We are an interdisciplinary team of lawyers, public health and health policy specialists.
Experience:
- Analysis of legal acts in the field of determinants of medical professions, patient rights, drug advertising.
- Qualitative research on the functioning of psychiatric care and on the functioning of people with intellectual disabilities.
- Qualitative and quantitative research on the availability and quality of psychiatric health care.
- Quantitative research on Internet addiction.
- Quantitative research on attitudes towards disabled people.
- Quantitative research on attitudes and behaviors towards COVID-19.
- Creating original survey questionnaires.
- Validation of the questionnaires.
- Creating reports on the epidemiological situation and trends based on Global Burden Diesease data.
Skills and competences:
- Analysis of legal acts.
- Ability to create questionnaires for quantitative research.
- Experience in conducting quantitative and qualitative research.
- Ability to make statistical calculations.
- Ability to read and interpret epidemiological indicators, efficient use of Global Burden of Disease databases.
- Ability to work in a team.
Research infrastructure:
- Access to databases of Polish jurisprudence.
- Access to databases of medical scientific journals.
The expertise offered includes:
- Medical law, especially patient rights and regulations relating to the medical profession: doctors, nurses, midwives, physiotherapists, paramedics.
- Organization of health care, quality and availability of health care.
- Health policy, especially in the field of mental health and drug advertising.
- Public health, especially contemporary public health challenges: knowledge, practices and attitudes towards COVID-19; addiction to the Internet and computer games; domestic violence; epidemiological indicators.
- Creating questionnaires for quantitative research.
- Performing statistical analysis of the results of quantitative research.
- Conducting qualitative research.
- Conducting survey research.
- Validation of standardized questionnaires.
- Support for Global Burden of Disease databases.
- Analysis of epidemiological indicators: Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) lost, Years of Life Lost (YLL), Healthy Life Years (HeaLYs) lost, QUALYs.
- Analysis of health behaviors of selected social groups.
The group is interested in cooperation in:
- Research on the social determinants of health.
- Research on Internet addiction, gaming addiction.
- Research on the functioning of the disabled and mentally ill.
- Health policy analysis.
- The analysis of legal acts concerning public health and medical law, especially international comparisons.
- Health policy evaluation and comparison especially in the field of drug advertising and ensuring the availability of psychiatric care.
- The analysis of the quality and availability of healthcare.
- International comparisons of the health status of populations.
- International comparisons of epidemiological trends.
- Research on knowledge, attitudes and behavior related to COVID-19.
- Research on attitudes towards people with disabilities.
Thematic area - Cluster in Horizon Europe: 1. Health