Research Environments: Medicine and Health
Our research focuses on common medical conditions and spans the entire field from a basic understanding of pathological mechanisms to patient-oriented research to enable the development of healthcare. Our researchers study the causes of both health and disease as well as the factors that play a part in the wellbeing of persons in these conditions.
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Cardiovascular Research Centre (CVRC)
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Care about Caring (CaC)
Care about Caring is a research environment focusing on interventions for relation-centred care, and the conditions for such care i.e. professional development and learning. The environment collaborates both nationally and internationally, and includes...
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Centre for Perioperative Nursing (CPoN)
The overall aim of the research environment is to test different tools and methods to improve the perioperative care of the surgical patient, thus increasing patient safety and wellbeing.
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Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Centre
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FAMN - The Child, the family, the caring system, the society
FAMN is a multidisciplinary team that focuses on support to children and adolescents. The research is conducted in the following research teams:
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Inflammatory Response and Infection Susceptibility Centre (iRiSC)
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Nutrition-Gut-Brain Interactions Research Centre (NGBI)
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Older people's health and living conditions - from cell to society
The research in this environment ranges from the laboratory bench to the patient's bedside with focus on fundamental research (cellular level) and clinical research in care for older persons within three areas:
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Research Enabling an Active Life (REAL)
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Research in Sport and Physical Activity (RISPA)
RISPA is an interdisciplinary research environment with a focus on sports, physical activity and movement cultures such as dance, outdoor life and the school subject sports and health.
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Swedish Institute for Disability Research
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Urologic Cancer
