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 Phan Minh Trang
Weather and extreme heat in association to mental disorders. The case of Hanoi, Vietnam
Thesis defended: March 24, 2017
Supervisors: Maria Nilsson, Joacim Rovklöv, Kim Bao Giang
Opponent: Associate Professor Mare Löhmus Sundström, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet
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 Juan Antonio Córdoba Doña
Withstanding austerity. Economic crisis and health inequalities in Spain
Thesis defended: 24 February, 2017
Supervisors: Per Gustafsson, Miguel San Sebastián
Opponent: Stefan Fors, ARC (Aging Research Center), Institutionen för Neurobiologi, Vårdvetenskap och Samhälle (NVS), Karolinska institutet
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 Masoud Vaezghasemi
Nutrition transition and the double burden of malnutrition in Indonesia
Thesis defended: 17 February, 2017
Supervisors: Nawi Ng, Ann Öhman, Malin Eriksson, Mohammad Hakimi
Opponent: Professor Anna Winkvist, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg
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 Maquins Odhiambo Sewe
Towards climate based early warning and response systems for malaria
Thesis defended: 10 February, 2017
Supervisors: Joacim Rocklöv, Clas Ahlm, Yesim Tozan
Opponent: Professor Madeleine Thomson, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, New York, USA
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 Hagos Godefay Debeb
Maternal mortality then, now and tomorrow. The experience of Tigray region, northern Ethiopia
Thesis defended: 16 December, 2016
Supervisors: John Kinsman, Peter Byass
Opponent: Professor Bengt Lindtjörn, Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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 Kaaren Mathias
Shadows and light. Examining community mental health competence in North India
Thesis defended: 2 December, 2016
Supervisors: Isabel Goicolea, Miguel San Sebastian, Michelle Kermode
Opponent: Professor KS Jacob, Department of Psychiatry, Christian Medical College Vellore, Vellore, India
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 Maria Furberg
Towards the limits. Climate change aspects of life and health in northers Sweden. Studies of tularemia and regional experiences of changes in the environment
Thesis defended: 18 November, 2016
Supervisors: Maria Nilsson, Anders Johansson, Lars Weinehall
Opponent: Professor Peter Friberg, Avdelningen för molekylär och klinisk medicin, Sahlgrenska Akademin, Göteborgs Universitet, Göteborg
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 Vu Duy Kien
Inequalities in non-communicable diseases in urban Hanoi, Vietnam: health care utilization, expenditure and responsiveness of commune health stations
Thesis defended: 21 October, 2016
Supervisors: Nawi Ng, Hoang Van Minh, Lars Weinehall, Malin Eriksson
Opponent: Alexandra Krettek, Institutionen för hälsa och lärande, Högskolan i Skövde
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 Eva Randell
Adolescent boys' health - Managing emotions, masculinities and subjective social status
Thesis defended: 7 October, 2016
Supervisors: Reneé Flacking, Lars Jerdén, Ann Öhman
Opponent: Professor Katja Gillander-Gådin, Avdelningen för hälsovetenskap, Mittuniversitetet, Sundsvall
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 Vijendra Ingole
Too Hot! An Epidemiological Investigation of Weather-Related Mortality in Rural India
Thesis defended: 21 September, 2016
Supervisors: Barbara Schumann, Joacim Rocklöv, Rainer Sauerborn, Sanjay Juvekar
Opponent: Professor Patrick Kinney, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, USA
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 Anne Neumann
Prevention of type 2 diabetes: modeling the cost-effectiveness of diabetes prevention
Thesis defended: 2 September, 2016
Supervisors: Lars Lindholm, Fredrik Norström, Margareta Norberg, Stefanie J Klug
Opponent: Dr Katarina Steen-Karlsson, Health Economics, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund
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 Ryan G Wagner
The burden of epilepsy. Using population-based data to define the burden and model a cost-effective intervention for the treatment of epilepsy in rural South Africa.
