Public health and health care science

Public health science has an interdisciplinary environment where researchers from all over the world do research to contribute to an equal and sustainable improvement in global health and welfare. Health science includes research in scientific disciplines such as occupational therapy, physiotherapy, geriatrics, sports medicine, nursing, radiography, rehabilitation medicine, forensic medicine and sexual and reproductive health.

Areas within Public health and health care science

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Public health

Public health is an interdisciplinary discipline that studies human health and well-being related to the envir...

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Health care science

Health science is a term for science concerned with health - how it can be promoted, experienced, maintained o...

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Researchers in Umeå explore whether different forms of amyloidosis affect the heart in the same way.

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Research infrastructures

AIM North

AI for Medicine (AIM) offers technical methods support regarding machine learning and AI.

Research area: Ageing research, Cancer, Clinical medicine, Infection biology, Medical technology, Molecular biology and genetics, Molecular medicine, Neurosciences, Odontology, Public health and health care science

EPIC - The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition

EPIC was designed to study associations between diet, nutrition, lifestyle, environment, and disease.

Research area: Cancer, Public health and health care science

Kostdatabas i norra Sverige (NSDD)

NSDD contains refined dietary data based on food frequency questionnaries from Norrbotten and Västerbotten.

Research area: Ageing research, Cancer, Clinical medicine, Public health and health care science

NorthPop

Biobank and database for children and young adults in Västerbotten.

Research area: Clinical medicine, Molecular biology and genetics, Molecular medicine, Neurosciences, Public health and health care science

PREDICT

Personalised screening, risk prediction, and understanding disease trajectories for early detection of disease - An integrated cohort approach.

Research area: Cancer, Clinical medicine, Molecular biology and genetics, Molecular medicine, Public health and health care science

SCAPIS

A nationwide, open, population-based cohort for the study of cardiovascular and pulmonary disease.

Research area: Public health and health care science

Swedish PRrecision medicine Initiative for Novel Treatment and Research (SPRINTR)

SPRINTR is a national infrastructure for cancer research that collects and provides access to data for research. Through a shared framework for data c

Research area: Cancer, Public health and health care science

The Construction Health Cohort

The construction workers cohort contains data from more than 389,000 individuals from the Swedish construction industry that was collected from 1971 t

Research area: Cancer, Public health and health care science

The Mauritius Study

An infrastructure containing data that tracks how health and disease change as societies develop.

Research area: Public health and health care science

The Northern Sweden MONICA Study

The MONICA Study monitors trends in cardiovascular disease trends in Norrbotten and Västerbotten counties.

Research area: Public health and health care science

The Swedish Twin Registry

The national research infrastructure The Swedish Twin Registry contains is the largest of its kind and an invaluable resource for medical research.

Research area: Psychology, Public health and health care science

UMeHealth Lab

UMeHealth Lab is a centre of expertise and research infrastructure hosted by the Faculty of Medicine. UMeHealth Lab aims to serve as an interdisciplin

Research area: Public health and health care science

Umeå SIMSAM Lab

Research area: Demography, Public health and health care science, Sociology, Statistics

VIPVIZA

A population-based database focusing on atherosclerosis and the prevention of cardiovascular disease.

Research area: Clinical medicine, Medical technology, Neurosciences, Odontology, Psychology, Public health and health care science