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Brief Research Description

Quality in Healthcare and Evidence Based Medicine: Experimental studies on effectiveness of clinical/critical/care pathways; development and evaluation of model for quality improvement of care processes and organization of care; clinical trials and trials for evaluating complex interventions in healthcare and studying defensive medicine, risk management, and second victims in healthcare.

Healthcare Planning and Organization: Development and experimentation of managerial models for integration of hospital and primary care - priority setting, disease management and chronic care models; development of risk management models; study of accreditation systems; technology assessment; clinical governance.

Epidemiology and Community Medicine: Study of the effect of air pollution and population health related outcomes, study of population’s pathological addictions – smoke habits, study of inequalities in healthcare and small area variations. Scientific approach to decreasing disease risk and illness burden by utilizing lifestyle medicine interventions such as nutrition, physical activity, stress reduction and rest (Lifestyle Medicine). 

Keywords

Public Health, Healthcare planning, Organization, Epidemiology, Lifestyle Medicine

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