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Isabel Goicolea

Isabel Goicolea

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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101

Overview

Isabel Goicolea is affiliated with Umeå University in Sweden. Their research spans several fields in social sciences and health professions, with a focus on topics related to adolescent and maternal health, migration, and societal dynamics.

The main fields of study in their work include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Health Professions

The subfields they contribute to most frequently are:

  • General Health Professions
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Gender Studies
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

Isabel Goicolea's research addresses several core topics, including:

  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • "Can sexual health interventions make community-based health systems more responsive to adolescents? A realist informed study in rural Zambia," 2020, Reproductive Health
  • "Health insurance and health system (un) responsiveness: a qualitative study with elderly in rural Tanzania," 2021, BMC Health Services Research
  • "Access of Migrant Youths in Sweden to Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare: A Cross-sectional Survey," 2020, International Journal of Health Policy and Management
  • "Social factors associated with trust in the health system in northern Sweden: a cross-sectional study," 2022, BMC Public Health
  • "Unlocking policy synergies, challenges and contradictions influencing implementation of the Comprehensive Sexuality Education Framework in Zambia: a policy analysis," 2023, Health Research Policy and Systems

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations are:

  • Anna-Karin Hurtig
  • Miguel San Sebastián
  • Maria Wiklund
  • Monica Christianson
  • Ida Linander

Isabel Goicolea publishes frequently in the following venues:

  • BMC Public Health
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • BMC Health Services Research
  • International Journal of Health Policy and Management
  • BMC Research Notes

Best Publications

  • Determinants of antenatal and delivery care utilization in Tigray region, Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study

    Yalem Tsegay;Tesfay Gebregzabher Gebrehiwot;Isabel Goicolea;Kerstin Edin

  • Risk factors for pregnancy among adolescent girls in Ecuador's Amazon basin: a case-control study

    Isabel Goicolea;Marianne Wulff;Ann Öhman;Miguel San Sebastian

  • Availability of drugs and medical supplies for emergency obstetric care: experience of health facility managers in a rural District of Tanzania

    Dickson Ally Mkoka;Isabel Goicolea;Angwara Kiwara;Mughwira Mwangu

  • Making pragmatic choices: women’s experiences of delivery care in Northern Ethiopia

    Tesfay Gebregzabher Gebrehiwot;Isabel Goicolea;Kerstin Edin;Miguel San Sebastián

  • Can sexual health interventions make community-based health systems more responsive to adolescents? A realist informed study in rural Zambia.

    Chama Mulubwa;Chama Mulubwa;Anna-Karin Hurtig;Joseph Mumba Zulu;Charles Cheembo Michelo

  • Cross-sectional study of depression and help-seeking in Uttarakhand, North India.

    Kaaren Mathias;Isabel Goicolea;Michelle Kermode;Lawrence Singh

  • Health workers’ perceptions of facilitators of and barriers to institutional delivery in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia

    Tesfay Gebrehiwot;Tesfay Gebrehiwot;Miguel San Sebastian;Kerstin Edin;Isabel Goicolea

  • Women’s perceptions of antenatal, delivery, and postpartum services in rural Tanzania

    Gladys Reuben Mahiti;Dickson Ally Mkoka;Angwara Dennis Kiwara;Columba Kokusiima Mbekenga

  • Challenges and strategies for sustaining youth-friendly health services — a qualitative study from the perspective of professionals at youth clinics in northern Sweden

    Suzanne Thomée;Desiré Malm;Monica Christianson;Anna-Karin Hurtig

  • Sub-Saharan African immigrant women's experiences of (lack of) access to appropriate healthcare in the public health system in the Basque Country, Spain

    Iratxe Pérez-Urdiales;Isabel Goicolea;Miguel San Sebastián;Miguel San Sebastián;Amaia Irazusta

  • Condemning violence without rejecting sexism? Exploring how young men understand intimate partner violence in Ecuador

    Isabel Goicolea;Ann Ohman;Mariano Salazar Torres;Ione Morrás

  • “Is the doctor God to punish me?!” An intersectional examination of disrespectful and abusive care during childbirth against single mothers in Tunisia

    Nada Amroussia;Alison Hernandez;Carmen Vives-Cases;Isabel Goicolea

  • An asymmetric burden: Experiences of men and women as caregivers of people with psycho-social disabilities in rural North India:

    Kaaren Mathias;Michelle Kermode;Miguel San Sebastian;Bhargavi Davar

  • Socio-cultural and service delivery dimensions of maternal mortality in rural central India: a qualitative exploration using a human rights lens

    Tej Ram Jat;Prakash R. Deo;Isabel Goicolea;Anna-Karin Hurtig

  • Retention of medical doctors at the district level : a qualitative study of experiences from Tanzania

    Nathanael Sirili;Nathanael Sirili;Gasto Frumence;Angwara Kiwara;Mughwira Mwangu

  • Under the banyan tree - exclusion and inclusion of people with mental disorders in rural North India

    Kaaren Mathias;Michelle Kermode;Miguel San Sebastian;Mirja Koschorke

  • “ Once the government employs you, it forgets you ”: Health workers’ and managers’ perspectives on factors influencing working conditions for provision of maternal health care services in a rural district of Tanzania

    Dickson Ally Mkoka;Gladys Reuben Mahiti;Angwara Kiwara;Mughwira Mwangu

  • “The complaining women”: health professionals’ perceptions on patients with fibromyalgia in Spain

    Erica Briones-Vozmediano;Ann Öhman;Isabel Goicolea;Carmen Vives-Cases

  • Mechanisms for achieving adolescent-friendly services in Ecuador: a realist evaluation approach.

    Isabel Goicolea;Anna-Britt Coe;Anna-Karin Hurtig;Miguel San Sebastian

  • Adolescent pregnancies and girls' sexual and reproductive rights in the Amazon Basin of Ecuador : an analysis of providers' and policy makers' discourses

    Isabel Goicolea;Marianne Wulff;Miguel San Sebastian;Ann Öhman

  • Community based interventions for strengthening adolescent sexual reproductive health and rights: how can they be integrated and sustained? A realist evaluation protocol from Zambia

    Joseph M. Zulu;Isabel Goicolea;John Kinsman;Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy

  • Equitable health services for the young? A decomposition of income-related inequalities in young adults’ utilization of health care in Northern Sweden

    Paola A. Mosquera;Anna-Karin Waenerlund;Isabel Goicolea;Per E. Gustafsson

  • Unintended pregnancy in the amazon basin of Ecuador: a multilevel analysis.

    Isabel Goicolea;Miguel San Sebastian

  • 'Expanding your mind': the process of constructing gender-equitable masculinities in young Nicaraguan men participating in reproductive health or gender training programs.

    Virgilio Mariano Salazar Torres;Isabel Goicolea;Kerstin Edin;Ann Öhman

  • Expert Opinions on Improving Femicide Data Collection across Europe: A Concept Mapping Study.

    Carmen Vives-Cases;Isabel Goicolea;Alison Hernández;Belen Sanz-Barbero

Frequent Co-Authors

Miguel San Sebastian
Miguel San Sebastian Umeå University
Bruno Marchal
Bruno Marchal Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Anna Costanza Baldry
Anna Costanza Baldry University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Anne Hammarström
Anne Hammarström Karolinska Institute
Astrid Blystad
Astrid Blystad University of Bergen
Heidi Stöckl
Heidi Stöckl University of London

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