Lars Ake Persson

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ID315877
NOMBRELars Ake Persson
NOMBRESLars Ake
APELLIDOPersson
FIRMAPERSSON L A
AFILIACIONESUppsala University
ORCID0000-0003-0710-7954
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS58
TOTAL DE CITAS114
TOTAL COMO AUTOR56
TOTAL COMO EDITOR2
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1985
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H5

  • Effective coverage practice in Ethiopia

    Open AccessSeblewengel Lemma, Anene Tesfa et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2026

    Effective coverage measurement has emerged as a tool to help understand health system performance for the provision of high-quality health care. Using a cascade approach that combines data on demand- and supply-side steps, effective coverage measures highlight where gaps in the health system exist and how improvements might be made so that more people benefit from the potential of the health services available to them. In practice, however, there…

  • Towards equitable partnerships in global health research

    Open AccessKassahun Alemu Gelaye, Della Berhanu et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    Equitable partnerships in global health research can counteract power imbalances in this field. Theoretical perspectives have been provided on equitable global health partnerships, but there are few reports from researchers actively engaged in such partnerships. This article departs from the experiences of four long-term global health research partnerships, two in Africa and two in Asia. It describes the challenges in enhancing an equitable resea…

  • Piloting Multiple Micronutrient Supplementation Within the Routine Antenatal Care System in Ethiopia

    Open AccessAnene Tesfa, Atkure Defar et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2025

    In low and middle-income countries, addressing maternal and child nutrition needs is crucial. Prenatal multiple micronutrient supplementation (MMS) holds promise in reducing low birthweight and preterm births. Ethiopia is considering a transition from the provision of iron-folate supplementation to the provision of MMS in antenatal care, guided by WHO guidelines. This paper explores stakeholders' early perceptions and experiences in piloting that…

  • Infant Feeding Practices in Ethiopia

    Open AccessAmare Tariku, Kassahun Alemu et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2025

    Appropriate infant feeding is crucial to ensure optimal child growth and survival. We aimed to assess infants' breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices from 0 to 12 months in Ethiopia. This study was a secondary analysis of data from the Ethiopia Performance Monitoring for Action panel study performed from July 2020 to August 2021. One thousand eight hundred and fifty infants were included from five Ethiopian regions: Addis Ababa City Ad…

  • Data-driven decision-making for district health management

    Open AccessBilal Iqbal Avan, Mehret Dubale et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    BACKGROUND: Use of local data for health system planning and decision-making in maternal, newborn and child health services is limited in low-income and middle-income countries, despite decentralisation and advances in data gathering. An improved culture of data-sharing and collaborative planning is needed. The Data-Informed Platform for Health is a system-strengthening strategy which promotes structured decision-making by district health officia…

  • A cohort study of the occurrence of post-term births and its association with perinatal mortality in a rural area in Bangladesh

    Open AccessU Tin Nu, Jesmin Pervin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2024

    Background: We aimed to evaluate the trend of post-term births over time and their association with perinatal mortality based on prospective pregnancy cohorts in a rural area in Bangladesh. Methods: This cohort study included 72 373 singleton births with gestational ages ≥28 weeks recorded by a health and demographic surveillance system from 1990 to 2019 in Matlab, Bangladesh. We expressed the gestational age as X (weeks) + Y (days)/7 weeks, wher…

  • Trends and risk of recurrent preterm birth in pregnancy cohorts in rural Bangladesh, 1990–2019

    Open AccessShaki Aktar, U Tin Nu et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    INTRODUCTION: A history of preterm birth reportedly increases the risk of subsequent preterm birth. This association has primarily been studied in high-income countries and not in low-income settings in transition with rapidly descending preterm birth figures. We evaluated the population-based trends of preterm births and recurrent preterm births and the risk of preterm birth recurrence in the second pregnancy based on prospectively studied pregn…

  • Is Women’s Engagement in Women’s Development Groups Associated with Enhanced Utilization of Maternal and Neonatal Health Services? A Cross-Sectional Study in Ethiopia

    Open AccessFisseha Ashebir Gebregizabher, Fisseha Ashebir et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    There is a need to improve the organization and management of the Women Development Group program as well as a need to strengthen the Women Development Group leaders' engagement in group activities to promote the utilization of maternal and neonatal health services

