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| Health Promotion Research News | Issue 5 - September 2011 |
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| Nyt fra Sundhedsfremmeforskning | SDU Esbjerg
10-year anniversary Forskningsenheden for Sundhedsfremme
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unit’s 10-year anniversary issue of hpr news 10-års
jubilæumsudgave af hpr news
Editorial no1 by Arja R Aro, Editor-in-Chief
his issue of the HPR NEWS celebrates the 10 years of work and
existence of the Public
Health study programmes and the Unit for Health Promotion
Research, SDU, Esbjerg. The issue highlights some central features
of the study programmes. From the research side the issue lifts up
the most central research themes of the Unit and gives essential
information and links to the present research projects. Further,
the issue provides information about our collaboration in research,
teaching and consulting. This time we give room and visibility to
our technical and administrative staff members, who provide
essential services to the researchers, teachers and students, and
whose work is seldom credited.
I want to express my warmest thanks to all Unit staff members,
university administration and colleagues, collaborators on the
municipal, regional, national and international levels, as well as
to external funders, but also to all our students, who have
challenged us, given us motivation and helped us to make our 10
years successful.
enne udgave af HPR News fejrer 10 års arbejde og beståen af
uddannelserne i
Folkesundhedsvidenskab og Forskningsenheden for Sundhedsfremme,
SDU Esbjerg. I nyhedsbrevet er centrale højdepunkter fra
uddannelserne samt centrale forskningstemaer i enheden blevet
fremhævet. Der er oplysninger og links til nuværende
forskningsprojekter. Yderligere oplyser nyhedsbrevet om vores
samarbejde i forskning, undervisning og konsulentarbejde. I dette
nummer er der givet plads og synlighed til vores teknisk- og
administrativt personale, som yder en uundværligt assistance til
forskerne, underviserne og de studerende. Min taknemmelighed går
til mine medarbejdere i enheden, universitetsadministrationen og
kollegaer, nationale og internationale samarbejdspartnere, eksterne
bidragsydere samt til alle vores studerende, som har udfordret,
motiveret og hjulpet os til at gøre vores 10 års jubilæum til en
succes.
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health promotion in esbjerg - a gem in the west
Editorial no2 by Jesper Bo Nielsen, Head, Institute of Public
Health, SDU
n the occasion of the 10-year anniversary of the Unit for Health
Promotion Research and the study programme in public health.
In 2001 a dean with a vision and an enterprising professor with
a mission began to establish a Unit for Health Promotion Research
and a study programme in public health. At that time the term
health promotion was unknown to most in the country, and people may
ask why we use that term instead of just public health like they do
at other universities. The reason is that there is a distinction
between public health and health promotion – a difference that
makes us special.
Health promotion represents a focused and process-oriented
approach - a comprehensive social and political process not only
embracing actions directed at strengthening the skills and
capabilities of individuals, but also actions directed towards
changing social, environmental and economic conditions, so as to
alleviate their impact on public and individual health. Health
promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control
over the determinants of health and thereby improve their health.
Public health is a broader concept aimed at improving health,
prolonging life and improving the quality of life among whole
populations based on health promotion, disease prevention and other
forms of health intervention. Thus, health promotion is about
making changes that work, on a structural level as well as on group
or individual levels.
We have a very strong and dedicated group of researchers,
administrative staff and students that have not only “survived” for
ten years, but have managed to develop a strong research profile on
health promotion and place themselves in the frontline of
evidence-informed health promotion internationally. They have
continuously been able to attract substantial funding from EU. They
have developed the only international master programme in public
health in Denmark that continuously attracts many Danish as well as
foreign students. They have been pioneers in establishing close
collaborations with local municipalities, not only based on shorter
student projects, but also longer term collaborations with joint
funding of research positions.
The staff has changed over the years, as would be expected in a
vital and dynamic research and educational environment, but we have
through the years always had a scientifically strong team eager to
interact with the surrounding society and eager to educate the best
Danish candidates in health promotion. To this day more than 200
bachelors and more than 100 candidates have graduated from our
study programme. The vast majority of these candidates have been
able to find work in research, public administration, private
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companies or patient organisations. As a university, we can be
proud that our candidates and our junior staff are very attractive
to organisations in Denmark and abroad.
On the occasion of this 10-year anniversary, I believe that the
vision from ten years ago is still valid, and that we have the
staff and the means to move on. The Institute of Public Health will
be looking forward to continuing our close collaboration on
research as well as education during the next decade.
sundhedsfremme i esbjerg- en juvel på vestkysten
I anledningen af 10-års jubilæum for Forskningsenheden for
Sundhedsfremme og uddannelsen i Folkesundhedsvidenskab
Syddansk Universitet har i 10 år kunne bryste sig af at have en
forskningsenhed og en uddannelse i Folkesundhedsvidenskab, som
skiller sig ud fra øvrige universiteter ved at lægge vægt på
sundhedsfremme. Sundhedsfremme er en procesorienteret tilgang, som
omfavner ikke kun sociale og politiske tiltag rettet mod at styrke
individers færdigheder og evner, men også tiltag rettet mod
strukturelle ændringer i de sociale, miljømæssige og økonomiske
forhold til gavn for individ og samfund.
Enheden har skabt en stærk profil udadtil inden for forskning i
sundhedsfremme og internationalt udmærket os inden for
evidensbaseret sundhedsfremmende beslutningstagning. Enheden har
været i stand til at tiltrække betydelige forskningsmidler fra EU,
udvikle en international kandidatuddannelse i
Folkesundhedsvidenskab, som tiltrækker både danske og udenlandske
studerende og derudover skabt et tæt samarbejde med nærliggende
kommuner i form af sammenfinansierede forskerstillinger. Vi har
uddannet over 200 bachelorer og over 100 kandidater i
Folkesundhedsvidenskab, som er eftertragtet både af
forskningsinstitutioner, offentlig administration, private
virksomheder og patientorganisationer både indenlands og
udenlands.
I anledningen af dette 10-års jubilæum, tror jeg på, at visionen
fra 10 år siden stadig er gældende og at vi har arbejdskraften og
midlerne til at fortsætte. Institut for Sundhedstjenesteforskning
ser frem til at fortsætte vores forskningssamarbejde såvel som
uddannelse det næste årti.
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content 10-års jubilæumsudgivelse 10-year anniversary issue of
HPR News
2 Editorial no 1: Unit’s 10 year anniversary issue of HPR News
10-års jubilæumsudgave af HPR News
3 Editorial no 2: Health promotion in Esbjerg – a gem in the
west Sundhedsfremme i Esbjerg – en juvel på vestkysten
6 Tribute to TAP-technical and administrative staff Anerkendelse
til TAP – teknisk og administrativt personale
12 10 years of public health teaching in Esbjerg
16 Current research areas of the Unit
23 International health promotion work
25 Enheden som en del af Institutet for
Sundhedstjenesteforskning
28 Ph.D. News PhD Nyheder
32 Other news Andre nyheder
HPRnews issue 5, September 2011
Front page photo Esbjerg, August 2011 by Bettina Gundolf
Abstracts by Mette Winge Fredsgaard, Maja Larsen, Stella RJ Kræmer
and many more
Tryk: Print & Sign, Syddansk Universitet Odense
Editor-in-chief Arja R. Aro
[email protected]
Managing Editor Stella RJ Kræmer
[email protected]
HPR News is the ‘voice’ of the Unit of Health Promotion, NOT of
the SDU as a whole. HPR News udtrykker meninger fra Enheden for
Sundhedsfremme, IKKE SDU som
helhed.
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tribute to tap-technical and administrative staff anerkendelse
til tap – teknisk og administrativt personalby Arja R Aro,
Editor-in-Chief
otivated and qualified staff is a pre-requisite for high level
research work as
well as teaching. In this issue we pay tribute to those
colleagues who in their positions build and maintain the very
necessary basis for scientific and teaching tasks: secretaries and
research and student assistants. In the academic world scientific
staff often gets all the credits with their visibility,
publications, lectures, and research grants. In this issue the
secretary of the Unit for Health Promotion Research, Bettina
Gundolf writes about her 10 years of experience; the two study
secretaries Janne Krogh and Linda Fritze Madsen paint a profile of
their work in the day-to-day running the BSc and MSc in Public
Health study programme. Further, junior researcher Christina
Mischorr Boch and student assistant Anders Fournaise tell their
personal development story related to combination of studies and
research work in the Unit.
otiverede og kvalificerede medarbejdere er en absolut
forudsætning for et højt
niveau af forskningsarbejde samt undervisning. I denne udgave
vil vi specielt lægge vægt på de kollegaer, som i deres
arbejdsrolle varetager og vedligeholder de meget nødvendige
videnskabelige- og undervisningsopgaver: sekretærerne og
studentermedhjælperne. I den akademiske verden får de
videnskabelige medarbejdere ofte hele æren ved deres synlighed,
publikationer, foredrag samt forskningslegater. I denne
jubilæumsudgave skriver enhedssekretær Bettina Gundolf,
Forskningsenheden for Sundhedsfremme om hendes 10 års erfaring, de
to studiesekretærer Janne Krogh og Linda Fritze Madsen giver et
billede af deres daglige arbejdsdag med bachelor- og
kandidatuddannelserne i Folkesundhedsvidenskab. Tillige vil vores
junior forsker, Christina Mischorr-Boch og studentermedhjælper
Anders Vestergaard Fournaise berette om deres personlige udvikling
relateret til kombinationen af uddannelses- og forskningsarbejdet i
Enheden.
