Center for Intervention Research in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

The Centre provides a scientific foundation for interventions in local settings. The Centre studies the effect of interventions on different groups of the population and identifies the best means of implementing projects, using available resources.

Research themes

Children

Projects within this research theme examine implementation and effect of group-based antenatal education as well as school-based interventions addressing eating habits, smoking, physical activity, hygiene, and well-being among children.

Adults

Projects within this research theme examine implementation and effect of interventions at municipal job centres, workplaces and General Practice addressing eating habits, physical activity, alcohol intake, smoking, wellbeing.

Young people

Projects within this research theme examine implementation and effect of interventions at vocational schools and high schools addressing for example eating habits, physical activity, alcohol intake, smoking and wellbeing among young people.

Policy projects

Within this research theme examine why some local and national policies and interventions - within prevention, health promotion and rehabilitation - gain political and organizational traction while others do not.