Master of Public Health Anna Usynina disputerer for ph.d.-graden i helsevitenskap og vil offentlig forsvare avhandlingen:
“Risk factors of adverse pregnancy outcomes: opportunities and perspectives of a birth registry-based study”
This thesis investigated risk factors of fetal and newborn deaths, as well as preterm birth and birth of babies small for date in Northwest Russia. Data from a regional birth registry were used. Increased risk of fetal and newborn deaths associated with maternal low education, unmarried status, overweight or obesity, alcohol abuse, as well as preterm deliveries and abortions in mother’s medical history. Furthermore, antepartum hemorrhage and fetal growth retardation in current pregnancy also associated with such death, whereas babies of underweight women were at lower risk. Unmarried women, those with prior preterm birth, spontaneous or induced abortions had increased risk of preterm birth in current pregnancy. Maternal smoking and alcohol abuse increased the risk of term small for gestational age birth. Similar effect was observed in low educated, unemployed, and underweight women.
(Avhandlingener tilgjengelig for utlån hos Seksjon for forskningstjenester frem tildisputasdato)
Veiledere
Hovedveileder professor Alexandra Krettek, Högskolan i Skövde
Biveileder professor Jon Øyvind Odland, Institutt for samfunnsmedisin, UiT Norges arktiske universitet
Biveileder professor II Andrej Grjibovski, Institutt for samfunnsmedisin, UiT Norges arktiske universitet
Bedømmelseskomiteen
Professor Mika Gissler, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki – 1. opponent
Professor Anne Kjersti Daltveit, Universitetet i Bergen – 2. opponent
Førsteamanuensis Åshild Bjørnerem, Institutt for klinisk medisin, UiT Norges arktiske universitet leder av komité
Disputasleder
Førsteamanuensis Tormod Brenn, Institutt for samfunnsmedisin, Det helsevitenskapelige fakultet, Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet
Prøveforelesning over oppgitt emne holdes kl. 10.15, samme sted: “Perinatal health indicators, challenges for comparisons by time and place”