This research group combines the following research lines within the Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences:
(1) Patient Safety: This research is being developed in cooperation with the Faculty of Business Economics
(2) Mobile Health: This research line fits in with the development of the Limburg Clinical Research Program
(3) General Practice.
The Department of Public Health and Primary Care is a multidisciplinary department with a focus on community health, best practice and health policy. The department aims at supplying health care professionals and institutions with the insights, concepts and techniques that will enable them to respond optimally to the health needs and expectations of patient and society. The department endorses the international research and policy priority of ...
The department GESG mainly develops research activities in the following domains: 1. Economical aspects of HIV/AIDS; 2. Terminal (palliative) home care: pain management; 3. Needs in potentially lethal conditions and in the elderly, stressing informal care; 4. Gerontechnology; 5. Health indicators in Youth; 6. Chemical and physical factors of occupational load, especially biological monitoring; 7. Evaluation of primary health care training for ...
Public Health and Primary Care, Kulak Campus Kortrijk with a focus on community health, best practice and health policy
to do multidisiciplinary fundamental and applied (evaluation) research in following domains international comparative health systems research comparative health services research (organisational models and interorganisational networking) the use of technologies in health care socio-economic inequalities in health patient participation knowlegde transfer methodologies between reserach and policymakers focus on innovations in health systems and ...
The department of Public Health and Primary Care aims at supplying health care professionals and institutions with the insights, concepts and techniques that will enable them to respond optimally to the health needs and expectations of patient and society. Communication Health Care Policy is one the research units.
Research lines of this unit are :
• Patient Safety
• Care Pathways
• Patient Centered Care
• Human Resources
Research lines of this unit are: Scientific support and evaluation of the pilot projects for integrated care for patients with chronic conditions in Belgium; Pay for Quality (P4Q), Zorgstrategisch Plan