Joakim Ekberg

My interest is efficacy/effectiveness and adherence in health interventions, both adherences of health care service to available evidence, adherence of health professionals to protocol, and of patients’ adherence to intervention programmes, e.g. adherence from pilot study to patient, from efficacy to effectiveness.

AFFILIATIONS

• Member of MDA (www.ida.liu.se/labs/mda/)
• Member of Safe Sports International (www.safesportsinternational.org/)
• Member of the CriSIM group (http://www.crisim.org/)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Adherence in health interventions
• Social, emotional, cognitive and experienced-based factors in behaviour
• Risk cognition and risk communication in health care
• Impact of behavioural assumptions in modelling of infectious disease outbreaks

RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Child obesity [FORSS]
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Anxiety Disorders: Effectiveness and adherence in frontline (pre-primary care) settings
• "Now-casting" of infectious disease outbreaks: integration of syndrome detection and simulation technologies in response planning [VR 2008-5252]
• Towards systematic prevention of athletics injuries: use of clinical epidemiology for evidence-based injury prevention
• Modeling and Simulation of Epidemic Disease Outbreaks in Local Communities [VR 2006-4433]
• Assumptions Management in Simulation of Infectious Disease Outbreaks [VR 2009-6291]

PUBLICATIONS

Joakim Ekbergs publications in Diva (publication database).