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Bettina – 10 years of experience as Unit Secretary by Bettina
Gundolf
ooking back at my 10 years as the unit secretary in this very
multi-cultural unit so many nice memories come to me. I started my
job as the unit secretary on 1 June 2001 with 1 professor (Dutch),
1 associate
professor (Dane) and 1 PhD student (Dane). Now we are almost 20
staff members including junior and senior staff members. Before
that I had worked only in the private sector as a language
secretary (Danish, English, Spanish and German) translation,
teaching, sales assistant, so this was a totally new challenge
within the university world. I had worked in Germany at a bilingual
NATO headquarters which gave me some advantages as to working with
different nationalities using English as the business language as
well as understanding the professional confidentiality.
Since the beginning in 2001 the Unit has grown a lot with so
many inspiring colleagues and it has been very exciting to follow
and to meet, greet and sometimes wish the best of luck and good bye
to new and old staff members from all over the world – Denmark,
Slovakia, Estonia, the Netherlands, Germany, UK, US, Finland,
Poland, Ghana, India, Sudan, Cameroon and Romania.
Even though it has been a very international work environment
with busy staff members travelling a lot to conferences and
meetings all over the world, we have always managed to keep a
‘hyggelige’ and relaxed Danish atmosphere with outings to different
parts of Denmark – even once to Finland in a colleague’s summer
house. Birthday cakes and other delicious multi-ethnic dishes have
been served during working hours, lunch breaks, Christmas dinners
and at private events of the staff members including the families.
The close student environment of this small campus in Esbjerg has
also invited young and bright students to work as student
assistants – leading to promising PhD students in the unit and
other exciting job careers.
My role as the secretary of the unit is first of all to provide
service to the researchers in their daily work, travel and hotel
arrangements, office supplies, contact to the institute and faculty
secretaries and other administrative staff in the other campuses of
SDU, answer the phones and emails, arrange meetings, conferences,
social events, keep records of personnel issues, contracts,
invoicing, website maintenance, translations, assist in projects,
contact with the rest of Esbjerg Campus, work environment
representative and many other challenging tasks. It has also been
very important to be able to deal with the different cultures when
arriving to Denmark and to help in settling in a town like
Esbjerg.
The professional atmosphere and high level of work ethic and the
combination of the warm and friendly personal atmosphere makes the
work environment very pleasant. All this has paid tribute to my
daily work as the unit secretary and made it a never boring and at
times very challenging place to be in. I am looking forward to at
least another decade in this exciting unit with all my friendly,
cheerful and wonderful colleagues.
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Billedet på den foregående side er en illustration af Bettinas
10 år omgivet af forskning, undervisning, glædelige begivenheder og
sociale arrangementer.
Studiesekretariatet for Folkesundhedsvidenskab - Hvem er vi og
hvad laver vi? by Janne Krogh and Linda Fritze Madsen
vis du jævnligt har din gang på Syddansk Universitet (SDU) i
Esbjerg i forbindelse med uddannelsen i Folkesundhedsvidenskab
(FSV), hvad enten du er studerende, underviser eller ekstern
samarbejdspartner, har du helt sikkert mødt studiesekretariatets
medarbejdere eller SUND-pigerne, som en af vores søde pedeller
kalder os. Hvis du ikke allerede kender os, vil vi gerne benytte
lejligheden til at give dig en præsentation.
Vi hedder Janne Krogh og Linda Fritze Madsen, er
studiesekretærer på bachelor- og kandidatuddannelsen i FSV og er
ansvarlige for de fleste studieadministrative opgaver på de to
uddannelser. Vi er en del af Uddannelse & Kvalitet under det
Sundhedsvidenskabelige Fakultetssekretariat, som er placeret i
Winsløwparken i Odense. Det faktum at vores leder og nærmeste
kolleger er placeret i Odense, giver os en del udfordringer i
dagligdagen, men samtidig med at det fordrer selvstændighed, giver
det os også en høj grad af selvbestemmelse, som vi har valgt at
betragte som et gode. Vi har dog en god kontakt til vores kolleger,
bl.a. i kraft af at vi er en del af et team som mødes et par gange
i løbet af semestret. Desuden er der også etableret netværk for
bl.a. studienævnssekretærer, hvor vi kan sparre med vores kolleger
og holde os ajourført med nye tiltag.
Vores kontor er placeret ved Forskningsenheden for
Sundhedsfremme, hvor studieledelsen og en række forskere som
underviser på uddannelsen hører til og som vi dagligt har en del
samarbejde med.
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bettina, 10 års erfaring som sekretær for enheden for
sundhedsfremme
Jeg har været enhedssekretær siden starten i 2001 og det har
været et spændende årti, hvor afdelingen er vokset fra fire ansatte
til næsten tyve kollegaer fra hele verden. Denne sammensætning af
mange nationaliteter har gjort min hverdag meget anderledes og
udfordrende, da det kræver noget mere indsats med andre kulturer og
vaner. Jeg hjælper med at få hverdagen i enhedens administration
til at fungere: Bestilling af flyrejser, hotel, sociale
arrangementer, indkøb, personalesager, fakturering, hjemmesider,
oversættelser, arbejdsmiljørepræsentant, kontakt til Esbjerg Campus
og instituttet i Odense og mange flere ad hoc opgaver. Den
professionelle atmosfære og den høje grad af arbejdsmoral
kombineret med et varmt og venligt miljø kollegaerne imellem har
givet mig et dejligt indhold i mit arbejdsliv og jeg glæder mig
meget til at fortsætte i enheden som sekretær det næste årti.
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Vi beskæftiger os med alt lige fra studiestarten til dimissionen
som den afsluttende begivenhed på uddannelsen. Derfor har vi opnået
en bred viden om uddannelsens mange facetter og kan svare på de
fleste spørgsmål i forbindelse med uddannelsen. Vi har hver vores
ansvarsområde, som vi er eksperter på, men kan selvfølgelig
supplere hinanden i forbindelse med ferier og kurser.
Efterhånden som vi har fået mere erfaring, har vi opnået en
større forståelse for de studerendes behov. Derfor gør vi meget ud
af at opdatere uddannelsens hjemmeside og lægge diverse
informationer på vores interne e-læringssystem, så de studerende
hele tiden kan følge med i, hvad der foregår.
Som noget helt nyt har vi fået lavet en Facebook-side
(Folkesundhedsvidenskab ved Syddansk Universitet) med nyheder om
uddannelsen og forskning indenfor sundhed, sundhedsfremme og
forebyggelse. Siden er allerede blevet en succes. I løbet af få
uger har 489 personer tilkendegivet, at de ’synes godt om’ vores
side. Det er vores håb at siden kan være medvirkende til at udbrede
kendskabet til folkesundhedsvidenskab og ikke mindst tiltrække nye
studerende til især vores bacheloruddannelse.
Campus Esbjerg er et lille sted, hvilket giver mulighed for en
tæt kontakt studerende og personale imellem. Det ligger os meget på
sinde at vores studerende får en god oplevelse, når de henvender
sig til os. Derfor forsøger vi altid at modtage alle med et smil på
vores kontor og at give os tid til at svare på spørgsmål og
vejlede. Forhåbentlig lykkes det.
Studierelevant arbejde, kompetencer og karrierevalg by Christina
Mischorr-Boch and Anders Fournaise
olkesundhedsvidenskabelige kandidaters kvalifikationer efter
endt uddannelse favner bredt og en entydig positionering eller
titel i et fremtidigt arbejde er uklar. Dette stiller store krav
til den studerende
om at være målrettet og bevidst om egne interesser tidligt i
studiet. For at understøtte dette engagement er forskere og
undervisere ved Forskningsenheden for Sundhedsfremme i deres
kontakt med de studerende opmærksomme på at inddrage de studerende
i deres forskning og projekter. Dette har været med til at etablere
et unikt forhold imellem studerende og undervisere - et forhold som
både nuværende og tidligere studerende beskriver som yderst
væsentligt for deres uddannelse.
Christina Mischorr-Boch og Anders Fournaise drog tidligt fordel
af mulighederne i Esbjerg, hvilket har hjulpet dem begge til en
målrettet uddannelses- og karriereplan. De blev begge tidligt i
deres studie ansat som studentermedhjælpere i forskningsenheden -
et arbejde hvor de begge oplevede stort ansvar, og hvor
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the study secretariat
The study secretaries of the bachelor and master of science in
public health programmes, Janne Krogh and Linda Fritze Madsen, are
responsible for numerous administrative tasks in connection with
the students’ study period.
The secretaries have gained a lot of experience over the years
and are both making an effort of putting themselves in the
students’ place and trying to assist students in every way they
possibly can with a smile and a friendly, positive attitude.
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medinddragelse og engagement var en del af hverdagen.
Arbejdsopgaver der spændte lige fra databearbejdning til
koordinering af projektopgaver.
