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This review suggests that patients with heart failure should receive prompt follow-up after hospitalization, and eHealth interventions have the potential to improve their quality of life.
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Rector Klaus Mohn's speech at the university's doctoral creation ceremony on 28 October 2022.
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Rosalynn Austin from the University of Southampton visited the Department of Public Health to discuss health promotion for people with health challenges. She comments on benefits of researcher mobility.
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All 10 Co-Researchers and two Researchers from SHARE attended the international youth mental health conference in Copenhagen in September and October. With more than 700 participants from 49 countries, the conference covered a wide range of topics to contribute with new knowledge and ideas on how mental health services can be developed, improved, implemented, and tested in research and innovation projects.
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The research project eHealth@hospital-2-home arranged a seminar at The Faculty of Health Sciences at UiS. It was held in English, and several international researchers traveled to Stavanger for the occasion.
In this new paper, researcher at the University of Stavanger explore the associations between burden of treatment, psychological distress and health–related quality of life. They suggest that the treatment regimens need to be simplified and tailored to the individual heart failure patient to reduce the burden related to treatment and self-care.
Health and social services in Norway have adapted recovery as base for the mental health and substance use services. Research shows that this is easier said than done.
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News from the rector
– I want you to know that I am very proud of you. The efforts you have made are an important reason why the University of Stavanger has kept afloat during the pandemic. You have all loyally and successfully complied with infection control measures. In addition, we have had some well-deserved luck. There is very little infection at our university.
Principal investigator Randi Wågø Aas is professor in Occupational Health at the Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences.
UniPed is a unit that helps the University of Stavanger (UiS) achieve excellence in education. UniPed’s goal is to foster a culture of quality-centred teaching that benefits both students and staff.
The University Board is elected for the period of 2019 to 2023.
The UiS-IT department consists of 45 employees who provide IT services for 1600 employees and 12000 students.
The International Office provides strategic and operational support and advice to the management, academic groups and students regarding internationalisation of educational programmes, mobility and partnerships.
The joint services at UiS are organised into four divisions and headed by the prorector for research, the prorector for education, the prorector for innovation and society and the the director for organisation and infrastructure.
NETTOP is a department that develops digital teaching and e-learning in collaboration with the academic divisions at the university. We create everything from complete online courses to games, videos, apps, podcasts, simulations and other digital tools that contribute to learning.
The department’s main objective is to contribute to the prevention of acute and chronic health problems and increase participation in school and work, by disability prevention strategies.
The top management team at the UiS consists of rector, prorector for research, prorector for education, prorector for innovation and society, and the director of organisation and infrastructure.