Health and well-being
Health is a valuable asset and an essential prerequisite for human well-being from a physical, psychological and social perspective. People's health and health care are shaped by dynamic trends and interwoven processes of change. These include, for example, advancing technologisation and digitalisation, but also increasing ageing and normative-cultural diversity in lifestyles as well as globalisation and urbanisation. There is structural pressure for change in the health sector. Complex guiding principles and visions are needed to gain orientation grids for future-oriented action and transformation strategies. Against this backdrop, the IZT's inter- and transdisciplinary research focus "Health & Wellbeing" addresses the following thematic lines:
- Health and well-being in a changing society
- Potentials and challenges of digitalisation and networking in the health sector
- Resources, competences and educational concepts for participation, prevention and health promotion
Team
The core team of the research field introduces itself:
Projects
A selection of projects from the past five years is presented below. A complete overview is available via the search.
Crisis radar - Strengthening the resilience of society, politics and the economy through crisis prediction
Expertise on the establishment of an interdisciplinary and multigenerational competence centre for social digitalisation
Crowd Process Audiovisual Storytelling on the Problematic Use of Electronic Media
Norms in demographic change. Health and illness, solidarity and justice
Status and perspectives of telemedicine
LogMySelf - Opportunities, risks and future of lifelogging and self-measurement in discourse with young people
Quantified Self - between lifestyle and medicine
Health apps
New electronic media and addictive behaviour
Co-production in the welfare mix of work with the elderly
