Preben Bendtsen

Work tasks and field of teching

• Chair the research area ”Social Medicine and Public Health Sciences”
• Teacher at the medical school
• R & D coordinator for the Local Health Care in the Western County, Östergötland County Council.
• Research director for Lifestyle Intervention Implementation Research (LiiR) group who conducts research on lifestyle habits and how to influence people to change their unhealthy lifestyles.

Read more about the Lifestyle Intervention Implementation Research Group 

Research interests:

• Implementation of lifestyle interventions in the health sector
• Development of innovative lifestyle interventions
• mHealth and eHealth

Current research projects:

• Development of an SMS based stop smoking intervention
• Development of SMS and mejl based alcohol interventions to university students

Assignments:

• Board member of the Swedish Journal of Social Medicine
• Deputy member of the Regional Ethical Review Board in Linköping
• Board member of the Board of the Department of Medicine and Health
• Board member of the board of student health care at the University of Linköping
• Board member of Linköping physician society
• Scientific Advisory Board to the National Institute of Public Health

Thesis:

Rheumatoid Arthritis. Patient perception of disease, care, quality of life, coping and well-being. A study from a Swedish health care district.

Preben Bendtsens publications in DiVA (publication database).