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Karen Marie Moland

Karen Marie Moland

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
33
Citations
3516
World Ranking
7163
National Ranking
63

Overview

Karen Marie Moland is affiliated with the University of Bergen in Norway. Their research spans multiple fields within medicine, health professions, and social sciences, focusing significantly on aspects of public and maternal-child health.

The major fields of study that Karen Marie Moland has contributed to include:

  • Medicine
  • Health Professions
  • Social Sciences

Within these broader areas, their subfields of expertise cover topics such as:

  • General Health Professions
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Safety Research
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Gender Studies

The scientist's main research topics focus on:

  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Reproductive Health and Contraception
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
  • Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
  • Homelessness and Social Issues

Karen Marie Moland has published extensively in several academic venues. The more frequent publication outlets include:

  • BMC Public Health
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • Health Policy and Planning
  • Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening
  • PLoS ONE

Some notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Karen Marie Moland are:

  • 'As soon as they can hold a glass, they begin taking alcohol': a qualitative study on early childhood substance use in Mbale District, Uganda (2022, BMC Public Health)
  • Silent politics and unknown numbers: Rural health bureaucrats and Zambian abortion policy (2020, Social Science & Medicine)
  • 'I wanted to go, but they said wait': Mothers' bargaining power and strategies in care-seeking for ill newborns in Ethiopia (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Vanilla bisquits and lobola bridewealth: parallel discourses on early pregnancy and schooling in rural Zambia (2020, BMC Public Health)
  • "The cord is the child": meanings and practices related to umbilical cord care in Central Uganda (2020, BMC Pediatrics)

The scientist collaborates regularly with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Astrid Blystad
  • Joseph Mumba Zulu
  • Marte E. S. Haaland
  • James Tumwine
  • Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy

Best Publications

  • 'No sister, the breast alone is not enough for my baby' a qualitative assessment of potentials and barriers in the promotion of exclusive breastfeeding in southern Zambia

    Eli Fjeld;Seter Siziya;Mary Katepa-Bwalya;Chipepo Kankasa

  • Why give birth in health facility? Users’ and providers’ accounts of poor quality of birth care in Tanzania

    Lillian T. Mselle;Karen Marie Moland;Abu Mvungi;Bjørg Evjen-Olsen

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

    Sebalda Charles Leshabari;Astrid Blystad;Karen Marie Moland

  • Why caretakers bypass Primary Health Care facilities for child care - a case from rural Tanzania

    Catherine Kahabuka;Gunnar Kvåle;Karen Marie Moland;Sven Gudmund Hinderaker

  • "It is her responsibility": partner involvement in prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV programmes, northern Tanzania

    Eli Fjeld Falnes;Karen Marie Moland;Thorkild Tylleskär;Marina Manuela de Paoli

  • "I am nothing": experiences of loss among women suffering from severe birth injuries in Tanzania

    Lilian T Mselle;Karen Marie Moland;Bjørg Evjen-Olsen;Abu Mvungi

  • 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

  • HIV-positive pregnant and postpartum women's perspectives about Option B+ in Malawi: a qualitative study.

    Leila Katirayi;Hazel Namadingo;Mafayo Phiri;Emily A Bobrow

  • Infant feeding counselling in Uganda in a changing environment with focus on the general population and HIV-positive mothers - a mixed method approach

    Lars Thore Fadnes;Ingunn Marie S. Engebretsen;Karen Marie Moland;Karen Marie Moland;Jolly Nankunda

  • 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

  • Gendered perceptions on infant feeding in Eastern Uganda: continued need for exclusive breastfeeding support.

    Ingunn Marie S. Engebretsen;Karen Marie Moland;Jolly Nankunda;Charles A. S. Karamagi;Charles A. S. Karamagi

  • Translating global recommendations on HIV and infant feeding to the local context: the development of culturally sensitive counselling tools in the Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania

    Sebalda Charles Leshabari;Sebalda Charles Leshabari;Peggy Koniz-Booher;Anne Nordrehaug Åstrøm;Marina M. De Paoli

  • Current status of medication adherence and infant follow up in the prevention of mother to child HIV transmission programme in Addis Ababa: a cohort study.

    Alemnesh Hailemariam Mirkuzie;Alemnesh Hailemariam Mirkuzie;Sven Gudmund Hinderaker;Mitike Molla Sisay;Karen Marie Moland

  • 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

  • Unfulfilled expectations to services offered at primary health care facilities: Experiences of caretakers of underfive children in rural Tanzania

    Catherine Kahabuka;Karen Marie Moland;Karen Marie Moland;Gunnar Kvåle;Sven Gudmund Hinderaker

  • "We are like co-wives": Traditional healers' views on collaborating with the formal Child and Adolescent Mental Health System in Uganda.

    Angela Akol;Angela Akol;Karen Marie Moland;Juliet N. Babirye;Ingunn Marie S. Engebretsen

  • ‘Born before arrival’: user and provider perspectives on health facility childbirths in Kapiri Mposhi district, Zambia

    Selia Ng’anjo Phiri;Knut Fylkesnes;Ana Lorena Ruano;Karen Marie Moland

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

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

  • 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

  • Persisting stigma reduces the utilisation of HIV-related care and support services in Viet Nam

    Duong Cong Thanh;Karen Marie Moland;Karen Marie Moland;Knut Fylkesnes

  • Introducing payment for performance in the health sector of Tanzania- the policy process.

    Victor Chimhutu;Marit Tjomsland;Nils Gunnar Songstad;Mwifadhi Mrisho

Frequent Co-Authors

Astrid Blystad
Astrid Blystad University of Bergen
Knut Fylkesnes
Knut Fylkesnes University of Bergen
David L. Sam
David L. Sam University of Bergen
Tanya Doherty
Tanya Doherty South African Medical Research Council
Bertil Tungodden
Bertil Tungodden Norwegian School of Economics
Ole Frithjof Norheim
Ole Frithjof Norheim University of Bergen
Karl Peltzer
Karl Peltzer Asian University
Chipepo Kankasa
Chipepo Kankasa University of Zambia

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