We use cookies on this website. Cookies help us deliver the best experience on our website. Read about cookies.
-
- Education
- Education
- Programmes and courses
- Applications and admissions
- Tuition fees
- Scholarships
- Exchange studies at Malmö University
- Study Guidance
-
- After admission
- After admission
- Moving to Malmö
- Pre-orientation
- Arrival guide
-
- About studies at Malmö University
- About studies at Malmö University
- Why choose Malmö University
- Understanding university studies
- Connect with current students
On the page -
- Research
- Research
-
- Doctoral studies
- Doctoral studies
- Doctoral courses
-
- Doctoral schools
- Doctoral schools
- Education, Learning and Globalisation
- Doctoral school: Learning in Multicultural Societal Contexts
- ComBine
- Swedish National Graduate School in Science and Technology Education Research
- Doctoral school: Relevancing Mathematics and Science Education (RelMaS)
- Doctoral school: Sustainable Movement Education
- Finding ways in a time of great future challenges (FinnFram)
- Doctoral school: Pedagogy and Vocational Skills
- Doctoral school: Culturally Empowering Education through Language and Literature
- Research subjects
-
- Prominent research
- Prominent research
-
- Research publications
- Research publications
- Search publications
- Malmö University Press
- Research events
- Participate in a research study
On the page -
- Collaboration and Innovation
- Collaboration and Innovation
- Areas of collaboration
- Innovation
- Collaboration with students
-
- Collaborate with researchers
- Collaborate with researchers
- Labs and facilities
- Culture collaboration
- Support Malmö University
On the page -
- About us
- About us
-
- Faculties and departments
- Faculties and departments
-
- Faculty of Culture and Society
- Faculty of Culture and Society
- Department of Urban Studies
- Department of Global Political Studies
- School of Arts and Communication
-
- Faculty of Education and Society
- Faculty of Education and Society
- Department of Childhood, Education and Society
- Department of Sports Sciences
- Department of Natural Science, Mathematics and Society
- Department of School Development and Leadership
- Department of Culture, Languages and Media
- Department of Society, Culture and Identity
-
- Faculty of Technology and Society
- Faculty of Technology and Society
- Department of Computer Science and Media Technology
- Department of Materials Science and Applied Mathematics
- Faculty of Odontology
-
- University Dental Clinic
- University Dental Clinic
- About the University Dental Clinic
-
- Find and contact Malmö University
- Find and contact Malmö University
- Visit Malmö University
- News and press
- Map of the buildings (Google Maps)
- Merchandise
- Whistleblowing
- Management and decision-making paths
-
- Vision, objectives and strategy 2025
- Vision, objectives and strategy 2025
- Global engagement
- Sustainability
- Widened recruitment and participation
- Quality assurance work at the University
-
- Malmö Academic Choir and Orchestra
- Malmö Academic Choir and Orchestra
- Student work – video pieces
- Alumni & Friends
-
- Annual Academic Celebration
- Annual Academic Celebration
- Academic traditions
- Meet our new professors
- The University in a troubled world
On the page
PHED - Precision Health and Everyday Democracy
Facts
- Contact person:
- Michael Strange
- Financer:
-
- STINT – The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education
- Responsible at MaU:
- Michael Strange
- Project members at MaU:
- Collaborators :
-
- Carol Nilsson - Lund University
- Time frame:
- 01 January 2019 - 31 December 2025
- Faculty/department:
- Research environment :
- Research subject:
About the project
Our consortium seeks to address an urgent challenge to society, namely the requirement to better understand how health practitioners and policy-makers can respond to increasing variations in the Swedish population that impact health needs and outcomes. To achieve that goal, the proposed multinational consortium is intended to internationalize the development of:
- precision healthcare tools that are sensitive to the needs of a varied population;
- political science research to identify the social exclusions that undermine precision healthcare and, using democratic theories, to explore the options for ensuring medical practitioners are better equipped to listen and acknowledge variation amongst the individuals they treat; and
- educational modules associated to these research topics. In the long-term perspective, our innovative programme is likely to increase the equality of precision treatment in Sweden, as well as promote the integration and education of new citizens, followed by an improvement in health equity with additional benefits for Sweden.
Recent advances within healthcare and medical research have been uneven globally, but also within nation-states, with the result that there is growing interest in the relevance of both environmental and genomic factors in determining how best to treat patients and ensure a healthy society. At the same time, health has become an increasingly central issue within how societies mark out their borders and internal structures, excluding those without sufficient residency papers, or segregating access along wealth, racial, or gender lines. In that context, health practitioners have spoken increasingly of ’Precision Health’, meaning greater understanding and collection of data that is sensitive to these disparities so as to better tailor healthcare towards different communities, both to enhance well-being, but counter the worst consequences of societal inequalities.
’Everyday democracy’
Drawing on the Social Sciences, health is understood as a central mechanism not only for enhancing welfare but also through which everyday people experience being part of society. For over two decades, scholars working in both the Health and Social Sciences have spoken of ’Health Democracy’ – using democratic models to enhance patient access to healthcare, but also to better study the role of healthcare and medical research within society. We use the term ’everyday democracy’ to move further in that direction, understanding mundane medical and health interactions as fundamental to the shaping of contemporary society. Health, healthcare, and medical research have a significant impact on how citizenship – both as legally codified and practised – is experienced, but also the extent to which a society is maintained.
PHED seminar series
PHED Play
PHED Play: Seminars
PHED Play: Seminars
Health, healthcare, and medical research have a significant impact on how citizenship – both as legally codified and practised – is experienced, but also the extent to which a society is maintained. Watch our seminars in play.mau.se.
PHED in media
PHED in media
Three proposals for how society can achieve better welfare – read our debate article in Sydsvenskan (in Swedish). Vaccination of refugees and the homeless a sensitive issue (in Swedish).
