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Astrid Blystad

Astrid Blystad

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
32
Citations
3100
World Ranking
7389
National Ranking
66

Overview

Astrid Blystad is affiliated with the University of Bergen in Norway and has a research focus spanning medicine and social sciences. Their work intersects multiple subfields including pediatrics, perinatology and child health, public health, environmental and occupational health, sociology and political science, as well as gender studies.

Their research addresses several main topics, such as:

  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Reproductive Health and Contraception
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Reproductive Health and Technologies
  • Work-Family Balance Challenges
  • Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

Recent publications by Astrid Blystad include the following papers:

  • "Vanilla bisquits and lobola bridewealth: parallel discourses on early pregnancy and schooling in rural Zambia" (2020), BMC Public Health
  • "Reproductive health and the politics of abortion" (2020), International Journal for Equity in Health

Other notable publications that reflect a collaborative research environment involving Blystad's frequent coauthors include:

  • "I came to escort someone": Men's experiences of antenatal care services in urban Ghana-a qualitative study (2021), Reproductive Health
  • "Silent politics and unknown numbers: Rural health bureaucrats and Zambian abortion policy" (2020), Social Science & Medicine
  • "Norms and sexual relations among adolescents in the context of an intervention trial in rural Zambia" (2021), Global Public Health

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Blystad include:

  • Haldis Haukanes
  • Karen Marie Moland
  • Joseph Mumba Zulu
  • Marte E. S. Haaland
  • Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy

Publication venues where Blystad's work commonly appears are:

  • Reproductive Health
  • BMC Public Health
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
  • Progress in Development Studies

Best Publications

  • Researcher-researched relationship in qualitative research: Shifts in positions and researcher vulnerability

    Målfrid Råheim;Liv Heide Magnussen;Ragnhild Johanne Tveit Sekse;Åshild Lunde

  • “When the obvious brother is not there”: Political and cultural contexts of the orphan challenge in northern Uganda

    Christopher Oleke;Astrid Blystad;Ole Bjørn Rekdal

  • Difficult choices: infant feeding experiences of HIV-positive mothers in northern Tanzania.

    Sebalda Charles Leshabari;Astrid Blystad;Karen Marie Moland

  • The decentralisation-centralisation dilemma: recruitment and distribution of health workers in remote districts of Tanzania.

    Michael Aloyce Munga;Michael Aloyce Munga;Nils Gunnar Songstad;Astrid Blystad;Ottar Mæstad

  • Perceived unfairness in working conditions: the case of public health services in Tanzania.

    Nils Gunnar Songstad;Ole Bjørn Rekdal;Deodatus Amadeus Massay;Astrid Blystad

  • The burden of knowing: balancing benefits and barriers in HIV testing decisions. a qualitative study from Zambia

    Marte Jürgensen;Mary Tuba;Mary Tuba;Knut Fylkesnes;Astrid Blystad

  • Why teach sexuality education in school? Teacher discretion in implementing comprehensive sexuality education in rural Zambia.

    Joseph M. Zulu;Astrid Blystad;Marte Emilie Sandvik Haaland;Charles Michelo

  • The Varying Vulnerability of African Orphans: The case of the Langi, northern Uganda

    Christopher Oleke;Astrid Blystad;Karen Marie Moland;Ole BjØrn Rekdal

  • Practicing provider-initiated HIV testing in high prevalence settings: consent concerns and missed preventive opportunities

    Mercy Karimi Njeru;Mercy Karimi Njeru;Astrid Blystad;Elizabeth H. Shayo;Elizabeth H. Shayo;Isaac K. Nyamongo

  • HIV and infant feeding counselling: challenges faced by nurse-counsellors in northern Tanzania.

    Sebalda Charles Leshabari;Sebalda Charles Leshabari;Astrid Blystad;Marina M. De Paoli;Karen Marie Moland;Karen Marie Moland

  • Constraints to educational opportunities of orphans: a community-based study from northern Uganda

    Oleke C;Blystad A;Fylkesnes K;Tumwine Jk

  • A critical assessment of the WHO responsiveness tool: lessons from voluntary HIV testing and counselling services in Kenya.

    Mercy Karimi Njeru;Mercy Karimi Njeru;Astrid Blystad;Isaac K. Nyamongo;Knut Fylkesnes

  • Accountable priority setting for trust in health systems - the need for research into a new approach for strengthening sustainable health action in developing countries

    Jens Byskov;Paul Bloch;Astrid Blystad;Anna-Karin Hurtig

  • Breastfeeding and HIV: experiences from a decade of prevention of postnatal HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa

    Karen Marie Moland;Karen Marie Moland;Marina M. De Paoli;Daniel W. Sellen;Penny van Esterik

  • The access paradox: abortion law, policy and practice in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia

    Astrid Blystad;Haldis Haukanes;Getnet Tadele;Marte Emilie Sandvik Haaland

  • Negotiating credibility: first-time mothers' experiences of contact with the labour ward before hospitalisation.

    Tine S. Eri;Tine S. Eri;Astrid Blystad;Eva Gjengedal;Gunnhild Blaaka

  • 'The divorce program': gendered experiences of HIV positive mothers enrolled in PMTCT programs - the case of rural Malawi

    John Njunga;Astrid Blystad

  • Effectiveness of a girls’ empowerment programme on early childbearing, marriage and school dropout among adolescent girls in rural Zambia: study protocol for a cluster randomized trial

    Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy;Mweetwa Mudenda;Mweetwa Mudenda;Joseph Zulu;Joseph Zulu;Ecloss Munsaka;Ecloss Munsaka

  • Silently waiting to heal: experiences among women living with urinary incontinence in northwest Ethiopia.

    Janne L. Gjerde;Guri Rortveit;Guri Rortveit;Mulu Muleta;Astrid Blystad

  • Challenges to fair decision-making processes in the context of health care services: a qualitative assessment from Tanzania.

    Elizabeth H. Shayo;Elizabeth H. Shayo;Ole Frithjof Norheim;Leonard E. G. Mboera;Jens Byskov

  • The seven Cs of the high acceptability of home-based VCT: Results from a mixed methods approach in Zambia

    Marte Jürgensen;Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy;Charles Cheembo Michelo;Knut Martin Fylkesnes

  • Poisonous milk and sinful mothers: the changing meaning of breastfeeding in the wake of the HIV epidemic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    Absera Teshome Koricho;Karen Marie Moland;Astrid Blystad

Frequent Co-Authors

Karen Marie Moland
Karen Marie Moland University of Bergen
Knut Fylkesnes
Knut Fylkesnes University of Bergen
Bruno Marchal
Bruno Marchal Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Douglas K. Martin
Douglas K. Martin University of Toronto
Bertil Tungodden
Bertil Tungodden Norwegian School of Economics
Isabel Goicolea
Isabel Goicolea Umeå University
Ole Frithjof Norheim
Ole Frithjof Norheim University of Bergen

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