Health and Welfare
Normcritical perspectives in the research into social vulnerability
The group conducts research into different forms of social vulnerability, for example financial vulnerability, violence and extremism.
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The group has normcritical perspectives as an analytical point of departure, and in focus are questions of how different forms of vulnerability, inequality and skewed resource allocation are reproduced and how preventive measures work. The research conducted has different focuses, for example:
- studies of society’s action and support to victims of violence
- the social services’ preventive measures against violence for people with disabilities
- society’s organisation and efforts for newly-arrived young people
- ethnicity and gender in dealing with honour-related violence
- gender, masculinity and health in forensic psychiatric care
- gender, age and ethnicity in society’s action and support to heavy debtors.
Ongoing research projects
The digital transformation of healthcare in Africa presents both a tremendous opportunity and a complex challenge.
Project manager at MDU: Sarah Wamala Andersson
Main financing: Läkarmissionen International
The DEAHL-BALTIC consortium includes 13 partners across Europe and is led by Hamburg Ministry of Social Affairs and University College of Northern Denmark. The consortium is organized in such a way that both the entire project and the work packages have an administrative/operational lead and a scientific lead.
Project manager at MDU: Sarah Wamala Andersson
Main financing: Interreg Baltic Sea Region
Children and young people often have sophisticated ideas about the future but they also have limited knowledge about the labor market and the wide range of career opportunities available. Research also shows that socioeconomic background plays a significant role in shaping their educational and career choices.
Project manager at MDU: Sarah Wamala Andersson
Main financing: Region Skåne
From a gender perspective, the purpose of this project is to develop new knowledge about the extent of harmful alcohol use among women and men in the labor market in Sweden, to investigate risk factors and protective factors in the work environment for harmful alcohol use and to increase knowledge about preventive efforts against harmful alcohol use in working life.
Project manager at MDU: Susanna Toivanen
Main financing: Afa Försäkring
The project aims to improve the understanding and acceptance of AI-based virtual assistants in public sector rehabilitation processes. This will be achieved by producing carefully designed VA demos, guidelines and descriptions of their requirements, piloted in real-life situations.
Project manager at MDU: Viktoria Zander
Main financing: Interreg Baltic Sea Region
The purpose of this project is to investigate key principles and conflicts of goals in RNs’ initial assessments related to the priority of patients’ needs and care provision in primary care.
Project manager at MDU: Inger Holmström
Main financing: FORTE
The overall aim is to investigate the effects of a digital self-management intervention to reduce sedentary behavior in people undergoing neo- or adjuvant cancer treatment for breast, prostate, or colorectal cancer.
Project manager at MDU: Petra Heideken Wågert
Main financing: The Swedish Cancer Society
Before suicide and suicide attempts, most people come in contact with the healthcare system and they show great ambivalence, meaning that there are numerous occasions for people whom come in contact with the patient to interfere and prevent suicide. Ambulance care traditionally have a distinct medical perspective on the patient with focus on severe somatic disease and previous research have shown that mental illness can be considered as secondary and even obstructing from what is considered as legit assignments.
Main financing: Centrum för klinisk forskning Region Sörmland