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Elucidating psychological and social risk factors for low back pain in highly physically active adolescents: a case study in female pre-professional dancers. University of Antwerp

Nathalie Roussel
Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA), Movement Antwerp (MOVANT)
The general purpose of this study is to elucidate psychological and social risk factors for low back pain (LBP) in highly physically active adolescents. Using a qualitative research design, we will explore perceived causes (psychological and social) of LBP using female pre-professional dancers as a case study. This will lay the foundation for fundamental prospective studies examining causes of LBP in adolescents. Low back pain (LBP) is the ...

The effectiveness of social policy targeted at households with disabled children in Flanders: does the existing set of social policies succeed in reducing the poverty risk of disabled children? University of Antwerp

Sarah Marchal
Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy
Families with disabled children combine both direct and indirect costs that likely have a negative impact on their poverty risk. First, they face higher direct costs due to the child's medical and care needs. Second, they face higher indirect costs as they need to provide more care which jeopardises the parents' engagement in the labour market. On top of that, families with disabled children often have a lower socioeconomic status than families ...

Labour Migration and Population Ageing: anlyzing the effectiveness of current labour market integration and job councelling trajectories for newly arrived immigrants and individuals with a migration background in Flanders. University of Antwerp

Karel Neels
Centre for Population, Family and Health
Between 2015 and 2030 welfare states throughout Europe (including Belgium) will face the long-term implications of the babyboom and subsequent babybust in the latter part of the 20th century: the large cohorts of the 1950s and 1960s will gradually enter retirement, while the small cohorts born since the mid 1970s are not sufficiently large to offset the shrinking labour force. The 2001 report of the United Nations on replacement migration ...

EF32 Experimental framework to use person-specific funding for disabled persons within the framework of an old-age care facility University of Antwerp

Koen Decancq
Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy
Met het proefkader willen we een voor alle betrokken actoren, en in het bijzonder de gebruikers en aanbieders, beveiligd kader creëren waarbinnen de mogelijkheden en beperkingen kunnen onderzocht worden inzake het inzetten van het persoonsvolgend budget nRTH VAPH binnen de erkende capaciteit van (semi-) residentiële ouderenzorg met eventuele tussenkomst in de zorgkost door het RIZIV, in het bijzonder WZC, CVK en DVC met bijzondere erkenning.Het ...

Tax shift within Flemish Housing Taxation. University of Antwerp

Gerlinde Verbist
Government and Law, Business and Law, Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy
The sixth state reform has resulted in an additional transfer of competences from parts of the personal income tax system to Flanders, and more specifically with respect to housing taxation. This makes it possible for Flanders to implement a more integrated housing tax policy. For example, a tax shift between the different instruments of housing taxation (registration duties, property tax, dwelling bonus) is possible. The aim of this research is ...

Informal carers at work KU Leuven

Bea Maes
Parenting and Special Education

Offering individual learning path counseling in the search for a paid job (with a focus on the normal economic circuit) for parents of children with permanent, above-the-usual care needs. Here we focus on customized support and the accessibility of support for all parents (including low-skilled and single parents).