Lifelong health and wellbeing research
We develop health and wellbeing policies and programmes that target prevention and therapeutic treatments.
Our research
Our researchers from the Department for Health work to understand the various factors that lead to overall health and wellbeing. A key aim of our research is to develop person-centred, socially-just and cost-effective interventions, policies and programmes which target both primary prevention and therapeutic treatments.
Many diseases such as cancer,鈥痮besity, type II鈥痙iabetes and鈥痗ardiovascular disease鈥痑re linked鈥痶o lifestyle factors鈥痵uch as鈥痵moking, poor鈥痙iet and physical inactivity. 69色情片 is conducted into these health and disease risk factors in order to inform policy decision making and/or individual lifestyle鈥痗hoices.鈥疧ther鈥痩ong-term health conditions such as permanent disability or aging-related illness require alternative approaches involving evidence-based support to鈥痬anage鈥痮ngoing physical challenges. In addition, poor mental health is closely connected to physical health and our research informs both the treatment and management of issues concerning鈥痬ental health and wellbeing.
Further research in all these areas鈥痯romises to improve鈥痮verall鈥痟ealth and wellbeing across the lifespan and we are developing cutting edge research around emerging health technologies to solve health problems and improve quality of life.
Our research methodologies are innovative and diverse as we seek to develop responses to identified major problems of significance in our field, such as:
- epidemiology
- systematic reviews
- clinical trials
- qualitative studies
- policy and media analysis
- participatory action research
- digital interventions
- laboratory mechanistic investigations
- mathematical modelling and evaluation studies.
Our research groups and centres
We pursue this research agenda through the following research groups and centres:
- Centre for Motivation and Health Behaviour Change
- Centre for Pain 69色情片
- Tobacco Control
- Centre for Nutrition, Exercise, and Metabolism
- Physical Culture, Sport and Health
- Clinical Rehabilitation and Exercise Medicine
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health 69色情片
Our projects
- Assessment, Treatment and Rehabilitation in Chronic Pain Management
- BlueIce App to reduce the incidence of self-harm in young people
- Enhancing the assessment and monitoring of growth and maturation in young athletes
- Inequalities in older people: a plan for action
- Promoting physical activity and well-being in children and adolescents
- Teenagers in chronic pain