- Health Care Financing - Medical technology - Nursing activities (acute care, psychiatric care) and financing - Clinical nursing - Preference patterns for the aged - Case management in psycho-geriatric patients - Quality improvement - Economic evaluation of cancer treatment (mainly radiotherapy). - Health Care financing systems.
Integrated health care delivery: Integrated care has been defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as: "The management and delivery of health services such as that people receive a continuum of health promotion, disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, disease management, rehabilitation and palliative care services, through the different levels and sites of care within the health system, and according to their bio-psycho and social ...
The End-of-Life Care Research Group conducts high-quality scientific research in end-of-life care in Belgium and across Europe. Researchers from different scientific backgrounds work in a common research structure to facilitate interdisciplinary collaborative research. The group is spearheaded by a number of experienced researchers and strives to optimize the training and support of junior researchers in order to expand future expertise in ...
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 ...
Public Health and Primary Care, Kulak Campus Kortrijk with a focus on community health, best practice and health policy
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
The overall research objective of the Laboratory of Intensive Care Medicine is to unravel key pathways underlying critical illness-induced organ failure, thereby identifying potential therapeutic targets to enhance recovery. We focus on endocrine and metabolic underlying mechanisms of organ-specific problems evoked by critical illness.