A dementia friendly Upper Austria
Demographic change and the aging of the population result in increasing numbers of dementia-cases. This is a growing challenge not only for those affected, but also for relatives, the care sector, the health system...
Video series: The Future after the Pandemic
What are the social, economic and political effects of the pandemic? How do we deal best with the situation? And what could a future after the pandemic look like?
Academia Superior was founded at a...
Being able to live well with dementia in Upper Austria
A growing challenge
An estimated 21,000 people are living with dementia in Upper Austria. This stroke of fate is associated with great stress for those affected and their relatives. There is still no cure in...
Let us treat the future
Digitization is finding its way into all areas of human activity, triggering major changes. For the sensitive area of the health care system, this development opens up a spectrum of completely new possibilities and,...
Vaccination works
Mortality from measles disease varies, depending to medical care between 0.1% with very good and 25% with poor medical care. The World Health Organization has set the goal of eradicating measles worldwide by 2020....
Ernährung, Gesundheit, Wissen — Konferenzbericht 2018
Wie können Allergien effektiv diagnostiziert und behandelt werden? Welche Einfluss- und Vorbeugefaktoren sind bekannt? Wie geht man mit einer Allergie oder Intoleranz um? Wie begegnen Lebensmittelindustrie und -handel dieser Thematik? Welche Optionen sind bei...
Factsheet | Übergewicht
Weltweit werden die Menschen immer dicker. In Zukunft könnte dadurch unsere Lebenserwartung wieder sinken. Denn 40-50% der Top-Erkrankungen hängen mit unserem Lebensstil zusammen. Was sind die Fakten?
Ernährung, Gesundheit, Wissen – Konferenzbericht
Aufgrund von ernährungsbedingten chronischen Krankheiten kommen uns in Österreich viele gesunde Lebensjahre abhanden. Das Erschreckende daran: vor allem Kinder und Jugendliche sind mehr und mehr von sogenannten "Zivilisationskrankheiten" betroffen.
Insgesamt nehmen ernährungsbedingte Erkrankungen wie Adipositas,...
![Ethnologist Prof. Dr. Marin Trenk (Goethe University Frankfurt/Main) talked about culinary globalisation [(c) Land OÖ/Stinglmayr]](https://www.academia-superior.at/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Essentiell-2014-324x235.jpg "Conference ESSEN:TIELL — eat.able, valu.able, afford.able?")
Conference ESSEN:TIELL — eat.able, valu.able, afford.able?
Groceries are not only essential (hence the title essen:tiell, derived from "Essen" = food, eat and "essentiell" = essential) to provide nutrition but their production is also an important part of the Upper Austrian...
David Katz: Translate Knowledge into Action
Knowledge is not power. The big challenge is to translate knowledge into what people routinely do. Functional knowledge should help people make good and healthy decisions. In this interview, David Katz outlines possibilities to...
