Name Responsible Activity "Career Office" "Els Verhoye" "Is responsible for welcoming new employees, career development, career counseling, education and training as well as career policy." "Career Centre" "Family Medicine and Chronic Care" "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 needs throughout the life course"" (WHO, 2012). Integrated care research priorities: * (cost) effectiveness of integrated care programmes for patients with (multiple) chronic care conditions * What is the (cost) effectiveness of integrated care programmes for patients with multi-morbidity on clinical and patient reported outcomes of care? * (cost) effectiveness of multifaceted intervention strategies (programmes) for the detection, diagnosis and management of chronic diseases and multi-morbidity, targeting clinical inertia in physicians. * How (cost) effective are family physicians in the detection, diagnosis and management of patients with multimorbidity? * What is the (cost) effectiveness of multidisciplinary teams that target clinical inertia in family physicians? * (cost) effectiveness of 'transmural care' (from hospital to home care, and vice versa) for patients with multi-morbidity. * What is the (cost) effectiveness of a transmural care programme for patients with multi-morbidity on clinical and patient reported health outcomes? * What are the factors that hinder/facilitate the implementation of integrated care for patient with multimorbidity at the structure, process and outcome level of care? * What bio-psycho-social empowerment strategies can be applied to patients with multi-morbidity and their families to improve adherence with the therapeutic regimen? * Development of a conceptual framework on quality indicators for integrated healthcare delivery at the structure, process and outcome level of care for patients with multi-morbidity. * What are quality indicators for integrated health for patients with multimorbidity at the structure, process and outcome level of care? * Development of a conceptual framework on multi-morbidity including a complexity analysis at the level of the patient, caregiver and health system. * What determines case, care, quality assessment and health systems complexity for patients with multi-morbidity? Other research topics: * Health services accessibility for socio-economically disadvantaged groups * Sexual behaviour and dysfunctions in gay men" "Department of Public Health and Primary Care" "Pascal Borry" "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 ‘Living well with chronic illness’ by building on existing, productive research programs among various disciplines.The Department consists of 9 research units: Environment and Health; Academic Centre for Nursing and Midwifery; Academic centre for General Practise; Leuven Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics Centre; Interfaculty Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law; Emergency Medicine; Biomedical Quality Assurance Research Unit; Epidemiology Research Group; Leuven Institute for Healthcare Policy;" "Centre for Research and Innovation in Care (CRIC)" "Tinne Dilles" "The research group Centre for Research and Innovation in Care (CRIC) belongs to the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, departement Nursing and Midwifery Sciences. Currently, the research group is fully engaged in the implementation of their research." "Centre for research in Youth care and Support" "Johan Vanderfaeillie" "Organisation, policy and social inequalities in health care" "Mark Leys" "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 health service models in health care, focus on the city" "Public Health and Primary Care, Kulak Kortrijk Campus" "Public Health and Primary Care, Kulak Campus Kortrijk  with a focus on community health, best practice and health policy" "Public Health Care" "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 non-medical health care workers in developing regions." "Research Centre Care in Connection" "Our vision is based on the objective of the Quintuple Aim model to optimize healthcare. We want to connect the healthcare professional to be able to do their work in a good and sustainable way so that better care is experienced by the individual. We want to connect healthcare professionals more with their profession as a challenging, workable job that gives satisfaction. With each other as equal professionals with their own expertise and with the care recipient and their environment."