Thesis defended: 2 June, 2016
Supervisors: Lars Lindholm, Lars Forsgren, Charles Newton, Melanie Bertram
Opponent: Professor Andrea Winkler, Department of Community Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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 Mikkel B Quam
Imported infections' importance: Global change driving dengue dynamics
Thesis defended: 22 April, 2016
Supervisors: Joacim Rocklöv, Annelies Wilder-Smith, Eduardo Massad
Opponent: Professor Dave D Chadee, Department of Life Science, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
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 Linda R Sundberg
Mind the Gap. Exploring evidence-based policymaking for improved preventive and mental health services in the Swedish health system
Thesis defended: 8 April, 2016
Supervisors: Monica Nyström, Lars Weinehall & Bruno Hägglöf
Opponent: Professor Per Nilsen, Institutionen för medicin och hälsa, Linköpings universitet, Linköping
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 Bharat Randive
Study of conditional cash transfer programme Janani Suraksha Yojana for the promotion of institutional births: Studies from selected Indian states
Thesis defended: 15 January, 2016
Supervisors: Lars Lindholm, Ayesha de Costa
Opponent: Professor Kyllike Christensson, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
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 Fredinah Namatovu
The multifactorial etiology of celiac disease explored by combining several national registers
Thesis defended: 6 November, 2015
Supervisors: Olof Sandström, Anneli Ivarsson, Marie Lindkvist and Cecilia Olsson
Opponent: Assistant Professor Benjamin Lebwohl, Department of Clinical Medicine and Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York USA
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 Setareh Forouzan
Assessing responsiveness in the mental health care system: the case of Tehran
Thesis defended: 23 October, 2015
Supervisors: Miguel San Sebastian, Mehdi Gazinour, Mojgan Padyab
Opponent: Professor Ahmad Mohit, Department of Social determinants of Health, High Institute of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences and Health Service, Tehran, Iran
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 Paul Mee
Who died, where, when and why? An investigation of HIV-related mortality in rural South Africa
Thesis defended: 9 October, 2015
Supervisors: Peter Byass
Opponent: Associate Professor Frank Tanser, Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, Mtubatuba, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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 Thaddaeus Egondi
Making visible the invisible. Health risks from environmental exposures among socially deprived populations of Nairobi, Kenya
Thesis defended: 11 September, 2015
Supervisors: Joacim Rocklöv, Nawi Ng, Michael Gatari, Remare Ettarh
Opponent: Professor Patrick Kinney, Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, USA
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 Ailiana Santosa
Where are the world’s disease patterns heading?
The challenges of epidemiological transition
Thesis defended: 12 June, 2015
Supervisors: Peter Byass, Ulf Högberg, Joacim Rocklöv
Opponent: Professor Sarah Wild, Center for Population Health Science, University of Edinburgh, UK
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 Joseph Zulu
Integration of national community-based health worker programmes in health systems. Lessons learned from Zambia and other low and middle income countries.
Thesis defended: 8 May, 2015
Supervisors: Anna-Karin Hurtig, John Kinsman, Charles Michelo
Opponent: Professor Helen Schneider, School of Public Healh, University of Western Cape, Republic of South Africa
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 Tesfay Gebregzabher Gebrehiwet
No women should die while giving life. Does the Health Extension Program improve acess to maternal health services in Tigray, Ethiopia?
Thesis defended: 24 April, 2015
Supervisors: Isabel Goicolea, Miguel San Sebastián, Kerstin Edin
Opponent: Associate Professor Anette Agardh, Social Medicine and Global Health, Lund University
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 Tej Ram Jat
Maternal health and health care in Madhya Pradesh state of India: an exploration using a human rights lens
Thesis defended: 28 November, 2014
Supervisors: Miguel San Sebastian, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Isabel Goicolea
Opponent: Professor Karen Marie Moland, University of Bergen, Department of Global Health and Primary Care, Norway
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 Alison Hernández
Enabling the performance of nurses in rural Guatemala: The role of relationships
Thesis defended: 14 November, 2014
Supervisors: Miguel San Sebastian, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Kjerstin Dahlblom
Opponent: Professor Dr Bart Criel, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
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 Jennifer Crowe
Heat exposure and health outcomes in Costa Rican sugarcane harvesters
Thesis defended: 24 October, 2014
Supervisors: Maria Nilsson, Catharina Wesseling, Tord Kjellström
Opponent: Professor Linda Forst, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
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 Curt Löfgren
Catastrophic health expenditure in Vietnam. Studies of problems and solutions
Thesis defended: 10 October, 2014
Supervisors: Klas-Göran Sahlén, Lars Lindholm, Anna-Karin Hurtig
Opponent: Professor Karen Hofman, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
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 Elisabet Höög
