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Tania Kossberg M.A., MPhil

PhD Candidate

Tania's research examines health care services in the Arctic. Her focus is on how individuals, communities and institutions inform, adapt and interact, and what kind of strategies and decision-making they use to cope with their health and that of people around them.

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Tania's research focuses on the role and performance of health and social care institutions, and on how people experience, understand and cope with their own state of health and that of people around them. The purpose of this research is to examine how improvements in health care access, quality of health and social care services and outcomes can be achieved.

The research addresses social factors leading to ill health including lifestyle, lack of access to health care, socio-economic and psychosocial stress, inequality and poverty. Her work further documents interactions and discourses within social networks and information systems. This is conducted through close-up ethnographic methods within a regional scale which also includes indigenous narratives about Indigenous health. She also has a specific interest in evaluating and developing methodological approaches in health and social care which are culturally appropriate to different institutional, communal and ecological settings.

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