Jens Aagaard-Hansen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 81133 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jens Aagaard-Hansen |
| PRENOMES | Jens |
| SOBRENOME | Aagaard-Hansen |
| ASSINATURA | AAGAARD-HANSEN J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Steno Diabetes Centers |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5773-799X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 167 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Development and feasibility testing of a time-restricted eating intervention for women living with overweight/obesity and HIV in a resource-limited setting of South Africa
This study indicates that TRE is a feasible weight management strategy in women living with overweight/obesity and HIV, receiving DTG-based treatment in a resource-limited community. These findings will ensure that the forthcoming TRE randomised controlled trial is adapted and optimised to the local South African context
A conceptual framework for selecting appropriate populations for public health interventions
This article suggests a conceptual framework for choice of target populations for public health interventions. In short, who should benefit? Taking the seminal work of Geoffrey Rose on “individuals at risk” versus the “whole population approach” as a point of departure, we explore later contributions. Frohlich and Potvin introduced the notion of “vulnerable populations” applying relevant social determinants as the defining selection criterion. Ot…
Settings, populations, and time
This paper presents a conceptual framework displaying how combinations of settings and populations seen in a long-term perspective may guide public health and health promotion planning and research. The notion of settings constitutes a key element of health promotion as stipulated by the Ottawa Charter from 1986. The setting approach highlights the individual, social and structural dimensions of health promotion. Likewise, the notion of populatio…
Social determinants of visceral leishmaniasis elimination in Eastern Africa
Visceral leishmaniasis is a vector-borne, protozoan disease with severe public health implications. Following the successful implementation of an elimination programme in South Asia, there is now a concerted endeavour to replicate these efforts in Eastern Africa based on the five essential elimination pillars of case management, integrated vector management, effective surveillance, social mobilisation and operational research. This article highli…
A Community-Based, Participatory, Multi-Component Intervention Increased Sales of Healthy Foods in Local Supermarkets—The Health and Local Community Project (SoL)
Project SoL was a 19-month (September 2012 to April 2014) community-based multi-component intervention based on the supersetting approach that was designed to promote healthier eating and physical activity among children and their families. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of a multi-component intervention (level 1) and a mass media intervention alone (level 2) compared to a control area (level 3) on food sales. The design was qua…
Barriers and facilitators for sustainable weight loss in the pre-conception period among Danish women with overweight or obesity – a qualitative study
Our study provides insights into factors affecting weight management among women with overweight or obesity in the pre-conception period. Future interventions on weight management require a holistic approach, including a focus on social support, especially from the partner, and mental health, as well as an effort to limit internalized weight stigma
Complexity Theory in Health Promotion Research
Complexity-oriented approaches built on complexity theories are not widely used in health promotion research. The field of health promotion faces significant difficulties in explaining and addressing unforeseen impacts and side effects due to the widespread tendency to implement health promotion initiatives that are considered best practices. It is important to theoretically embrace the fact that we operate in a complex world and that we, therefo…
This Is Our Home
Luo orphaned children derive their conceptualization of home from historical ideologies of patrilineal kinship and the local discourses of belonging situated within properly constituted marriage. Contrary to older literature that presents home as a domestic spatial arrangement, orphans understand home as a relational pathway that safeguards growth. We show that orphans use their notion of home to express feelings of vulnerability and apply their …
Effectiveness of a complex, pre-conception intervention to reduce the risk of diabetes by reducing adiposity in young adults in Malaysia
Background: Pre-conception interventions have the potential to lower non-communicable disease risk in prospective parents and reduce transmission of risk factors such as obesity to the next generation. The Jom Mama project in Malaysia investigated the effectiveness of a combined behaviour change communication and e-health intervention in young married couples prior to first pregnancy. This paper reports the evaluation of the effectiveness of this…
Health literacy meets the life-course perspective
This paper presents a novel conceptual framework combining the concepts of health literacy and life-course to guide public health planning and research. Health literacy is a key competence that enables individuals to navigate health-care systems and health promotion activities. The life-course perspective places emphasis on how disease risk accumulates along the life trajectory from fetal life onwards, and how it can even pass from one generation…
