Child and Family Health

With special emphases on:

• Promoting health and preventing illness during pregnancy and in child- and adulthood by
  - the identification of adverse factors of importance for capabilities and health later in life
  - the development of methods to identify barriers and facilitators in family structures enabling life-style changes and possible effects of interventions

• Developing and  testing programmes for
  - health promotion for young adults with CP
  - family support in Child Health Care.

• Testing models for, and estimate the cost-efficiency of:
  - a number of individualised preparation and treatments for children with different types of long-term illnesses
  - individualised home-based care for children diagnosed with diabetes, cancer and preterm born infants.

• Promoting the translation and implementation of best practice strategies from need tailored and patient-centered care into routine practice, monitoring and following up the implementation process and long-term outcomes, in collaboration with practice contexts