Leif Eriksson
Associated Researcher at Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences; Caring Sciences
- E-mail:
- leif.e.eriksson@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- BMC, Husargatan 3
- Postal address:
- Box 564
751 22 UPPSALA
Researcher at Department of Women's and Children's Health; Centre for Health and Sustainability
- E-mail:
- leif.e.eriksson@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- MTC-huset, Dag Hammarskjöldsväg 14B, 1 tr
75237 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset
751 85 UPPSALA
Short presentation
Leif Eriksson is associate professor in caring sciences. He is associated researcher at the research group Caring Sciences at the Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences and affiliated researcher at the research group Uppsala Global Health Research on Implementation and Sustainability at the department of Women’s and Children’s Health.

Publications
Recent publications
Part of Implementation Science Communications, 2025
- DOI for Acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility of an online facilitation training program designed to support the implementation of person-centered care in Swedish healthcare-a qualitative study
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Part of Reproductive Health, 2025
- DOI for Readiness of health facilities to deliver family planning services and associated factors in urban east-central Uganda
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Part of Reproductive Health, 2024
- DOI for Exploring women’s interpretations of survey questions on pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes: Cognitive interviews in Iganga Mayuge, Uganda
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Part of Implementation Science Communications, 2023
- DOI for A facilitated social innovation: stakeholder groups using Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles for perinatal health across levels of the health system in Cao Bang province, Vietnam
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Part of BMC Public Health, 2023
- DOI for Psychosocial effects of adverse pregnancy outcomes and their influence on reporting pregnancy loss during surveys and surveillance: narratives from Uganda
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All publications
Articles in journal
Part of Implementation Science Communications, 2025
- DOI for Acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility of an online facilitation training program designed to support the implementation of person-centered care in Swedish healthcare-a qualitative study
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Part of Reproductive Health, 2025
- DOI for Readiness of health facilities to deliver family planning services and associated factors in urban east-central Uganda
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Part of Reproductive Health, 2024
- DOI for Exploring women’s interpretations of survey questions on pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes: Cognitive interviews in Iganga Mayuge, Uganda
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Part of Implementation Science Communications, 2023
- DOI for A facilitated social innovation: stakeholder groups using Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles for perinatal health across levels of the health system in Cao Bang province, Vietnam
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Part of BMC Public Health, 2023
- DOI for Psychosocial effects of adverse pregnancy outcomes and their influence on reporting pregnancy loss during surveys and surveillance: narratives from Uganda
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Part of BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2022
- DOI for Adverse pregnancy outcome disclosure and women's social networks: a qualitative multi-country study with implications for improved reporting in surveys
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Part of Acta Paediatrica, p. 653-666, 2022
- DOI for Perceived needs for team-based visits in Swedish child healthcare services exceed its existence: A mixed-methods study targeting healthcare professionals
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Part of BMC Health Services Research, 2021
- DOI for Healthcare professionals' perceptions about interprofessional teamwork: a national survey within Swedish child healthcare services
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Team-based visits within Swedish child healthcare service: a national cross-sectional study
Part of Journal of Interprofessional Care, p. 1-18, 2021
- DOI for Team-based visits within Swedish child healthcare service: a national cross-sectional study
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Perinatal depressive symptoms among Thai women: A hospital-based longitudinal study
Part of Nursing and Health Sciences, p. 309-317, 2020
Part of BMC Health Services Research, 2020
- DOI for Intervention intended to improve public health professionals' self-efficacy in their efforts to detect and manage perinatal depressive symptoms among Thai women: a mixed-methods study
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Part of BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2020
- DOI for Life situation and support during pregnancy among Thai expectant mothers with depressive symptoms and their partners: a qualitative study
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Part of PLoS Medicine, 2019
- DOI for Effect of a scaled-up neonatal resuscitation quality improvement package on intrapartum-related mortality in Nepal: A stepped-wedge cluster randomized controlled trial
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Part of Asian Journal of Psychiatry, p. 102-107, 2018
Part of Implementation Science, 2018
- DOI for Implementation of a facilitation intervention to improve postpartum care in a low resource suburb in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Part of Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, p. 776-782, 2018
- DOI for Secular trend, seasonality and effects of a community-based intervention on neonatal mortality: follow-up of a cluster-randomised trial in Quang Ninh province, Vietnam
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2017
- DOI for Sustainability of knowledge implementation in a low- and middle- income context: Experiences from a facilitation project in Vietnam targeting maternal and neonatal health
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Part of BMJ Global Health, 2017
- DOI for Scaling up quality improvement intervention for perinatal care in Nepal (NePeriQIP); study protocol of a cluster randomised trial
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Part of Global Health Action, 2016
- DOI for Response process and test-retest reliability of the Context Assessment for Community Health tool in Vietnam
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Part of Trials, 2016
- DOI for Process evaluation of a knowledge translation intervention using facilitation of local stakeholder groups to impove neonatal survival in Quang Ninh province, Vietnam
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Part of BMC Public Health, 2015
- DOI for Exploring the influence of context in a community-based facilitation intervention focusing on neonatal health and survival in Vietnam: a qualitative study
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Part of BMC Pediatrics, p. 9, 2014
- DOI for Comparing progress toward the child mortality Millennium Development Goal in León and Cuatro Santos, Nicaragua, 1990–2008
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Part of BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, p. 234, 2013
- DOI for Lessons learned from stakeholders in a facilitation intervention targeting neonatal health in Quang Ninh province, Vietnam
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Part of PLoS Medicine, 2013
- DOI for Effect of Facilitation of Local Maternal-and-Newborn Stakeholder Groups on Neonatal Mortality: Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial
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Part of Implementation Science, p. 29, 2011
- DOI for Newborn care and knowledge translation - perceptions among primary health care staff in northern Vietnam
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Part of BMC Health Services Research, 2011
- DOI for Implementing knowledge into practice for improved neonatal survival: a cluster-randomised, community-based trial in Quang Ninh province, Vietnam
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Ethnic inequity in neonatal survival: a case-referent study in northern Vietnam
Part of Acta Paediatrica, p. 340-346, 2011
Part of BMC Public Health, p. 762, 2010
Perinatal services and outcomes in Quang Ninh province, Vietnam
Part of Acta Paediatrica, p. 1478-1483, 2010
Part of Human Resources for Health, p. 36, 2009
- DOI for Evidence-based practice in neonatal health: knowledge among primary health care staff in northern Viet Nam
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Part of BMC International Health and Human Rights, p. 4, 2008
Part of Annals of Tropical Paediatrics, p. 191-198, 2008
Articles, review/survey
Part of Systematic Reviews, 2023
- DOI for Training and support for the role of facilitator in implementation of innovations in health and community care: a scoping review protocol
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Chapters in book
Using facilitation to improve neonatal health and survival in Vietnam
Part of Implementing Evidence-Based Practice in Healthcare, p. 151-168, Routledge, 2015
Strategi för förbättrad vård av nyfödda barn i Vietnam
Part of Implementering av evidensbaserad praktik, Gleerups Utbildning AB, 2014
Comprehensive doctoral thesis
Conference papers
p. 685-700, 2017