Morten Sodemann
Biographic Data
| ID | 218568 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Morten Sodemann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Morten |
| FAMILY NAME | Sodemann |
| SIGNATURE | SODEMANN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8992-2500 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mediating hospital attendance: Invisible administrative work and structural vulnerability in outpatient care
Non-attendance at outpatient appointments is commonly understood as a problem of patient behaviour. However, this perspective overlooks how organisational arrangements shape patients’ opportunities to attend care. This study examines non-attendance as an organisationally mediated outcome, focusing on how administrative practices influence access to outpatient services. Using an institutional ethnographic approach, we conducted observations and in…
Functional stupidity in Danish intersectoral pathways: An institutional ethnographic text analysis of documentary practices
Written information exchange is widely used to share information and coordinate care across services. Yet, its coordinating effects remain unclear. The aim of the study was to explore the textually mediated practices through which institutional work was coordinated between social care and healthcare professionals in Danish intersectoral care pathways. We analysed seven Health Statuses, each consisting of a request (LÆ 121) from social care and a …
Providing Specialised Palliative Care to Families With Ethnic Minority Background: Perspectives, Experiences, and Approaches
This study aimed to contribute to an understanding of how culturally responsive palliative care can be supported, explored through perspectives of palliative care specialists. In interviews, participants described good end-of-life trajectories as including patient autonomy, withdrawal of medically futile treatments, and symptom control. Participants experienced that these ideals were sometimes challenged in clinical encounters with patients and t…
Writing practises in Danish intersectoral pathways for vulnerable persons – An institutional ethnographic text analysis
Introduction: The necessity of intersectoral information exchange is well-establish, because the complexity in health-related issues are increasing world-wide, and solving complex problems is beyond the capacity of single sector or specialty. The exchange of written information is the most commonly used communication strategy to share information across specialties and care services. Problem: Written information exchange calls for caution, as tex…
Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: A pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults
BACKGROUND: Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries and territories. METHODS: ). For school-aged children and adolescents, we report thinness (BMI 2 SD above the median). FINDINGS: From 1990 to 20…
What it really takes” – A qualitative study of how professionals coproduce healthcare service with immigrant patients
Interdisciplinary work fostering values of doing what makes sense to form a positive partnership with the patient allows health professionals to act autonomously, flexibly, and creatively. Using communication tools designed around patient needs, create optimal conditions for coproduction as health professionals empathically validate and integrate patient experiences. Professionals need advanced listening and relational skills and tolerance of amb…
Coproducing healthcare with immigrants
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
The Multilingual Encounter in the Danish Healthcare System - An Upcoming PhD Study
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Patientologien nyfortolket
Patientology traditionally signifies the scientific study of the patients through medical sociological and anthropological perspectives. The last decades have witnessed notable changes in the understanding of what it means to be a patient and what role patients play in healthcare processes, with the rise of concepts such as patient-centered care, patient empowerment, and patient participation. This article develops a reconceptualization of patien…
Is there a need of health assessments for resettling refugees? A cross-sectional study of 1431 refugees who arrived in Denmark between 2014 and 2018
A comprehensive health assessment among recently arrived refugees showed multiple health issues to address, and demonstrates the need of systematic health assessments for resettling refugees
Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: A pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million p…
BACKGROUND: Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean height and mean body-mass index (BMI), which measures weight gain beyond what is expected from height gain, for school-aged children and adolescents. METHODS: For this pooled analysis, we used a database of cardiometabolic risk factors collated by the Non-Communicable Disease …
Diabetes in urban Guinea-Bissau; patient characteristics, mortality and prevalence of undiagnosed dysglycemia
BACKGROUND: The burden of diabetes mellitus in Sub-Saharan Africa is growing rapidly, and yet the prevalence and patient characteristics are still largely unknown. OBJECTIVES: We analyzed clinical and demographic characteristics of Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) patients attending a diabetes clinic in Guinea-Bissau from February 2008 to April 2014, and estimated the prevalence and risk factors of unknown-impaired fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and diabetes…
Cultural Competences Gained Through an Education Program as Ethnic Patient Coordinator: A Qualitative Study
Introduction: Studies have shown that health care professionals lack cultural knowledge and cultural competences in the care of patients with a minority background. The aim of this study was to explore whether a cultural teaching program, the so-called ethnic patient coordinator program, had an impact on health professionals’ self-perceived clinical competences in the encounter with the minority patient. Methodology: The study was designed as a q…