Navigera i ständig förändring. Facilitering av utvecklingsarbete inom vård och omsorg
Thesis defended: 9 May, 2014
Supervisors: Monica Nyström, Lars Weinehall, Jack Lysholm
Opponent: Docent Rolf Wahlström, Institutionen för folkhälsovetenskap, Karolinska Institutet
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 Viveca Larsson
"A Suffering Heart" - On the health of women living with violence in Vietnam
Thesis defended: 25 April, 2014
Supervisors: Anders Möller, Kjerstin Dahlblom
Opponent: Professor Elisabeth Faxelid, Department of Public Health, Karolinska Institutet
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 Paola Andrea Mosquera Méndez
Evaluation of a primary health care strategy implemented in a market-oriented health s ystem: the case of Bogota, Colombia
Thesis defended: 11 April, 2014
Supervisors: Miguel San Sebastian, Kjerstin Dahlblom, Roman Vega
Opponent: Pol de Vos, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
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 Anand Krishnan
Gender inequity in child survival: Travails of the girl child in rural north India
Thesis defended: 11 October, 2013
Supervisors: Peter Byass and Nawi Ng
Opponent: Professor Per Ashorn, Tampere Center for Child Health Research, University of Tampere, Finland
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 Kristina Lindvall
"Being able to be stable". Exploring primary weight maintenance s a public health strategy for obesity prevention
Thesis defended: 20 September, 2013
Supervisors: Lars Weinehall, Maria Emmelin, Christel Larsson, Paul Jenkins
Opponent: Professor Mai-Lis Hellenius, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
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 Kristina Edvardsson
Health promotion in pregnancy and early parenthood. The challenge of innovation, implementation and change within the Salut Programme
Thesis defended: 31 May, 2013
Supervisors: Anneli Ivarsson, Rickard Garvare, Monica Nyström, Eva Eurenius
Opponent: Docent Rolf Wahlström, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
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 Yien Ling Hii
Climate and Dengue Fever: Early warning based on temperature and rainfall
Thesis defended: 3 May, 2013
Supervisors: Nawi Ng, Joacim Rocklöv and Rainer Sauerborn
Opponent: Professor Sven Britton, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
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 Faustine K Nkulu Kalengayi
A world on the move. Challenges and opportunities for HIV/AIDS/TB care and prevention among vulnerable migrant populations in Sweden
Thesis defended 19 April, 2013
Supervisors: Anna-Karin Hurtig, Beth Maina Ahlberg, Clas Ahlm and Ingela Krantz
Opponent: Professor Allan Krasnik, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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 Fatwa Sari Tetra Dewi
Working with community. Exploring community empowerment to support non-communicable disease prevention in a middle-income country
Thesis defended 8 February, 2013
Supervisors: Lars Weinehall, Hans Stenlund, Ann Öhman, Mohammad Hakimi
Opponent: Professor Charli Eriksson, Hälsoakademin, Örebro University, Örebro
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 Felix Kisanga
Child sexual abuse in urban Tanzania: Possibilities and barriers for prevention
Thesis defended 14 December, 2012
Supervisors: Lennarth Nyström, Maria Emmelin, Nora Hogan
Opponent: Docent Frank Lindblad, Department of Neuroscience, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Uppsala University
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 Anna Rosén
Mass screening for celiac disease in 12-year-olds. Finding them and then what?
Thesis defended 6 December, 2012
Supervisors: Anneli Ivarsson, Hans Stenlund, Maria Emmelin, Olof Sandström
Opponent: Docent Claes Hallert, Institutionen för samhälls och välfärdsstudier, hälsouniversitetet i Linköping
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 Cynthia Anticona Huaynate
Lead exosposure in indigenous children of the Peruvian Amazon: Seeking the hidden source, venturing into participatory research
Thesis defended 30 November, 2012
Supervisors: Miguel San Sebastian, Ingvar Bergdahl
Opponent: Assistant professor Mary Jean Brown, Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA
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 Ana Lorena Ruano
The role of social participation in municipal-level health systems: the case of Palencia, Guatemala
Thesis defended 19 October, 2012
Supervisors: Miguel San Sebastian, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Kjerstin Dahlblom
Opponent: Associate professor Francoise Barten, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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 Anna Myléus
Towards explaining the Swedish epidemic of celiac disease - an epidemiological approach
Thesis defended 21 September, 2012
Supervisors: Anneli Ivarsson, Hans Stenlund, Stig Wall
Opponent: Stefano Guandalini, Department of Pediatrics, The University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, US
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 Nguyen Ngoc Quang
Understanding and managing cardiovascular disease risk factors in Vietnam. Integrating clinical and public health perspectives
Thesis defended 1 June, 2012
Supervisors: Peter Byass, Nguyen Lan Viet, Stig Wall, Ruth Bonita, Lars Weinehall
Opponent: Professor Göran Bondjers, Göteborg University |
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 Pham Thai Son
Hypertension in Vietnam. From community-based studies to a national targeted programme
Thesis defended 1 June, 2012
