Anna-Karin Hurtig

Datos Biográficos

ID308692
NOMBREAnna-Karin Hurtig
NOMBRESAnna-Karin
APELLIDOHurtig
FIRMAHURTIG A
AFILIACIONESUmeå University
ORCID0000-0001-7087-1467
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS75
TOTAL DE CITAS36
TOTAL COMO AUTOR75
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1985
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H3

  • Attitudes and practices of Sudan’s health sector partners towards strengthening and utilising the national health system components (2015–2022)

    Open AccessHuzeifa Aweesha, Anni-Maria Pulkki-Brännström et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    While the emphasis on strengthening and utilising a unified national system has gained momentum in discussions among health partners throughout the world, there are evident discrepancies between commitments and practice. Sudan presents an interesting case where the last decade has witnessed major political changes that have influenced health sector partnerships. This study investigates the shifts in attitudes and practices of Sudan’s health secto…

  • “I have many burdens”

    Open AccessFaustine Kyungu Nkulu Kalengayi, Anne Ouma et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2026

    People living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLHIV) often navigate complex and vulnerable circumstances shaped by intersecting social identities that influence their experiences with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, healthcare, and support services. This qualitative study explored how PLHIV in Sweden perceive and experience healthcare and social support. It draws on 32 in-depth interviews conducted in 2019, 2021, and 2024 with pa…

  • Local government planning for community sustainability in municipal peripheries

    Open AccessAlbert Brunet Johansson, Dean Carson et al.ARTICLEPlanning Practice and Research2026

    This paper investigates municipal government initiatives targeting ‘local development’ and community sustainability in municipal peripheries in rural Västerbotten, Sweden. Analysing planning documents, we identify 142 initiatives from 2022 to 2023 using a social determinants of health (SDH) framework, particularly focusing on labour, business development, technology adoption, municipality-business collaboration, supporting village associations, a…

  • Humanitarian–development nexus approach to health systems strengthening in Sudan—a policy analysis

    Open AccessHuzeifa Aweesha, Huzeifa Jabir Idris Aweesha et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Background: With increasing conflict, fragility, and emergencies in many countries, health systems are being frequently weakened and require support and strengthening. To ensure the provision of lifesaving interventions while improving national health systems, the humanitarian-development nexus presents a policy solution to bridge the divide between humanitarian and development actors. Sudan represents an interesting case of the nexus of adoption…

  • Do health facility governing committees improve health system performance? An ecological study of Mainland Tanzania

    Open AccessFredrika von Essen, Stephen Maluka et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    INTRODUCTION: Accountability is crucial for improved functionality of health systems and can be ensured through community participation in health governance. To engage the community in the governance of the local health system, health facility governing committees (HFGCs) have been implemented in several low-income and middle-income countries including Tanzania. However, the effect of HFGCs on health system performance is not well studied. The ai…

  • Exploring multisectoral collaboration in implementing comprehensive sexuality education framework at the provincial level in Zambia

    Open AccessMalizgani Paul Chavula, Joseph Mumba Zulu et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2025

    BACKGROUND: In 2014, the Zambian government introduced the Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) framework, decentralising its implementation from the national to the provincial administration. The provincial structures of the Ministries of Health and Education play an important role in providing technical, policy direction and coordination support. However, little research has focused on the role of CSE collaboration at the provincial level. O…

  • Shedding a Light on Blue

    Open AccessArian Rostami, Monica Burman et al.ARTICLEGender Issues2025Referencias: 8

    Following the #MeToo movement and a Facebook campaign known as #Nödvärn (selfdefense), sexual and gender-based harassment in the context of Swedish police work has received increased attention. This study aimed to investigate the occurrence of sexual and gender-based harassment, the common types of harassment, and the organizational factors that officers perceive to be enabling the occurrence of such harassment. The current study employed a mixed…

  • Sudan's health sector partnership

    Open AccessHuzeifa Aweesha, Anna-Karin Hurtig et al.ARTICLEDevelopment Policy Review2024

