Researcher
Peter Decat
- Keywords:community participation in primary care services, complexity in health care, self-management, health advocacy, community health workers, community oriented primary care
- Disciplines:Public health care not elsewhere classified, Public health sciences not elsewhere classified, Health promotion and policy, Health and community services, Primary health care
Affiliations
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2018 → Today - Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care (Department)
Member
From1 Sep 2014 → 30 Sep 2018 - Department of Uro-gynaecology (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2006 → 25 Sep 2016
Projects
1 - 9 of 9
- Using compassionate communities to improve palliative care initiatives in low-income urban settings in Cape Town, South AfricaFrom1 Sep 2024 → TodayFunding: VLIR-UOS TEAM
- Scientific framework for the "reform of penitentiary health care in Belgium" program - 2024From1 Jan 2024 → TodayFunding: FOD Public Health, Safety of the food chain and the Environment
- The deployment of community health workers in general practice as a proportional universalism strategyFrom1 Jan 2024 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- Using compassionate communities to improve palliative care initiatives in low-income urban settings in Cape Town, South AfricaFrom1 Sep 2023 → 31 Aug 2024Funding: VLIR-UOS Global Minds
- Scientific framework for the “reform of penitentiary health care in Belgium” program - Scientific support, analysis and evaluation of the pilot projects launched and financed in this framework by the FPS Public Health and the FPS Justice, with a view to practical and policy recommendations for a more adequate penitentiary health care systemFrom1 Jul 2023 → 31 Dec 2023Funding: FOD Public Health, Safety of the food chain and the Environment
- Reverse innovation: Integration of community health workers in Pirmary Care. What can we learn from experiences in South-Africa?From1 Jan 2023 → TodayFunding: Provinces
- Design of a transdisciplinary people centred intervention plan to reduce the burden of cardiometabolic diseases in local food chain actors in Sacaba, BoliviaFrom1 Sep 2022 → 31 Aug 2024Funding: VLIR-UOS South Initiatives
- Complexity-driven modelling of macro-conditions in patients with Bodily Distress SyndromeFrom1 Nov 2021 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- Complexity-driven modelling of macro-conditions in patients with Bodily Distress SyndromeFrom1 Oct 2021 → 31 Oct 2021Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
Publications
1 - 10 of 57
- Self-management support (SMS) in primary care practice : a qualitative focus group study of care professionals’ experiences(2024)
Authors: Dagje Boeykens, Muhammed Mustafa Sirimsi, Dominique Van de Velde, Patricia De Vriendt, Peter Decat, Veerle Foulon, Ann Van Hecke, Mieke Vermandere, Birgitte Schoenmakers, [missing] the Primary Care Academy
- Time-dependent complexity characterisation of activity patterns in patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome(2024)
Authors: Paloma Rabaey, Peter Decat, Stefan Heytens, Dirk Vogelaers, An Mariman, Thomas Demeester
- Transforming healthcare : a pilot study to improve primary healthcare professionals’ self-management support behaviour through blended learning(2024)
Authors: Peter Decat, Veerle Foulon, Ann Van Hecke, Mieke Vermandere, Birgitte Schoenmakers, [missing] the Primary Care Academy
- Induced abortion : a cross-sectional study on knowledge of and attitudes toward the new abortion law in Maputo and Quelimane cities, Mozambique (vol 20, 129, 2020)(2024)
Authors: Mónica Frederico, Carlos Arnaldo, Peter Decat, Adelino Juga, Elizabeth Kemigisha, Olivier Degomme, Kristien Michielsen
- Outreach work in Belgian primary care practices during COVID-19 : results from the cross-sectional PRICOV-19 study(2024)
Authors: Dorien Vanden Bossche, Esther Van Poel, Pierre Vanden Bussche, Benoit Petré, Cécile Ponsar, Peter Decat, Sara Willems
- The role of community health workers in primary healthcare in the WHO-EU region : a scoping review(2023)
Authors: Tijs Van Iseghem, Ilka Jacobs, Dorien Vanden Bossche, Peter Delobelle, Sara Willems, Caroline Masquillier, Peter Decat
- Addressing health inequity during the COVID-19 pandemic through primary health care and public health collaboration : a multiple case study analysis in eight high-income countries(2023)
Authors: Dorien Vanden Bossche, Q. Jane Zhao, Sara Ares-Blanco, Maria Pilar Astier Peña, Peter Decat, Naoki Kondo, Madelon Kroneman, Daisuke Nishioka, Ferdinando Petrazzuoli, Guri Rortveit, et al.
- Adults’ perceptions on adolescent attitudes towards pregnancy and abortion in Maputo and Quelimane Cities, Mozambique : an exploratory qualitative study(2023)
Authors: Mónica Frederico, Carlos Arnaldo, Rehana Capurchande, Peter Decat, Kristien Michielsen
- Characteristics of self-management support (SMS) interventions and their impact on Quality of Life (QoL) in adults with chronic diseases : an umbrella review of systematic reviews(2023)
Authors: Lotte Timmermans, Elena Golder, Peter Decat, Veerle Foulon, Ann Van Hecke, Birgitte Schoenmakers
- Self-management support in Flemish primary care practice : the development of a preliminary conceptual model using a qualitative approach(2022)
Authors: Lotte Timmermans, Dagje Boeykens, Mustafa Muhammed Sirimsi, Peter Decat, Veerle Foulon, Ann Van Hecke, Mieke Vermandere, Birgitte Schoenmakers, Roy Remmen, Emily Verté, et al.