Women’s Health and Menopause

With an interdisciplinary approach, our focus is on understanding and addressing the complexities of women’s health and menopause by highlighting personal experiences as social phenomena shaped and understood in a historical, relational, and sociocultural context. Additionally, we investigate tendencies and associations between menopausal phases and health, social and lifestyle conditions in the Danish population.

We examine topics such as bodily changes (e.g. symptoms), personal processes (e.g. self-perception and identity), social body ideals, everyday life with work, family, and leisure, as well as societal norms through sociological, ethnological and psychological lenses. Through an epidemiological perspective, we investigate social inequality by addressing socioeconomic, demographic, psychosocial and behavioral determinants.

Our methodological approach includes in-depth qualitative interviews, focus groups, observations, registry studies, and mixed-methods designs with questionnaire surveys. This combination of methods allows us to collect detailed and comprehensive data that illuminate the many facets of women's experiences and health during menopause.

Our ambition is to establish high quality research-based groundwork for initiatives that promote women's health in everyday life.

As co-creators of the interdisciplinary research initiative, Women in Healthy Transition, our vision is to "create an epicenter for menopause research with the goal of accelerating research and dissemination in everything from basic physiology to 'the whole person' - for the benefit of all women in Denmark and the Danish society." In this context, we are also key players in the newly established national network of researchers from various disciplines, which aims to elevate the research-based knowledge about menopause in Denmark.