Competence Centre for Healthcare Practices and Policies

SUPSI Image Default

Competence centre for care, health and society (CARES)

The Centre was established with the aim of exploring and addressing contemporary challenges related to care, understood as a phenomenon that concerns both people's health and the social contexts in which it takes place.

Further information about the Centre is available by visiting the dedicated website

We integrate visions, methods and disciplines to address the complexity of care and generate a concrete impact on society through five lines of research.

SUPSI Icon

Care as a professional field

We analyse care work in its professional dimensions.

SUPSI Icon

Care and technologies

We study the use, implications and impacts of technologies in healthcare contexts.

SUPSI Icon

Economics and governance of care

We investigate care in the context of public systems and policies.

SUPSI Icon

Care as transformative infrastructure

We explore care as a condition of existence for society and the economy and as a transformative process that affects various levels: biological, cognitive, relational, institutional and social.

SUPSI Icon

Care as a social practice

We analyse care as a social process consisting of interactions, cultural norms and meanings.

SUPSI Image Focus

Mission and objectives

The objectives of the CPPS are the development and promotion of effective, ethical and socially sustainable healthcare practices and policies that put the safety and well-being of patients, their families and health and social professionals at the forefront, based on shared scientific evidence.

 

Asset Publisher

Asset Publisher

The Centre is active in responding to the needs of entities and facilities in the area through performance mandates, through assessment and advisory work in the area of healthcare practices and policies.

Asset Publisher

Cosa sono i Brown Bag Seminars? Questa espressione di derivazione americana (si pensi al sacchetto di carta color marrone utilizzato per trasportare il cibo) sta ad indicare gli incontri informali che si tengono tra i collaboratori di un’organizzazione durante la pausa pranzo.

The researchers of the Competence Centre for Health Practices and Policies are active in Undergraduate and Graduate Studies and Continuing Education, effectively forming a bridge between research and teaching. In addition, they can develop ad hoc training courses at the request of local organisations or facilities.
  • Undergraduate and Graduate Studies

    The Centre contributes to training at Bachelor's and Master's level, specifically in some modules of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing, the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, the Master of Science in Nursing and the Master of Science in Business Administration.

  • Continuing Education

    The Centre is active in CAS, MAS and DAS pathways in healthcare. Among the topics in which CPPS researchers are involved as lecturers are healthcare ethics, interprofessionalism, medical humanities, management of healthcare organisations, integrated care, home care and case management. In addition, CPPS researchers are particularly present in the research methodology modules of the Department of Business Economics, Health and Social Care.

  • Personalised Training

    The Centre is also active in Personalised Training, developing ad hoc training courses designed according to the needs of organisations or facilities in the area that wish to offer in-house training to their staff. The main feature of these training offers is flexibility, in terms of setting, didactics, location and timetable. The contents are related to the areas of competence of the CPPS. 

    By way of example, tailor-made courses may touch on topics such as the well-being of carers (stress management, workplace ergonomics, etc.), the relationship with a particular clientele (elderly drug addicts, dialysis patients, etc.), specific aspects of professional practice (inter-professional collaboration, organisational dynamics, etc.) and healthcare management, etc.

Over the years, the CPPS has developed collaborations with academic partners in Switzerland and abroad.

The latest news

Our agenda

Visualizzatore contatto

Hidden Widget