“Caught in a Generation Gap”: A Generation Perspective on Refugees Getting Old in Denmark—A Qualitative Study
Purpose: Older non-Western migrants in Europe are a vulnerable population, due to old age and multiple disadvantages related to language barriers and different understandings of care, health, and disease. Our aim was to gain a better understanding and insight into the care needs of families with refugee background Method: The study was designed as a qualitative exploration using semistructured individual interviews and family group interviews. Re…
Post-conflict household structures and underweight: A multilevel analysis of a community-based study in northern Uganda
Objective To examine associations between household-level characteristics and underweight in a post-conflict population. Design Nutritional status of residents in the Gulu Health and Demographic Surveillance Site was obtained during a community-based cross-sectional study, ~6 years after the civil war. Household-level factors included headship, polygamy, household size, child-to-adult ratio, child crowding, living with a stunted or overweight per…
Intersectoral pathways of vulnerable patient groups in Southern Denmark
Vitamin D Status in Patients Attending a Danish Migrant Health Clinic: A Clinical Retrospective Study
Intersectoral pathways of vulnerable patient groups in Southern Denmark
Barriers and facilitators to antiretroviral therapy adherence among patients with HIV in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau: A qualitative study
Adherence is a decisive factor in achieving a successful response to antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV infection. No previous studies have been conducted regarding HIV treatment adherence in Guinea-Bissau. In this study we assessed barriers and facilitators to patient ART adherence. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 adult, HIV infected individuals receiving ART at a HIV treatment centre in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau. The grounded th…
Disclosure Decisions: HIV-Positive Persons Coping With Disease-Related Stressors
The purpose of this grounded theory study was to investigate how Danish HIV-positive persons live with their disease, focusing on HIV-related stressors. Using the Glaserian method, we analyzed textual data from in-depth interviews with 16 HIV-positive persons. Decisions about disclosure appeared to be a major concern and a determining factor for HIV-related stress. Consequently, we developed a substantive theory about disclosure decisions in whic…
Disclosure Decisions: HIV-Positive Persons Coping With Disease-Related Stressors
The purpose of this grounded theory study was to investigate how Danish HIV-positive persons live with their disease, focusing on HIV-related stressors. Using the Glaserian method, we analyzed textual data from in-depth interviews with 16 HIV-positive persons. Decisions about disclosure appeared to be a major concern and a determining factor for HIV-related stress. Consequently, we developed a substantive theory about disclosure decisions in whic…
What it really takes” – A qualitative study of how professionals coproduce healthcare service with immigrant patients
Interdisciplinary work fostering values of doing what makes sense to form a positive partnership with the patient allows health professionals to act autonomously, flexibly, and creatively. Using communication tools designed around patient needs, create optimal conditions for coproduction as health professionals empathically validate and integrate patient experiences. Professionals need advanced listening and relational skills and tolerance of amb…
Disclosure Decisions: HIV-Positive Persons Coping With Disease-Related Stressors
The purpose of this grounded theory study was to investigate how Danish HIV-positive persons live with their disease, focusing on HIV-related stressors. Using the Glaserian method, we analyzed textual data from in-depth interviews with 16 HIV-positive persons. Decisions about disclosure appeared to be a major concern and a determining factor for HIV-related stress. Consequently, we developed a substantive theory about disclosure decisions in whic…
Barriers and facilitators to antiretroviral therapy adherence among patients with HIV in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau: A qualitative study
Adherence is a decisive factor in achieving a successful response to antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV infection. No previous studies have been conducted regarding HIV treatment adherence in Guinea-Bissau. In this study we assessed barriers and facilitators to patient ART adherence. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 adult, HIV infected individuals receiving ART at a HIV treatment centre in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau. The grounded th…
Vitamin D Status in Patients Attending a Danish Migrant Health Clinic: A Clinical Retrospective Study
Intersectoral pathways of vulnerable patient groups in Southern Denmark
Intersectoral pathways of vulnerable patient groups in Southern Denmark
“Caught in a Generation Gap”: A Generation Perspective on Refugees Getting Old in Denmark—A Qualitative Study
Purpose: Older non-Western migrants in Europe are a vulnerable population, due to old age and multiple disadvantages related to language barriers and different understandings of care, health, and disease. Our aim was to gain a better understanding and insight into the care needs of families with refugee background Method: The study was designed as a qualitative exploration using semistructured individual interviews and family group interviews. Re…
Post-conflict household structures and underweight: A multilevel analysis of a community-based study in northern Uganda
Objective To examine associations between household-level characteristics and underweight in a post-conflict population. Design Nutritional status of residents in the Gulu Health and Demographic Surveillance Site was obtained during a community-based cross-sectional study, ~6 years after the civil war. Household-level factors included headship, polygamy, household size, child-to-adult ratio, child crowding, living with a stunted or overweight per…