  • Has stakeholder participation in health facility governing committees promoted social accountability? A qualitative study in Tanzania

    Open AccessHussein Athuman Kapuya, Stephen Maluka et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2024

    BACKGROUND: Since the 1990s, Tanzania has actively encouraged stakeholder participation in health services through Health Facility Governing Committees (HFGCs) to promote social accountability within its broader health system reforms. While previous studies have explored the functionality of the HFGCs, this study aimed to understand whether stakeholder participation in the HFGCs contributes to promoting social accountability in the health system.…

  • Awareness and utilization of Swedish youth clinics among migrants enrolled in Swedish language programmes

    Open AccessAmanda Lundberg, Anna-Karin Hurtig et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2024

    BACKGROUND: Previous research has highlighted inequalities in access to Swedish youth clinics (YCs). These inequalities exist not only between non-migrant and young migrant populations but also within various migrant groups. OBJECTIVES: To assess awareness and utilization of Swedish YCs among migrants enrolled in Swedish language programmes and explore associated factors. METHODS: This cross-sectional study involved 1,112 migrants aged 15-65. The…

  • Prevalence of perceived discrimination, determinants and associations with self-rated general and sexual health, healthcare utilization and self-perceived integration

    Open AccessFaustine Kyungu Nkulu Kalengayi, Mazen Baroudi et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    This study shows that migrants in Sweden face widespread perceived discrimination based on ethnicity and religion. This can affect their health, healthcare use, and social integration. The study calls for policies and interventions that tackle systemic perceived discrimination, foster inclusion, and guarantee equal opportunities in accessing healthcare and resources for migrants. It also urges support for vulnerable groups who perceive more discr…

  • Being both a grandmother and a health worker

    Open AccessChama Mulubwa, Joseph Mumba Zulu et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Community-based health workers could be key actors providing context-specific comprehensive SRHR information and services that could span all the boundaries in the community-based health system. When addressing adolescents SRHR, playing dual roles of being both a grandmother and a professional CBHW were sometimes complimentary and at other times conflicting. Additional research is required to understand how to improve the role of CBHWs in address…

  • Healthcare workers ́ experiences and perceptions of the provision of health insurance benefits to the elderly in rural Tanzania

    Open AccessPaul Joseph Amani, Miguel San Sebastian et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    While health insurance was considered an important mechanism to facilitate access to care among rural elderly, several challenges that impede its purpose were mentioned by the participants. Based on these, an increase in the healthcare workforce and availability of medical supplies at the health-centre level together with expansion of services coverage of the Community Health Fund and improvement of reimbursement procedures are recommended to ach…

  • The good, the bad, and the why

    Open AccessMazen Baroudi, I Goicolea et al.ARTICLEJournal of Migration and Health2023Referencias: 6

    Although migrant men constitute a large and growing proportion of men in Sweden, literature exploring migrant men's experiences in sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services is scarce. We aimed to explore how Arabic-speaking migrant men perceive and experience information and services related to SRH in Sweden. We conducted 13 semi-structured interviews with Arabic-speaking migrant men and analysed the data using reflexive thematic analysis. We…

  • ‘History obligates us to do it’

    Open AccessAlison Hernández, Anna-Karin Hurtig et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    Growing interest in how marginalised citizens can leverage countervailing power to make health systems more inclusive and equitable points to the need for politicised frameworks for examining bottom-up accountability initiatives. This study explores how political capabilities are manifested in the actions and strategies of Indigenous grassroots leaders of health accountability initiatives in rural Guatemala. Qualitative data were gathered through…

  • Trajectories of Mental Health Status Among Police Recruits in Sweden

    Open AccessMikael Emsing, Mojgan Padyab et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2022

    While the vast majority of recruits had results that where indicative of a low prevalence and intensity with regards to mental health disorders, some recruits did score above the Swedish patient mean. While mental preparedness is part of the curriculum for Swedish police recruits, interventions targeting the stigmas of poor mental health could be of value. The fact that educational attainment appears to have a positive impact on the mental health…

  • HIV ended up in second place’ − prioritizing social integration in the shadow of social exclusion