Christina startede kandidatuddannelsen med en baggrund som
sygeplejerske. Hendes mål med uddannelsen var at kvalificere sig
til at undervise professionsbachelorer. Hendes tilknytning til
forskningsenheden har i mellemtiden betydet, at hendes målsætning
har ændret sig, og Christinas mål er i dag at fortsætte sin
ansættelse på projektet ”Public Health Genomics European Network
II” i en ph.d.-stilling. Christina er i øjeblikket ved at udforme
sin ph.d.-beskrivelse samtidig med, at hun hjælper med koordinering
af kandidatuddannelsens brobygningskursus for professionsbachelorer
og udenlandske studerende.
”Studiet samt arbejdet i enheden har udstyret mig med gode
forudsætninger for og et ønske om at udfordre mig selv fagligt - et
ph.d. studie er et naturligt næste skridt.”
Anders begyndte i 2006 på bacheloruddannelsen. Han fandt hurtigt
sin hylde og begyndte at interessere sig for sundhedsøkonomi og
ledelse indenfor sygehusvæsenet. Hans arbejde på FøSu projektet
”How to individualise vitamin K- antagonist treatment”, vækkede
yderligere Anders´ interesse for forskning. Han håber nu at kunne
fortsætte i et ph.d.-studie, hvor han kan kombinere sin interesse
for forskning, sundhedsøkonomi og ledelse.
”Forskningsenheden for Sundhedsfremme har været af stor
betydning for min uddannelse. Den åbenlyse tillid, gensidige
respekt og vilje til at vejlede har i høj grad været med til at
inspirere mig og sætte mine mål.”
Begge studerende er eksempler på, hvordan målrettethed kan
resultere i et studierelevant arbejde som kan have stor betydning
for uddannelse såvel som kompetencetilegnelse. Forskningsenheden
for Sundhedsfremme sætter en stor ære i at bistå, involvere og
guide studerende og studentermedhjælpere i deres uddannelse - en
proces som fremtidigt også vil være en del af enhedens
udviklingsstrategi.
juniors stepping on to their careers
Candidates with a Master of Science in Public Health from the
University of Southern Denmark possess a wide variety of
qualifications enabling to address several different positions in
their future working life. However specialisation is an important
part of the study and students are early on encouraged to find and
address their own area of interest. The Unit for Health Promotion
plays a crucial role in students successfully achieving focus and
awareness of their interest. This article describes the unique
relationship between students and researchers which is a result of
intentionally recognising the responsibility of guiding and
supporting students. In the article two student assistants describe
what working in the Unite of Health Promotion has done for both
their studies and future career plans.
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10 years of public health teaching in esbjerg
Studying public health at SDU: Using international perspectives
for solving local health problems by Christiane Stock, Jens-Jørgen
Jensen, Pernille Tanggaard Andersen
ver the last 10 years, the public health programmes in Esbjerg
have undergone different revisions and extensions in profiles.
However, the main characteristics of the programmes remained the
same over
the years with a strong international perspective combined with
a focus on approaches to health promotion in local settings, an
emphasis set on policy and socio-political determinants of health
and the teaching largely based on student centred teaching methods.
The SDU public health programmes aim at utilising international
knowledge and global thinking for developing solutions for public
health problems on all levels local, national and
international.
“Public health is the science and art of preventing disease,
prolong life and promote health through organised efforts of
society”. This definition of public health has been widely adopted
by the World Health Organisation, but had its origin in report on
public health in England from 1988. When starting up public health
programmes at SDU in 2001 our aim was to plan, implement and
develop a teaching programme that produces graduates that have the
skills in science and art to establish the practical co-operations
needed to fulfil this task. Evelyne de Leeuw coming from Maastricht
University, an institution with a public health programme with high
recognition and known as a university entirely building on
problem-based learning as teaching method, was the first head of
studies and developer of the public health bachelor and master
programmes. With employing her to develop the public health
programmes and the attached Unit for Health Promotion Research it
was made sure that the programme would be updated to the most
recent trends in public health education. The main characteristics
of the programme were clear-cut: The public health programmes will
have a strong international perspective combined with a focus on
approaches to health promotion in local settings, there will be an
emphasis set on policy and socio-political determinants of health
and the teaching will be based largely on PBL and other student
centred teaching methods.
Although both the Bachelor of Science (BSc) programme as well as
the Master of Science (MSc) programme have undergone major
revisions since the first curricula were set up, the main
characteristics remained. We are still unique in the way we are
providing internationalisation of studies on different levels.
There is a strong focus on international and global health issues
in our programmes, the teaching staff reflects internationality,
the research in the Unit for Health Promotion Research as the basis
of our teaching is to a large extent on international level, the
student composition is colourful and the possibilities to study
abroad are very good. Besides this, the focus is on socio-political
determinants of health and policy approaches remained and we still
put a strong emphasis on student-centred teaching methods. One may
ask critically whether the SDU programmes might be too
international and too policy oriented to produce graduates that
have the competencies and skills to solve public health problems
that may occur on local
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level. Actually our experience is that the opposite is true. We
have focused our teaching on theory and methods of community
health. In addition, we have built up an increasingly well
functioning network of internship placements, which enable our
students to experience public health practice during studies.
Students are able to do internships in private or public
organisations/companies in Denmark or abroad. The intention of the
internship opportunities is to promote students’ professional
functioning and acquisition of relevant skill and knowledge to
prepare them for professional practice.
Many of our graduates find jobs in health planning departments
of municipalities and other local agencies and we receive positive
feedback from them about the practical applicability of knowledge
and skills from our public health programme. We are in close
exchange with our graduates through our external advisory board
(aftagerpanel), through surveys that are conducted among graduates
(dimittendundersøgelsen), and through personal contacts. In the
survey graduates were asked whether they have acquired competencies
in different areas through our programmes. The vast majority (75%)
stated that they received practically applicable knowledge in the
field of public health while the other 25% stated that this was
only to a smaller extent true and no one stated not having received
practically useful competencies. Therefore we are confident that we
are on the right track in making international knowledge and global
thinking relevant to finding solutions for public health problems
on all levels, local, national and international.
Besides bridging between international and local level we are
also unique in bridging between professional bachelor and public
health bachelor level as entry requirement for the MSc programme.
We are the only university in Denmark that admits professional
bachelors to a MSc in public health programme after having
completed the bridging course in epidemiology and biostatistics. We
have attempted to bridge between different entry qualifications,
while also offering three different specialisation options. The low
drop out, the high percentage completing the programme in the
expected time as well as the high employability of the graduates
from our programme suggests that diversity in individual careers
within the health sector is not only a highly demanded option for
students, but also meets a need of the Danish labour market.
history facts
2001 First bachelor cohort started with
2004 First master cohort started with two options for
specialisation (“health promotion” and “health economics and
management”)
2006 Revision of the bachelor programme and implementation of
the quarter system
2008 New entry requirements for the bachelor programme and sharp
decline in applicants
2009 Revision of the master programme and implementation of the
quarter system
2010 New specialisation in “global health” opened
2011 10-year anniversary
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Folkesundhedsvidenskab på Esbjerg campus– Teaching across
faculty boundaries by Jens-Jørgen Jensen
elt fra den første planlægningsfase blev det ny studium udviklet
i samarbejde med de eksisterende undervisnings- og
forskningsaktiviteter på Esbjerg campus. En helt særlig rolle
spillede
Forskningsenheden for tromboseforskning, hvor professor Jørgen
Jespersen havde arbejdet for udbygning af den
sundhedsvidenskabelige forskning i Esbjerg lige siden afdelingens
oprettelse og integration med det tidligere Sydjysk
universitetscenter. Relevant for den ny Folkesundhedsvidenskab var
også den arbejdsmiljøforskning som stadig foregår ved Center for
Maritim Sundhed og Sikkerhed (CMSS) med Jørgen Riis Jepsen som
nuværende forskningsleder.
Sundhedsvidenskab er ganske vist ’ejer’ af studiet, men det er
blevet udbudt ”i samarbejde med samfundsvidenskab”, hvor daværende
samfundsvidenskabelige dekan Tage Koed Madsen og senere hans
afløser Bjarne Graabech Sørensen har bakket det ny studium kraftigt
op. Den lokale og tværfakultære tilgang viste sig tydeligt i
sammensætningen af den lille arbejdsgruppe, der skulle koordinere
planlægningsarbejdet. Foruden sundhedsdekan Mogens Hørder og SDU’s
daværende udviklingschef, Erik Knudsen, kom arbejdsgruppen til at
bestå af Tromboseafdelingens leder Jørgen Jespersen og Jens-Jørgen
Jensen, daværende samfundsvidenskabelig prodekan.
Fagligt samarbejde med andre fagområder er en nødvendighed for
Folkesundhedsvidenskab, ikke mindst når fokus som i Esbjerg
studiets tilfælde ligger på sundhedsfremme. Samarbejdet med
samfundsvidenskab har ytret sig ved, at en række af de
videnskabelige medarbejdere på Institut for miljøøkonomi (IME)har
bidraget til uddannelsen. Uden IME medarbejdernes indsats ville det
ikke have været muligt at udbyde en kvalificeret og
forskningsbaseret undervisning i bl.a. så centrale fag som
organisation, projektledelse, evaluering og samfundsvidenskabelige
metoder. Tilsvarende har videnskabelige medarbejdere fra Afdelingen
for tromboseforskning haft ansvaret for undervisning i fag ”krop og
sundhed” og anden biomedicinske undervisning, som også må være en
central del af studiet i Folkesundhedsvidenskab.
