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Neil Andersson

Neil Andersson

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
41
Citations
13166
World Ranking
4887
National Ranking
292

Overview

Neil Andersson is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a focus on public health, pediatrics, and cognitive science. Their research intersects multiple domains, including global maternal and child health, cultural competency in health care, and innovations in medical education.

The scientist has published in a variety of venues, with notable frequent publications in:

  • BMJ Open
  • Community Health Equity Research & Policy
  • JMIR Research Protocols
  • Archives of Public Health
  • BMC Medical Education

Neil Andersson's main fields of study encompass medicine with a strong emphasis on general health professions, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, public health, environmental and occupational health, sociology and political science, as well as artificial intelligence.

Their research topics often include:

  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Cognitive Science and Mapping
  • Cultural Competency in Health Care
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Innovations in Medical Education
  • Community Health and Development
  • Empathy and Medical Education

Frequent collaborators in research include Anne Cockcroft, Iván Sarmiento, Juan Pimentel, Umaira Ansari, and Yagana Gidado, reflecting a broad network of cooperative scholarship.

Selected recent papers illustrate the scope and focus of their work:

  • Factors associated with short birth interval in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review (2020, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth)
  • Bridging Western and Indigenous knowledge through intercultural dialogue: lessons from participatory research in Mexico (2020, BMJ Global Health)
  • Digital Game Interventions for Youth Mental Health Services (Gaming My Way to Recovery): Protocol for a Scoping Review (2020, JMIR Research Protocols)
  • Gaming My Way to Recovery: A Systematic Scoping Review of Digital Game Interventions for Young People's Mental Health Treatment and Promotion (2022, Frontiers in Digital Health)
  • Fuzzy cognitive mapping with Inuit women: what needs to change to improve cervical cancer screening in Nunavik, northern Quebec? (2020, BMC Health Services Research)

Best Publications

  • Development of AMSTAR: a measurement tool to assess the methodological quality of systematic reviews

    Beverley J Shea;Jeremy M Grimshaw;George A Wells;Maarten Boers

  • External Validation of a Measurement Tool to Assess Systematic Reviews (AMSTAR)

    Beverley J. Shea;Lex M. Bouter;Joan Peterson;Maarten Boers

  • Epidemiological geomatics in evaluation of mine risk education in Afghanistan: introducing population weighted raster maps

    Neil Andersson;Steven Mitchell

  • Evidence based community mobilization for dengue prevention in Nicaragua and Mexico (Camino Verde, the Green Way): cluster randomized controlled trial

    Neil Andersson;Neil Andersson;Elizabeth Nava-Aguilera;Jorge Arosteguí;Arcadio Morales-Perez

  • Risk factors for domestic physical violence: national cross-sectional household surveys in eight southern African countries

    Neil Andersson;Ari Ho-Foster;Steve Mitchell;Esca Scheepers

  • Gender-based violence and HIV: relevance for HIV prevention in hyperendemic countries of southern Africa.

    Neil Andersson;Anne Cockcroft;Bev Shea

  • Risk factors associated with recent transmission of tuberculosis: systematic review and meta-analysis.

    E Nava-Aguilera;N Andersson;E Harris;S Mitchell

  • Social cost of land mines in four countries: Afghanistan, Bosnia, Cambodia, and Mozambique

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  • Factors associated with short birth interval in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

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  • Equity and vaccine uptake: a cross-sectional study of measles vaccination in Lasbela District, Pakistan

    Steven Mitchell;Neil Andersson;Noor Mohammad Ansari;Khalid Omer

  • National cross sectional study of views on sexual violence and risk of HIV infection and AIDS among South African school pupils

    Neil Andersson;Ari Ho-Foster;Judith Matthis;Nobantu Marokoane

  • Socio-economic status and HIV/AIDS stigma in Tanzania.

    Mbaraka Amuri;Steve Mitchell;Anne Cockcroft;Neil Andersson

  • Impact of community-based interventions on condom use in the Tłįchǫ region of Northwest Territories, Canada

    Karen E Edwards;Nancy Gibson;Jim Martin;Steven Mitchell

  • What did the public think of health services reform in Bangladesh? Three national community-based surveys 1999–2003

    Anne Cockcroft;Neil Andersson;Deborah Milne;Zakir Hossain

  • Evidence-based discussion increases childhood vaccination uptake: a randomised cluster controlled trial of knowledge translation in Pakistan

    Neil Andersson;Anne Cockcroft;Noor M Ansari;Khalid Omer

  • Barriers to Disclosing and Reporting Violence Among Women in Pakistan: Findings From a National Household Survey and Focus Group Discussions

    Neil Andersson;Anne Cockcroft;Umaira Ansari;Khalid Omer

  • Wastage of family income on skin disease in Mexico.

    R J Hay;R Estrada Castanon;H Alarcon Hernandez;G Chavez Lopez

  • Equity and seeking treatment for young children with fever in Nigeria: a cross-sectional study in Cross River and Bauchi States

    Bikom Patrick Odu;Steven Mitchell;Hajara Isa;Iyam Ugot

  • The CIET Aboriginal Youth Resilience Studies: 14 Years of Capacity Building and Methods Development in Canada

    Neil Andersson;Robert J Ledogar

  • An inter-country comparison of unofficial payments: results of a health sector social audit in the Baltic States

    Anne Cockcroft;Neil Andersson;Sergio Paredes-Solís;Dawn Caldwell

  • Prevalence and risk factors for forced or coerced sex among school-going youth: national cross-sectional studies in 10 southern African countries in 2003 and 2007

    Neil Andersson;Sergio Paredes-Solís;Deborah Milne;Khalid Omer

  • One size does not fit all: local determinants of measles vaccination in four districts of Pakistan.

    Anne Cockcroft;Neil Andersson;Khalid Omer;Noor M Ansari

Frequent Co-Authors

Lorraine Sherr
Lorraine Sherr University College London
Stephen H. Gillespie
Stephen H. Gillespie University of St Andrews
Ronald Labonté
Ronald Labonté University of Ottawa
Angela Kaida
Angela Kaida Simon Fraser University
Angel Balmaseda
Angel Balmaseda University of California, Berkeley
Marina B. Klein
Marina B. Klein McGill University
Taisheng Li
Taisheng Li Peking Union Medical College Hospital
Michael A. Miles
Michael A. Miles London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Carmen H. Logie
Carmen H. Logie University of Toronto
Jonathan B. Angel
Jonathan B. Angel University of Ottawa

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