Supervisors: Peter Byass, Nguyen Lan Viet, Stig Wall, Lars Weinehall, Ruth Bonita
Opponent: Vice-rektor Alexandra Krettek, Nordic School for Public Health, Göteborg
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 Hailemariam Lemma Reda
Improving efficiency, access to and quality of the rural Health Extension Programme in Tigray, Ethiopia: the case of malaria diagnosis and treatment
Thesis defended 15 May, 2012
Supervisors: Miguel San Sebastian, Curt Löfgren
Opponent: Ass prof Wakgari Deressa, School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
 Fredrik Norström
The burden of celiac disease and the value of having it diagnosed
Thesis defended 11 May, 2012
Supervisors: Anneli Ivarsson, Lars Lindholm, Olof Sandström, Curt Löfgren, Hans Stenlund
Opponent: Docent Pekka Collin, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
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 Rose Laisser
Prevention of intimate partner violence - Community and healthcare workers' perceptions in urban Tanzania
Thesis defended 2 December, 2011
Supervisors: Maria Emmelin, Lennarth Nyström, Gunilla Lindmark
Opponent: Professor Katarina Hjelm, School of Health and Caring Sciences, Linnaeus University
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 Gasto Frumence
The role of social capital in HIV prevention: Experiences from the Kagera region of Tanzania
Thesis defended 25 November, 2011
Supervisors: Lennarth Nyström, Maria Emmelin, Japhet Killewo
Opponent: Professor Bo Haglund, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm |
 Le Van Hoi
Health for community dwelling older people: Trends, inequalities, needs and care in rural Vietnam
Thesis defended 14 October, 2011
Supervisors: Lars Lindholm, Truong Viet Dung, Pham Tang, Nguyen Thi Kim Chuc
Opponent: Ass prof Zarina Kabir, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm |
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 Ann Sörlin
Health and the elusive gender equality. Can the impact of gender equality on health be measured?
Thesis defended 23 September, 2011
Supervisors: Ann Öhman and Lars Lindholm
Opponent: Docent Tuija Muhonen, Institutionen för kultur och samhälle, Malmö högskola, Malmö
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 Barnabas Nwarbébé Njozing
Bridging the gap. Implementing tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS collaborative activities in the northwest region of Cameroon
Thesis defended 10 June, 2011
Supervisors: Anna-Karin Hurtig, Kerstin Edin, Miguel San Sebastian
Opponent: Professor Kurt Svärdsudd, Inst för folkhälsa och vårdvetenskap, Uppsala universitet |
 Virgilio Mariano Salazar Torres
Intimate partner violence in Nicaragua. Studies on ending abuse, child growth, and contraception
Thesis defended 20 May, 2011
Supervisors: Ulf Högberg, Ann Öhman
Opponent: Professor Kurt Svärdsudd, Inst för folkhälsa och vårdvetenskap, Uppsala universitet |
 Stephen Maluka
Strengthening fairness, transparency and accountability in health care priority setting at district level in Tanzania. Opportunities, challenges and the way forward
Thesis defended 18 March, 2011
Supervisors: Anna-Karin Hurtig, Miguel San Sebastian, Peter Kamuzora
Opponent: Professor Norman Daniels, Department of Global Health and Population, Harward School of Public Health, Boston, USA |
 Zainonisa Peterson
Smoking cessation during pregnancy. A person-centred approach among disadvantaged women in South Africa
Thesis defended 18 February, 2011
Supervisors: Maria Emmelin, Krisela Steyn, Maria Nilsson
Opponent: Associate professor Prof Mimi Nichter, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona at Tuscon, USA |
 Gunnar Lundqvist
Tobaksvanor i medelåldern. Riskfaktormönster, rökstoppsattityder och erfarenheter av att sluta röka
Thesis defended 21 January, 2011
Supervisors: Lars Weinehall och Herbert Sandström
Opponent: Professor Kurt Svärdsudd, Inst för folkhälsa och vårdvetenskap, Uppsala universitet |
 Ari Probandari
Revisiting the choice. To involve hospitals in the partnership for tuberculosis control in Indonesia
Thesis defended 10 december, 2010
Supervisors: Anna-Karin Hurtig, Lars Lindholm and Adi Utarini
Opponent: Knut Lönnroth, Stop TB Department, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland |
 Helene Johansson
En mer hälsofrämjande hälso- och sjukvård. Hinder och möjligheter utifrån professionernas perspektiv
Thesis defended 3 december, 2010
Supervisors: Lars Weinehall, Maria Emmelin, Lena Lundström
Opponent: Charli Eriksson, Örebro University, Örebro
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 Maria Wiklund
Close to the edge. Discursive, gendered and embodied stress in modern youth
Thesis defended 12 November, 2010
Supervisors: Ann Öhman, Eva-Britt Malmgren, Carita Bengs and Erik Bergström
Opponent: Charli Eriksson, Örebro University, Örebro
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 Susanne Waldau
Creating organisational capacity for priority setting in health care. Using a bottom-up approach to implement a top-down policy decision
Thesis defended: 22 October, 2010
Supervisors: Lars Lindholm, Urban Janlert, Olle Svensson
Opponent: Finn Kamper Jörgensen, National Institute of Public Health, Copenhagen, Denmark
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 Malin Eriksson
Social capital, health and community action - Implications for health promotion
Thesis defended: 12 June, 2010
Supervisors: Maria Emmelin, Lars Dahlgren, Urban Janlert
Opponent: Professor Catherine Campbell, Institute of Social Psychology, London School of Economics, London
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 Léonie Nzefa Dapi
Socioeconomic and sex differences in adolescents' dietary intake, anthropometry and physical activity in Cameroon, Africa