Cultural Competences Gained Through an Education Program as Ethnic Patient Coordinator: A Qualitative Study
Introduction: Studies have shown that health care professionals lack cultural knowledge and cultural competences in the care of patients with a minority background. The aim of this study was to explore whether a cultural teaching program, the so-called ethnic patient coordinator program, had an impact on health professionals’ self-perceived clinical competences in the encounter with the minority patient. Methodology: The study was designed as a q…
Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: A pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million p…
BACKGROUND: Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean height and mean body-mass index (BMI), which measures weight gain beyond what is expected from height gain, for school-aged children and adolescents. METHODS: For this pooled analysis, we used a database of cardiometabolic risk factors collated by the Non-Communicable Disease …
Diabetes in urban Guinea-Bissau; patient characteristics, mortality and prevalence of undiagnosed dysglycemia
BACKGROUND: The burden of diabetes mellitus in Sub-Saharan Africa is growing rapidly, and yet the prevalence and patient characteristics are still largely unknown. OBJECTIVES: We analyzed clinical and demographic characteristics of Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) patients attending a diabetes clinic in Guinea-Bissau from February 2008 to April 2014, and estimated the prevalence and risk factors of unknown-impaired fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and diabetes…
Patientologien nyfortolket
Patientology traditionally signifies the scientific study of the patients through medical sociological and anthropological perspectives. The last decades have witnessed notable changes in the understanding of what it means to be a patient and what role patients play in healthcare processes, with the rise of concepts such as patient-centered care, patient empowerment, and patient participation. This article develops a reconceptualization of patien…
Is there a need of health assessments for resettling refugees? A cross-sectional study of 1431 refugees who arrived in Denmark between 2014 and 2018
A comprehensive health assessment among recently arrived refugees showed multiple health issues to address, and demonstrates the need of systematic health assessments for resettling refugees
What it really takes” – A qualitative study of how professionals coproduce healthcare service with immigrant patients
Interdisciplinary work fostering values of doing what makes sense to form a positive partnership with the patient allows health professionals to act autonomously, flexibly, and creatively. Using communication tools designed around patient needs, create optimal conditions for coproduction as health professionals empathically validate and integrate patient experiences. Professionals need advanced listening and relational skills and tolerance of amb…
Coproducing healthcare with immigrants
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
The Multilingual Encounter in the Danish Healthcare System - An Upcoming PhD Study
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: A pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults
BACKGROUND: Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries and territories. METHODS: ). For school-aged children and adolescents, we report thinness (BMI 2 SD above the median). FINDINGS: From 1990 to 20…
Providing Specialised Palliative Care to Families With Ethnic Minority Background: Perspectives, Experiences, and Approaches
This study aimed to contribute to an understanding of how culturally responsive palliative care can be supported, explored through perspectives of palliative care specialists. In interviews, participants described good end-of-life trajectories as including patient autonomy, withdrawal of medically futile treatments, and symptom control. Participants experienced that these ideals were sometimes challenged in clinical encounters with patients and t…
Writing practises in Danish intersectoral pathways for vulnerable persons – An institutional ethnographic text analysis
Introduction: The necessity of intersectoral information exchange is well-establish, because the complexity in health-related issues are increasing world-wide, and solving complex problems is beyond the capacity of single sector or specialty. The exchange of written information is the most commonly used communication strategy to share information across specialties and care services. Problem: Written information exchange calls for caution, as tex…
Mediating hospital attendance: Invisible administrative work and structural vulnerability in outpatient care
Non-attendance at outpatient appointments is commonly understood as a problem of patient behaviour. However, this perspective overlooks how organisational arrangements shape patients’ opportunities to attend care. This study examines non-attendance as an organisationally mediated outcome, focusing on how administrative practices influence access to outpatient services. Using an institutional ethnographic approach, we conducted observations and in…
Functional stupidity in Danish intersectoral pathways: An institutional ethnographic text analysis of documentary practices
Written information exchange is widely used to share information and coordinate care across services. Yet, its coordinating effects remain unclear. The aim of the study was to explore the textually mediated practices through which institutional work was coordinated between social care and healthcare professionals in Danish intersectoral care pathways. We analysed seven Health Statuses, each consisting of a request (LÆ 121) from social care and a …
Medicine (13 works) · Health care (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Danish (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Qualitative research (5 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Gerontology (4 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (3 works)