Ernæring og livskvalitet

Programme for Nutrition and Quality of Life

The Programme for Nutrition and Quality of Life conducts research on food, meals and nutrition as central factors for health and quality of life. The programme focuses in particular on people living with or beyond cancer and obesity, and examines how nutritional interventions can support wellbeing, agency and everyday life in different life situations.

The research draws on both nutritional and psychosocial perspectives and examines how food and meals form part of people’s everyday lives, illness trajectories and rehabilitation. The programme works with understandings of nutrition as more than a biological need and contributes knowledge on how nutritional interventions can be organised in person-centred and meaningful ways.

The programme is practice-oriented and interdisciplinary and conducts research in close collaboration with citizens, patients, professionals and practice settings. Research designs and methods are applied that make it possible to examine the significance of nutrition in concrete everyday and practice contexts, with a focus on solutions that can be applied in practice.

The programme focuses in particular on:

• food, meals and nutrition in relation to health and quality of life

• nutrition during and after illness, including cancer and obesity

• person-centred and practice-oriented nutritional interventions

• the interaction between nutrition, wellbeing and everyday life

The research programme is anchored in VIA’s Research Centre for Prevention and Rehabilitation. The programme is headed by Head of Programme, Associate Professor and PhD Marie E. Christensen. Read more about the programme on the website: via.dk/forskning/pleje-og-rehabilitering/ernaering-og-livskvalitet