HUMUS - Terveydenhuolto rakentamassa kestävää tulevaisuutta ("Healthcare Building a Sustainable Future") is a transdisciplinary research project that explores the potential of healthcare to address the planet's ecological crisis by integrating sustainability science and medicine. By developing tools and models, HUMUS aims to promote a comprehensive and sustainable approach to well-being, recognizing the interdependence between human health and diverse, vibrant ecosystems.
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MESSU (Medicalization, Sacred and Sustainability) is a multidisciplinary research project that explores how societal norms and beliefs surrounding health, illness, medication, and health care affect medicine’s capacity to understand, adopt, and act towards the goals of sustainability while adapting to the ongoing social and global transitions. By focusing on the worldview factors and sanctifications within biomedicine and health care, the project seeks to understand how these elements impact the processes of medicalization and sustainability and the relationship between these. Particular interest is put on the meaning-making processes underlying medicalization
PLANT STRONG - supporting planetary food choices with digital tools How AI-assisted coaching works and affects individual food choices? How can we explore the effects of diet changes on the individual carbon footprint and, more broadly, sustainability.