Dholuo Kincepts in Western Kenya
The Luo are a Nilotic people living in western Kenya, north-eastern Tanzania and in western Uganda. Their language, Dholuo, forms part of the Western Nilotic group of languages. This article presents the traditional kincepts (kinship terminology) of the Luo people as described by elders living in Central Sakwa location, Siaya County, western part of Kenya. The kincepts for consanguine as well as affine relatives in up to three ascending and five …
Children as visionary change agents in Danish school health promotion
This paper describes children’s perceptions and visions for a healthier social and physical environment in the setting of a primary school on the Danish island of Bornholm. Guided by an everyday-life perspective and applying participatory action research methods including social imagination and visual techniques within the framework of future creating workshops, the study engaged 50 children aged 6–9 years in creative processes of identifying hea…
What are the public health implications of the life course perspective
During the past decades innovative research has shown that exposure to harmful events during pregnancy and early infancy ('the first 1000 days') has an impact on health at subsequent stages of the life course and even across generations. Recently it has been shown that even the pre-conception period is of outmost importance, and other scholars have made the case that the 1000 days should be extended to a period of 8000 days post-conception. The p…
Impact of continuing medical education for primary healthcare providers in Malaysia on diabetes knowledge, attitudes, skills and clinical practices
Background : Continuing Medical Education (CME) is a cornerstone of improving competencies and ensuring high-quality patient care by nurses and physicians. The Ministry of Health (MOH) Malaysia collaborated with Steno Diabetes Centre to improve diabetes-related competencies of general physicians and nurses working in primary care through a six-month training programme called the Steno REACH Certificate Course in Clinical Diabetes Care (SRCC). Obj…
Project SoL—A Community-Based, Multi-Component Health Promotion Intervention to Improve Eating Habits and Physical Activity among Danish Families with Young Children. Part 1
Project SoL was implemented over a period of four years from 2012−2015 with the aim to promote healthy eating and physical activity among families with children aged 3−8 years, living in selected communities in two Danish municipalities. This was done by applying the supersetting approach to implement complex multi-component interventions in a participatory, coordinated, and integrated manner in childcare centres, schools, and supermarkets in thr…
Project SoL—A Community-Based, Multi-Component Health Promotion Intervention to Improve Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Practices among Danish Families with Young Children Part 2
Project SoL is implemented over a period of four years with the aim to promote healthy eating and physical activity among children aged 3−8 years by targeting the families in a Danish municipality based on the multi-component, supersetting strategy. Interventions are implemented in childcare centres, schools and supermarkets in three local communities as well as in local mass media and social media during a 19 months period in the Municipality of…
Principled Promotion of Health
Background: Based on widespread critique of the moralizing paradigm that has long characterized much of the work conducted within the field of health promotion, Steno Health Promotion Research has developed a comprehensive health promotion approach consisting of five principles that constitute the framework for a new intervention paradigm. The five principles are: (1) A broad and positive health concept; (2) Participation and involvement; (3) Act…
Pre-pregnancy community-based intervention for couples in Malaysia
IM is an iterative process that systematically gathers "best" evidence, selects appropriate theories of behaviour change, and facilitates formative research so as to develop a complex intervention. Though the IM process is time consuming, complex, and costly, it has enriched the Jom Mama intervention with a number of notable advantages: (i) intervention fashioned on formative work with stakeholders and in the target group; (ii) intervention combi…
Practice of sumo kodhi among the Luo and implications for HIV transmission in western Kenya
This paper discusses the practice of sumo kodhi among the Luo ethnic group and its implications for spread of HIV in western Kenya. Sumo kodhi is a practice in which a woman arranges to have sex with a man other than her legitimate sexual partner (husband or levir/inheritor) to give birth to children with specific qualities she wants in them. Data were drawn from a 16-month ethnographic study on reproductive aspirations of women living with HIV/A…
Risk, the prediabetes diagnosis and preventive strategies
Diagnosis constitutes a major categorisation tool in medicine. This paper adds to the paucity of knowledge about part of the work such a tool performs. It examines the ways in which diabetes epidemiology translates into attempts to prevent diabetes from occurring through screening and diagnosing, and then managing those categorised as ‘at high risk’. Using a qualitative design in the context of a small-scale Danish intervention study, the finding…
