Division of Society and Health (SH)

MHED-Lab health behaviour and behaviour change interventions

MHED-lab conducts interventional, observational, and methodological research focused mainly on health behaviour and behaviour change interventions.

Regional Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Simulations - RIDES

Our research concerns epidemiological data and information processing in connection with infectious disease outbreaks at local and regional level.

The Research Group in Medical Education

The object of Medical Education research is the relational and continuous nature of pedagogical processes in professional health care education and in health care itself, and the knowledge-bases decisive for professional formation and intervention.

Citizenship and Dementia: International Research Network

The international network “Citizenship and Dementia: International Research Network“ are aimed at stimulating and contributing international research on living with dementia from a citizenship perspective.

Lifestyle Intervention Implementation Research Group

We aim to develop, evaluate and implement behaviour change interventions that can contribute to an improved public health.

Interprofessional learning in simulation-based training for the healthcare professions

The overarching purpose of this project is to develop knowledge on how interprofessional collaboration in healthcare teams could be arranged and trained through simulation-based learning environments.

Citizenship and Dementia

Citizenship and dementia is a research group that analyses how it is to be a citizen with dementia - from citizenship ideas, to welfare organisation, efforts and meetings with people with dementia, to the importance of civil society.

Twincities Research Group - Social environment and health

The twin cities of Linköping and Norrköping are two equal sized cities in southeast Sweden. They are part of the same county council and have the same structure of health care. How could public health in two so similar cities be so different?

Graduate School in Health Professions Education

The purpose of this graduate school in medical education is to offer postgraduate training to strengthen and achieve higher quality in within educations in health and medicine offered at Linköping University, Stockholm University and KI.

Learning in virtual health environments

How can IT support learning across different virtual environments (visualisation, virtual patients and simulation) within healthcare education and practice?

The SUNRISE project

SUNRISE - International Surveillance Study of Movement Behaviours in the Early Years is a project initiated by the University of Wollongong, Australia. The project examines children's physical activity.

Patients in clinical care

This project aims to support individuals with chronic diseases to learn more about selfcare and lifestyle behaviour change.

Young adults

Interventions to promote healthy behaviours among young adults is a good investment. Therefore, these projects target high school and university students.

Interprofessional learning in practice

The project has a practice-oriented perspective on learning as embedded in the complexities of practices. An interactive approach comprising ethnographic field studies is applied.

Stressheart

The research group Stressheart has developed an analysis method where the stress hormone cortisol is measured from human hair to study stress levels several months back in time, like the annual rings on a tree.

Patients with elective surgery

A good health status before surgery decrease the risk for complications after surgery. Therefore, this project aims to support healthy lifestyle behaviours before surgery.

Individuals seeking help at primary healthcare centers

A great deal of the Swedish population has unhealthy lifestyle behaviours and this project focuses on patients in primary healthcare.

Preschool Children

Childhood obesity remains a significant global health challenge. This project aims to promote healthy food and physical activity habits among preschool children.

Skin cancer prevention in primary care

Nordic Implementation Interest Group

Nordic Implementation is an interest group of researchers and practitioners, who are exploring and investigating issues concerning implementation of evidence-based practices and quality improvement in health and human services.

Implementation in health care and society

The research program Implementation aims to conduct high-quality interdisciplinary research and education to address important issues concerning implementation and research use in health care and society at large.