 23 rural and 9 urban communities in the Lasbela district of south Pakistan, expl…
Evidence-based discussion increases childhood vaccination uptake
BACKGROUND: Childhood vaccination rates are low in Lasbela, one of the poorest districts in Pakistan's Balochistan province. This randomised cluster controlled trial tested the effect on uptake of informed discussion of vaccination costs and benefits, without relying on improved health services. METHODS: Following a baseline survey of randomly selected representative census enumeration areas, a computer generated random number sequence assigned 1…
Increasing the demand for childhood vaccination in developing countries
Knowledge synthesis of benefits and adverse effects of measles vaccination
BACKGROUND: In preparation for a cluster-randomized controlled trial of a community intervention to increase the demand for measles vaccination in Lasbela district of Pakistan, a balance sheet summarized published evidence on benefits and possible adverse effects of measles vaccination. METHODS: The balance sheet listed: 1) major health conditions associated with measles; 2) the risk among the unvaccinated who contract measles; 3) the risk among …
One size does not fit all
BACKGROUND: Rates of childhood vaccination in Pakistan remain low.There is continuing debate about the role of consumer and service factors in determining levels of vaccination in developing countries. METHODS: In a stratified random cluster sample of census enumeration areas across four districts in Pakistan, household interviews about vaccination of children and potentially related factors with 10,423 mothers of 14,542 children preceded discuss…
Collecting Reliable Information About Violence Against Women Safely in Household Interviews
This article describes the first national survey of violence against women in Pakistan from 2001 to 2004 covering 23,430 women. The survey took account of methodological and ethical recommendations, ensuring privacy of interviews through one person interviewing the mother-in-law while another interviewed the eligible woman privately. The training module for interviewers focused on empathy with respondents, notably increasing disclosure rates. Onl…
Challenging the myths about madaris in Pakistan
Equity in HIV testing
BACKGROUND: HIV testing with counseling is an integral component of most national HIV and AIDS prevention strategies in southern Africa. Equity in testing implies that people at higher risk for HIV such as women; those who do not use condoms consistently; those with multiple partners; those who have suffered gender based violence; and those who are unable to implement prevention choices (the choice-disabled) are tested and can have access to trea…
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