Martin Mickelsson
Biographic Data
| ID | 6674235 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Mickelsson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Mickelsson |
| SIGNATURE | MICKELSSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0410-5654 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Education as a mediating interface in global health
Often recognised as a determinant of health and key to health communication, education is an underdeveloped concept in global health. This paper develops a conceptual understanding of how educational processes shape engagement with global health challenges, particularly their role in promoting health equity, capability and sustainability. Using antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as an illustrative case, the paper examines how education shapes underst…
Restoring microbial relations and landscapes
Introduction: Biodiversity decline in both external environments and internal human microbiomes indicates disrupted relationships between humans, microbes, food systems, and ecological landscapes. These interconnected landscapes are important for global health and sustainability education, as biodiversity decline reflects disruptions in human, microbial, and environmental relationships.Theory: This study develops a conceptual framework, Living Mi…
Co-creating antimicrobial resistance (AMR) literacy in Zimbabwean higher education institutions
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health challenge that encompasses social, economic, and ecological risks, and the relationship between human, animal, and environmental health is emerging as a key factor. Addressing AMR means developing capacities across health sectors, with training of health practitioners through higher education institutions (HEIs) essential for strengthening one's health literacy. This paper explores how Zimbabwean …
Bridging the knowledge gap
Purpose The paper explores how the development of sustainability competences as key components in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) education can contribute to the implementation of AMR policies in practice. Design/methodology/approach Higher education is key to promoting sustainability, including sustainable health. Meanwhile, its role and impact are often complicated by unclear educational objectives and a lack of effective strategies. Interdiscip…
Health facility preparedness for early detection of symptomatic cancer in Southern Africa
Early detection and diagnosis of cancer in African contexts is challenging. Health services should identify people with symptoms suggestive of cancer, refer timeously, and implement diagnostic processes efficiently. This requires the resources and infrastructure to provide these services. This study, the first in Southern Africa, reports on the availability of these services across referral pathways in four provinces of two Southern African count…
Food, health and sustainability
Objectives: The paper explores how students’ values and food choices change or adapt depending on the social environment and how students navigate the resulting tensions in food choices and practices when balancing nutrition against social and cultural preferences and sensory experiences. Design: The study analysed students’ discussions about food and health to explore how values and knowledges are expressed together within them, and shift these …
Integrating traditional medicine into antimicrobial resistance education
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) constitutes a growing risk to global health, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) like Zimbabwe. AMR education has often focused on prevention, with limited emphasis on preparedness, especially in community-based approaches. Education and practice frequently overlook how preparedness can limit the spread of resistance once it has emerged. Traditional medicine, a key component of primary health ca…
Antimicrobials as cornerstones and quick fixes Zimbabwean in healthcare and society
Antimicrobials are often presented as key for the sustainability of healthcare as these pharmaceuticals are viewed as critical resources for much of modern medicine. Communicable diseases are a major contributing factor to morbidity and mortality in developing countries. The emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) thus poses a significant challenge to global public health towards controlling these diseases and the SDG 3 Good health and well-b…
Health care integration for addressing antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) education has been highlighted in both global and national policies as essential for societal efforts to address AMR, with calls for interdisciplinary and intersectoral One Health approaches that involve actors throughout society, including conventional and traditional medical practitioners. While a key aim of AMR education is to reduce the infection burden and antimicrobial use, the potential to integrate these med…
Agile policies for antimicrobial resistance
This paper examines contextual conditions for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) policy implementation in Zimbabwe. As an emerging global sustainability challenge, AMR constitutes risks for human, animal and environmental health as well as the long-term viability of livestock and farming with implications for communities' economic stability and food security. The study uses participatory research workshops as a data generation method, engaging with i…
Healthy landscapes, healthy people