Thesis defended: 5 February, 2010
Supervisors: Urban Janlert, Christel Larsson, Agneta Hörnell
Opponent: Professor Thorkild Tylleskär, University of Bergen, Norway
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 Hussein Kidanto
Improving quality of perinatal care through clinical audit
Thesis defended: 4 December, 2009
Supervisors: Lennarth Nyström, Siriel Massawe, Gunilla Lindmark
Opponent: Professor Geir Jacobsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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 Isabel Goicolea
Adolescent Pregnancies in the Amazon of Ecuador - a rights and gender approach to girls´ sexual and reproductive health
Thesis defended: 20 November, 2009
Supervisors: Marianne Wulff, Miguel San Sebastian, Ann Öhman
Opponent: Professor Johanne Sundy, Oslo University, Oslo, Norway
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 Fyson Kasenga
Making it happen: Prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV in rural Malawi
Thesis defended: 23 October, 2009
Supervisor: Anna-Karin Hurtig, Maria Emmelin, Peter Byass
Opponent: Professor Thorkild Tylleskär, University of Bergen, Norway
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 Klas-Göran Sahlén
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
Thesis defended: 18 September, 2009
Supervisors: Lars Lindholm
Opponent: Docent Carsten Hendriksen, Köpenhamn, Danmark
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 Mark Collinson
Striving against adversity. The dynamics of migration, health and poverty in rural South Africa
Thesis defended: 15 May, 2009
Supervisor: Peter Byass
Opponent: Professor Peter Kim Streatfield, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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 Maria Nilsson
Promoting health in aolescents - preventing the use of tobacco
Thesis defended: May, 2009
Supervisors: Urban Janlert, Lars Weinehall, Erik Bergström, Hans Stenlund
Opponent: Professor Charli Eriksson
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 Anders Emmelin
Counted - and then? Trends in child mortality in an Ethiopian demographic surveillance
Thesis defended: 24 April, 2009
Supervisors: Stig Wall, Peter Byass
Opponent: Professor Tord Kjellström
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 Julie Sorensen
Social Marketing for Injury Prevention
Changing risk perceptions and safety-related behaviors among New York farmers
Supervisors: Maria Emmelin, Lars Weinehall, John May
Thesis defended: 20 February, 2009
Opponent: Professor Peter Lundqvist, Department of Work Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
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 Stephen Tollman
Closing the gap: Applying health and socio-demographic surveillance to complex health transitions in South and sub-Saharan Africa
Supervisors: Stig Wall, Michel Garenne
Thesis defended: 26 November, 2008
Opponent: Professor Demissie Habte, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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 Kjerstin Dahlblom
Home alone. Sibling caretakers in León, Nicaragua
Supervisors: Rodolfo Peña, Stig Wall
Thesis defended: 24 October, 2008
Opponent: Professor Bengt Höjer, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
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 Mesganaw Fantahun
Mortality and survival from childhood to old age in rural Ethiopia
Supervisors: Peter Byass, Yemane Berhane, Ulf Högberg, Stig Wall
Thesis defended: 14 March 2008
Opponent: Professor Thorkild Tylleskär, Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Norway
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 Edward F. Fottrell
Dying to count: Mortality surveillance methods in resource-poor settings
Supervisor: Peter Byass
Thesis defended: 29 February, 2008
Opponent: Professor Heiko Becher, Heidelberg, Germany
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 Fikru Tesfaye
Epidemiology of cardiovascular disease risk factors in Ethiopia: The rural-urban gradient
Supervisors: Peter Byass, Yemane Berhane
Thesis defended: 29 February, 2008
Opponent: Professor Rainer Sauerborn, Heidelberg, Germany
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 Lars Jerdén
Health-promoting health services: Personal health documents and empowerment
Supervisors: Lars Weinehall, Erik Bergström, Gunilla Burell
Thesis defended: 23 November, 2007
Opponent: Professor Charli Eriksson, Institutionen för hälsovetenskap, Örebro universitet, Örebro
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 Lars Hagberg
Cost-effectiveness of the promotion of physical activity in health care
Supervisors: Lars Lindholm, Mai-Lis Hellenius
Thesis defended: 28 February, 2007
Opponent: Ass prof Lars-Åke Levin, Department of Health and Society, Linköping University
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 Margareta Norberg
Identifying risk of type 2 diabetes. Epidemiologic perspectives from biomarkers to lifestyle
Supervisors: Lars Weinehall, Jan Eriksson, Christer Andersson, Bernt Lindahl
Thesis defended: 12 January, 2007
Opponent: Professor Mai-Lis Hellénius, Centrum för Allmänmedicin, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge
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 Kathleen Kahn
Dying to make a fresh start: Mortality and health transition in a new South Africa
Supervisors: Anneli Ivarsson, Michel Garenne, Debbie Bradshaw and Stig Wall
Thesis defended: 11 December, 2006
Opponent: Professor Vinod Diwan, Karolinska Institute, IHCAR, Stockholm
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 Anne Nafziger
A Population Perspective on Obesity Prevention: Lessons learned from Sweden and the U.S.
