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).

Torstein Hole 是挪威科技大學 (NTNU) 醫學與健康科學院的教授，同時也是莫爾和羅姆斯達爾醫院信託的阿勒松醫院心臟病學高級顧問。他於 2003 年的博士論文探討了急性心肌梗塞後左心室功能的多普勒超聲心動圖評估。他在多個研究領域擁有豐富的研究經驗。目前他的研究領域包括一般心臟病學和心臟腫瘤學的臨床及超聲心動圖研究、心衰竭的生活品質研究以及緩和醫療研究。他還研究患者參與和健康素養在危急和慢性疾病中的各個方面，從患者、家屬和醫療人員的角度進行探討。他是研究網絡「改革時期的健康服務」的成員。Hole 也指導碩士生和博士生。

Marit Kvangarsnes 是挪威科技大學 (NTNU) 阿勒松健康科學系的護理與教育教授，並擔任 Helse Møre og Romsdal HF 的研究顧問。她於 2005 年完成了有關挪威護理教育國家課程的博士學位。她的研究涉及患者護理、患者參與和健康素養在危急和慢性疾病中的各個方面，從患者、家屬和醫療人員的角度進行探討。她還研究學習和專業資格，並研究學生在護理和醫學教育的實習期間如何學習。Kvangarsnes 領導研究網絡「改革時期的健康服務」。Kvangarsnes 指導碩士生和博士生，並在期刊和書籍方面擁有編輯經驗。

Bodil J Landstad 是瑞典米德斯維爾德大學的健康科學教授，以及烏梅奧大學的護理教授。她的論文是在斯德哥爾摩的卡羅林斯卡醫學院完成的，專注於康復醫學。她的研究興趣集中在納入那些有邊緣化風險或已經邊緣化的人的過程（例如，由於健康、工作生活、社會、作為公民或在公共生活中等）。她還研究患者護理、患者參與和健康素養在危急和慢性疾病中的各個方面，從患者、家屬和醫療人員的角度進行探討。目前，她還擔任瑞典耶姆特蘭哈爾耶達倫地區的研究、教育和發展主任。Landstad 指導碩士生和博士生，並在不同的期刊和書籍中擁有編輯經驗。

Elise Kvalsund Bårdsgjerde 是挪威科技大學 (NTNU) 阿勒松健康科學系的副教授。她的博士項目探討了心肌梗塞途徑中的患者參與。她是研究網絡「改革時期的健康服務」的成員。她的研究興趣包括臨床實踐和醫療專業教育中的患者參與和健康素養。她的教學涉及急性、慢性和危急疾病，並且在模擬作為教學方法方面有經驗。

Sandra Elizabeth Tippett-Spirtou 是位於 NTNU 阿勒松的出版項目編輯和研究員。她在英國、希臘和法國的高等教育領域擁有超過 30 年的經驗，涵蓋講授和高級管理。她目前的工作集中在編輯可持續性和可持續發展目標 (SDGs) 的出版物，推廣 NTNU 在該領域的工作。在這方面，她擔任了《Business Transitions: A Path to Sustainability》（Springer 2023）和《Marine Plastics: Innovative Solutions to Recycling Waste》（Springer 2023）的內部發展編輯。