Our multi-disciplinary and mixed-methods research focuses especially on theory-based interventions and their co-creation, implementation, and effectiveness. By interventions, we refer broadly to various actions implemented at different levels to promote health of communities.
YiPEE: Youth co-Production for sustainable Engagement and Empowerment in health. EU-funded project to co-create a multi-component intervention in improving mental health and reducing behavioral risk factors for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in young people, and to evaluate its implementation and effectiveness in different contexts. (Pilvikki Absetz, Anu Linnansaari)
Changemaker: Promoting co-designed sustainable health interventions with young changemakers for reduced risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in urban Burkina Faso, Kenya and Tanzania . EU-funded project to co-design a multi-component intervention and to evaluate its implementation and effectiveness on behavioral risk factor reduction and prevention of obesity and related diseases in adolescents. (Pilvikki Absetz)
Arts and culture reducing wellbeing and health inequalities at the intersections of wellbeing services counties, municipalities, and the cultural sector. The doctoral dissertation research examines the positioning of cultural and artistic activities within the shared structures of wellbeing counties, municipalities, and the cultural sector in Finland, as well as their impacts and significance on the population's wellbeing and health. The study maps the goals set for culture and their implementation at these intersections, while also defining the concept of cultural wellbeing and its relevance in the context of public health. (Pilvi Kuitu)
Implementing Preventive Tobacco Policies: The role of contextual factors in policy implementation at school and national levels (Anu Linnansaari)
Futures of Finnish Maternity Care: Commercial, Political and Experiential Framings. (Marjaana Jones)