Supervisors: Lars Weinehall, Stig Wall, Thomas A Pearson
Thesis defended: 2 November, 2006
Oponent: Professor Russel V. Luepker, Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
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 Dao Lan Huong
Mortality in transitional Vietnam
Supervisors: Peter Byass, Urban Janlert
Thesis defended: 19 October, 2006
Oponent: Professor Hans Rosling, Division of
International Health, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
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 Kerstin Edin
Perspectives on intimate partner violence, focusing on the period of pregnancy
Supervisors: Ulf Högberg, Lars Dahlgren and Ann Lalos
Thesis defended: 22 September, 2006
Opponent: Professor Margareta Hydén, Linköpings Universitet, Linköping
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 Nawi Ng
Chronic disease risk factors in a transitional country. The case of rural Indonesia
Supervisors: Lars Weinehall, Hans Stenlund, Ann Öhman, Stig Wall, Mohammad Hakimi
Thesis defended: 19 April 2006
Opponent: Professor Cairns Smith, Department of Public Health, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
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 Hoang Van Minh
Epidemiology of cardiovascular disease in rural Vietnam
Supervisors: Nguyen Thi Kim Chuc, Peter Byass, Stig Wall
Thesis defended: 19 April 2006
Opponent: Professor Cairns Smith, Department of Public Health, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
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 Nils Oscarson
Health economic evaluation methods for decision-making in preventive dentistry
Supervisor: Carina Källestål
Thesis defended: 1 March, 2006
Opponent: Professor Dorthe Holst, Seksjon for samfunnsodontologi, University of Oslo, Norway
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 Anna Månsdotter
Health, Economics and Feminism - on judging fairness and reform
Supervisors: Lars Lindholm, Anna Winkvist and Ann Öhman
Thesis defended: 7 April 2006
Opponent: Professor Finn Diderichsen, Department of Public Health Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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 Nguyen Xuan Thanh
The injury poverty trap in rural Vietnam
Supervisors: Lars Lindholm, Nguyen Thi Kim Chuc and Anders Emmelin
Thesis defended: 9 December 2005
Opponent: Professor Egon Jonsson, Public Health Sciences, Institute of Health Economics, University of Alberta, Canada
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 Eliette Valladares
Partner violence during pregnancy in Nicaragua, psychosocial factors and child outcome
Supervisors: Ulf Högberg and Lars Dahlgren
Thesis defended: 14 September 2005
Opponent: Professor Berit Schei, Inst for samfunnsmedisinske fag, Norges teknisk-naturvetenskaplige universitet, Trondheim, Norway
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 Sven Hassler
The health conditions in the Sami population of Sweden 1961-2002
Supervisors: Per Sjölander and Urban Janlert
Thesis defended: May 2005
Opponent: Peter Bjerregaard, National Institute of Public Health, Copenhagen, Denmark
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 Hoang Minh Hang
Epidemiology of unintentional injuries in rural Vietnam
Supervisors: Peter Byass and Ton That Bach
Thesis defended: October 2004
Opponent: Prof Ruth Bonita, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
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 Torbjörn Lind
Iron and zinc in infancy: Results from experimental trials in Sweden and Indonesia
Supervisors: Lars Åke Persson och Olle Hernell
Thesis defended: May 2004
Opponent:
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 Maria Emmelin
Self-rated health in public health evaluation
Supervisors: Lars Dahlgren and Stig Wall
Thesis defended: April 2004
Opponent: Prof Per-Olov Östergren
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 Th Ninuk Sri Hartini
Food habits, dietary intake and nutritional status during economic crisis among pregnant women in Central Java, Indonesia
Supervisors: Anna Winkvist and Lars Lindholm
Thesis defended: March 2004
Opponent: Prof Hans Rosling
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 Jeremiah Chikovore
Gender power dynamics in sexual and reprodutive health. A qualitative study in Chiredzi District, Zimbabwe
Supervisors: Beth-Maina Ahlberg, Lennarth Nyström and Gunilla Lindmark
Thesis defended: March 2004
Opponent: Prof Rita Liljeström
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 Gunilla Ringbäck Weitoft
Lone parenting, socioeconomic conditions and severe ill-health. Longitudinal register-based studies
Supervisors: Måns Rosén
Thesis defended: March 2003
Opponent: Prof Denny Vågerö, Centre for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm
