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Øystein Evjen Olsen
Researcher at University of Bergen
Publications - 29
Citations - 941
Øystein Evjen Olsen is an academic researcher from University of Bergen. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Population. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 29 publications receiving 879 citations. Previous affiliations of Øystein Evjen Olsen include Haydom Lutheran Hospital & Stavanger University Hospital.
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Women's experiences and views about costs of seeking malaria chemoprevention and other antenatal services: a qualitative study from two districts in rural Tanzania
Godfrey M Mubyazi,Paul Bloch,Pascal Magnussen,Øystein Evjen Olsen,Jens Byskov,Kristian S. Hansen,Ib C. Bygbjerg +6 more
TL;DR: Access to ANC services was hampered by direct and indirect costs, travel distances and waiting time, and a variety of resource-related factors were shown to affect the health seeking behaviour of pregnant women in rural Tanzania.
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Implementing accountability for reasonableness framework at district level in Tanzania: a realist evaluation
Stephen Maluka,Stephen Maluka,Peter Kamuzora,Miguel San-Sebastian,Jens Byskov,Benedict Ndawi,Øystein Evjen Olsen,Anna-Karin Hurtig +7 more
TL;DR: It is found that while the A4R approach to priority setting was helpful in strengthening transparency, accountability, stakeholder engagement, and fairness, the efforts at integrating it into the current district health system were challenging.
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Human resources for emergency obstetric care in northern Tanzania: distribution of quantity or quality?
TL;DR: Evaluating the current status of human resources quality, availability and distribution in Northern Tanzania finds that there are adequate human resources allocated for health care provision in Tanzania, according to national standards.
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Decentralized health care priority-setting in Tanzania: evaluating against the accountability for reasonableness framework.
Stephen Maluka,Peter Kamuzora,Miguel San Sebastian,Jens Byskov,Øystein Evjen Olsen,Elizabeth H. Shayo,Benedict Ndawi,Anna-Karin Hurtig +7 more
TL;DR: The results indicate that, while Tanzania has a decentralized public health care system, the reality of the district level priority-setting process was that it was not nearly as participatory as the official guidelines suggest it should have been.
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Availability, distribution and use of emergency obstetric care in northern Tanzania
TL;DR: It is argued that the main barrier to access to quality care is not the mother's ignorance or their ability to get to a facility, but the actual quality of care meeting them at the facility to improve access toquality services.