  • If I Was Educated, I Would Call the Ambulance and Give Birth at the Health Facility”—A Qualitative Exploratory Study of Inequities in the Utilization of Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Services in…

    Open AccessAlem Desta Wuneh, Afework Mulugeta et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    In earlier studies, we have shown that the utilization of maternal health services in rural Ethiopia was distributed in a pro-rich fashion, while the coverage of child immunization was equitably distributed. Hence, this study aimed to explore mothers' and primary healthcare workers' perceptions of inequities in maternal, newborn, and child health services in rural Ethiopia, along with the factors that could influence such differentials. A qualita…

  • Wealth and Education Inequities in Maternal and Child Health Services Utilization in Rural Ethiopia

    Open AccessAlem Desta Wuneh, Afework Mulugeta et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    As part of the 2030 maternal and child health targets, Ethiopia strives for universal and equitable use of health services. We aimed to examine the association between household wealth, maternal education, and the interplay between these in utilization of maternal and child health services. Data emanating from the evaluation of the Optimizing of Health Extension Program intervention. Women in the reproductive age of 15 to 49 years and children ag…

  • Parenting interventions to promote early child development in the first three years of life

    Open AccessJoshua Jeong, Emily Franchett et al.ARTICLEPLoS Medicine2021

    Background Parents are the primary caregivers of young children. Responsive parent–child relationships and parental support for learning during the earliest years of life are crucial for promoting early child development (ECD). We conducted a global systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of parenting interventions on ECD and parenting outcomes. Methods and findings We searched MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, CINAHL, Web of S…

  • Embed capacity development within all global health research

    Open AccessAyôla Akim Adégnika, John Amuasi et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    box • All countries, including low- and middle-income countries, need robust health research capacity • The research capacity gap between global North and South is closing too slowly, and governments, funders, and academic institutions are not investing sufficiently to bridge this chasm • With two examples from collaborative research projects in sub-Saharan Africa, we illustrate how capacity development can be an integrated part of a joint resear…

  • Routine health management information system data in Ethiopia

    Open AccessAbyot Adane, Tewabe M Adege et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2021

    Background: Ethiopia is investing in the routine Health Management Information System. Improved routine data are needed for decision-making in the health sector.Objective: To analyse the quality of the routine Health Management Information System data and triangulate with other sources, such as the Demographic and Health Surveys.Methods: We analysed national Health Management Information System data on 19 indicators of maternal health, neonatal s…

  • Strengthening routine health data analysis in Ethiopia

    Open AccessJoanna Busza, Seblewengel Lemma et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2021

    Many routine health information systems (RHIS) show persistent gaps between recording and reporting data and their effective use in solving problems. Strengthening RHIS has become a global priority to track and address national health goals. In Ethiopia, the Ministry of Health and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation introduced the Operational Research and Coaching for Analysts (ORCA) capacity development project, co-designed with the London School of…

  • Caregivers’ and Health Extension Workers’ Perceptions and Experiences of Outreach Management of Childhood Illnesses in Ethiopia

    Open AccessAtkure Defar, Kassahun Alemu et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    Mothers and health extension workers had partly divergent perceptions of whether outreach curative services for children were available. Mothers wanted improvements in the quality of services while health workers requested capacity development and more support for providing effective community-based child health services

  • Assessing the Multiple Dimensions of Poverty. Data Mining Approaches to the 2004–14 Health and Demographic Surveillance System in Cuatro Santos, Nicaragua

    Open AccessC Källestål, Elmer Zelaya Blandón et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2020

    We identified clusters of multiple dimensions of poverty according to the capability approach theory by applying data mining approaches to the Cuatro Santos Health and Demographic Surveillance database, Nicaragua. Four municipalities in northern Nicaragua constitute the Cuatro Santos area, with 25,893 inhabitants in 5,966 households (2014). A local process analyzing poverty-related problems, prioritizing suggested actions, was initiated in 1997 a…

  • Women’s development group leaders’ promotion of maternal, neonatal and child health care in Ethiopia

