Rehabilitation and health promotion
According to the World Health Organization, about 15 percent of the world's population lives with a disability and the number of people living with periodic or chronic impairment is increasing. More knowledge about health promotion and rehabilitation action along the life-course is needed.
Health promotion implies putting health on the agenda of policy makers across sectors, directing them towards building healthy public policy. It also implies creating supportive environments that generate safe, stimulating and satisfying living and working conditions. Health promotion is about strengthening community actions in setting priorities, empowerment, and ownership and control, and flexible systems for strengthening participation in health matters. Furthermore, it is about developing personal and social skills through providing information, education for health, and enhancing life skills. Finally, health promotion is about reorienting health services, where the responsibility is shared among individuals, community groups, health professionals, health service institutions and governments.
Focus on Rehabilitation 2030 Call for action areas at sub-national, national and global levels
- Creating strong leadershipand political support for rehabilitation.
- Strengthening its planning & implementation, including within emergencypreparedness and response.
- Improving integration of rehabilitation into the health sector and across sectors.
- Incorporating rehabilitation in Universal Health Coverage.
- Building comprehensive and equitable rehabilitation service models that include assistive products and reach underserved areas.
- Developing a strong multidisciplinary, context-sensitive rehabilitation workforce, and promoting its concepts across all health workforce education.
- Expanding rehabilitation financing.
- Enhance health information systemsincluding rehabilitation data and information on functioning (ICF).
- Building research capacity.
- Strengthening partnerships, particularly between low-, middle- and high-income countries.
The research group members belong to different health- and social sciences’ professions and disciplines including occupational therapy, physiotherapy, nursing, epidemiology, health economy, pedagogy, sociology, anthropology, political sciences a.o. and research on the above-mentioned areas to enable people’s best possible functioning, independence, and participation in the different contexts where they live. They address the development, implementation, and effect of various measures as well as cultural and structural conditions for rehabilitation and health-promotion.
The research group has the following research areas:
- Health promotion and rehabilitation: local and global perspectives
- Reablement. Effectiveness studies and qualitative interviews of family caregivers, users and health professionals
- Ageing and health
- Global perspectives on healthy ageing Global perspectives on health promotion and rehabilitation
- Health promotion and rehabilitation along the life-course
- Health economy, health priorities, ageing and rehabilitation
- Higher education and human resources for rehabilitation in Eastern Africa
- Health equity and refugee health
- Data-Driven Rehabilitation and artificial intelligence
- Impact of conflict and disasters on rehabilitation health systems and health professionals
Ongoing research projects
Ongoing research projects
- GPHA, Global perspectives on healthy ageing (2023-2028): multi-country case studies (Norway, Bosnia, Iran, Lebanon, Maroc+ more)
- Reablement - various studies
- Better life with COPD - A health-promoting self-care program
- Living conditions, coping and skills development in young adults with psychosis disorders - focusing on physical activity as a coping resource
- Reflections on Developing a Global Master's Program in Healthy Ageing and Rehabilitation
- Disability, Rehabilitation and Global Health
- Building Interprofessional Rehabilitation Capacity in Higher Education in Tanzania and Kenya
- Community-based rehabilitation and inclusive education in low-income settings
- Human resources for rehabilitation in sub-Saharan Africa
- Horse-assisted activities with women in prison
- Peer support amongst persons with spinal cord injury in Norway and Malawi
- Sexual and reproductive health services amongst women with disabilities in Nigeria
- Persons with Refugee Experiences Education Project
- Early intervention in long-term care – new model for tailored initial efforts and allocation of services
- ReableDem – Developing a network and evidence-based knowledge for person-centred reablement in dementia care
- Social prescribing: Coping with everyday-life in persons experiencing loneliness and social isolation
- Cognitive function and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: mapping and prognosis
- Cognitive impairment in ALS; experiences and needs during diagnostics and follow-up among patients and their family caregivers
- Translation and cultural adaption of Occupational Balance Questionaire 11 (OBQ11) and Manual with SpiderWeb
- Self-reported occupational balance after stroke
- Various Occupational therapy relevant research topics
- Do activity challenges influence social reintegration? — patient-reported data 1-5 years after an aneurysmal subarochnoid bleeding
- Hand therapy or not following collagenase treatment for Dupuytren's contracture? - A randomized trial
- Priority setting of rehabilitation interventions
- Estimating the need for rehabilitation care in Norway
- Trend Analysis of Health Expenditure on Long-Term Care across Europe
- Climate and Health: Interprofessional Learning, Innovation and Collaboration (IP LINC)
- Universal Design Colab 2.0: Reaching all, teaching all
- Foster healthy and active aging through research, digital innovation, training, and integrated policy strategies: ERASMUS project submission/ application
- Scoping review: Health Economics in Physiotherapy: Making the Case
- Scoping Review: Concussion among girls and women in ice hockey
- Readiness for AI use among health professionals in Norway and South Africa
