Health and wellbeing

Our global reputation is built on excellent research that begins with understanding the fundamental underpinnings of health and disease. We draw on a wide range of academic skills and disciplines, working together to discover, refine and apply new interventions to improve health and wellbeing.

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Underpinning processes and systems

Improving health and wellbeing

Reducing inequalities

Informing policy and practice

Focus area

The University of York Ageing Network

The University of York Ageing Network is enabling the UK to meet the challenges posed by an ageing population.

By developing existing collaborations across departments and faculties, as well as forging new working relationships, the Network’s members are delivering research which meets the region’s priorities, and can be applied both nationally and internationally.


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NHS trusts earning hundreds of millions of pounds in private income – new study shows

Hospital trusts are relying more and more on private income to boost their finances, with one Trust making more than half their income from commercial activities, a new study has revealed.

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More professional guidance needed to ensure patients know they have choices, study shows

More training is needed to support medical professionals in how to present patients with a choice in their healthcare options, a new study has shown.

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Integrated suicide prevention programme sees deaths reduced by more than a fifth

Researchers in York and the Netherlands have co-designed an integrated suicide prevention programme which has led to a significant reduction in deaths.

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Research shows lack of defibrillators in England and Scotland puts lives at risk

Study shows people in more deprived areas of England and Scotland are further away from life-saving equipment, highlighting the risk to life and the need for equal access to defibrillators.

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Featured research

Research

Healthcare comes home

A low cost, high-accuracy device, could play a large part in the NHS's 'virtual wards'.
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Raising engagement in randomised control trials

Recruiting and retaining participants in research trials is vital, but can often be problematic. We’re finding ways to improve this crucial research element.
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Ensuring the right treatments are provided for patients with psoriasis

With over 100 million people affected by psoriasis globally, it is important to establish which treatments work best and are most cost-effective in improving quality of life for those with the disease.
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Spending Healthcare Resources Wisely

With an annual NHS budget in England of around £127 billion (2017/18), it is vital that decisions are made so that health care spending generates the greatest impact on the health of the population.

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Our health and wellbeing research crosses academic boundaries. Find out more about the departments and related research groups involved in this work:

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Research Champion

Professor Joy Adamson, Research Champion for Health and Wellbeing

Joy Adamson is a social scientist by background, her qualifications have put her in the rare position of having in-depth training in both qualitative (PhD) and quantitative (MSc Epidemiology) methods that she has applied in a range of applied health research projects.

Health and wellbeing research at York: overview (PDF , 200kb)

 

research-champions@york.ac.uk

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