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 Adi Utarini
Evaluation of the user-provider interface in malaria control programme: The case of Jepara district, Central Java province, Indonesia
Supervisors: Anna Winkvist and Lennarth Nyström
Thesis defended: October 2002
Opponent: Professor SW Lindsay, School of Biological & Biomedical Sciences, Durham, UK
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 SM Ziyaddin Hyder
Anaemia and iron deficiency in women. Impact
of iron supplementation during pregnancy in
rural Bangladesh
Supervisor: Eva-Charlotte Ekström
Thesis defended, May 2002
Opponent: Professor Gunilla Lindmark, International Maternal and Child Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala
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 Detty Siti Nurdiati
Nutrition and reproductive health in Central Java, Indonesia. An epidemiological approach
Supervisor: Anna Winkvist
Thesis defended: December 2001
Opponent: Prof Mehari Gebre-Medhin, Inst för barns och kvinnors hälsa, Akademiska sjukhuset, Uppsala
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 Lena Grönblom-Lundström
Rehabilitation in light of different theories of health. Outcome for patients with low-back complaints - a theoretical discussion
Supervisor: Urban Janlert
Thesis defended: November 2001
Opponent: Prof Karin Harms-Ringdahl, Inst för sjukgymnastik, Karolinska institutet, Stockholm
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 Anneli Ivarsson
On the multifactorial etiology of celiac disease
Supervisors: Lars Åke Persson and Olle Hernell
Thesis defended: June 2001
Opponent: Prof Carlo Catassi, Department of Pediatrics, University of Ancona, Italy
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 Ann Öhman
Profession on the move. Changing conditions and gendered development in physiotherapy
Supervisors: Lars Dahlgren and Kerstin Hägg
Thesis defended: May 2001
Opponent: Prof Rannveig Dahle, NOVA - Norwegian Social Research, Oslo, Norway
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 Gideon Kwesigabo
Trends of HIV infection in the Kagera region of Tanzania 1987-2000
Supervisors: Anita Sandström, Japhet Killewo
Thesis defended: April 2001
Opponent: Dr Knut Fylkesnes, Institutt for samfunnsmedisin, University of Tromsö, Tromsö, Norway
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 Curt Edlund
Långtidssjukskrivna och deras medaktörer - en studie om sjukskrivning och rehabilitering
Supervisor: Urban Janlert and Lars Dahlgren
Thesis defended: February 2001
Opponent: Prof emeritus Hans Berglind, Inst för Socialt arbete, Stockholms universitet
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 Yemane Berhane
Women's health and reproductive outcome in rural Ethiopia
Supervisors: Ulf Högberg
Thesis defended: October 2000
Opponent: Staffan Bergström, IHCAR, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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 Tobias Andersson
Survival of mothers and their offspring in 19th century Sweden and contemporary rural Ethiopia
Supervisor: Ulf Högberg
Thesis defended: October 2000
Opponent: Johanne Sundby. Section for Medical Anthropology, Institute of Community Medicine, Oslo, Norway
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 Lennarth Nyström
Assessment of population screening. The case of mammography
Supervisor: Stig Wall
Thesis defended: September 2000
Opponent: Lars Holmberg, Inst för Kirurgiska vetenskaper, enheten för kirurgi, Uppsala University, Sweden
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 Eva Johansson
Emerging perspectives on tuberculosis and gender in Vietnam
Supervisors: Anna Winkvist and Vinod K Diwan
Thesis defended: September 2000
Opponent: Elina Hemminki, National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health, Helsinki, Finland
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 Mary Carroll Ellsberg
Candies in hell. Research and action on domestic violence against women in Nicaragua
Supervisors: Anna Winkvist and Jerker Liljestrand
Thesis defended: September 2000
Opponent: Jacquelyn C. Campbell, John Hopkins University, School of Nursing, Baltimore, USA
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 Elmer Zelaya Blandón
Adolescent pregnancies in Nicaragua. The importance of education
Supervisors: Jerker Liljestrand, Lars Åke Persson
Thesis defended: December 1999
Opponent: Dr Herbert L. Friedman, London
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 Ingrid Mogren
Reproductive factors' impact on the health of mother and offspring - An epidemiological study
Supervisor: Ulf Högberg
Thesis defended: December 1999
Opponent: Professor Jørn Olsen, Institut for Epidemiologi og Socialmedicin, Aarhus Universitet, Aarhus, Danmark
