Samhällsnutrition och fysisk aktivitet – Liselotte Schäfer Elinders forskargrupp

Kostvanor och fysisk aktivitet är bland de viktigaste bestämningsfaktorerna för hälsa och välbefinnande. En ohälsosam kost och en stillasittande livsstil ökar kraftigt risken för kroniska sjukdomar som hjärt- och kärlsjukdomar, obesitas, typ 2-diabetes, cancer och förlorade levnadsår. En ökad fysisk aktivitet och förbättrade matvanor avseende både näringsinnehåll och hållbarhet kan bidra till att uppnå de globala målen för hållbar utveckling (SDG).

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Research areas

Our research covers population surveys and multilevel and mixed-methods health promotion research regarding dietary habits and physical activity with a universal or targeted approach. Our projects are carried out in settings such as child healthcare, primary healthcare and schools.  

We perform: 

  • Epidemiological studies of dietary habits and physical activity and their determinants, in relation to health outcomes. 
  • Interdisciplinary research on the development, implementation and evaluation including cost-effectiveness of interventions to promote health and prevent obesity and chronic diseases globally including Sweden, Burkina Faso, Kenya and Tanzania   
  • Commissioned assignments from external partners within the groups research competence. 

Publikationer

Utvalda publikationer

Alla gruppmedlemmars publikationer

Medarbetare och kontakt

Gruppledare

Kontaktpersoner

Alla medarbetare i gruppen

Andra personer med koppling till gruppen

  • Gobbo, Elisa

Research projects

A Healthy School Start
Material till en familjestödsprogrammet en frisk skolstart Foto: N/A

A Healthy School Start

A universal health promotion and prevention family support programme.

IMPROVE
Skolgård i Stockholmsområdet Foto: Martin Stenmark

IMPROVE

Wide-scale Implementation and evaluation of the school-based family support Programme – A Healthy School Start Plus to prevent Overweight and obesity.

Co-fam
Dekorativ bild. Foto: GPH

Co-fam

A partnership model for health promotion and early prevention and treatment of obesity

Changemaker
Lärare och elever i klassrum i Afrika Foto: Getty Images

Changemaker

A project aiming to implement and evaluate a sustainable health intervention on health, nutrition, and environmental outcomes for primary prevention of adolescent obesity and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

School Food Sweden (SkolmatSverige)
A girl with two broccolis in front of the eyes Foto: Getty Images.

School Food Sweden (SkolmatSverige)

A web-based tool that can help evaluate and develop the quality of school meals from a holistic perspective.

Archived projects

Education and teaching

The group members participate in third-level education at undergraduate, graduate and doctoral level in the areas of public health nutrition and physical activity, intervention and implementation research, global health and health economics.  

Liselotte Schäfer Elinder is the course leader and lecturer for the course: Theories and methods in implementation and evaluation in the master program for public health/health promotion at KI (7 ECTS).  

Kristi Sidney Annerstedt is the course leader and lecturer for the course: Global Health Economics given to doctoral students at KI (3 ECTS).  

The research group is also responsible for a training course for school personnel: En frisk skolstart för hälsa och lärande (A healthy school start for health and learning). The course is given in Swedish.

Collaboration

MISTRA Sustainable consumption: The biggest research programme in Sweden on sustainable consumption 

Today it is relatively widely known that consumption in countries such as Sweden is not sustainable. A great deal of the environmental impact of Swedish consumption takes place abroad, in the countries where the goods are produced. At the same time, there is a shortage of research into what sustainable consumption really means and how we can convert towards this – as individuals, as companies, through civil society organisations and through politics. The goal of the research programme MISTRA Sustainable Consumption – from niche to mainstream is to contribute to the transition by means of increased knowledge of how sustainable consumption, which is at present practised by a few, can be scaled up and become more common. The focus is on the areas of food, holidays and home furnishings and fittings.

Read the final report and more about the research programme (in Swedish): MISTRA  Sustainable Consumption.