H
at studere folkesundhed på sdu: brug af internationale
perspektiver til at løse lokale sundhedsproblemer
Gennem de sidste 10 år har der løbende været en videreudvikling
af uddannelsesprogrammet indenfor Folkesundhedsvidenskab på
Syddansk Universitet i Esbjerg. Uddannelsen i
Folkesundhedsvidenskab er dog karakteriseret ved en gennemgående
profil, med fokus dels på det internationale perspektiv og en stærk
tilknytning til det regionale og lokale sundhedsområde. Denne
profil betyder bl.a. en særlig vægtning af policy og omgivelses
determinanter, når det drejer sig om folkesundhed og
sundhedsfremme. Et andet gennemgående karakteristika er, at
undervisning forsøger at engagere de studerende via gruppearbejde,
projektarbejde og præsentationer sideløbende med
forelæsningerne.
Folkesundhedsvidenskab på Syddansk Universitet ser det som sit
højeste mål at videreformidle international viden og global
tænkning for at udvikle og formidle løsninger på
folkesundhedsproblemer lokalt, nationalt og internationalt.
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Samarbejdet startede naturligvis på bachelorstudiet, hvor der i
dag også sker en regulær samlæsning af visse fag, bl.a. offentlig
forvaltning, med studierne i Miljøplanlægning samt den nye
uddannelse i Sociologi og Kulturanalyse. Men med udbygningen af
kandidatstudiet er samarbejdet også blevet udbygget her, ikke
mindst fordi det samfundsvidenskabelige udbud af kandidatkurser i
stigende grad er blevet engelsksproget.
Uddannelsen i Folkesundhedsvidenskab blev planlagt i nært
samarbejde med, hvad der foregik på Esbjerg campus i øvrigt. Den
faglige bredde, som studiet forudsætter, kunne ikke og kan ikke
fastholdes på et universitet uden de vigtige bidrag fra den øvrige
campus. Forhåbentligt vil de positive vekselvirkninger blive
udviklet yderligere i fremtiden. Potentialet i et samarbejde med
fag som erhvervsøkonomi, organisation, sociologi, interkulturel
kommunikation/turisme, arbejdsmiljøforskning og tromboseforskning
er stort og bydes herfra velkomment.
public health and the sdu-esbjerg campus
From the very beginning the public health programme at the SDU
campus in Esbjerg has been planned and developed in close
collaboration with other research units and departments at the
Esbjerg campus. Thus, the Unit for Thrombosis Research and the
Centre of Maritime Health and Safety, parts of the former
University Centre of Southern Jutland, have supported the new
activities from their start. A major role has been played by the
management and staff at the social science faculty, and lecturers
from the Department of Environmental and Business Economics are now
responsible for a wide range of courses in the programme like
organisation, public administration, project management, evaluation
and research methods. Without this commitment from the other
research units at the SDU- Esbjerg it would not have been possible
to provide research based teaching covering as broad a spectrum of
subjects as required for a modern programme in the fields of public
health and health promotion. A continuation of this cooperation
will be decisive for the future development of the public health
programme at SDU-Esbjerg, too.
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current research areas of the unit
Evidence-informed health promotion research by Arja R Aro,
Gabriel Gulis, Maja Larsen, Christina Mischorr-Boch, Stella Kræmer
and Mette Fredsgaard
ne of the over-arching themes in the research and other work of
the Unit for Health Promotion Research is evidence-informed health
promotion. We prefer to use the term evidence-informed
instead of evidence-based. The justification for this is to
highlight the fact that we aim to base the interventions, including
policy development, on best available evidence; however, in the
everyday practice and policy making as well as in politics,
decisions are made so that also other priorities and values as
research evidence are respected and taken into account. These other
priorities can be e.g. economic resources of a municipality or
needs and interests of sectors beyond the health sector.
What university researchers can do in evidence-informed health
promotion is to provide the scientific knowledge in finding out
what needs to be done to improve health of the citizens and
communities. Municipality level health profiles can be used as a
basis for this. However, health profiles as such are seldom enough.
Decision makers need to know how to apply the knowledge these
profiles provide in their settings e.g. in choosing and planning
cost-effective interventions and feasible and sustainable policies,
implementing and evaluating interventions. Into this academics can
bring methodological know-how and guidance. The basic principle is
that the researchers cannot and should not impose their know-how
and perspectives. Evidence-informed collaboration happens on equal
terms between academics, practitioners and policy makers.
Projects & products The Unit for Health Promotion Research
has been a pioneer in Denmark in its systematic approach in the
evidence-informed health promotion. The unit was involved in
2003-2005 in the Getting Evidence into Health Promotion (GEP)
EC-funded project; it also produced the contents for the two
National Board of Health booklets on the issues
http://www.sst.dk/Publ/Publ2007/CFF/Evidens_forebyggelse/Evid_Health_Prom_jan2008.pdf
To apply the partnership approach in the evidence transfer
theme, the Unit pioneered co-financed three year long PhD
collaboration on the local level with Varde (see PhD project Maja
Larsen
www.sdu.dk/Om_SDU/Institutter_centre/Ist_sundhedstjenesteforsk/Forskning/Forskningsenheder/Sundhedsfremme/Ph,-d-,d,-d-,-projekter/Maja%20Larsen.aspx)
and a post doc position with Esbjerg municipality, both 2009-2011.
Those interested can read in Ugeskrift for Læger a report on this
experience (Larsen et al, Gode erfaringer med brobygning mellem
forskning og praksis i folkesundhed Ugeskr Læger
2011;173(25):1792-1794).
To develop further the evidence-informed health promotion work
the Unit initiated and launched EIRA network (Evidence Into
Research and Action, www.sdu.dk/eira) in 2009.This work was kindly
supported by
O
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SDU Rector. The work carried fruit rather soon when we received
a network grant from the Danish Research Council for Innovation and
Technology to build collaboration with a research group led by
Bonnie Spring of Northwestern University in Chicago. Bonnie Spring
leads a successful web-based programme on evidence-based behaviour
change (www.ebbp.org ).
New EC funded REPOPA project But we also got a ‘bigger fish’
when the unit was successful in obtaining a major EC FP7 grant of
three million euro August this year. This REPOPA project (Research
Into Policy to enhance Physical Activity), which starts officially
1 October 2011, is a five year research project with nine
institutes in six EU countries and Canada (Ottawa University). SDU
and The Unit for Health Promotion Research (Arja R Aro) is the
REPOPA coordinator, and other Danish institutes involved are IOB
(Institute of Idræt and Biomekanik) from SDU and Region
Hovedstaden/ Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup
Hospital). Other European countries and institutes involved are
Finland (National Institute of Welfare and Health), the Netherlands
(Tilburg University), Italy (National Research Council), Romania
(Babes-Bolyai University) and UK (Herefordshire Primary Care
Trust).
The aim of the REPOPA project is to integrate scientific
research knowledge (=evidence), expert know-how and real world
policy making processes in the area of physical activity to
increase synergy and sustainability in promoting health and
preventing disease among Europeans. The project will build on
evidence and experiences, study innovative win-win ways to
collaborate between academia and policy makers, and establish
structures and best practices. The sub-projects (work packages) aim
to 1) assess needs, role and use of research evidence in policy
making; 2) study ways research evidence is combined and negotiated
with ‘other kind of evidence’ in cross-sector policy making
process; 3) develop and carry out two interventions to explore
innovative ways to translate research evidence into policy making
process; 4) translate the results into guidance and tools; 5) to
disseminate the results and lessons learned; 6) evaluate the
research process and results but also the impact of the whole
REPOPA enterprise.
Contact information: REPOPA Coordinator Arja R Aro
([email protected]) and Project Secretary Mette Winge Fredsgaard
([email protected]); www.repopa.eu
HIA and HiAP –Health impact assessment and Health in All
Policies The Unit has been active both in research including
EC-funded projects and in training Danish decision maker in the
area of health impact assessment and also in the health in all
policies approach, which was launched during the Finnish EU
presidency. The Health in All Policies approach (HiAP) and health
impact assessment (HIA) as one of key instruments of HiAP widen the
field for evidence transfer from health sector to other sectors of
society. By default they target other than health sectors and their
policies adding one more level to evidence transfer from research
to practice and policy. On other hand they provide an opportunity
to work inter-sectorally and cross- disciplinary. Research evidence
produced by properly designed epidemiological studies is
transferred within impact assessment to different audience, often
not familiar with health issues; this poses public health research
and HiAP + HIA practitioners to new tasks with important role of
communication. The Ph.D. project “Science based guidance for
identification of relevant governmental policies to be screened for
possible health impacts” by Stella RJ Kræmer is on how to
utilise
http://www.ebbp.org/mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]://www.repopa.eu/
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HIA on a national level in Denmark to enable HiAP. See more at:
http://www.sdu.dk/Om_SDU/Institutter_centre/Ist_sundhedstjenesteforsk/Forskning/Forskningsenheder/Sundhedsfremme/Ph,-d-,d,-d-,-projekter/Stella+Rebecca+Jonsdatter+Kræmer.
