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Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy University of Antwerp

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RESEARCH FOCUS CSP research is concerned primarily with social inequality and (re)distribution in the welfare state, with main focus on the functioning and the effectiveness of social policy. Areas of special interest include i) social policy responses to the (changing) socioeconomic and demographic context, and ii) the impact of social policy on the socioeconomic circumstances of its various target groups. RESEARCH LINES The CSP pursues three ...

Social Epidemiology & Health Policy (SEHPO) University of Antwerp

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Regarding Social Epidemiology, an important line of research within our Research Group is the licit and illicit substance use in students. Our group has (1) a large European project on substance use and social norms, (2) collaborations with colleagues from two South-African Universities (University of Limpopo and University of Kwazulu Natal) to replicate the studies on substance use in Flemish students by using similar questionnaires and (3) two ...

Organisation, policy and social inequalities in health care Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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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 ...

Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy Ghent University

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The department is responsible for research, education and services in the area of U+200BU+200Bsocial agogics. Social agogics includes the scientific study and theory of pedagogical action in the broader social context of institutions and practices that pursue social and cultural development, such as forensic welfare, social-cultural work with youth and adults, society building, interventions in the social, cultural and leisure environment.

Health Systems and Health Policy Research Group Institute of Tropical Medicine

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The Health Systems & Health Policy Group aims at making health systems more people-centered, integrated, accountable, equitable and resilient. Through our research, educational and service delivery activities, we aim at improving health policies and systems so that the right to health and Universal Health Coverage is guaranteed to all people.

We contribute to policies, programmes and local health systems that ...

Schools & Policy (SeP) University of Antwerp

The research activities of the team are located on the intersection between schools and policy. This perspective embraces policy research as well as more fundamental research on the influence of schools on citizens values and political knowledge. The policy-oriented research is concerned with research into educational attainment and equal opportunity-policies (in Flanders), the financing-mechanisms of the Flemish educational system and the ...

Policy in Sports & Physical Activity Research Group KU Leuven

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MISSION

The general mission of the Policy in Sports & Physical Activity Research Group is to conduct and provide high quality research and education in the field of human kinesiology, including sports economics, sports history, sports management, sports marketing, sports policy, sports politics and sports sociology.

The research group strives to understand the relation between human movement and society both from a ...

Health Policy Institute of Tropical Medicine

Introduction

The Unit of Health Policy belongs to the Public Health Department at ITM. The Unit, established in 2013, is led by Professor Wim Van Damme and consists of a multidisciplinary team (medicine, public health, political science, law).

The unit is developing a strong institutional collaboration with the School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape (Cape Town, South Africa), where Wim Van Damme held a SARChI chair ...

Sports Policy factors Leading to International Sporting Success Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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SPLISS has the ambition to establish an international center of excellence that shares knowledge on innovative high performance sport policy research with different stakeholder groups (academics & sport scientists, sport managers, policy makers, governing bodies). To achieve this, three research lines will be developed further. Firstly, a more efficient measurement tool designed to service the needs of elite sports and their ...