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2 KARTLÄGGNING OCH UTVÄRDERING AV SVENSK VÅRDFORSKNING – HUVUDRAPPORT OCH UNDERLAG FÖR VETENSKAPSRÅDETS REKOMMENDATIONER
Jeremy Wyatt, Professor of eHealth Innovation, Institute of Digital Healthcare,
University of Warwick, UK
Helen Dolk, Professor of Epidemiology & Public Health Services Research,
Institute of Nursing Research, University of Ulster, UK
Distance reviewers
Angus Walls, Professor of Oral Health, Newcastle Dental School, England, UK
Nigel Pitts, Professor and Director of the Dental Health Services & Research
Unit, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
Assessments
BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
The School of Health Science at Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH)
identifies three research subjects constituting ‘Care Sciences’: Nursing,
Applied Health Technology and Public Health. The rationale for this delimitation
of ‘Care Sciences’ is given as firstly, their research expertise in
the field of care, older people, epidemiology and health technology and,
secondly, their recognition of the complexity in contemporary society.
The activity in these three areas has been the basis on which two partially
interlinked research environments or research programmes have been
created:
1. Sustainable active ageing (SAA): this encompasses multidisciplinary research
taking a social sustainability perspective to older people’s health
and care. Here the focus is on applied research and includes efforts to seek
to understand perspectives of older people and to develop strategies for
promotion and prevention at individual and societal levels.
2. Health and technology (HT) here the focus is on the role of ICT, including
how older adults access IT and the role of IT in assisted living. Research
has been carried out primarily through involvement in the Swedish National
Study of Ageing and Care Project (SNAC).
The self-evaluation report describes the work of a relatively small group
of researchers (4 professors; 12 senior lecturers, 19 lecturers and 12 doctoral
students). The majority of individuals are in nursing. The majority of staff
are women, except at professorial level. The age profile is weighted towards
those aged over 40. Care Sciences research at BTH has been reorganized
since 2009 into the two research areas (SAA and HT described above). This
is part of a strategy to create a smaller number of competitively strong research
environments by the year 2017.
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