This paper explores social-ecological relational dynamics in health knowledge and practices in health education relating to the social practices of government and communities, and how the microbial world could be relationally normalized for better health and well-being of individuals and communities. A case study methodology is operationalized, focusing on cholera in Zimbabwe in response to how human health practices in the ever-changing environm…
Navigating complexity
This article aims to explore the integration of wicked problems into sustainability education, within the context of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Zimbabwe. As a complex health challenge, increased microbial resistance disproportionately impacts Southern Africa, including Zimbabwe. Engaging AMR in higher education institutions (HEI) requires a relational One Health approach, which integrates human, animal and environmental health through inte…
Balancing diets
Purpose The paper aims to explore how values and knowledge are expressed in student’s discussions about food and health. Design/methodology/approach Food practices present a complex phenomenon extending beyond biomedical descriptions, including social dynamics of food in families and communities. Contextual conditions of social groups and settings have significant impacts on food choices and practices. Although values constitute a central part of…
I think it works better if we have an example to help us’
This article aims to contribute to the knowledge of how the ‘scaling’ of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) activities is conceptualized in practice through transactional learning encounters. In the context of the UNESCO Global Action Programme (GAP) on ESD, I discuss the re-actualisation of experiences as part of these encounters. The study is a result of data collected as part of a Re-Solve participatory research workshop held in South…
Consider the unexpected
This article aims to introduce a view of scaling as a learning process. In the article we discuss the concept of ‘scaling up’ or ‘scaling’ of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) activities on the basis of how ‘scaling up’ ESD is highlighted in the UNESCO Global Action Programme (GAP) on ESD. Drawing on a Deweyan theory of learning as processes of transactional encounters, the article presents a conceptual framework of scaling-ESD-activiti…
Navigating complexity
This article aims to explore the integration of wicked problems into sustainability education, within the context of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Zimbabwe. As a complex health challenge, increased microbial resistance disproportionately impacts Southern Africa, including Zimbabwe. Engaging AMR in higher education institutions (HEI) requires a relational One Health approach, which integrates human, animal and environmental health through inte…
I think it works better if we have an example to help us’
This article aims to contribute to the knowledge of how the ‘scaling’ of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) activities is conceptualized in practice through transactional learning encounters. In the context of the UNESCO Global Action Programme (GAP) on ESD, I discuss the re-actualisation of experiences as part of these encounters. The study is a result of data collected as part of a Re-Solve participatory research workshop held in South…
Consider the unexpected
This article aims to introduce a view of scaling as a learning process. In the article we discuss the concept of ‘scaling up’ or ‘scaling’ of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) activities on the basis of how ‘scaling up’ ESD is highlighted in the UNESCO Global Action Programme (GAP) on ESD. Drawing on a Deweyan theory of learning as processes of transactional encounters, the article presents a conceptual framework of scaling-ESD-activiti…
I think it works better if we have an example to help us’
This article aims to contribute to the knowledge of how the ‘scaling’ of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) activities is conceptualized in practice through transactional learning encounters. In the context of the UNESCO Global Action Programme (GAP) on ESD, I discuss the re-actualisation of experiences as part of these encounters. The study is a result of data collected as part of a Re-Solve participatory research workshop held in South…
Balancing diets
Purpose The paper aims to explore how values and knowledge are expressed in student’s discussions about food and health. Design/methodology/approach Food practices present a complex phenomenon extending beyond biomedical descriptions, including social dynamics of food in families and communities. Contextual conditions of social groups and settings have significant impacts on food choices and practices. Although values constitute a central part of…
Food, health and sustainability
Objectives: The paper explores how students’ values and food choices change or adapt depending on the social environment and how students navigate the resulting tensions in food choices and practices when balancing nutrition against social and cultural preferences and sensory experiences. Design: The study analysed students’ discussions about food and health to explore how values and knowledges are expressed together within them, and shift these …
Integrating traditional medicine into antimicrobial resistance education
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) constitutes a growing risk to global health, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) like Zimbabwe. AMR education has often focused on prevention, with limited emphasis on preparedness, especially in community-based approaches. Education and practice frequently overlook how preparedness can limit the spread of resistance once it has emerged. Traditional medicine, a key component of primary health ca…
