Maria Grandahl

Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Women's and Children's Health, Obstetric and Reproductive Health Research

Email:
maria.grandahl[AT-sign]kbh.uu.se
Mobile phone:
+46 72 2581717
Visiting address:
MTC-huset, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 14B, 1 tr
752 37 Uppsala
Postal address:
Akademiska sjukhuset
751 85 UPPSALA
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Maria is a PhD student. Her thesis adopts a public health perspective, focusing on the primary prevention of cervical cancer, from initiation to implementation of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme.

Maria is a registered nurse and works at Uppsala University Children’s Hospital. She has a Master's degree in public health and is a PhD student since November 2011.

Her thesis adopts a public health perspective, focusing on the primary prevention of cervical cancer, from initiation to implementation of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program. Specific areas of interest are:

1) The parental decision-making process, whether to refuse or accept vaccination of their daughters aged 10-12

2) The school nurses’ attitudes towards the vaccination

3) The adolescents’ attitudes and behaviour regarding prevention of HPV infection

4) The effects of an educational intervention in the school health services

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Current projects:

  1. The effects of an educational intervention aiming to increase HPV vaccination rates in school health services

  2. Reproductive Life Plan for Youth

  3. Separation in neonatal care: perspectives of parents, infants and health care providers

  4. The key to success - care takers and caregivers perspectives on contraceptive counselling

  5. Duration of infant breastfeeding and introduction of solid foods

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Maria Grandahl
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