Research Centre on Health, Quality of Life and Lifestyle in a Geodemographic and Socioeconomic Context (GeoQol) is an interdisciplinary oriented working group of scientific researchers, composed primarily of science teachers and students of the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science on the Charles University in Prague and the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London. Research center is mainly interested in the analysis of the current state of the population health, individual and social ways of its care, as well as environmental impacts and socio-economic climate on human health. All this in the context of the changing intensity of the effects on health of the aimed population.
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The team
Research staff
prof. RNDr. Dagmar Dzúrová, CSc.
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doc. RNDr. Bc. Jana Šiftová, Ph.D.social geography, food geography, geography of retail and consumption, behavioral geography, methods in geographical research Jana Spilková defended her Ph.D. in 2006 at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague. She currently works as an associate professor at the department of social geography and regional development, where she focuses on people’s life-style during the period of transition from communism to capitalism, mainly the key trends in the consumption, shopping, nutrition etc. She teaches statistical analysis and other methods in social geographical research, as well as behavioral geography and geography of retail and consumption.
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RNDr. Michala Lustigová, Ph.D.demography, health geography, social epidemiology, population health, epidemiology of NCDs, ageing and health She graduated at the Department of Demography and Geodemography at the Faculty of Science, Charles University. Her Ph.D. thesis was focused on cardiovascular epidemiology and cardiovascular health among the Czech population. Nowadays she works as an assistant professor at the department of Social Geography and Regional Development at the Faculty of Science of the Charles University with focus on health demography and health geography. Together to that she works as a researcher at the National Institute of Public Health in Prague with the main concern on health surveys, Czech population health, and assessing the influence of life style and environment on population health.
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Ivana Kulhánová, Ph.D.sociální epidemiologie, epidemiologie nádorových onemocnění , sociální nerovnosti ve zdraví She obtained her PhD in social epidemiology at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. In her PhD thesis, she focused on educational inequalities in mortality in Europe. After completion of doctoral studies, she moved to France where she conducted research in cancer epidemiology at the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Currently, she works as a researcher at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development at the Faculty of Science of the Charles University with main research interests in cancer epidemiology and social inequalities in health.
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RNDr. Pavlína Netrdová, Ph.D.quantitative methods in social geography, spatial data analysis, applied statistics, measuring of regional differences avlína Netrdová is an assistant professor at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University. Her research focuses on quantitative methods in social geography, spatial data analysis and GIS (geographic information system), spatial aspects of socio-economic differentiation and border studies. She is a member of Economic Geography and Regional Development Center (CEGARR) at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development. Pavlína teaches the course GIS in Epidemiology.
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RNDr. Klára Hulíková Tesárková, Ph.D.demographic analysis, mortality, formal demography Klára Hulíková Tesárková is an assistant professor at the Department of Demography and Geodemography, Faculty of Science, Charles University, where she completed her PhD studies in 2012. Her research focuses mainly on demographic methodology and modelling and demographic analysis - particularly on the mortality process. Since 2021, she has been leading the Centre for Demographic Analysis, Models and Methods and is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Working Group on Health, Morbidity and Mortality of the European Association for Population Studies.
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Collaborating researchers
prof. Martin Bobáksocial, environmental, behavioral, genetic and psychosocial determinants of chronic diseases, well-being His main research interests concern social, environmental, behavioral, genetic and psychosocial determinants of chronic diseases and well-being in Central and Eastern Europe, i.e. in societies undergoing rapid social change. He is a professor Institute of Epidemiology & Health at the University College London in the United Kingdome and a researcher in the UCL Central and Eastern European Health Research Group.
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prof. Hynek PikhartSES during life course, poplutaiong ageing and changes in cognitive and physical functions, health behaviours and health inequalities, social, behavioral and biological risk factors of health He obtained a master's degree at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the Charles University. In 1995 he finished MSc at the LSHTM. In 2002 he defended his PhD in epidemiology at the University College London. His work concerns social and psychosocial determinants of health of different European populations. In particular he works on The Health, Alcohol and Psychosocial factors In Eastern Europe (HAPIEE) Study, project concentrating on determinants of poor health status in samples of general population in Russia, Poland, Lithuania and the Czech Republic.
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RNDr. Jan Jarolímek, Ph.D., MBAmedical geography, health geography In 2013 he defended his rigorous proceedings in the field of Social geography and regional development at the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University in Brno. He received MBA degree from ESMA Barcelona in 2011. From 2006 to 2009 he worked as the Head of Analysis, Statistics and IT division in the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic. After that he was the Head of Strategy and Management of Public Health department. In April 2009 he was named the Deputy Director of economical and technical activities in the Public Health Authority of Central Bohemia.
In 2017 he received PhD at the Faculty of Science, Charles University with the dissertation on socio-economic determinants of occupational diseases. Currently his work concerns occupational health and a quality of work environment in the relation to health. ORCID |
PhD students