Ingvild Hersoug Nedberg

Ingvild Hersoug Nedberg
UiT The Arctic University of Norway · Department of Health and Care Sciences

Doctor of Public Health

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Background The Georgian Birth Registry (GBR) is a comprehensive digital birth registry covering 99.8% of births nationwide. By law, registration in the GBR is mandatory, with data primarily transferred from medical records (MRs) by designated personnel at medical facilities. We aimed to assess the correspondence of the registration of selected vari...
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Introduction Maternal‐neonatal healthcare services were severely disrupted during the COVID‐19 pandemic in even high‐income countries within the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region. The objective of this study was to compare trends in the quality of maternal and neonatal care (QMNC) in Sweden and Norway to 12 other countries from the WH...
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Background Health workers’ (HWs’) perspectives on the quality of maternal and newborn care (QMNC) are not routinely collected. In this cross-sectional study, we aimed to document HWs' perspectives on QMNC around childbirth in 12 World Health Organization (WHO) European countries. Methods HWs involved in maternal/neonatal care for at least one year...
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Background The Georgian Birth Registry (GBR) is a digital nationwide birth registry implemented in 2016 that currently covers 99.8% of deliveries in the country. Registration in the GBR is mandatory by law for antenatal care providers and hospitals, and much of the data are transferred from medical records (MRs) to GBRs by a designated person at th...
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Background The Republic of Georgia implemented COVID-19-related restrictions starting on 31 March 2020, when it imposed a 1-month strict lockdown, after which the country continued with some form of restrictions for 1 year. These restrictions created barriers to healthcare access, affected healthcare services, caused severe economic degradation, an...
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Background Little is known about women’s experience of care and views on early breastfeeding during the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway. Methods Women (n = 2922) who gave birth in a facility in Norway between March 2020 and June 2021 were invited to answer an online questionnaire based on World Health Organization (WHO) Standard-based quality measures...
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Background:The Republic of Georgia implemented COVID-19-related restrictions starting on 31 March 2020, when it imposed a 1-month strict lockdown, after which the country continued with some form of restrictions for 1 year. These restrictions created barriers to healthcare access, affected healthcare services, caused severe economic degradation, an...
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Objective To explore the quality of maternal and newborn care (QMNC) during the COVID‐19 pandemic by facility type among 16 European countries, comparing rates of instrumental vaginal birth and cesarean. Methods Women who gave birth in the WHO European Region from March 1, 2020, to February 7, 2022, answered a validated online questionnaire. Rates...
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Objective To describe maternal perception of the quality of maternal and newborn care (QMNC) in facilities in Norway during the first year of COVID‐19 pandemic. Methods Women who gave birth in a Norwegian facility from March 1, 2020, to October 28, 2021, filled out a structured online questionnaire based on 40 WHO standards‐based quality measures....
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Objective To investigate potential associations between individual and country‐level factors and medicalization of birth in 15 European countries during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Methods Online anonymous survey of women who gave birth in 2020–2021. Multivariable multilevel logistic regression models estimating associations between indicators of medic...
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Background Multi-country studies assessing the quality of maternal and newborn care (QMNC) during the COVID19 pandemic, as defined by WHO Standards, are lacking. Methods Women who gave birth in 12 countries of the WHO European Region from March 1, 2020 - March 15, 2021 answered an online questionnaire, including 40 WHO Standard-based Quality Measu...
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Introduction According to the World Health Organization, the medicalisation of birth tends “to undermine the woman's own capability to give birth and negatively impacts her childbirth experience”. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted maternity care, with potential increase in the medicalisation of birth and in occurrences of disrespectful maternity...
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Background There is little research on how financial incentives and penalties impact national cesarean section rates. In January 2018, Georgia introduced a national cesarean section reduction policy, which imposes a financial penalty on hospitals that do not meet their reduction targets. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of this policy...
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Objectives Develop and validate a WHO Standards-based online questionnaire to measure the quality of maternal and newborn care (QMNC) around the time of childbirth from the health workers’ perspective. Design Mixed-methods study. Setting Six countries of the WHO European Region. Participants and methods The questionnaire is based on lessons lear...
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Background Multi-country studies assessing the quality of maternal and newborn care (QMNC) during the COVID-19 pandemic, as defined by WHO Standards, are lacking. Methods Women who gave birth in 12 countries of the WHO European Region from March 1, 2020 - March 15, 2021 answered an online questionnaire, including 40 WHO Standard-based Quality Meas...
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Background Increases in the proportion of the population with increased likelihood of cesarean section (CS) have been postulated as a driving force behind the rise in CS rates worldwide. The aim of the study was to assess if changes in selected maternal risk factors for CS are associated with changes in CS births from 1999 to 2016 in Norway. Metho...
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Background Multi-country studies assessing the quality of maternal and newborn care (QMNC) during the COVID19 pandemic, as defined by WHO Standards, are lacking. Methods Women who gave birth in 12 countries of the WHO European Region from March 1, 2020 - March 15, 2021 answered an online questionnaire, including 40 WHO Standard-based Quality Measu...
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Cesarean section rates remain high in Georgia. As a cesarean section in the first pregnancy generally lead to a cesarean section in subsequent pregnancies, primiparous women should be targeted for prevention strategies. The aim of the study was to assess factors associated with cesarean section among primiparous women. The study comprised 17,065 pr...
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Background: The World Health Organization recommends exclusive breastfeeding for six months, defined as no other solids or liquids besides breast milk and essential vitamins or medicines. Data about exclusive breastfeeding are limited in Georgia, and the information that exist are provided by national surveys, that present inconsistent numbers. Ge...
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Background: Georgia is the first developing country in the world to have established a national digital, medical birth registry. The Georgia Birth Registry was officially inaugurated on 1 January, 2016. The purpose of this article is to assess the quality of selected variables and present preliminary results from the year 2016. Material and metho...

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