Håkon Angell Bolkan
Bakgrunn og aktiviteter
Min forskning handler om skalerbare løsninger for å øke tilgangen til kirurgiske tjenester i lav-inntekst land. I 2010 var jeg med og etablerte CapaCare, en organisasjon som driver medisinsk opptrening i områder slik kompetanse mangler. CapaCare har vært aktive i Sierra Leone siden 2010 og har et utstrakt samarbeid med NTNU som igjen samarbeid med andre akademiske sentre i Europa. Vi implementerer og tester ny måter å drive kirurgisk opplæring i områder med lite ressurser, vi evaluerer effekt og sikkerhet av jobbglidning.
Vi har også sett hvordan og om kirurgiske operasjoner kan være et mål på et helsesystem under store katastrofer, som den Vest-Afrikanske Ebola utbruddet i 2014-16.
Vitenskapelig, faglig og kunstnerisk arbeid
Et utvalg av nyere tidsskriftspublikasjoner, kunstneriske produksjoner, bok, inklusiv bokdeler og rapport-del. Se alle publikasjoner i databasen
Tidsskriftspublikasjoner
- (2021) A Nationwide Enumeration of the Surgical Workforce, its Production and Disparities in Operative Productivity in Liberia. World Journal of Surgery.
- (2021) Outcomes After Elective Inguinal Hernia Repair Performed by Associate Clinicians vs Medical Doctors in Sierra Leone: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Network Open. vol. 4 (1).
- (2021) Barriers to increase surgical productivity in Sierra Leone: A qualitative study. BMJ Open. vol. 11 (12).
- (2021) Evaluating the cascade of care for hypertension in Sierra Leone. Tropical medicine & international health. vol. 26 (11).
- (2021) Changes in surgical volume, workforce, and productivity in Sierra Leone between 2012 and 2017. Surgery.
- (2021) Chronic wounds in sierra leone: Searching for buruli ulcer, a ntd caused by mycobacterium ulcerans, at masanga hospital. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. vol. 15 (10).
- (2021) The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital utilisation in Sierra Leone. BMJ Global Health. vol. 6 (10).
- (2021) Early evaluation of the transition from an analog to an electronic surgical logbook system in Sierra Leone. BMC Medical Education. vol. 21 (1).
- (2021) Catastrophic expenditure and impoverishment after caesarean section in Sierra Leone: An evaluation of the free health care initiative. PLOS ONE. vol. 16 (10).
- (2020) Impact of surgical infrastructure and personnel on volume and availability of essential surgical procedures in Liberia. BJS Open. vol. 4.
- (2020) Outcomes of obstructed abdominal wall hernia: results from the UK national small bowel obstruction audit. BJS Open.
- (2020) Travel time and perinatal mortality after emergency caesarean sections: an evaluation of the 2-hour proximity indicator in Sierra Leone. BMJ Global Health. vol. 5:e003943 (12).
- (2020) Perinatal outcomes of cesarean deliveries in Sierra Leone: A prospective multicenter observational study. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics. vol. 150 (2).
- (2019) Outcomes following small bowel obstruction due to malignancy in the national audit of small bowel obstruction. European Journal of Surgical Oncology. vol. 45.
- (2019) ”For this one, let me take the risk”: why surgical staff continued to perform caesarean sections during the 2014–2016 Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone. BMJ Global Health. vol. 4.
- (2019) The rate and perioperative mortality of caesarean section in Sierra Leone. BMJ Global Health. vol. 4:e001605 (5).
- (2019) Malnutrition, nutritional interventions and clinical outcomes of patients with acute small bowel obstruction: results from a national, multicentre, prospective audit. BMJ Open.
- (2019) National prospective cohort study of the burden of acute small bowel obstruction. BJS Open.
- (2019) Evaluation of a surgical task sharing training programme's logbook system in Sierra Leone. BMC Medical Education. vol. 19 (1).
- (2019) Caesarean section performed by medical doctors and associate clinicians in Sierra Leone. British Journal of Surgery. vol. 106 (2).