Antimicrobials as cornerstones and quick fixes Zimbabwean in healthcare and society
Antimicrobials are often presented as key for the sustainability of healthcare as these pharmaceuticals are viewed as critical resources for much of modern medicine. Communicable diseases are a major contributing factor to morbidity and mortality in developing countries. The emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) thus poses a significant challenge to global public health towards controlling these diseases and the SDG 3 Good health and well-b…
Health care integration for addressing antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) education has been highlighted in both global and national policies as essential for societal efforts to address AMR, with calls for interdisciplinary and intersectoral One Health approaches that involve actors throughout society, including conventional and traditional medical practitioners. While a key aim of AMR education is to reduce the infection burden and antimicrobial use, the potential to integrate these med…
Agile policies for antimicrobial resistance
This paper examines contextual conditions for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) policy implementation in Zimbabwe. As an emerging global sustainability challenge, AMR constitutes risks for human, animal and environmental health as well as the long-term viability of livestock and farming with implications for communities' economic stability and food security. The study uses participatory research workshops as a data generation method, engaging with i…
Healthy landscapes, healthy people
This paper explores social-ecological relational dynamics in health knowledge and practices in health education relating to the social practices of government and communities, and how the microbial world could be relationally normalized for better health and well-being of individuals and communities. A case study methodology is operationalized, focusing on cholera in Zimbabwe in response to how human health practices in the ever-changing environm…
Navigating complexity
This article aims to explore the integration of wicked problems into sustainability education, within the context of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Zimbabwe. As a complex health challenge, increased microbial resistance disproportionately impacts Southern Africa, including Zimbabwe. Engaging AMR in higher education institutions (HEI) requires a relational One Health approach, which integrates human, animal and environmental health through inte…
Education as a mediating interface in global health
Often recognised as a determinant of health and key to health communication, education is an underdeveloped concept in global health. This paper develops a conceptual understanding of how educational processes shape engagement with global health challenges, particularly their role in promoting health equity, capability and sustainability. Using antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as an illustrative case, the paper examines how education shapes underst…
Restoring microbial relations and landscapes
Introduction: Biodiversity decline in both external environments and internal human microbiomes indicates disrupted relationships between humans, microbes, food systems, and ecological landscapes. These interconnected landscapes are important for global health and sustainability education, as biodiversity decline reflects disruptions in human, microbial, and environmental relationships.Theory: This study develops a conceptual framework, Living Mi…
Co-creating antimicrobial resistance (AMR) literacy in Zimbabwean higher education institutions
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health challenge that encompasses social, economic, and ecological risks, and the relationship between human, animal, and environmental health is emerging as a key factor. Addressing AMR means developing capacities across health sectors, with training of health practitioners through higher education institutions (HEIs) essential for strengthening one's health literacy. This paper explores how Zimbabwean …
Bridging the knowledge gap
Purpose The paper explores how the development of sustainability competences as key components in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) education can contribute to the implementation of AMR policies in practice. Design/methodology/approach Higher education is key to promoting sustainability, including sustainable health. Meanwhile, its role and impact are often complicated by unclear educational objectives and a lack of effective strategies. Interdiscip…
Health facility preparedness for early detection of symptomatic cancer in Southern Africa
Early detection and diagnosis of cancer in African contexts is challenging. Health services should identify people with symptoms suggestive of cancer, refer timeously, and implement diagnostic processes efficiently. This requires the resources and infrastructure to provide these services. This study, the first in Southern Africa, reports on the availability of these services across referral pathways in four provinces of two Southern African count…
Antibiotic Use and Resistance (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Citizen journalism (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Participatory action research (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Education for sustainable development (4 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Health care (4 works) · Public health (4 works)