    Open AccessFaustine Kyungu Nkulu Kalengayi, Anne Ouma et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2022

    The study shows that most of the challenges that migrants living with HIV face are related to their status as migrants rather than HIV status, which is often not known by the public or authorities. These challenges are similar, but still differ depending on social position, previous experiences, time since arrival and since diagnosis. This emphasizes the importance of both intersectional, intersectoral and multisectoral approaches to address repo…

  • Combining photo-elicitation and discourse analysis to examine adolescents’ sexuality in rural Zambia

    Open AccessChama Mulubwa, Anna-Karin Hurtig et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2022

    These repertories offer an important context that shape how adolescents negotiate, adopt and resist SRHR interventions. Future interventions that target adolescents' SRHR must aim to address the sexual scripts that serve to erect barriers against positive sexual behaviours, including access to SRHR services that promote safer sex

  • Reducing or reproducing inequalities in health? An intersectional policy analysis of how health inequalities are represented in a Swedish bill on alcohol, drugs, tobacco and gambling

    Open AccessNadja Fagrell Trygg, Per E Gustafsson et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    The problem representation of health inequalities and its underlying assumptions may have counteractive effects on health equity, and even though some of its strengths are raised, it seems to be profoundly entangled with a system resisting the kind of change that the bill itself advocates for. If carefully used, intersectionality has the potential to support a more comprehensive and inclusive equality-promoting public health policy and practice

  • Social factors associated with trust in the health system in northern Sweden

    Open AccessMazen Baroudi, I Goicolea et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Trust in the health system was moderately high in northern Sweden and strongly associated with sociodemographic and social capital factors. Trust is a complex phenomenon and a deeper exploration of the relation between trust in the health system and sociodemographic factors is needed

  • Performing Through Privatization

    Open AccessPaola A Mosquera, Miguel San Sebastian et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    Background: In 2010, Sweden opened up for establishment of privately owned primary health care providers, as part of a national Free Choice in Primary Health Care reform. The reform has been highly debated, and evidence on its effects is scarce. The present study therefore sought to evaluate whether the reform have impacted on primary health care service performance. Methods: This ecological register-based study used a natural experimental approa…

  • What a Pandemic Has Taught Us About the Potential for Innovation in Rural Health

    Open AccessStephanie Petrie, Samuel Petrie et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    The COVID-19 pandemic coincided with a multi-national federally funded research project examining the potential for health and care services in small rural areas to identify and implement innovations in service delivery. The project has a strong focus on electronic health (eHealth) but covers other areas of innovation as well. The project has been designed as an ethnography to prelude a realist evaluation, asking the question under what condition…

  • Evidence and gaps in the literature on HIV/STI prevention interventions targeting migrants in receiving countries

    Open AccessFaustine Kyungu Nkulu Kalengayi, Robert Jonzon et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2021

    BACKGROUND: Evidence suggests that migration increases vulnerability to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other sexually transmitted infections (STI). However, there is limited knowledge about what has been done or needs to be done to address migrants' vulnerability in receiving countries. OBJECTIVES: A scoping review was carried out to map the existing literature in this field, describe its characteristics, identify gaps in knowledge and de…

  • Facilitators and barriers to effective supervision of maternal and newborn care

    Open AccessTumaini Nyamhanga, Tumaini Mwita Nyamhanga et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2021

    Background: Despite routine supportive supervision of health service delivery, maternal and newborn outcomes have remained poor in sub-Saharan Africa in general and in Tanzania in particular. There is limited research evidence on factors limiting the effectiveness of supportive supervision in improving the quality of maternal and newborn care.Objective: This study explored enablers of and barriers to supportive supervision in maternal and newborn…

  • Collective imaginaries of caring landscapes for rural youth

    Open AccessF Jonsson, Monica Christianson et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    The findings can be viewed as an imaginary reconstitution of communities in rural northern Sweden, but also as hypothetical building blocks to be used for developing caring landscapes and a 'good countryside' where young people have the possibility to live a good life in decent health