Research into practice
This article outlines a comprehensive approach to facilitating the transfer of research into practice. It encompasses three main issues of importance: activities should be seen as part of a long-term endeavour rather than isolated one-off events; there are many audiences which may make use of the research findings in various ways; and there are many modes in which the process can be facilitated
School children as health change agents in Magu, Tanzania
The feasibility of an action-oriented and participatory educational approach, where school children function as health change agents, in a rural community of (Magu district) Tanzania was explored. Observations, in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with pupils, teachers and parents were undertaken. Findings showed that study participants favoured an approach where school children played an active role as health change agents in a combin…
The socio-cultural context and practical implications of ethnoveterinary medical pluralism in western Kenya
Research ethics across disciplines
The article compares selected research ethical codes from medical science and anthropology. Though based on the same basic principles of respect, beneficence and justice, their history and emphases are different. All the codes stress the importance of informed consent, though the biomedical codes are more elaborated especially regarding 'vulnerability', 'dependent relationships' and 'legally incompetent groups'. With respect to harm, the biomedic…
Practices of Relatedness and the Re-Invention of Duol as a Network of Care for Orphans and Widows in Western Kenya
Duol is a term used in reference to traditional Luo life to signify unity and solidarity within a lineage under the authority of the elders. This authority was most prominent in the pre-colonial period, and continued up to independence. It declined steadily under the impact of modernity during the post-independence period. Consequently, the institution oí duol fell into disuse. The emergence of the HIV/AIDS pandemic has renewed the need for unity…
Changing patterns of orphan care due to the HIV epidemic in western Kenya
Retirement Lost”—The New Role of the Elderly as Caretakers for Orphans in Western Kenya
The potential of schoolchildren as health change agents in rural western Kenya
Children and medicines
Practices of Relatedness and the Re-Invention of Duol as a Network of Care for Orphans and Widows in Western Kenya
Duol is a term used in reference to traditional Luo life to signify unity and solidarity within a lineage under the authority of the elders. This authority was most prominent in the pre-colonial period, and continued up to independence. It declined steadily under the impact of modernity during the post-independence period. Consequently, the institution oí duol fell into disuse. The emergence of the HIV/AIDS pandemic has renewed the need for unity…
Research ethics across disciplines
The article compares selected research ethical codes from medical science and anthropology. Though based on the same basic principles of respect, beneficence and justice, their history and emphases are different. All the codes stress the importance of informed consent, though the biomedical codes are more elaborated especially regarding 'vulnerability', 'dependent relationships' and 'legally incompetent groups'. With respect to harm, the biomedic…
The socio-cultural context and practical implications of ethnoveterinary medical pluralism in western Kenya
Principled Promotion of Health
Background: Based on widespread critique of the moralizing paradigm that has long characterized much of the work conducted within the field of health promotion, Steno Health Promotion Research has developed a comprehensive health promotion approach consisting of five principles that constitute the framework for a new intervention paradigm. The five principles are: (1) A broad and positive health concept; (2) Participation and involvement; (3) Act…
Research into practice
This article outlines a comprehensive approach to facilitating the transfer of research into practice. It encompasses three main issues of importance: activities should be seen as part of a long-term endeavour rather than isolated one-off events; there are many audiences which may make use of the research findings in various ways; and there are many modes in which the process can be facilitated
Similarities between Human and Livestock Illnesses among the Luo in Western Kenya
The objective of this study was to compare perceptions and practices in relation to human and livestock illness among the Luo in Western Kenya. Qualitative methods of data collection such as key informant interviews, open-ended, in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, narratives, and participant- and direct observations were applied. The study showed that there were significant parallels between human and livestock illnesses regarding termi…
Complexity Theory in Health Promotion Research
Complexity-oriented approaches built on complexity theories are not widely used in health promotion research. The field of health promotion faces significant difficulties in explaining and addressing unforeseen impacts and side effects due to the widespread tendency to implement health promotion initiatives that are considered best practices. It is important to theoretically embrace the fact that we operate in a complex world and that we, therefo…