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 Rodolfo Peña
Infant mortality in transitional Nicaragua
Supervisors: Lars Åke Persson, Stig Wall
Thesis defended: October 1999
Opponent: Professor Professor Patrick Vaughan, Department of Health Care Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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 Maryam Mohamed Ibrahim
Child health in Somalia. An epidemiological assessment i rural communities during a pre-war period
Supervisor: Lars Åke Persson, Stig Wall
Thesis defended: October 1998
Opponent: Professor Hans Rosling, IHCAR, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
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 Lars Weinehall
Partnership for health. On the role of primary health care in a community intervention programme
Supervisor: Stig Wall, Göran Westman and Göran Hallmans
Thesis defended: December 1997
Opponent: Dr. Finn Kamper Jørgensen, DIKE, Copenhagen, Denmark
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 Bertil Forsberg
Urban air quality and indicators of respiratory problems
Supervisor: Stig Wall
Thesis defended: October 1997
Opponent: Professor Göran Pershagen, Institutet för Miljömedicin, KI, Stockholm
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 Margareta Barnekow Bergkvist
Physical capacity, physical activity and health: A population based fitness study of adolescents with an 18 year follow-up
Supervisors: Gudrun Hedberg, Urban Janlert
Thesis defended: April 1997
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 Marianne Wulff
Reproductive hazards in an industrial setting: An epidemiological assessment
Supervisors: Ulf Högberg, Anita Sandström
Thesis defended: December 1996
Opponent: Prof. Leiv Bakketeig, Statens Institutt for Folkehelse (National Institute of Public Health), Oslo, Norway
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 Lars Lindholm
Health economic evaluation of community-based cardiovascular disease prevention: Some theoretical aspects and empirical results
Supervisor: Måns Rosén
Thesis defended: February 1996
Opponent: Dr Finn Kamper Jørgensen, DIKE, Copenhagen, Denmark
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 Erik Bergström
Cardiovascular risk indicators in adolescents: The Umeå Youth study
Supervisors: Lars Åke Persson, Olle Hernell
Thesis defended: December 1995
Opponent: Prof. Hans Åkerblom, Paediatric Department, Helsinki University, Finland
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 Japhet Killewo
Epidemiology towards the control of HIV infection in Tanzania with special reference to the Kagera region
Supervisors: Stig Wall, Anita Sandström
Thesis defended: December 1994
Opponent: Prof. Bjarne Bjorvatn, Centre for International Health, Haukelands Hospital, Bergen, Norway
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 Lulu Muhe
Child health and acute respiratory infections in Ethiopia: Epidemiology for prevention and control
Supervisors: Lennart Freij, Stig Wall
Thesis defended: November 1994
Opponent: Prof. Mehari Gebre-Medhin, International Child Health Unit, Uppsala University
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 Berndt Stenberg
Office illness: The worker, the work and the workplace
Supervisor: Stig Wall
Thesis defended: June 1994
Opponent: Assoc. Prof. Jouni Jaakola, Department of Public Health, Helsinki University, Finland
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 Inger Brännström
Community participation and social patterning in cardiovascular disease intervention
Supervisors: Stig Wall, Lars Åke Persson
Thesis defended: November 1993
Opponent: Prof. Sven-Olof Isacsson, Department of Social Medicine, Lund University
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 Desta Shamebo
Epidemiology for public health research and action in a developing society: The Butajira Rural Health Project in Ethiopia
Supervisors: Stig Wall, Lennart Freij
Thesis defended: October 1993 (posthumous)
Opponent: Prof. Adam Taube, Department of Statistics, Uppsala University
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 Anita Sandström
Epidemiology at a smeltery: Changing patterns concerning lung cancer occurrence, work environment, smoking and risk perceptions over six decades
Supervisor: Stig Wall
Thesis defended: 1992
Opponent: Assoc. Prof. John Carstensen, Department of Health and Sociology, Linköping University
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 Måns Rosén
Epidemiology in planning for health: With special reference to regional epidemiology and the use of health registers
Supervisor: Stig Wall
Thesis defended: 1987
Opponent: Prof. Sven-Olof Isacsson, Department of Social Medicine, Lunds University
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Elli Nur Hayati
Katrina Nordyke
Siddhivinayak Hirve
