Promoting Access to Health Services through Participatory Approach: E-Health Intervention to Promote Good Health Seeking (PATHS)

Promoting Access to Health Services through Participatory Approach: E-Health Intervention to Promote Good Health Seeking (PATHS)

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The proposed project investigates the health needs and barriers to healthcare access for Ukrainian Refugee Women (URW) in Norway, Sweden, and Estonia.

Recognizing that migrants often underutilize healthcare services and face unique challenges, the project aims to create a comprehensive understanding of their health-seeking behaviors and perceptions of the healthcare system.

By focusing on URW, the project will design and develop a User-Centered Design (UCD) of Digital Health Interventions (DHI) to improve information dissemination, healthcare access, and support systems.

Utilizing participatory design techniques and involving multidisciplinary teams, the project seeks to enhance integration into Nordic-Baltic healthcare systems and aligns with multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Project number: 196420

Funder: Nordic-Baltic initiative for migration and integration research, NordForsk

Research area: Nordic initiative on Migration and Integration Research

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Nord Baltic Migration and Integration Research, Final Awarded teams, 17th June Malmö 2025.
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Gunnlaug Daugstad, Chair of call committee, at the Nord Baltic Migration and Integration Research, Kick off seminar, NordForsk, 17th June Malmö 2025.
Ashis Jalote Parmar presenting.
Ashis Jalote Parmar, Principal Investigator in the PATHS project, presenting the project at the meeting in Malmö.
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The PATHS team in Malmö, from left: Soorej Jose Puthoopparambil (Uppsala University), Anneli Uusküla (University of Tartu), Ashis Jalote Parmar (NTNU) and Heiki Eesmaa (University of Tartu).

All photos from the meeting in Malmö were taken by Bethina Strandberg-Jensen/NordForsk.

Path partners

 

Path partners

 

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Project Leader

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Research Team

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Estonia - University of Tartu

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Sweden - Uppsala university

Project members

Organisation Collaborators

Gunvor Sylvi Berg
Department Manager Refugee Health Team
Trondheim kommune
gunvor-sylvi.berg@trondheim.kommune.no

Caritas Oslo
International Organization for Humanitarian Work: Migrants and Refugees
Caritas Norge  
Herdis Nundal, avdelingsleder nasjonalt arbeid og migrasjon
herdis.nundal@caritas.no