At their annual conference on November 29, 2024, the focus will be on networking academia and industry. “Interprofessional, digital, sustainable” is the motto under which the Bremen researchers are investigating starting points for more equal opportunities in health. This is because Bremerhaven and Bremen, like many cities in which there are major differences in social living conditions, face challenges in healthcare and health-promoting urban development.
Social inequalities mean that prevention and healthcare services can be perceived very differently by people. The “Gesunde Stadt Bremen” (Healthy City Bremen) research cluster is based on the World Health Organization's “healthy city” framework, which aims to reduce health inequalities and take health into account in all sectors.

The various research projects address a wide range of topics: for example, the importance of young people's risk perception for local prevention practice, health care in neighborhood-based health centers, the question of what improvements preventive home visits bring for the elderly, and how digital technologies affect outpatient care. Other projects are dedicated to the issue of how integrated small-scale monitoring could be developed in order to contribute to health-promoting urban development and how healthcare could help protect the climate. In all research projects, the scientists work closely with partner institutions in the field and the senatorial authorities in the state of Bremen.

Conference Focus: Networking of Practitioners and Academics

The research cluster invites everyone who works in this field or is interested in the topic of health-promoting urban development to the annual conference, which will take place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on November 29, 2024 at the Kwadrat (Wilhelm-Kaisen-Brücke 4, Bremen).
This year, the focus will be on the networking of practitioners and academics. Together with experts from the state of Bremen and other scientists, the topic of healthy cities will be discussed from various perspectives.
The conference will be opened by Dr. Ralph Baumheier, State Councilor to the Senator for Construction, Mobility, and Urban Development. Afterwards, keynote speeches will provide insights into the current status of the research projects. Participants can then look forward to various formats that encourage discussions and networking. In addition to fact sheets and poster presentations, where projects from the fields of practice and academia will be presented, workshops will enable in-depth discussions on the topics of loneliness in Bremen, digitally strengthening social participation in old age, the environmental justice atlas, integrated small-scale monitoring, as well as climate neutrality in healthcare.

Contact:

"Gesunde Stadt Bremen" research cluster spokespersons:

Prof. Dr. Gabriele Bolte, Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research, University of Bremen
Prof. Dr. Christian von Wissel, Bremen University of Applied Sciences
Prof. Dr. Johanne Pundt, APOLLON Hochschule der Gesundheitswirtschaft

Academic coordination and contact:
Dr.-Ing. Julita Skodra, Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research, University of Bremen
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Further Information:

https://gesundheitscampusbremen.de/forschungscluster/forschungscluster-aktuelles/ (in German only)