Wellbeing services, structures and economy

At the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥, wellbeing structures and services are examined, for instance, in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. These research themes are particularly relevant in the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy as well as interdisciplinary culturally oriented health and wellbeing research.

Research on wellbeing structures and services is one of the key areas of the Centre of Excellence in Ageing and Care Research (CoE AgeCare), funded by the Academy of Finland between 2018-2025. The Active Aging and Care (AAC) profiling area was also an active research project at the University from 2018-2022. The main research areas of AAC were active aging, the digitalization of old age, care and housing policies as well as overall wellbeing, the individual and the environment. Alongside the public sector, research has also focused on the third sector. Experiences of wellbeing structures and services have accounted for the perspectives of both customers and service staff. 

The relationship between economics and health and wellbeing is a central research theme at the Jyväskylä School of Business and Economics (JSBE), particularly in health economics, cost-effectiveness research, public sector communication, crisis communication, marketing and health as well as in research on wellbeing services. The interconnectivity of economics and wellbeing is one of the key research areas in the Empirical Microeconomics research group.

JSBE has also actively taken part in the Biodiversity Respectful Leadership (BIODIFUL) consortium coordinated by the University of Turku. The project aims to reform consumer behavior, business thinking and institutional practices towards a form of management that accounts for biodiversity.

Relevant research projects

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Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care

Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (CoE AgeCare) is one of the 12 Centres of Excellence that the Research Council of Finland has chosen for the period 2018-2025.
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Working poor in a post-industrial welfare state

We study in-work poverty in Finland, where it affects approximately 200,000 workers and their households.
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Empirical Microeconomics (EME)

Empirical microeconomics research group conducts research on labor economics, health economics, regional economics and economics of education.
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DigiConsumers Project - Improving young people's financial skills in a digitalized consumer society

DigiConsumers project
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The workplace well-being of international experts from the perspective of language proficiency

The workplace well-being of international experts from the perspective of language proficiency
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CEMIS-HYVIS - Predict, innovate, measure and analyse - wellbeing from lifestyle changes, safe and healthy working environment and safe products

Development of a ife style change supporting predictive user interface (first prototype).