The Unit has provided HIA training to six Danish municipalities
and consulted with others; in addition a Sundhedsstyrelsen brochure
on HIA was written by Unit staff contributing to increased interest
for and use of HIA on municipal level. Please see project website
for more information at www.sdu.dk/rapid.
Contact information: RAPID Project Coordinator Gabriel Gulis
([email protected]) and RAPID Project Manager Stella RJ Kræmer
at [email protected].
Public Health Genomics European Network II PHGEN aims to develop
policies for the quality assurance, provision and use of
genome-based knowledge and technologies in Public Health Genomics.
The project is a follow-up of PHGEN (2006-2008), which like PHGEN
II, was funded by DG SANCO. The main task of PHGEN II is to adapt
existing guidance to the needs of public health genomics and to
gather new evidence where gaps are detected. The interdisciplinary
task builds on the existing evidence and guidance coming out of
other EU-funded projects, international, national and regional
guidance. The Unit is included in the USE work package. The
specific aim of the work package is to develop best practice
guidance for the use of genome-based information and technologies.
The term “use” is defined as a domain where participants address
the demand of patients and customers, all aspects related to ELSI
(ethical, legal, and social issues) research, the health literacy
of lay persons and the involvement of stakeholders. The emphasis
lies on the responsible application of genome-based information and
technologies in order to ensure equity and solidarity in genomics.
More information: http://www.phgen.eu/typo3/index.php
Contact information: Christina Mischorr-Boch
([email protected]) and Arja R Aro ([email protected])
evidens - informeret sundhedsfremme
Et af de overordnede temaer i Forskningsenheden for
Sundhedsfremmes arbejde er evidens- informeret sundhedsfremme. Vi
tilstræber at basere interventioner, herunder udvikling af
politikker, på den bedst tilgængelige viden, men anerkender
samtidig, at der i den daglige praksis og politikudformning også er
andre prioriteter og værdier, som må tages i betragtning. Vi
arbejder tæt sammen med praksis for i højere grad at få forskning
implementeret i praksis og omvendt tage højde for praksisforhold i
planlægning og udførelse af forskning. Vi har flere forskellige
nationale og internationale projekter gennemført eller i gang
indenfor dette forskningstema.
Et af vores større projekter, som enheden er koordinator for er
det 5-årige EC FP7 finansieret REPOPA projekt (Research Into POlicy
to enhance Physical Activity), som officielt starter d. 1. oktober
2011. Både danske og udenlandske partnere er involveret. Af danske
partnere indgår SDU Institut for Idræt og Biomekanik, Region
Hovedstadens Forskningscenter for Forebyggelse og Sundhed. Formålet
med projektet er at integrere den forskningsbaserede viden
(=evidens), ekspert know-how i de praktiske politiske processer
inden for området fysisk aktivitet til at øge synergien og
bæredygtigheden i at udøve sundhedsfremme og forebygge sygdomme i
Europa.
Øvrige projekter inkluderer blandt andet folkesundheds genomik
(PHGEN).
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Forskning i social ulighed i sundhed by Pernille Tanggaard
Andersen, Christiane Stock, Delia Bancila and Gabriele
Berg-Beckhoff
egrebet social ulighed i sundhed beskriver det faktum, at
sundhedsrisici og sygdomme er socialt skævt fordelt i samfundet.
Det medfører, at jo dårligere borgerne er stillet socialt set, jo
højere sygelighed og
dødelighed har de statistisk set. Den sociale ulighed i sundhed
kommer til udtryk på to måder:
1) Som en gradvis ulighed i den brede befolkning også kaldet den
sociale gradient i sundhed. Det betyder, at udsatheden for
sundhedsrisici og sygdom i befolkningen stiger gradvis i takt med,
at den sociale position falder. Der er forskellige faktorer som har
betydning for den sociale gradient i sundhed eksempelvis
uddannelseslængde, indkomst, beskæftigelsesforhold og
boligforhold.
2) Som ulighed i forhold til de særligt udsatte grupper som fx
socialt udsatte borgere. Her gælder at udsathed for sundhedsrisici
og sygdom er markant højere end for nogle andre
befolkningsgrupper.
Forskningsenheden for sundhedsfremme beskæftiger sig med
problematikken om social ulighed i sundhed indenfor to
projekter:
FELIS –projektet FELIS (Flerstrengede evidensbaserede lokale
indsatser for sundhedsfremme 2008-2014) er et forskningsprojekt der
udspringer af et tæt samarbejde med flere kommuner i Region
Syddanmark omkring gennemførelse af målrettede og evidensbaserede
sundhedsfremme indsatser i udsatte nærmiljøer i kommunerne,
eksempelvis bestemte boligområder eller bydele. Den overordnede
målsætning for projektet er at bidrage med at udvikle, dokumentere
og evaluere sundhedsfremme indsatser i udsatte nærmiljøer. Metoder
er kombinationsdesign med udarbejdelse af lokale kvantitative
sundhedsprofiler, dybdegående kvalitative interviews og metoder til
involvering af beboere.
Bevillingshavere er Trygfonden og Det Kommunale Momsfond.
Samarbejdende kommuner har bl.a. været Fredericia, Esbjerg og
Langeland kommuner. Samarbejder med Sundhedsstyrelsen og NIRAS
omkring Satspulje til: Forebyggelsesindsatser i Nærmiljøet og med
forskere på Roskilde Universitet. FELIS -projektet har bl.a.
udarbejdet en forskningsrapport for Sundhedsstyrelsen om anvendelse
af lokale sundhedsprofiler i udsatte områder (2011), som er en
grundrapport for de 12 deltagende udsatte nærmiljøer.
http://www.sdu.dk/Om_SDU/Institutter_centre/Ist_sundhedstjenesteforsk/Forskning/Forskningsenheder/Sundhedsfremme/Forskningsprojekter/FELIS+projektet/Publikationer+og+links.
Et eksempel på denne forskning er relationen mellem ledighed og
sociale ydelser og hospitalsindlæggelser i Esbjerg hvor der
analyseres på data fra mere end 100.000 mennesker.
Kontakt information: Projektlederne Pernille T. Andersen
([email protected]) og Carsten Kronborg Bak
([email protected].), se mere på www.sdu.dk/FELIS.
Does social deprivation exist in Denmark (2008-2011)?
Deprivation i et område er signifikant forbundet med en befolknings
helbred. En bestemt regions, nabolags eller kommunes ”sociale
status” og ressourceniveau har en effekt på indbyggernes helbred,
som overstiger og rækker ud over den enkeltes helbredsadfærd. Den
hypotese er blevet fremsat, at socialt dårligt stillede områder har
en dårlig social og materiel infrastruktur, som fx en ringe
kvalitet og mængde af fritidsfaciliteter, transport, boligbyggeri
såvel som ringere primære og sekundære sundhedstilbud. Desuden
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kan koncentreret deprivation underminere samfundsengagementet og
øge kriminaliteten. Disse træk kan påvirke helbredet direkte eller
indirekte ved at påvirke livsstil og adfærd. Dette forskningsoplæg
har således to formål: 1) At forsøge at finde ud af, om relativ
deprivation findes, og hvad effekten af den er i Danmark, og at
udvikle egnede mål for deprivation, som specielt retter sig mod en
dansk sammenhæng. Dette vil ske ved hjælp af landsdækkende
registerdata for alle dødsårsager og for sygdomsspecifikke
dødsårsager og med de indikatorer for deprivation, som er
tilgængelige på sogneniveau. 2) At gennemføre en multi-level
undersøgelse af hvordan faktorer på nabolagsniveau berører den
individuelle helbredsadfærd hos danske skolebørn i 7. klasse.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) bruges som metode, som
tillader analyse af geografiske variable og giver gode muligheder
for at linke til aggregerede socioøkonomiske data med hidtil uset
spatial præcision. Analysen af spatial variation i sygdom og
repræsentationen heraf på et kort er et vigtig emne inden for
epidemiologien. Et af hovedformålene med kortlægning af sygdomme er
at teste hypotesen om at sygdomstilfælde optræder tilfældigt inden
for den undersøgte region. Heterogenitet i sygdomsrisiko er en
vigtig overvejelse (dvs. at der eksisterer forskellige niveauer af
risiko i den undersøgte region, som skyldes geografisk variation af
ukendte/ikke observerede faktorer). Til dette formål er hierarkiske
eller multi-level modeller bedst, idet de tillader strukturel
variabilitet mellem arealer. Bevillingshavere er Forskningsradet
and Helsefonden og samarbejdende kommende har bl.a. været Kraeftens
Bekaempelse, Statens Institut for Folkesunded og Charité
Berlin.
Kontakt information: Projektlederne Christiane Stock
([email protected] ) og Kim Bloomfield (Center for
Rusmiddelforskning, Aarhus Universitet).
