Towards Sustainable Good Health and Well-being The Role of Health Literacy

Torstein Hole is a Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and is a Senior Consultant in cardiology at Ålesund Hospital, Møre og Romsdal Hospital Trust. His PhD thesis in 2003 was about Doppler echocardiographic evaluation of left ventricular function after acute myocardial infarction. He has extensive research experience from varied research areas. His present research fields are clinical and echocardiographic research in general cardiology and cardiooncology, quality of life research in heart failure, and palliative research. He also studies aspects of patient participation, and health literacy during critical and chronic disease from the perspectives of patients, next of kin, and health personnel. He is a member of the research network: Health Services during Times of Reform. Hole also supervises Master students and PhD students.

Marit Kvangarsnes is a Professor of Nursing and Pedagogy at the Department of Health Science in Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Ålesund and a Research Advisor for Helse Møre og Romsdal HF. She completed her PhD in 2005 on the national curricula in nursing education in Norway. She researches aspects of patient care, patient participation, and health literacy during critical and chronic disease from the perspectives of patients, next of kin, and health personnel. She also researches learning and professional qualification and has studied how students learn during practice periods in pre- and post-graduate nursing and medical education. Kvangarsnes leads the research network: Health Services during Times of Reform. Kvangarsnes supervises master students and PhD students. She has editorial experience across both journals and books. 

Bodil J Landstad is a Professor in Health Sciences at Mid-Sweden University and Professor in Nursing at Umeå University in Sweden. Her dissertation was completed in Rehabilitation Medicine at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. Her research interests are in the area of processes behind the inclusion of people who are either at risk of becoming marginalized or who are already marginalized (e.g., due to health, in working life, socially, as citizens, in public life, etc.). She also researches aspects of patient care, patient participation, and health literacy during critical and chronic disease from the perspectives of patients, next of kin, and health personnel. Currently, she is also working as a director of research, education and development at Region Jämtland Härjedalen, Sweden. Landstad supervises both Master students and PhD students. She has editorial experience from different journals and books.  

Elise Kvalsund Bårdsgjerde is an Associate Professor at the Department of Health Science in Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Ålesund. Her PhD project explored patient participation in the myocardial infarction pathway. She is a member of the research network Health services during times of reforms. Her research interests are patient participation and health literacy in clinical practice and in education for healthcare professionals. Her teaching relates to acute, chronic and critical illnesses and she has experience with simulation as a pedagogical method.  

Sandra Elizabeth Tippett-Spirtou is an Editor and Researcher for Publication Projects based at NTNU in Ålesund. She has over 30 years of experience in HE across the UK, Greece and France in both lecturing and senior management. Her current work concentrates on editing publications in Sustainability and SDGs, promoting the work carried out at NTNU in this field. In this regard, she has worked as the Internal Development Editor on Business Transitions: A Path to Sustainability (Springer 2023) and Marine Plastics: Innovative Solutions to Recycling Waste (Springer 2023). As an author, she has a range of publications, from a monograph for Macmillan French Catholicism: Church State and Society in a Changing Era (2017), co-author for Routledge A vos marques (1999), still used in second year university courses across the UK and several journals. Sandra was Head of Publications for the Panayotis and Effie Michelis Foundation in Athens, Greece, editing academic and scientific books and journals across disciplines in five different languages (1999–2006).