Code
bof/baf/4y/2024/01/585
Duration
01 January 2024 → 31 December 2025
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Medical and health sciences
- Other medical and health sciences not elsewhere classified
Keywords
healthy lifestyle
health promotion
healthy environment
Project description
The mission of the research unit is to promote a healthy environment and lifestyle, with special attention to reducing health inequalities.
We mainly focus on primary prevention with special attention to:
- physical, cognitive, mental and social health
- sleep, physical activity, sedentary behaviour, nutrition, substance use (smoking and alcohol)
- adolescents/young adults and older adults
What are we doing?
- Identifying determinants of health (behaviour)
- Monitoring health (behaviour) and its determinants
- Studying social inequalities in health (behaviour) and its determinants
- Developing and implementing 'theory- and evidence-based' health promotion interventions
- Conducting effect and process evaluation of health promotion interventions