Healthcare
Aims & Actions
The Health CASCADE Healthcare team aims to apply co-creation in health care centres, clinics, and care homes to promote, restore or maintain health. We work with different target populations such as adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), mothers-to-be, and community-dwelling and institutionalized older adults. Jorge (ESR11) is focusing on using co-creation to design urban spaces to reduce sedentary behaviour and loneliness in community-dwelling older adults and care home residents. Vinayak (ESR12) is conducting research on how to promote obstetrics care of migrants in Germany using digital interventions with the strength of co-creation. Qingfan (ESR13) directs the project of using co-creation in developing an eHealth tool for people with COPD in a hospital context. If you’re interested in any of their topic areas, or you are researching a similar topic, please feel free to email these researchers directly:
Jorge Raúl Zapata-Restrepo: jorgeraulzr@blanquerna.url.edu
Vinayak Anand-Kumar: v.anandkumar@jacobs-university.de
Qingfan An: qingfan.an@umu.se
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PhD Participants
JORGE ZAPATA
PhD Student
Engage4Change: can we reduce sedentary behaviour and loneliness in care home residents? Effects of a co-created intervention within the Health Cascade project
VINAYAK ANAND-KUMAR
PhD Student
Patient Safety and Optimal Communication – Evaluating a WebApp in a European Training Network Co-creatively
QINGFAN AN
PhD Student
Co-creation of an eHealth application for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, COPD, in a hospital context
Supervisors & Partners
MARIA GINÉ-GARRIGA
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Associate Professor and head of the Physical Activity and Health Research Group. Her main research topic is the (co)design of health-related interventions to change lifestyle behaviours in older adults with a strong focus on sustainability and adherence
SACRA MOREJÓN
ARCHITECT AND PHD IN SPORT SCIENCES
Currently the Academic Vice Dean of Postgraduate and Research. Associate architect and specialist in sport facilities at the Ros-Sutrias & Associats SL studio; she has participated in various research studies from an architectural perspective (design of sport facilites) and from an urban perspective (physical activity in urban public spaces).
MAI CHIN A PAW
UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CHAIR PROFESSOR
University Research Chair Professor and chair of the Child and Adolescent Public Health research group. Her main research topic is physical activity and sedentary behaviour epidemiology in young people with a specific focus on innovations in research methodology.
PHILIPPA DALL
SENIOR RESEARCHER
Senior Researcher. Her main research topics are health promotion within the workplace based on behavioural and environmental interventions, and the measurement of physical behaviours.
DAWN SKELTON
PROFESSOR
Professor in the School of Health and Life Sciences. Her main research topic is fall prevention, frail older adults and movement behaviour.
SONIA LIPPKE
PROFESSOR
Professor of health psychology and behavioural medicine. Her main research topic focuses on multiple behaviour change, eHealth and intercultural as well as intergenerational aspects in health promotion.
MARGRIT SCHREIER
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR
Adjunct Professor of Empirical Methods with the following research interests: qualitative research methods, mixed methods, media psychology setting priorities in health care, and high sensitivity.
MARLENE SANDLUND
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Associate Professor at the Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation. Her main research topic is e-health and exercise for older people involving co-creation methodologies.
KARIN WADELL
PROFESSOR
Professor at the Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation. She works as a physiotherapist at the University Hospital in Umeå and her main research focus is physical activity, exercise capacity, eHealth and co-creation in people with pulmonary disease.
Ragnberth Helleday
Umea University
• Specialist in pulmonary medicine and allergology since 2002 • Ph.D. in medical science 1995 • Senior consultant since 2002 • Former head of department of Medicine, University Hospital, Umeå 2004 – 2014 • CMIO since 2016
Parc Sanitari Pere Virgili
PARTNER
Parc Sanitari Pere Virgili (PSPV) is the largest public, non-profit provider of geriatric rehabilitation, onco-geriatrics, and palliative care in Catalonia, Spain (365 hospital beds plus outpatients, home-based, and community-based care).
AktionsBündnis Patientensicherheit
PARTNER
The German Coalition for Patient Safety (APS) APS, is a network that is dedicated to safe health care in Germany.
Apprevent
pARTNER
The Apprevent startup company is an interdisciplinary team consisting of developers, physicians, health scientists and business people. The company develops digital mobile health applications.
BTA Architecture
PARTNER
B/TA Arquitectura is an architecture firm that aims to improve the quality of life of the older adult population. They maintain the true sense of architecture for the older adults and make each project stand out above the rest. They have specialized in designing nursing homes and are currently at the fore front of this field, and a referent in Catalonia and Spain
Celobert Cooperative
PARTNER
Celobert Cooperativa is an interdisciplinary architecture, engineering and urban planning cooperative committed to social transformation. They aim to contribute to making our environment more livable and promote the ecological transition and the right to housing. They network and cooperate with other organizations to grow the social and solidarity economy and participate in dissemination and training projects to generate tools and shared knowledge.
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