Experience from Video-Recorded Focus Group Discussion on Schistosomiases in Magu, Tanzania
Video-recorded focus group discussions were conducted to explore common perceived illnesses in a rural community coendemic for urinary and intestinal schistosomiases in Magu District, Tanzania. The ultimate goal was to construct a morbidity questionnaire on schistosomiases to be used as a screening tool in endemic communities. The findings suggest that video-recorded FGD was very instrumental in exploring community perceptions, attitudes, and pra…
Children and medicines
New learning in old organisations
The integration of learning into community development processes and how that learning can stimulate positive change pose challenges that development practitioners have met with mixed success. Who the most effective change agents are, how they can be supported, and how their efforts can be diffused in the community and scaled up are key questions in the community development literature. The authors designed and implemented an action-research proj…
Retirement Lost”—The New Role of the Elderly as Caretakers for Orphans in Western Kenya
Changing patterns of orphan care due to the HIV epidemic in western Kenya
Schistosomiasis-Related Perceptions, Attitudes and Treatment-Seeking Practices in Magu District, Tanzania
A study on perceptions, attitudes and treatment-seeking practices related to schistosomiasis was conducted among the Wasukuma in the rural Magu district of Tanzania at the shore of Lake Victoria where Schistosoma haematobium and mansoni infections are endemic. The study applied in-depth interviews, focus group discussions and a questionnaire survey among adults and primary school children. The perceived symptoms and causes were incongruous with t…
The potential of schoolchildren as health change agents in rural western Kenya
Famines and Famished Bodies in A Food Deficit Locality Among the Luo of Kenya
The concept of body language and how dietary intake influences that conception is not a new phenomenon in dietary literature. However, there is little or no documented literature on how famines/food shortages may be used in exploring body concept. An anthropological study was conducted among periodically famished local people of Bonde village in Bondo district, western Kenya, on famine/food shortage naming and their associated ethno-semantic desc…
Similarities between Human and Livestock Illnesses among the Luo in Western Kenya
The objective of this study was to compare perceptions and practices in relation to human and livestock illness among the Luo in Western Kenya. Qualitative methods of data collection such as key informant interviews, open-ended, in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, narratives, and participant- and direct observations were applied. The study showed that there were significant parallels between human and livestock illnesses regarding termi…
Practices of Relatedness and the Re-Invention of Duol as a Network of Care for Orphans and Widows in Western Kenya
Duol is a term used in reference to traditional Luo life to signify unity and solidarity within a lineage under the authority of the elders. This authority was most prominent in the pre-colonial period, and continued up to independence. It declined steadily under the impact of modernity during the post-independence period. Consequently, the institution oí duol fell into disuse. The emergence of the HIV/AIDS pandemic has renewed the need for unity…
School children as health change agents in Magu, Tanzania
The feasibility of an action-oriented and participatory educational approach, where school children function as health change agents, in a rural community of (Magu district) Tanzania was explored. Observations, in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with pupils, teachers and parents were undertaken. Findings showed that study participants favoured an approach where school children played an active role as health change agents in a combin…
The socio-cultural context and practical implications of ethnoveterinary medical pluralism in western Kenya
Research ethics across disciplines
The article compares selected research ethical codes from medical science and anthropology. Though based on the same basic principles of respect, beneficence and justice, their history and emphases are different. All the codes stress the importance of informed consent, though the biomedical codes are more elaborated especially regarding 'vulnerability', 'dependent relationships' and 'legally incompetent groups'. With respect to harm, the biomedic…
Research into practice
This article outlines a comprehensive approach to facilitating the transfer of research into practice. It encompasses three main issues of importance: activities should be seen as part of a long-term endeavour rather than isolated one-off events; there are many audiences which may make use of the research findings in various ways; and there are many modes in which the process can be facilitated
Practice of sumo kodhi among the Luo and implications for HIV transmission in western Kenya
This paper discusses the practice of sumo kodhi among the Luo ethnic group and its implications for spread of HIV in western Kenya. Sumo kodhi is a practice in which a woman arranges to have sex with a man other than her legitimate sexual partner (husband or levir/inheritor) to give birth to children with specific qualities she wants in them. Data were drawn from a 16-month ethnographic study on reproductive aspirations of women living with HIV/A…
