NTNU Center for Health Promotion Research
NTNU Center for Health Promotion Research will aim at the development of new knowledge which will contribute to a better focus in health promotion work. The Center take part in the scientific exploration of what promotes, maintains and restores good health – both in healthy, vulnerable and diseased populations.
Major projects
We are currently working on several major projects:
News from the center
Congratulations to Marit Christensen and Siw Tone Innstrand for the publication “Senior managers’ perceptions of mental health and organizational intervention strategies for improving mental health and well-being” in International Journal of Workplace Health Management (https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/ijwhm-07-2023-0087/full) and to Marit Christensen for the editorial in Frontiers called “Healthy healthcare: opportunities and pitfalls of designing and conducting research and practice in healthcare settings?” https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1514074/full . Well done!
An agreement between European Public Health Association (EUPHA), Health Promotion Section and NTNU Center for Health Promotion Research to build a research initiative on Rural Health was reached in the EUPHA conference in Lisbon November 12. Despite that EUPHA have several initiatives on Urban Public Health, it lacks an emphasis on Rural Health. The new research initiative was launched in the Section Meeting during the conference, and was very welcomed, It will be given further attention in the December Newsletter from the section and is aiming making a research agenda with rural municipalities and regions.
RETAIN-prosjektet (Retention Evaluation - Teacher Attrition and Incentives in Norway) har som mål å forstå faktorene som påvirker læreres beslutning om å bli i yrket i Norge, og hvordan nasjonale retningslinjer og tiltak kan tilpasses lærernes preferanser for å sikre at de blir i jobb. Prosjektet har potensial til å bidra til å møte utfordringene i læreryrket, som lav status, høy turnover og variasjoner i lærertilgjengelighet mellom skoler i rurale og urbane områder. Disse utfordringene gjør det særlig vanskelig å tilby kvalitetsutdanning i avsidesliggende områder og på skoler som sliter med å rekruttere lærere.
Vi gratulerer senterets Monica Lillefjell som sist fredag fikk Folkehelsepris. Dette har hun virkelig fortjent etter mange år med forskning på implementering av helsefremming og Trøndelagsmodellen for folkehelsearbeid.
Growing up in rural areas is a research project that started in the rural communities of Trøndelag as early as 1996, with the collection of health data on adolescents living there. Now, data on youth in lower secondary and upper secondary schools has been collected in six data collections. In 2025, the 7th data collection will be carried out at the NTNU Center for Health Promotion Research. Currently, efforts are underway to prepare the municipalities and schools for the new data collection. The data collected consists of cross-sectional surveys with anonymous data. The survey provides anonymous data, so individuals cannot be tracked, but there is great interest in tracking trends in the development of health and health issues.