PHED Commission on the Future of Healthcare Post Covid-19
PHED Commission on the Future of Healthcare Post Covid-19
Sign-up here to receive news on future events held as part of the PHED Commission. Read all about the Commission at phed.uni.mau.se.
Method
Innovating through interdisciplinarity
PHED combines an extremely broad range of disciplines, including epidemiology, pharmacology, genomics, care sciences, mass spectrometry, and political science. This creates huge challenges in terms of translation but, as we have proved through our meetings, radical interdisciplinarity is an investment worth making as it is driving us towards innovations that help rethink the role and future development of healthcare and medicine, as well as what democracy means and how it may be strengthened towards the promotion of human well-being and a sustainable world.
Why is everyday democracy relevant to precision healthcare?
Everyday democracy
- A paradigm shift in healthcare: ´patient-centred´;
- Relates to the representative model of democracy – via participation (e.g. elections);
- But also includes a focus on ´informed consent´:
- Information on their condition, but also their options;
- Tailoring to diverse needs.
- Follow-up support beyond the immediate condition, i.e. counselling.
- Understanding how the patients' condition affects their family and other close relations, and that those relations are relevant to their healthcare.
- Deliberative democracy? – dialogue that creates a democratic subject.
Potential drivers:
- Legitimacy;
- Quality;
- Open to diverse population data
Role of healthcare in society?
- To cure illness, and enhance well-being;
- For marginalised communities, also one of the main ways in which they experience being part of an organised society.
Everyday democracy
- The ´democratic´ element of healthcare – the ´everyday´ experience of being in a society.
- Inclusion/exclusion – who gets access to healthcare, but also who is given the means to be an informed patient. This also includes pharmaceutical development.
- Relations of power – gender, race. Relates also to the design of integration policies and their impact on well-being.
- Empowerment and mobility – the role of healthcare (and health research) in ensuring persons can engage in society.
An international consortium
PHED is an international consortium led by Lund University and Malmö University, involving the University of Texas, Baylor College of Medicine, and the Federal University Rio de Janeiro.
At Malmö University, it is a cross-faculty collaboration between the Faculty of Culture and Society (Dept. of Global Political Studies) and the Faculty of Health and Society (Dept. of Care Sciences), and will be hosted by the Research Centre Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM).
The main project finance for our first three year period has been generously provided after a successful application to The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT - Stiftelsen för internationalisering av högre utbildning och forskning).
Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM)
International partners
- Dr John Allen, Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA.
- Dr Melissa Bondy, Associate Director of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences at the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, USA.
- Dr Kathryn A. Cunningham, Chauncey Leake Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology; Director, Center for Addiction Research; Vice-Chair, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Galveston, Texas, USA.
- Dr Gilberto Barbosa Demont, Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Dr Philip J. Lupo, Departments of Pediatrics (primary) and Medicine (secondary) at Baylor College of Medicine, and adjunct at Human Genetics Center, Division of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, USA.
- Dr Fábio César Sousa Nogueira, Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Article
Refugees in Sweden During the Covid-19 Pandemic – The Need for a New Perspective on Health and Integration, in Frontiers in Public Health, 19 October 2020.
-
2023 | Article in journal
Communicating Research as a Public Discussion: The PHED Commission on the Future of Health Care Post-COVID 19
Michael Strange
-
2022 | Report
Report #2 PHED commission on the future of healthcare post covid-19: universal health coverage for a real future. Based on sessions conducted from March until June 2021
Elisabeth Mangrio, Kyra Nieuwenhuijsen, Rahel Wahel Sebhatu, Michael Strange, Slobodan Zdravkovic
-
2022 | Report
Rapport #2 PHED-kommissionen för framtiden för hälso-och sjukvård efter Covid-19: allmän hälso- och sjukvård för en gemensam framtid. Baserad på offentliga seminarier som hållits mars - juni 2021
Elisabeth Mangrio, Kyra Nieuwenhuijsen, Rahel Wahel Sebhatu, Michael Strange, Slobodan Zdravkovic
-
2022 | Chapter in book
The well-being of marginalized migrants in Europe duing the Covid-19 epidemic: evidence from France, Sweden, and the UK
Louise Dalingwater, Elisabeth Mangrio, Michael Strange, Slobodan Zdravkovic
-
2022 | Article in journal
Risk for mental illness following exposure to violence and threats among newly arrived refugees
Elisabeth Mangrio, Slobodan Zdravkovic, Anna-Karin Ivert
-
2022 | Chapter in book
Segregation within welfare societies: Communication Barriers to Migrants`Healthcare in Scandinavia
Elisabeth Mangrio, Michael Strange
-
2022 | Article in journal
Working With Refugees' Health During COVID-19: The Experience of Health- and Social Care Workers in Sweden
Elisabeth Mangrio, Slobodan Zdravkovic, Michael Strange
-
2021 | Report
Rapport #1 PHED-kommissionen för framtiden för hälso-och sjukvård efter Covid-19: Ojämlikhet i samhället gör oss sårbara för pandemier
Michael Strange, Hilda Gustafsson, Elisabeth Mangrio, Slobodan Zdravkovic
-
2021 | Report
Report #1 PHED-commission on the future of healthcare post covid-19: social inequity makes us vulnerable to pandemics
Michael Strange, Hilda Gustafsson, Elisabeth Mangrio, Slobodan Zdravkovic
-
2020 | Article in journal
The Precision Health and Everyday Democracy (PHED) Project: Protocol for a Transdisciplinary Collaboration on Health Equity and the Role of Health in Society
Michael Strange, Carol Nilsson, Slobodan Zdravkovic, Elisabeth Mangrio