Risk, the prediabetes diagnosis and preventive strategies
Diagnosis constitutes a major categorisation tool in medicine. This paper adds to the paucity of knowledge about part of the work such a tool performs. It examines the ways in which diabetes epidemiology translates into attempts to prevent diabetes from occurring through screening and diagnosing, and then managing those categorised as ‘at high risk’. Using a qualitative design in the context of a small-scale Danish intervention study, the finding…
Pre-pregnancy community-based intervention for couples in Malaysia
IM is an iterative process that systematically gathers "best" evidence, selects appropriate theories of behaviour change, and facilitates formative research so as to develop a complex intervention. Though the IM process is time consuming, complex, and costly, it has enriched the Jom Mama intervention with a number of notable advantages: (i) intervention fashioned on formative work with stakeholders and in the target group; (ii) intervention combi…
Principled Promotion of Health
Background: Based on widespread critique of the moralizing paradigm that has long characterized much of the work conducted within the field of health promotion, Steno Health Promotion Research has developed a comprehensive health promotion approach consisting of five principles that constitute the framework for a new intervention paradigm. The five principles are: (1) A broad and positive health concept; (2) Participation and involvement; (3) Act…
Project SoL—A Community-Based, Multi-Component Health Promotion Intervention to Improve Eating Habits and Physical Activity among Danish Families with Young Children. Part 1
Project SoL was implemented over a period of four years from 2012−2015 with the aim to promote healthy eating and physical activity among families with children aged 3−8 years, living in selected communities in two Danish municipalities. This was done by applying the supersetting approach to implement complex multi-component interventions in a participatory, coordinated, and integrated manner in childcare centres, schools, and supermarkets in thr…
Project SoL—A Community-Based, Multi-Component Health Promotion Intervention to Improve Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Practices among Danish Families with Young Children Part 2
Project SoL is implemented over a period of four years with the aim to promote healthy eating and physical activity among children aged 3−8 years by targeting the families in a Danish municipality based on the multi-component, supersetting strategy. Interventions are implemented in childcare centres, schools and supermarkets in three local communities as well as in local mass media and social media during a 19 months period in the Municipality of…
Children as visionary change agents in Danish school health promotion
This paper describes children’s perceptions and visions for a healthier social and physical environment in the setting of a primary school on the Danish island of Bornholm. Guided by an everyday-life perspective and applying participatory action research methods including social imagination and visual techniques within the framework of future creating workshops, the study engaged 50 children aged 6–9 years in creative processes of identifying hea…
What are the public health implications of the life course perspective
During the past decades innovative research has shown that exposure to harmful events during pregnancy and early infancy ('the first 1000 days') has an impact on health at subsequent stages of the life course and even across generations. Recently it has been shown that even the pre-conception period is of outmost importance, and other scholars have made the case that the 1000 days should be extended to a period of 8000 days post-conception. The p…
Impact of continuing medical education for primary healthcare providers in Malaysia on diabetes knowledge, attitudes, skills and clinical practices
Background : Continuing Medical Education (CME) is a cornerstone of improving competencies and ensuring high-quality patient care by nurses and physicians. The Ministry of Health (MOH) Malaysia collaborated with Steno Diabetes Centre to improve diabetes-related competencies of general physicians and nurses working in primary care through a six-month training programme called the Steno REACH Certificate Course in Clinical Diabetes Care (SRCC). Obj…
Health literacy meets the life-course perspective
This paper presents a novel conceptual framework combining the concepts of health literacy and life-course to guide public health planning and research. Health literacy is a key competence that enables individuals to navigate health-care systems and health promotion activities. The life-course perspective places emphasis on how disease risk accumulates along the life trajectory from fetal life onwards, and how it can even pass from one generation…
Dholuo Kincepts in Western Kenya
The Luo are a Nilotic people living in western Kenya, north-eastern Tanzania and in western Uganda. Their language, Dholuo, forms part of the Western Nilotic group of languages. This article presents the traditional kincepts (kinship terminology) of the Luo people as described by elders living in Central Sakwa location, Siaya County, western part of Kenya. The kincepts for consanguine as well as affine relatives in up to three ascending and five …
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