Geoqol ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** "We are looking for cooperation with academic partners as well as public organizations in social inequalities in health/quality of life and sustainable regional development." ****************************************************************************************** * Offer ****************************************************************************************** We offer the monitoring, evaluation and analysis of inequalities in: - health - health-risk behaviour - life style and similar socio-spatial phenomena. ****************************************************************************************** * Know-how & Technologies ****************************************************************************************** Research Center GeoQol is mainly interested in the analysis of the current state of the po individual and social care methods, and environmental impacts and the socio-economic clima health: - Population health and its geographical distribution - Social epidemiology and social psychiatry - Quality of life, social exclusion and integration of selected population groups into the focus on immigrants and health-handicapped - Lifestyle during the transformation period - Shopping, retail and customer behaviour - Value orientation in transforming society - Gender issues, queer geographies - Occupational diseases and risk factors at work. "Our mission is to improve the health and quality of life of populations, communities, and through high-quality inter-disciplinary research.“ ****************************************************************************************** * Content of Research ****************************************************************************************** Research Centre on Health, Quality of Life and Lifestyle in a Geodemographic and Socioecon (GeoQol) is an interdisciplinary-oriented working group of scientific researchers, compose science teachers and students of the Department of Social Geography and Regional Developme Science in the Charles University in Prague, the National Institute of Mental Health and t Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London. *========================================================================================= * Main Capabilities *========================================================================================= - Complex thinking, ability to incorporate a range of various factors – social, economic, especially spatial - Cross-cutting skills needed in state/local health departments - Assisting regional/local departments in their strategic planning - Working with soft ware for statistical data handling *========================================================================================= * Key Research Equipment *========================================================================================= Modern technology for working with large data sources and their thorough analysis (SPPS, G for producing the outputs (plotters for large-size printing, scanners). ****************************************************************************************** * Main Projects ****************************************************************************************** - EURO-HEALTHY – Shaping EUROpean policies to promote HEALTH equity, the greatest potentia health and achieving the health equality between European regions, with a particular focus areas, 2015–2017, HORIZON 2020 - Participation in other projects funded by the Czech Science Foundation, two projects fun Charles University Grant Agency, one project funded by the Grant Agency of the Academy of Czech Republic, and one project funded by the Grant Agency of the Ministry of Health - SOPHIE – Evaluating the impact of structural policies on health inequalities and their s determinants and fostering change, 2011–2015, Seventh Framework European Programme - INEQ-CITIES – Socio-economic inequalities in morta-lity: evidence and policies in cities 2012, Executive Agency for Health and Consumers (EAHC), EU ****************************************************************************************** * Partners and Collaborations ****************************************************************************************** *========================================================================================= * Academic International Partners *========================================================================================= Agencia de Salut Pública de Barcelona | Dartmouth University| Erasmus Medical Centre Rotte Universidade de Coimbra | University College of London | University of California, Berkele *========================================================================================= * Private and Public Sector *========================================================================================= Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic | National Institute of Public Health (SZU) | Nat of Mental Health (NUDZ) | Public Health Authority of Central Bohemia Region Czech Statisti Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic (UZIS) | Occupational Institute | DG Labour Office of the Czech Republic | Department of Occupational Medicine, Medicine, Charles University in Prague *========================================================================================= * Achievements *========================================================================================= - Publications in respected international journals with high impact factors: Health & Plac Journal of Health Geographics, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, International Epide-miology, Tobacco Control, Diabetologia, Children’s Geographies, BioMed Research Inte national Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health etc. - Established a new MSc course in Social Epidemiology from the academic year 2015/2016, wi cooperation with partners from University College London *========================================================================================= * Are you interested in this expertisa? *========================================================================================= Please contact CPPT UK Web: www.cppt.cuni.cz/ [ URL "https://cppt.cuni.cz/"] Mail: transfer@cuni.cz Tel.: +420 224 491 255 *========================================================================================= * Experts and their department *========================================================================================= Prof. RNDr. Dagmar Dzúrová, CSc. Research Centre on Health, Quality of Life and Lifestyle in a Geodemographic and Socioecon (GeoQol) Web: geoqol.natur.cuni.cz [ URL "http://geoqol.natur.cuni.cz"]