    Open AccessFisseha Ashebir, Araya Abrha Medhanyie et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2020

    BACKGROUND: Women's development group leaders are volunteer community health workers in Ethiopia who, among other duties, promote health and prevention of diseases. They link and extend essential health services from health posts to households. OBJECTIVE: To assess the characteristics, knowledge, and practice of women's development group leaders in the field of maternal, neonatal, and child health care. METHOD: This study used a cluster-sampled c…

  • Implementation of the ‘Optimising the Health Extension Program’ Intervention in Ethiopia

    Open AccessYemisrach B Okwaraji, Zelee Hill et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    An intervention called 'Optimising the Health Extension Program', aiming to increase care-seeking for childhood illnesses in four regions of Ethiopia, was implemented between 2016 and 2018, and it included community engagement, capacity building, and district ownership and accountability. A pragmatic trial comparing 26 districts that received the intervention with 26 districts that did not found no evidence to suggest that the intervention increa…

  • Predicting poverty. Data mining approaches to the health and demographic surveillance system in Cuatro Santos, Nicaragua

    Open AccessC Källestål, Elmer Zelaya et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2019

    Predictors of poverty are useful for directing interventions and in the Cuatro Santos area education seems most important to prioritize. Hopefully, the lessons learned can continue to develop the Cuatro Santos communities as well as development in similar poor rural settings around the world

  • Geographic differences in maternal and child health care utilization in four Ethiopian regions; a cross-sectional study

    Open AccessAtkure Defar, Yemisrach B Okwaraji et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2019

    This study showed evidence for geographic clustering in coverage of health facility deliveries and immunization at the district level, but not in the utilization of antenatal care and utilization of health services for common childhood illnesses. Identifying and improving district-level factors that influenced these outcomes may inform efforts to achieve geographical equitability and universal health coverage

  • Wealth-based equity in maternal, neonatal, and child health services utilization

    Open AccessAlem Desta Wuneh, Araya Abrha Medhanyie et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2019

    Utilization of maternal health services was low, inequitable, and skewed against women from the poorest households. In contrast, preventive child health services were equitably distributed. Efforts to increase utilization and reinforcement of pro-poor and pro-rural strategies for maternal, newborn and immunization services in Ethiopia should be strengthened

  • Child morbidity and mortality associated with alternative policy responses to the economic crisis in Brazil

    Open AccessDavide Rasella, Sanjay Basu et al.ARTICLEPLoS Medicine2018

    BACKGROUND: Since 2015, a major economic crisis in Brazil has led to increasing poverty and the implementation of long-term fiscal austerity measures that will substantially reduce expenditure on social welfare programmes as a percentage of the country's GDP over the next 20 years. The Bolsa Família Programme (BFP)-one of the largest conditional cash transfer programmes in the world-and the nationwide primary healthcare strategy (Estratégia Saúde…

  • Food insecurity and self-rated health in rural Nicaraguan women of reproductive age

    Open AccessWilton Pérez, Mariela Contreras et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2018

    In this Nicaraguan resource-limited setting, there was an association between food insecurity and poor self-rated health. Food insecurity is a facet of poverty and measures an important missing capability directly related to health

  • Secular trend, seasonality and effects of a community-based intervention on neonatal mortality

    Open AccessLeif Eriksson, Nguyen Thu Nga et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2018Referencias: 22

    BACKGROUND: Little is know about whether the effects of community engagement interventions for child survival in low-income and middle-income settings are sustained. Seasonal variation and secular trend may blur the data. Neonatal mortality was reduced in a cluster-randomised trial in Vietnam where laywomen facilitated groups composed of local stakeholders employing a problem-solving approach for 3 years. In this analysis, we aim at disentangling…

  • Breaking the cycles of poverty

    Open AccessElmer Zelaya Blandón, C Källestål et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2017

    BACKGROUND: In a post-war frontier area in north-western Nicaragua that was severely hit by Hurricane Mitch in 1998, local stakeholders embarked on and facilitated multi-dimensional development initiatives to break the cycles of poverty. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this paper is to describe the process of priority-setting, and the strategies, guiding principles, activities, achievements, and lessons learned in these local development efforts from 1990 …