The Institute for Public Health complements unilateral medical approach towards clinical research and teaching in biomedicine. It pursues an interdisciplinary approach, which specifically includes the social sciences. The Institute is dedicated to the following research areas:
Research areas
- Preventive medicine in health care
- Research program on suicide prevention
- Research Program on stroke prevention
- Research program on dementia assessment - Impact of telemedicine in health care
- Tele-stroke research - Technology transfer and distance learning
- Affordability of healthcare
- Research on viable medical practice
- Research ethics in health Care
- Pharmaceutical economics with HTA approach - Evidence-based Research Service for Medical Diagnostics
Research project:
The structure and organization of laboratories services in the province of Salzburg
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Phase 1: July 2007 - December 2007 (completed)
Presentation of laboratory project -
Phase 2: March 2008 - January 2009
Objectives:
- Guarantee universal service and quality assurance
- Defined standardization of laboratory results
- Standardization of quality and quality control
- Models for medical/economic improvements
- Logistic models for shipping samples
- Participating hospitals and contacts
- Cooperation Fachhochschule Steyr - Process Management and Healthcare
Presentation of laboratory structure
Accompanying Moodle platform for the project " Laboratory Structure Salzburg": http://193.171.63.199/moodle/course/view.php?id=54