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social inequality in health
The purpose of the FELIS-project is to investigate and evaluate
which types of local, social and health related interventions that
may eventually help reduce social inequality in health. The target
group of the FELIS-project includes residents in deprived
communities. Two main findings from FELIS: 1) In a deprived
neighbourhood no association between ethnicity and self-rated
health was observed, while number of life resources (e.g. living
with others, education beyond primary school) was found to be
significant predictor of self-rated health. 2) In a deprived
neighbourhood perceived stress was found to be unequally
distributed among people in disadvantaged conditions. Stress levels
were higher in groups characterised by unemployment, economic
deprivation, history of sick leave, being single and being
lonely.
An example of ongoing research in the area is a sub-study on the
association of unemployment and social aid with hospitalisation in
Esbjerg. This is a register-based study on over 100 000 people and
studies first inpatient hospital admission.
The social deprivation research project combines data on
mortality and morbidity from the Danish Cancer Society and data on
the health behaviour of adolescents from the National Institute of
Public Health with registry data from Statistics Denmark and other
sources to study whether area-level deprivation explains
differences in mortality, cancer morbidity and health behaviours in
the Danish population. Individual level health data of large
datasets are combined with area-level data on social and physical
factors of neighbourhoods. Geographic information system techniques
are used to define and describe neighbourhoods. We apply
multi-level statistics to analyse the data of individuals nested in
neighbourhoods.
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Risk research by Anja Leppin, Gabriele Berg-Beckhoff and Gabriel
Gulis
“Forecasting is difficult, particularly when it concerns the
future” his somewhat quaint complaint, attributed to Niels Bohr and
Mark Twain alike, is certainly shared by many among the public
health scientists and professionals as well as policy makers
involved in
assessing, managing and communicating health risks. Health risk
issues arise in a wide variety of fields: From a community council
committee, which has to assess the potential health impact of a new
chemical plant, to the National Board of Health, which has to plan
countermeasures against an emerging new pandemic flu virus and
develop communication strategies to inform a worried public, to
medical professionals and health educators who need to tell
patients about the health risks of being overweight or having a
genetic disposition for breast cancer or Alzheimer’s, to public
health officials and politicians facing questions by the local
community about possible health risks created by the erection of
new mobile phone stations or power wind mills.
But why do these tasks so often turn into challenges? A major
problem is that there tends to be considerable disagreement about
what is “risky”. Based on different cultural worldviews different
groups of the public hold different views about what is a “risk”.
Also, lay people and experts tend to diverge in their perceptions
of risk. For lay people it is often new and relatively unknown
technologies which are associated with a particularly high threat
potential, whereas experts, thinking in terms of mortality rates,
consider life style factors, such as unhealthy eating, not
exercising or car speeding as more relevant risks – behaviours
which most lay people experience as normal parts of their daily
lives and which do not trigger any specific alarm signals. Not
uncommonly though, even experts do not agree about the extent of
risk posed by some health hazards. Resulting contradictory messages
transported by the media then further contribute to confuse the
public while policy makers and administrators face the challenge of
integrating expert and public opinions when assessing and managing
the health impact of their policies.
Despite some progress in recent years there still is a lack of
tools and methods allowing for a quick assessment of health risks
related to policies and strategies as well as a lack of effective
methods and tools to communicate with different groups of the
public about health risks. Research in the area of health risk
assessment and lay risk perception and risk communication is
therefore high on the agenda of the Unit for Health Promotion
Research. Examples are the development and pilot testing of risk
assessment methods which facilitate the evaluation of health
impacts of policies for administrators and policy makers or
research on risk perception and communication in areas such as
pandemic influenza, but also chronic disease and technological
risks, such as mobile phone magnetic fields.
New teaching module on risk communication The Unit aims at
providing special qualifications within the area of risk assessment
and management to our Masters of Science of Public Health.
Currently we already offer modules on health risk impact assessment
and on risk communication. Future plans include the development of
a whole master-level specialisation track on risk management and
communication.
Risk assessment from policy to impact dimension – RAPID project
The “Risk Assessment from Policy to Impact Dimension – RAPID”
project (www.sdu.dk/rapid) set an ambitious aim; to develop and
test a methodology for policy risk assessment. The idea of the
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up from the previous HIA-NMAC project conducted also within
Community Action Plan for public health of EC during 2005-2007.
While running case study HIA’s on different policy issues the
project group realised that our methodological toolbox to conduct
risk assessment of policies across range of determinants of health
is rather week. The project team, a group of 12 partners from 11
countries supported by WHO EURO Rome office as collaborating
partner aims to
• Develop a policy risk assessment capacity database • In two
sets of case studies develop a methodology for so-called “full
chain risk assessment”
(policy-determinants of health influenced by policy- risk
factors influenced by determinants – health effect) employing two
approaches o from policy to health effect – top-down approach o
from health effect to policy – bottom-up approach
• after summarising the developed methodologies implementation
should be done by two activities o case study application of
developed methodology on a EU policy (to be selected in
discussion with European Commission, DG SANCO and EAHC) o
conduct of national workshops
To ensure maximum of generalisability of results across
different policy areas and different contexts project partners are
free to choose their preferred subject for assessment, however,
they have to comply with a pre-developed template (first task to be
done parallel with database development). As of risk assessment,
the project groups aims to discuss all elements of risk management,
e.g. risk perception, risk assessment, risk communication and risk
management itself.
Contact information: Risk perception and communication research:
Anja Leppin ([email protected]); RAPID project: Coordinator
Gabriel Gulis ([email protected]) and Project Manager Stella RJ
Kræmer ([email protected]).
risiko forskning
Hvorfor er der ofte sådanne massive og konfliktfyldte
udfordringer i at vurdere og formidle om de moderne livs risici? En
afgørende årsag til dette problem er, at forskellige mennesker har
forskellige forestillinger om, hvad en ‘risiko’ er. Befolkning
tilskriver for eksempel ofte ukontrollerbare teknologier som
atomenergi eller genetisk modificerede fødevare en højere risiko.
Eksperter på den anden side, er uddannet i at tænke i
dødelighedsstatistikker, og derfor associerer ofte risiko som
værende individuel livsstil, såsom rygning, spisevaner og fedme. At
udvikle redskaber og metoder til at vurdere sundhedskonsekvenserne
og risici associeret med bestemte politikker samt at udvikle og
teste effektive strategier til at formidle risici er derfor et
højtprioriteret forskningsområde hos Enheden for
Sundhedsfremme.
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international health promotion work
What do the following countries have in common? by Gabriel
Gulis
Australia, Korea, Kazakhstan, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovak
Republic, Slovenia, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, Germany, Italy,
Spain, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Austria,
Norway, Malta, Turkey, UK, Canada, USA
he answer is simple: institutions from enlisted countries became
research partners of the Unit for health promotion research of SDU
in Esbjerg during last 10 years. Capacity building for public
health,
behavioural health, impact and risk assessment, public health
genomics and research-policy-practice are the main subjects of
extensive research collaboration developed in form of international
collaborative projects and networks.
Such a network provides an excellent background for global
health training which in turn brings new partners, new
opportunities for research. Countries like Sudan and Cameroon were
among the first providing PhD themes and students. Within Master of
Science programme students coming from other African countries
(Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Ghana, and Ethiopia) and Asian
countries (Iran, Afghanistan, India, and Nepal) further enhance the
truly global environment at the Unit.
At the beginning of the programme in Esbjerg there was an aim to
develop an international programme and make the “local” Esbjerg
campus a real global campus. The first step, having a global
network is completed, yet the challenge is still ahead and
welcomed.
Having students from many countries, running international
research projects and managing networks is not all of the
activities on field of international public health and health
promotion. The Unit is an institutional member of the International
Union for Health Promotion and Education; staff members are on
editorial boards of international peer reviewed journals such as
International Health Promotion, Translational Behavioural Medicine,
Public Health Genomics and other public health journals; they serve
as external experts for World Health Organisation and are reviewers
for different scientific journals as well as for two directorates
of the European Commission (Research DG and Public health and
consumer protection DG) and several international research councils
and funding agents.
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globalt samarbejde
Gennem de sidste 10 år har forskningsenheden for sundhedsfremme
på SDU i Esbjerg etableret forskningssamarbejde med institutioner
fra over 25 forskellige lande. Et sådant forskningsnetværk giver en
glimrende baggrund for undervisning i global sundhed, som så til
gengæld bringer nye forskningspartnere og nye muligheder for
forskning. Enheden har fx haft ph.d. projekter i Sudan og Cameroun,
og på kandidatuddannelse er der studerende fra andre afrikanske
lande (Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Ghana og Etiopien) og
asiatiske lande (Iran, Afghanistan, Indien og Nepal). Disse
forskningsprojekter og studerende styrker det global miljø i
enheden.
Enheden er medlem af Den Internationale Union for Sundhedsfremme
og Uddannelse. Ansatte i enheden er medlem af redaktioner og
fungerer som reviewere på internationale tidsskrifter omhandlende
sundhedsfremme, adfærdsmedicin, folkesundheds genomik. Ansatte i
enheden fungerer også som eksterne eksperter for
verdenssundhedsorganisationen WHO såvel som for to direktorater i
Europa Kommissionen, internationale forskningsråd samt
kommissioner.
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enheden som en del af Institutet for
Sundhedstjenesteforskning
Institut for Sundhedstjenesteforskning (IST) nstitut for
Sundhedstjenesteforskning (www.sdu.dk/IST) består af 11
forskningsenheder dækkende en meget bred vifte af videnskabelige
områder og med en helt enestående bred faglighed repræsenteret.
