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Panel 11 – medicine | health sciences
consisting of 5 persons (1 prof., 1 junior researcher, 3 PhD students).
The group are attracting reasonable sums of funding (15,2 MSEK during
2003–07).
Relevance. Some work is relevant but the major theoretical developments
are on the interesting fringes of health economics, rather than being at
the centre of modern techniques. These new developments seem to reflect
the speciality of the leading researcher and are important but unlikely to
lead to Lund being placed in the centre of mainstreamheath economics
developments.
Vitality and organisational capacity. Health economics is an important
research area with great potential for the future and it could be used as a
link between different research areas and centres.
Overall grading: Good
Forensic Medicine. This research area does not demonstrate significant
research activity. No research group is presented and no information
is available about productivity or other aspects of activity needed for
evaluation.
Overall grading: Poor
3.6 Physiotherapy
Research focuses on 4 main areas – rehabilitation for people of all ages
with functional limitations, physiotherapy interventions and outcomes;
health promotion for society – through exercise; falls prevention in
elderly persons; and physical therapy for breast-cancer arm lymphodema.
Some of these projects have, one year ago, been better harmonised into a
new research ‘platform’ called MOVE, which will guide the domains of
all future projects.
Quality. The output is of an international importance level in some
areas, such as the oncology research. The publications cover a very wide
range of topics, and unusually include several diverse studies focusing on
particular areas, such as the knee – knee condition after stroke, injury,
football activity, cycling, advancing age. Several studies focus on issues
of work capacity. Journals which publish the work are mainly national,
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