Research Centre for Health Promotion and Resources HiST/NTNU (the Centre) is a research unit coowned by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU and The Sør-Trøndelag University College HiST.
The Centre will aim at the development of new knowledge which will contribute to a better focus in health promotion work. The Centre will take part in the scientific exploration of what promotes, maintains and restores good health – both in healthy, vulnerable and diseased populations. The research group has a bio-psycho-social- existential health understanding. Health is understood as a positive resource which every person has more or less of. The Centre will contribute to new knowledge about the following:
Factors that promote, sustain, and restore good health in healthy people, vulnerable or exposed groups, and those with health deficiencies
Factors that promote health (i.e., salutogenesis) as opposed to constantly focusing on factors that generate illness and disease (i.e., pathogenesis).
Research Centre for health Promotion and Resources HiST/NTNU also comprises a Unit for Best Practice in health promotion and prevention to help organisations gather and systemize research/knowledge on actual health promotional interventions, to translate knowledge to practical use, and to evaluate health promotional and preventive interventions and practise.