Vores styrke er analyser af sygelighed og sundhed i forhold til
såvel patient, befolkning, som samfund. Det gør vi under anvendelse
af registerforskning, aldringsforskning, studier af lægemidler og
andre fremmedstoffers effekter, undersøgelser på grænsefladen
mellem borger, patient, og behandlingssystem, samt analyser af
resurseallokering, kvalitetssikring og interventionsstrategier.
Almen Praksis orskningsenheden er samarbejde mellem SDU og
Forskningsenheden for Almen Praksis i Odense, som er finansieret af
Forskningsfonden for almen praksis. Forskningen fokuserer primært
på kroniske
sygdomme, Astma og KOL, risikokommunikation,
kræftrehabilitering, tidlige symptomer i befolkningen og forskning
i kvalitetsudvikling i almen praksis. Det nationale
kvalitetsudviklingsprojekt Audit Projekt Odense er en del af
Forskningsenhedens aktiviteter. Enhedens medarbejdere underviser på
en række sundhedsfaglige uddannelser ved SDU og er ansvarlige for
forskningstræningen i forbindelse med speciallægeuddannelsen i
almen medicin. Region Syddanmark har placeret
praksiskonsulentordning og kvalitetsudviklingskonsulenter i
tilknytning til Forskningsenheden. I huset findes desuden Dansk
Almen Medicinsk Database under DAK-E og en værkstedspraksis
(lægehus).
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Biostatistik orskningsenheden for Biostatistik er aktivt
involveret i en række forskningsaktiviteter ved det
Sundhedsvidenskabelige Fakultet og ved Odense Universitetshospital.
Vi underviser ligeledes i en række
kurser på de sundhedsvidenskabelige uddannelser og tilbyder
statistikvejledning for forskere indenfor det medicinsk
videnskablige område på SDU.
Tromboseforskning nhedens vision er gennem forskning, uddannelse
(bachelor- og kandidatuddannelse ved folkesundhedsvidenskab og
lægevidenskab) og formidling at opnå de bedst mulige
sundhedsfremmende foranstaltninger og viden herom til
forebyggelse og behandling af blodprop- og åreforkalkningssygdomme,
dvs. hjertekarsygdomme.
Epidemiologi enneskets udvikling og aldring er det overordnede
tema for forskningen ved Epidemiologi. Hvorfor ældes vi
forskelligt, og hvad karakteriserer dem, som lever længe med godt
helbred? Det
undersøger vi bl.a. ved hjælp af Det Danske Tvillingregister, og
studier af fødselsårgangene 1895, 1905, 1910 og 1915 med tilhørende
biobanker.
Helbred, Menneske og Samfund (HMS) HMS er forskningen baseret på
interviews og deltager-observation og har fokus på bl.a. patienter,
pårørende og personale i relation til kræft, KOL og depression med
henblik på så forskellige aspekter som
rehabilitering, telemedicin, medicinbrug. Enheden rummer fem
fastansatte forskere og godt 20 i eksternt finansierede
stillinger.
Center for Maritim Sikkerhed og Sundhed ennem forskning har
centret siden 1992 bidraget til at forbedre den arbejdsmæssige
sundhed og sikkerhed indenfor det maritime erhvervsområde, herunder
reduceringen af ulykker og forbedret
lægehjælp for personer der arbejder på søen. Udfordringerne
omfatter sundhedsfaktorer relateret til livsstil, kultur, blandede
besætningsmedlemmer samt psykosociale forhold om bord.
Miljømedicin
en miljømedicinske forskningsgruppe stiller spørgsmål om
omgivelsernes påvirkning af vores sundhed. I hvilken grad bør man
kontrollere de skadelige eksponeringer? I hvilken grad kan man selv
mindske
sin udsættelse for farlige stoffer? Hvordan undgår vi negative
påvirkninger på langt sigt som følge af udsættelser tidligt i
udviklingen. Enheden forestår laboratoriemålinger til forskningen
samt undervisning.
Klinisk Farmakologi linisk farmakologi er et lægeligt speciale,
som på et videnskabeligt grundlag kombinerer medicinsk,
farmakologisk, epidemiologisk og sundhedsøkonomisk ekspertise med
henblik på at fremme en
rationel, sikker og økonomisk anvendelse af lægemidler. Klinisk
Farmakologi yder rådgivning og vejledning om alle forhold
vedrørende anvendelse af lægemidler indenfor alle områder af
sundhedsvæsenet. Klinisk Farmakologi i Odense er organiseret som et
samarbejde mellem Forskningsenheden for Klinisk Farmakologi, IST,
SDU og Klinisk Farmakologi ved Afdeling for Klinisk Biokemi &
Farmakologi, OUH
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Sundhedsøkonomi orskningsenheden er specialiseret i
sundhedsøkonomiske analyse. Forskningen er bl.a. fokuseret på
virkningen af økonomiske styringsformer, afdækning af præferencer,
produktionsoptimering og
metoder til at værdisætte sundhed eller øget levetid. Desuden
forskes i organisatoriske forhold, ledelse og
implementeringsprocesser i sundhedsvæsenet. Blandt
forskningsområderne er adfærdsmæssig økonomi i relation til
helbred, kvalitet i sundhedsvæsenet, kvantitative metoder i
sundhedsøkonomi, sundhedstjenesteforskning, økonomisk organisation
og incitamenter. Forskningen er på internationalt niveau og retter
sig mod udvikling af teori og metode samt afprøvning i konkrete
projekter typisk i samarbejde med personer i sundhedsvæsenet.
Center for Anvendt Sundhedstjenesteforskning og
Teknologivurdering (CAST) AST gennemfører forskningsbaserede
projekter, udredninger og analyser inden for sundhedsøkonomi, MTV
og sundhedstjenesteforskning generelt i samarbejde med offentlige
og private partnere.
Forskningsprofil er emne- og metodemæssigt karakteriseret ved
sundhedsøkonomiske evalueringer, herunder registerbaserede
analyser, sundhedsøkonomisk modellering samt analyser inden for
lægemiddelområdet ; organisatoriske og kvalitative analyser; en
stærk profil både nationalt og internationalt inden for medicinsk
teknologivurdering (MTV) . CASTs drift er baseret på finansiering
fra eksterne samarbejdspartnere.
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phd news Peter’s great day
eter Kuwoh defended his thesis 4th of July 2011 on Environmental
exposure and public health impacts of poor clinical waste treatment
and disposal in Cameroon.
This PhD thesis summarised the processes of collection,
segregation, transportation, treatment and disposal of clinical
waste in Cameroon. Emphasis was on environmental exposure and
public health impacts which might result from poor treatment and
disposal processes. Additionally, hospital workers’ awareness of
health and environmental impacts of poor clinical waste management
was investigated. Through the collaboration with some local
stakeholders, evidenced-based recommendations were adopted for a
prospective clinical waste management policy for Cameroon.
The study found significant flaws relating to collection,
segregation, transportation, treatment and disposal of clinical
waste in Cameroon. For example, collection containers were not
appropriately distinct in any way, and they were sometimes broken
and overloaded. Segregation was weak and ineffective and
transportation was done by waste pickers with complete disregard
for safety. The waste is openly dumped at the rear of hospitals and
in some cases; it is incinerated in sub-standard systems with
design, operational and maintenance deficiencies. These
deficiencies restrict the systems from attaining the 99.99% or
higher destruction and removal efficiency that is characteristic of
modern day incinerators.
Most of the hospital workers had a basic understanding of
effective clinical waste management, including its health and
environmental impacts. Risk ratios for respiratory, intestinal and
skin infections among children living within the vicinity of a
clinical waste treatment and disposal location was 3.54 (95% CI,
2.19-5.73), 3.20 (95% CI, 1.34-7.60) and 1.35 (95% CI, 0.75-2.44)
respectively. These results should be interpreted carefully as a
study with larger sample size and enhanced study design will be
needed to more definitively investigate these preliminary
results.
Bottom ash from three clinical waste incinerators contained high
amounts of selected heavy metals; especially lead (Pb), which was
230 mg/kg in one of the incinerators. Ash samples from an open fire
pit and an engineered incinerator were found to be heavily polluted
with organic compounds; especially polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
(PAHs), whose total toxic equivalent quantity exceeded guideline
levels for soil. This means that, the practice of adding bottom ash
from these sub-standard incineration systems to farmlands
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should be discouraged as it can lead to incremental build-up of
the compounds in the soil and in the food chain. Such a build-up
can account for unacceptable exposures and contamination of humans
and wildlife.
Evidenced-based recommendations centred on the necessity to
harness and strengthen a strong political and economic will towards
the development and implementation of a robust policy on efficient
clinical waste management in Cameroon.
Supervisors were Gabriel Gulis (principal supervisor) and Morten
Sodemann; Committee chair was Philippe Grandjean, IST/
Environmental Medicine; and Committee members were Fabrizio
Bianchi, National Research Council of Italy and Peter Furu,
WHO.
See more at:
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Field report: PhD project on cervical cancer in Khartoum, Sudan
by Ahmed Ibrahim
y PhD project is coming to its end very soon. The last three
years I have gathered data and worked on report writing on the
topic: Cervical cancer, feasibility and acceptability of visual
inspection
screening methods in primary health care setting in Khartoum
State, Sudan.
