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09.05.2012
Addiction - a growing menace
Addiction is on the rise in Europe. An increasing number of young people are unable to control their use of drugs, alcohol, sex, computer games, technology, shopping, dieting or exercise.
18.04.2012Carrot but no stick for a healthy child
Obesity among children has long been a rising problem in large parts of the world. Parents play a crucial role in shaping good childhood eating habits, according to new research from the University of Stavanger.
24.01.2012The war on drugs is lost
Youth are in danger of choosing drugs rather than tackling life, state professor Jan Erik Karlsen at the Department of Media, Culture and Social Sciences at University of Stavanger and Maurice B. Mittelmark, head of Department of Health Promotion and Development at the University of Bergen.
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15.11.2011Surgical checklists save lives
Using checklists to improve work practices has long been normal in the aviation and oil industry. Checklists are now also implemented worldwide in the operating room.
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15.11.2011Creating safer surgery
Surgical procedures save and improve lives worldwide, but the figures on serious complications and deaths are high. PhD student Sindre Høyland sees ways of reducing these numbers.
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10.06.2011Patient safety in European hospitals
Five years ago, a research team at the University of Stavanger started to study patient safety at a hospital in Norway. Professor Karina Aase and her colleagues have since then extended their scope to other hospitals in Norway and in Europe.
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24.04.2009Sick plant suffering for Parkinson patients
The research plant Arabidopsis thaliana is currently a patient in a laboratory at the University of Stavanger. Researchers hope it can give the answer to how Parkinson patients can achieve a better quality of life.
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18.06.2008Bullying on the menu
The restaurant business is twice as prone to bullying as other businesses. And apprentices are particularly vulnerable.
31.03.2008Eat Yourself Healthy
It is not enough to choose healthy foodstuff if you are to eat healthily. You also have to pay attention to how the food is prepared, Wenche Frølich says, who is professor at the University of Stavanger.
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16.11.2007Lifesaving Bioteque at UiS
By using revolutionary methods the Plastid Company will produce proteins. Professor Simon Geir Møller heads the company which is the first bioteque company at the University of Stavanger.
Health and welfare represents one of six priority areas at the University of Stavanger, and research in this field is being pursued today at several of its departments and faculties.
This work is well established in some departments, with several major projects and PhD students as well as extensive external networks.
At other institutes, activity is more in the early stages. Research teams have been created to contribute to a build-up of expertise, and new research programmes and projects established.
The UiS cooperates with other research institutes involved with health and welfare in its region, including the Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger Health Research, Lærdal/Safer and the International Research Institute of Stavanger (Iris).
UiS academic staff involved in this work belong to national and international research networks. Through in-house expertise and good networking, the UiS will play an active role in relation to the European Union’s seventh framework programme on health.
Contact: Sverre Nesvåg
