Amina Jama Mahmud, Doctoral student

Health & Technology / Applied Health Technology

Titles

B.Ed., RN, MPH

Department/unit

Blekinge Institute of Technology
School of Health Science
SE-371 79 Karlskrona
Sweden
Phone: +46 455 38 54 27
email: amina.jama.mahmud@bth.se

title of Thesis work

A new setting for Community Health Promotion

Overall aim of the thesis

The main objective is to study the development of health communication in PHC using modern ICT for the purpose of enhancing health literacy using a Participatory Action Research approach.

Dissertation plan and preliminary time schedule

2008-2012

Main supervisor

Name: Sara Eriksén
Title: Professor
Affiliation: School of Computing, Blekinge Institute of Technology, SE-371 79 Karlskrona, Sweden
E-mail: sara.eriksen@bth.se

Assistant supervisors

Name: Ewy Olander
Title: PhD
Affiliation: School of Health Science, Blekinge Institute of Technology
E-mail: ewy.olander@bth.se

Name: Bo JA Haglund
Title: Professor
Affiliation: Dept. of Public Health Sciences Karolinska Institutet
E-mail: bo.haglund@ki.se

Financing and Affiliations

NUTEK, Blekinge County Council, Knut Hahn Skolan, Ronneby.

Peer Reviewied Publications

Jama A, Olander E, Eriksén S, Haglund BJA. (2013) Health communication in primary health care - A case study of ICT development for health promotion. BMC Health Informatics and Decision making. 2013, 13:17

Jama, A, Olander, E, Wallenberg, L, Haglund, B. (2010) Health promoting settings in primary health care - "hälsotorg": an implementation analysis. BMC Public Health, Vol 10, Issue 707, 2010, ISSN 1471-2458.

Accepted Publications

Conference Presentations

Amina Jama Mahmud, Ewy Olander, Bo Haglund, Rune Gustavsson. Virtual Health Square: a new Health Promotion Setting? 8th IUHPE European Conference on Health Promotion and Education. Turin, 9-13 September 2008.

Planned Publications

Title: Health Square: A new setting for health promotion in Sweden? ( Manuscript)

Title: Health Square: a new setting for health promoting communication. (In preparation)

Title: A PAR approach to the development of a Digital Interactive Health Square Channel as a tool for health promoting communication (Manuscript)

Title: Participatory evaluation of a collaboratively developed Health Square Channel.

Networks

ISECN: IUHPE Student and Early Career Network. http://www.isecn.org/

Professional background/interests

High school teacher, nurse, public health specialist