Health and Wellbeing

Health Informatics

How can the intelligent use of information and technology to provide better care for patients and how can we use data to understand and impact the health of the population?

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Allocating scarce global health resources

How do you compare the value of treatments for different conditions? Sheffield researchers have developed an algorithm to inform global healthcare decisions that takes account of people’s preferences for different aspects of health.

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Good health comes at a cost: measuring and valuing health and quality of life

Professor Aki Tsuchiya is a Health Economist working between the School of Health and Related Research and the Department of Economics, and her work looks at how we value good health.

Returning to work after Covid-19

For those working from home or on furlough during the pandemic, the lack of structure and routine has created a cause for concern over people’s mental health throughout lockdown.

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Helping to achieve positive changes in equality and diversity for all working in the NHS

Jeremy Dawson is a Professor of Health Management for the Sheffield Management School. His research aims to enhance the experiences of black and minority ethnic (BAME) staff within England’s National Health Service.

Health across the lifecourse

Our research explores health and wellbeing in the context of the life stages people move through and the social and cultural processes and policy encounters that shape these stages.

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Challenging taboos and changing practice: the case of baby-loss and post-mortem

One in six pregnancies will end in a miscarriage in the UK. In 2016, more than 5500 babies were recorded as stillborn or died in the neonatal phase. To reduce this, it’s fundamental that a post-mortem is carried out but consenting to this is an overwhelming decision for parents.

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Raising awareness and informing choices about online support for people living with breast cancer

The Space for Sharing study explores the online relationships and behaviour of people affected by a variety of extreme circumstances, including disasters and crises, life-threatening and shortening conditions, emotional destress and more.

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Brexit, health and me: Educating young people on the links between politics and healthcare

Academics in the Department of Politics and International Relations and the School of Law have teamed up with Shout Out UK to produce a documentary exploring the perspectives, hopes and expectations for health and the NHS in the aftermath of Brexit.

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New research published to tackle loneliness among migrant and ethnic minority groups

A cross-faculty team from the University of Sheffield has collaborated with colleagues from Brunel and De Montfort Universities on a major new project focused on better understanding loneliness among migrant and ethnic minority groups.

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A new resource for behavioural science - developing tools for understanding the relationship between behaviours

A team led by Professor Thomas Webb at the University of Sheffield’s Healthy Lifespan Institute and the Department of Psychology has been awarded £435k from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

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Tools for Life: Data Sharing and Public Health

The Tools for Life project is engaging patients and the public in a dialogue about the benefits and risks of sharing their personal data for purposes beyond their direct care.

Sustainable care

How do we create a sustainable care system that protects those in care and the people looking after others professionally and in an unpaid capacity? Research within the Faculty of Social Sciences is exploring what our care system looks like and how we can work to make it better for those in care

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Sustainable Care: Connecting People and Systems

The Sustainable Care Programme works to advance understanding of sources of economic and social sustainability in care, especially how wellbeing outcomes can be achieved for care users, their families and carers and paid care workers.

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One in four working carers considering quitting their job, research shows

University of Sheffield study reveals an estimated 1.6 million working carers in England and Wales are struggling to combine caring responsibilities with their jobs - with women worst affected.

How our trade deals will impact healthcare access across Europe

Protecting health and healthcare was one of the key issues during the EU referendum in 2016, and now, with the coronavirus crisis still ongoing, it is a crucial part of the trade negotiations. Our new research briefing for UK in a Changing Europe suggests the need for greater transparency to show the implications of the current UK-EU and UK-US trade negotiations for the NHS, and for health more generally.

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A worrying picture: unpaid carers face intolerable pressures during pandemic

Research from the Sustainable Care programme at The University of Sheffield, along with the University of Birmingham, has revealed that unpaid carers are twice as likely to have used a food bank during the pandemic.

Healthy Lifespan

The Healthy Lifespan Institute is transforming the experience of ageing. We’re the UK’s first interdisciplinary research institute dedicated to understanding and preventing multimorbidity and frailty - to help everyone live healthier lives for longer.

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Healthy Lifespan Institute