Health and Wellbeing

According to the World Health Organization (WHO, 2025), non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs) account for approximately 80% of deaths worldwide. Most of these diseases share common, predisposing risk factors, such as…

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A person interacting with a smartphone while digital chat and AI icons float above, suggesting communication with a chatbot or messaging service. A laptop is partially visible in the foreground, emphasizing a tech-driven environment.

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7.10.2025

Bridging AI and Primary Care: AI-assisted Health System Integration Model for the Inclusion App

7.10.2025
Health and Wellbeing Technology and Industry

A multidisciplinary team co-developed an AI-assisted rehabilitation model tailored to Rwanda’s primary care, emphasizing interoperability and equitable and scalable access.

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9.1.2025

Exploring Digital Rehabilitation: Perspectives of Rwandan Service Users and Professionals.

9.1.2025
Health and Wellbeing

The findings highlight the need for greater affordability and accessibility across Rwanda’s tiered healthcare system, and the potential of digital rehabilitation. These results underscore the importance of advocating for rehabilitation, digital literacy and skills training, and increasing the number of rehabilitation professionals at all levels of the healthcare system.

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8.4.2024

Community Health Workers and Service Users’ Experiences of a Community-based Digital Rehabilitation Application

8.4.2024
Health and Wellbeing

The experiences of both community health workers (CHWs) and service users were positive. CHWs clearly saw the contribution to their communities and doing the suggested exercise programs from the application enabled service users to resume their daily activities. The interviews highlighted opportunities to increase rehabilitation access in primary care using innovative digital solutions. Even small improvements in access to evidence-based services have the potential to have a significant impact when scaled to the wider society.

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23.11.2023

Nordic-Baltic teacher cooperation on master’s programme in nursing

23.11.2023
Education and Learning Health and Wellbeing

Network work helps to improve the quality of education and to identify areas for development. The Nordic-Baltic network of the English-language Advanced Practice Nursing education has good experiences of how Jamk’s master’s program can be developed even better to meet the needs of education, working life and health care stakeholders.