The personal, economic and social costs of poor health and wellbeing are enormous. For example, Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and type 2 diabetes are responsible for around two thirds of mortality around the world (). Without action, it is estimated that NCDs will cost $7 trillion over the next 20 years through loss of productivity and the price of health care (). At the same time, as people live longer lives, the ageing demographic introduces new challenges to health care systems and society. It is estimated that, in the UK alone, more than 15 million people are already living with some form of long-term condition ().  

What do we do?  

Our research seeks to prevent long-term conditions from developing in the first place as well as support people who are affected by a long-term condition. This includes research to prevent illness and promote wellbeing through changes on many levels - local and global contexts, social inequality, cultural practices and individual behaviours related to tobacco use, unhealthy diets, physical inactivity and alcohol. 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.  

Our research methodologies include epidemiology, systematic reviews, clinical trials, qualitative studies, policy and media analysis, participatory action research, laboratory mechanistic investigations, mathematical modelling and evaluation studies.

'Physical activity' (different sedentary behaviour)

Does it focus on disease avoidance, rather than health/well being promotion?

Mention research with children, adults and older populations.

Mention range of approaches / interdisciplinarity.

Interests in health and well being from the cellular level to community / cultural level.

Include schematic rather than just block text

- More emphasis on social determinants of health across the lifespan

Missing:

- Links to other groups?

Research in area of sensorimotor control & assisted living http://www.bewegungswissenschaft.sg.tum.de/index.php?id=843&L=1

might be useful to start with definition of health/wellbeing

  At the moment v focused on intervening without critical perspective of whether it works (so far not much progress in eg obesity prevention) and uni tended negative consequences 

i.e someone searching the website for a particular person/skill set may not know where to find them through a purely multidisciplinary description.

Having said that, this is only a headline description and therefore can't be expected to do everything!

Maastricht university, dept of health promotion. Obesity prevention and cohort studies with primarily children

Vrei university amsterdam

M-health - injury prevention and

Denmar, aarhus uni

http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/medicalschool/departments/medicine/EndocrinologyMetabolismDiabetes/faculty_staff/Pages/Hill.aspx

http://medhealth.leeds.ac.uk/profile/1300/948/john_edward__blundell_