Anne-Marie Suutari

Postdoc Researcher
Department for quality improvement and leadership , School of Health and Welfare
Presentation Publications

The overall title for Anne-Marie Suutari’s postdoctoral research project is "Improved health among immigrants living with heart failure – Co-production and evaluation of support for self-care of heart failure in a Swedish context". First, this research aims to explore the association between country of birth and hospitalizations due to heart failure. Next, the research aims to explore the immigrants’ needs for support for self-care of heart failure and how this support might be co-produced by the immigrants themselves, their family members and healthcare professionals. Finally, the research aims to explore if and how co-produced support for self-care of heart failure improves self-care behaviors and/or health related quality of life among immigrants with heart failure. 

Anne-Marie is a former student of the master’s program in healthcare quality improvement and leadership in health and welfare at the School of Health and Welfare, Jönköping University. In June 2023 she defended her doctoral thesis with the title "Co-producing healthcare quality improvement: the prerequisites for, the value of and the lessons from co-production in a Swedish cardiac care setting". Since January 2025 she holds the position of a postdoctoral researcher within the research environment Studies on Integrated Health and Welfare (SIHW). She lectures and supervises students at the master’s program in healthcare quality improvement and leadership in health and welfare. Further, Anne-Marie is involved in research projects aimed at exploring various aspects of co-production and healthcare quality improvements. Anne-Marie has been awarded the Alumni of the year 2023 at School of Health and Welfare, Jönköping University. Anne-Marie is a licensed pharmacist. She also possesses a clinical practice background as an internist and cardiologist. 

Article

Suutari, A., Thor, J., Nordin, A., Areskoug Josefsson, K. (2023). Improving heart failure care with an Experience-Based Co-Design approach: what matters to persons with heart failure and their family members? BMC Health Services Research, 23(1). More information
Suutari, A., Nordin, A., Kjellström, S., Thor, J., Areskoug Josefsson, K. (2022). Using stakeholders' experiences to redesign health services for persons living with heart failure: a case study protocol in a Swedish cardiac care setting [Protocol] BMJ Open, 12(3). More information
Suutari, A., Thor, J., Nordin, A., Kjellström, S., Areskoug Josefsson, K. (2021). Improving Health for People Living With Heart Failure: Focus Group Study of Preconditions for Co-Production of Health and Care Journal of Participatory Medicine, 13(2). More information
Suutari, A., Areskoug Josefsson, K., Kjellström, S., Nordin, A., Thor, J. (2019). Promoting a sense of security in everyday life—A case study of patients and professionals moving towards co-production in an atrial fibrillation “learning café” Health Expectations, 22(6), 1240-1250. More information

Doctoral thesis

Suutari, A. (2023). Co-producing healthcare quality improvement: the prerequisites for, the value of and the lessons from co-production in a Swedish cardiac care setting (Doctoral thesis, Jönköping: Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare). More information

Conference paper

Suutari, A. (2022). Co-producing Health and Care Services – Perspectives from Cardiac Care. SynEnergy, The Microsystem Festival, March 2 – March 4, 2022, Jönköping, Sweden. More information
Suutari, A. (2022). What matters to persons with heart disease, their family members and healthcare professionals? Co-learning about healthcare quality improvement in a Swedish cardiac care setting. Trollhättan: University West, WIL'22 International Conference on Work Integrated Learning, 7-9 December 2022, University West, Trollhättan, Sweden. More information
Suutari, A. (2020). Thesis in progress - Perspectives on co-production in a Swedish chronic cardiac care setting. IIAS Study Group on the Co-Production of Public Services, University of Haifa, Israel, 10 November 2020. More information
Suutari, A., Thor, J. (2018). ‘Learning Café’ group education program with atrial fibrillation patients – a model for co-production. International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare, 2-4 May 2018, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. More information

Other publications

Suutari, A., Thor, J., Nordin, A., Areskoug Josefsson, K. . Experiences of and conditions for re-designing heart failure care – a qualitative evaluation of an Experience-Based Co-Design case in a Swedish cardiac care setting. More information