Why this topic and why Khartoum: Cervical cancer is the third
most common cancer in women globally. In Sudan cervical cancer was
ranked as second cancer among women with burden of age-standardised
incidence 15 per 100,000 and age-standardised mortality 25 per
100,000. I am Sudanese, have worked there as public health
physician in Ministry of Health and have learned what is really
needed is develop of National Cancer prevention programme which
will include a national cancer registry and screening programme for
cervical cancer and other prevalent cancer in the country.
At the moment I’m working in Saudi Arabia in position of public
health physician in infection control department, while I’m
finalising my PhD work. After I have finished my PhD my plan is
return to Sudan and to disseminate the knowledge and experience
that obtained from Denmark and contributes to development of
national cancer control and prevention programme, cancer registry
and cancer research projects.
What is visual inspection and why not Pap smear test for
screening: Visual inspection with use of acetic acid has emerged as
promising screening method alternative to cytology-based methods.
This test is easy, cost-effective and fitting to deprived
countries. VIA is based on the premise that the majority of
pre-invasive and invasive cervical lesions are visible on
examination by naked–eye after application of acetic acid. In my
PhD project I study risk factors and feasibility of visual
inspection as an alternative to cytology and compare it to Pap
smear in primary health care setting in Sudan. The study is a
prospective study of asymptomatic women from December 2009 to April
2010. In a pilot study 100 women were screened and
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the main finding is that VIA test was positive in 16% of
screened women. Main risk factors for women with positive VIA test
were cervical tear, episiotomy and female genital mutilation. In
the final study 934 women were screened. VIA detected more positive
women than Pap smear (7.6 % versus 5.1%; p=0.004). Colposcopy and
biopsy of all positive women confirmed that 88/119 (73.9%) were
positive for intraepithelial cervical neoplasia (CIN). VIA had
higher sensitivity than Pap smear (60.2% versus 47.2%; p=0.05)
respectively. One of the PhD papers, the pilot study Cervical
cancer risk factors and feasibility of VIA screening method in
Khartoum State in Sudan, has been published; second paper:
Predictors of advanced diagnosis of cervical cancer in Sudan is
under revision and the third papers is prepared which is titled:
Cervical cancer screening in primary health care setting in Sudan:
a comparative study of visual inspection with acetic acid and
fourth paper is under preparation and tiled: Health Professional’s
Knowledge and Practice of Cervical Cancer Screening in Sudan. The
principal supervisor is Professor Arja R Aro and co-supervisors are
Professor Eero Pukkala from Finnish Cancer Registry, Finland and
Associated Professor Vibeke Rasch from Copenhagen University,
Denmark.
See more at:
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Our managing editor Stella reporting from Down-Under by Stella
RJ Kræmer
octoral students in the Institute of Public Health of the
University of Southern Denmark are encouraged, though not obligated
during their doctoral training to spend time in another
research
institution. It is in this regard that I travelled to Griffith
University in Brisbane, Australia. Since my arrival, I have been
attached to the School of Public Health as a Short-term Visiting
Scholar and my tenure will expire in January 2012.
First of all I cannot help at telling that even though I
travelled from a Danish summer the 2nd of July, this Queensland
winter is absolutely fantastic. Secondly, I am very excited about
this opportunity, and enjoy that I am allowed to work here for a
while. My current office is shared with 5 wonderful people from all
over the world and there is a lot of help available for those who
need it. Griffith University is divided into 5
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campuses the same way the University of Southern Denmark is, and
in this respect it is very much like home. The largest distance
between campuses is 2 hours by public transportation so very
manageable.
While I am here I am attending courses in e.g. Academic Skills
and Grant Writing. I am also privileged to tutor and teach the
Master level class of Social and Behavioural Determinants of
Health. This has a special interest for me as am doing the same in
Denmark, and this allows me to get a new perspective on how to do
that.
I am in the data collection part of my PhD titled “Science based
guidance for identification of relevant governmental policies to be
screened for possible health impacts”. Said more plainly; my work
is focused on a method to enable politicians to make healthier
decisions, and I am gathering knowledge on the views of politicians
as well as practitioners on this matter. Health Impact Assessment
(HIA) as a tool and as a concept has been used for more than 10
years in some countries, but in Denmark it is mainly within the
last few years that Municipalities have started to implement HIA.
The concept of HIA is based on the following values: Democracy,
Equity, Sustainable development, and Ethical use of evidence. Due
to the nature of being based on values that will change from one
target group to another target group, there are no current
standardised tools or procedures. This is where my research comes
in, I am aiming to develop and test a way to make tools that can be
used in many different situations and still be specific enough to
adhere to local values.
I further plan to do interviews with HIA practitioners and
Decision Makers, to get an insight from them on how they perceive
my research problem and how they envision a solution. This will
give me a perspective that I most likely would not have gotten
through literature search alone, and a perspective that will be
good to have before I approach my Danish target group.
See more at:
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other news Opening of the new Center for Sikkerhed og Risiko
/Danish Centre for Risk And Safety Management (RISK)
ISK er et nyt center der bliver åbnet d.23. september 2011 på
Esbjerg campus. RISK er et samarbejde mellem begge byens
universiteter, Aalborg Universitet (AAU) Esbjerg og Syddansk
Universitet (SDU)
Esbjerg. Professor Lars Damkilde (AAU) er centerleder for RISK.
Centeret kan starte takket være en donation på 5 million kroner af
Claus Sørensens Fond. Planen er at man kan begynde at tage
studerende ind før opstart af en ny RISK udannelse i 2013.
Samarbejdet mellem de to universiteter er meget velkomment og kan
styrke den nuværende risikouddannelse og forskning i Enheden for
Sundhedsfremme, SDU, og også arbejdet i Center for Maritim Sundhed
og Sikkerhed, SDU.
Unit research seminars autumn 2011 ll seminars scheduled between
11.45 and 13.00, meeting room 2. Unit for Health Promotion
Research, Esbjerg, University of Southern Denmark
Niels Bohrs Vej 9, 6700 Esbjerg
Contact: [email protected]
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developed within RAPID project”
Gabriel Gulis, Associate Professor, Unit for Health Promotion
Research
26th of October 2011 EPH conference preparation research
seminar: Oral and poster presentations
23rd of November 2011 “REPOPA: Research into Policy to enhance
Physical Activity – EC funded 5year research project”
Arja R Aro, Professor of Public Health, Unit for Health
Promotion Research
7th of December 2011 “Being on anticoagulant treatment: Does it
imply lower quality of life?””
Anja Leppin, Professor, Unit for Health Promotion Research
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næste udgave next publication The next HPR News will be
circulated in ultimo December 2011. Please forward contributions to
Stella at [email protected] before the 15th of November
2011.
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| Health Promotion Research News | Issue 5 - September 2011 |
|ISBN 978-87-91245-04-6 Printed | ISBN 978-87-91245-05-3 Electronic
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Photo top of this page: Unit staff members
From left: Mette Winge Fredsgaard, Solveig Bøggild Dohrmann,
Maja Larsen, Pernille Tanggaard Andersen, Marianne Vámosi, Gabriel
Gulis, Janne Krogh, Delia Bancila, Arja R Aro, Christina
Mischorr-
Boch, Christiane Stock, Linda Fritze Madsen, Bettina
Gundolf.
Other staff members:
Gabrielle Berg-Beckhoff, Ahmed Ibrahim, Jens-Jørgen Jensen,
Stella RJ Kræmer, Anja Leppin, Nagla Sahal, Mohammed Suleiman.
| Nyt fra Sundhedsfremmeforskning | SDU Esbjerg |
Editorial no1Editorial no2Bettina – 10 years of experience as
Unit SecretaryStudiesekretariatet for Folkesundhedsvidenskab- Hvem
er vi og hvad laver vi?Studierelevant arbejde, kompetencer og
karrierevalgStudying public health at SDU: Using international
perspectives for solving local health
problemsFolkesundhedsvidenskab på Esbjerg campus– Teaching across
faculty boundariesEvidence-informed health promotion
researchProjects & productsNew EC funded REPOPA projectHIA and
HiAP –Health impact assessment and Health in All PoliciesPublic
Health Genomics European Network II
Forskning i social ulighed i sundhedFELIS –projektetDoes social
deprivation exist in Denmark (2008-2011)?
Risk researchNew teaching module on risk communicationRisk
assessment from policy to impact dimension – RAPID project
What do the following countries have in common?Institut for
Sundhedstjenesteforskning (IST)Almen
PraksisBiostatistikTromboseforskningEpidemiologiHelbred, Menneske
og Samfund (HMS)Center for Maritim Sikkerhed og
SundhedMiljømedicinKlinisk FarmakologiSundhedsøkonomiCenter for
Anvendt Sundhedstjenesteforskning og Teknologivurdering
(CAST)Peter’s great dayField report: PhD project on cervical cancer
in Khartoum, SudanOur managing editor Stella reporting from
Down-UnderOpening of the new Center for Sikkerhed og Risiko /Danish
Centre for Risk And Safety Management (RISK)Unit research seminars
autumn 2011