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Miguel San Sebastian

Miguel San Sebastian

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
44
Citations
7471
World Ranking
4173
National Ranking
46

Overview

Miguel San Sebastian is affiliated with Umeå University in Sweden and has contributed extensively to research in Health Professions, Medicine, and Social Sciences. Their work particularly emphasizes Global Maternal and Child Health, Healthcare Systems and Reforms, and Health disparities and outcomes. They also investigate Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, Global Health Care Issues, Healthcare Policy and Management, and Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations.

The main fields of study for San Sebastian include Health Professions with 65 publications, Medicine with 55, and Social Sciences with 50. Their subfields of focus incorporate General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Health, Clinical Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

Frequent publication venues for their research work are:

  • International Journal for Equity in Health
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Global Health Action
  • Journal of community systems for health /
  • BMC Public Health

Among their recent papers are:

  • Societal risk factors for overweight and obesity in women in Zimbabwe: a cross-sectional study, 2020, BMC Public Health
  • Does health insurance contribute to improved utilization of health care services for the elderly in rural Tanzania? A cross-sectional study, 2020, Global Health Action
  • Health insurance and health system (un) responsiveness: a qualitative study with elderly in rural Tanzania, 2021, BMC Health Services Research
  • Spatial clustering and contextual factors associated with hospitalisation and deaths due to COVID-19 in Sweden: a geospatial nationwide ecological study, 2021, BMJ Global Health
  • The Multiple Lenses on the Community Health System: Implications for Policy, Practice and Research, 2021, International Journal of Health Policy and Management

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Anna-Karin Hurtig
  • Isabel Goicolea
  • Per E. Gustafsson
  • Jon Petter Stoor
  • Osvaldo Fonseca-Rodríguez

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

  • Factors affecting the use of maternal health services in Madhya Pradesh state of India: a multilevel analysis

    Tej Ram Jat;Tej Ram Jat;Nawi Ng;Miguel San Sebastian

  • Geographical differences in cancer incidence in the Amazon basin of Ecuador in relation to residence near oil fields

    Anna-Karin Hurtig;Miguel San Sebastián

  • Oil exploitation in the Amazon basin of Ecuador: a public health emergency

    Miguel San Sebastián;Anna Karin Hurtig

  • Pesticide Use among Farmers in the Amazon Basin of Ecuador

    Anna Karin Hurtig;Miguel San Sebastián;Alejandro Soto;Angel Shingre

  • Incidence of Childhood Leukemia and Oil Exploitation in the Amazon Basin of Ecuador

    Anna-Karin Hurtig;Miguel San Sebastián

  • Life-course accumulation of neighborhood disadvantage and allostatic load : empirical integration of three social determinants of health frameworks

    Per E. Gustafsson;Miguel San Sebastian;Urban Janlert;Töres Theorell

  • Economic crisis and suicidal behaviour: the role of unemployment, sex and age in Andalusia, Southern Spain

    Juan Antonio Córdoba-Doña;Miguel San Sebastián;Antonio Escolar-Pujolar;Jesús Enrique Martínez-Faure

  • Prevalence and determinants of diabetes among older adults in Ghana

    Samwel Maina Gatimu;Benson Williesham Milimo;Miguel San Sebastian;Miguel San Sebastian

  • Oil development and health in the Amazon basin of Ecuador: the popular epidemiology process.

    Miguel San Sebastián;Anna Karin Hurtig

  • Inequalities in institutional delivery uptake and maternal mortality reduction in the context of cash incentive program, Janani Suraksha Yojana: results from nine states in India.

    Bharat Randive;Miguel San Sebastian;Ayesha De Costa;Lars Lindholm

  • Determinants of survival in adult HIV patients on antiretroviral therapy in Oromiyaa, Ethiopia

    Andinet Worku Alemu;Miguel San Sebastián

  • 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

  • Decentralized health care priority-setting in Tanzania: evaluating against the accountability for reasonableness framework.

    Stephen Maluka;Peter Kamuzora;Miguel San Sebastiån;Jens Byskov

  • Outcomes of pregnancy among women living in the proximity of oil fields in the Amazon basin of Ecuador.

    Miguel San Sebastián;Ben Armstrong;Carolyn Stephens

  • Intragenerational social mobility and functional somatic symptoms in a northern Swedish context: analyses of diagonal reference models.

    Frida Jonsson;Miguel San Sebastian;Anne Hammarström;Per E. Gustafsson

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

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

  • Efficiency of the health extension programme in Tigray, Ethiopia: a data envelopment analysis

    Miguel San Sebastian;Hailemariam Lemma

  • La salud de mujeres que viven cerca de pozos y estaciones de petróleo en la Amazonía ecuatoriana

    Miguel San Sebastián;Ben Armstrong;Carolyn Stephens

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

    Kaaren Mathias;Isabel Goicolea;Michelle Kermode;Lawrence Singh

  • Life-CourseAccumulationofNeighborhoodDisadvantage andAllostaticLoad:EmpiricalIntegrationofThreeSocial DeterminantsofHealthFrameworks

    Per E. Gustafsson;Miguel San Sebastian;Urban Janlert;Töres Theorell

Frequent Co-Authors

Isabel Goicolea
Isabel Goicolea Umeå University
Anne Hammarström
Anne Hammarström Karolinska Institute
Bruno Marchal
Bruno Marchal Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Nawi Ng
Nawi Ng University of Gothenburg
Urban Janlert
Urban Janlert Umeå University
David Sanders
David Sanders University of the Western Cape
Ronald Labonté
Ronald Labonté University of Ottawa
Mark Nichter
Mark Nichter University of Arizona
Töres Theorell
Töres Theorell Karolinska Institute
Asha George
Asha George University of the Western Cape

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