About the project
The €2.9M research and development effort brings together 6 European countries and 6 organisations that will collaborate on the EU-Wise project (Self-care Support for People with Long Term Conditions, Diabetes NDS Heart Disease: A Whole System Approach).
Objectives
Our research aims to understand the role and influences of resources external to health services which have an impact on peoples capacities to manage a long term condition. It focuses on the need to explore resources and relationships within peoples’ personal communities as a means of better understanding and helping to develop interventions that are more fit for purpose for engaging with people who live in deprived circumstances .
Intervention with focus on social network
Background
A central focus is the extent to which policies actions and resources as national and cross- national levels shape activities of health and voluntary sectors locally and thus on self care support capacity. We will be utilizing mixed methods including social networks analysis and will conduct a number of reviews. We will undertake indepth qualitative research to inform a work package designed to produce self care interventions.
We are a multi-disciplinary group extending across the clinical, qualitative, quantitative, social sciences. With our roots in both social and clinical family medicine, our research includes a focus spanning from health policy through local clinical, community and social levels to a focus on personal communities and individual self care actions
Cooperation
EU- Wise is led by Anne Rogers currently at the University of Manchester, which is acting as the co-ordinating organisation.
Participants in the EU-Wise programme include:
- THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER UNIMAN, United Kingdom, Anne Rogers, Professor of the Sociology of Health Care
- UNIVERSITY OF NATIONAL AND WORLD ECONOMY UNWE, Bulgaria , Elka Todorova, Professor at the Department of Economic Sociology
- UNIVERSIDAD DE NAVARRA UNAV Spain, Dr Maria del Carmen Portillo Vega
- PANEPISTIMIO KRITIS (UNIVERSITY OF CRETE), UoC Greece, Christos Lionis, Professor i Social and Family Medicine
- STICHTING KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT RUNMC, Netherlands, Professor Michel Wensing
- FUNDACION EDUCACION SALUD Y SOCIEDAD EHSF, Spain, Manual Serrano Gill, President
- UNIVERSITY OF OSLO, Norway, I. Christina Foss; Professor at Institute for Health and Society
Financing
EU
Start - Finish
2012 - 2016
