Projects
Improving access to mental health care and mental health literacy Ghent University
MentALLY's strategic aim is to gather the necessary empirical evidence to accelerate the evolution towards a European mental healthcare that provides effective mental health treatment to all adults who are in need. A carefully designed dissemination and implementation strategy translates the empirical evidence to strengthen existing networks and improve existing practices. MentAlly has three main objectives:
1. To gather the necessary ...
The implementation of Digital Mobile Mental Health in clinical care pathways: Towards person-centered care in psychiatry KU Leuven
The overarching aim of IMMERSE (Implementing Mobile MEntal health Recording Strategy for Europe) is to advance the transformation of mental health care in Europe intro true person-centered care, focused on the needs of each individual seeking help for mental health problems, while giving them an active role in their treatment process and decision-making. In order to do so, IMMERSE has
identified the Experience Sampling Methodology (ESM), ...
Magnet4Europe: Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Health Care Workplace. KU Leuven
Over 23 million Europeans work in health care. Burnout, anxiety, sleep disorders, depression, and associated stigma are more common among health care workers, and exact a huge toll on individuals and families, particularly on women who are the majority of health care workers, and on society by erosion of productivity and safety of health services. Magnet4Europe transfers, modifies, scales up, and evaluates an evidence-based model of ...
YOLAMI, young labor migrants in Chinese Cities: a demonstration intervention project to address barriers to health care and promote their sexual and reproductive health Ghent University
6 partners participate in the project (3 European and 3 Chinese research institutes). ICRH, department uro-gynaecology, is the consortium leader. The project will study determinants of access of young migrants to health care. In a second step, strategies to improve health service delivery will be developed. The third step consists in the implementation of these strategies through local interventions. The final step consists in the evaluation ...
Revolution of sleep diagnostics and personalized health care based on digital diagnostics and therapeutics with health data integration KU Leuven
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is associated with various negative health consequences including increased risk of heart disease, hypertension and daytime sleepiness causing road accidents. The economic burden of OSA is rising as almost 1 billion people worldwide are estimated to have OSA. The current diagnostic metric, however, relates poorly to these symptoms and comorbidities. It merely measures the frequency of breathing cessations without ...
European network staff eXchange for integrAting precision health in the health Care sysTems KU Leuven
The aim of the “European network staff eXchange for integrAting precision health in the health Care sysTems (ExACT)” is to train a new generation of professionals that can contribute to the future of health and healthcare (HC), by providing high-quality, multidisciplinary knowledge in precision health. The greater personalisation of HC is a driver of innovation for research, and for the healthcare system and industry. Still policy makers, HC ...
Revolution of sleep diagnostics and personalized health care based on digital diagnostics and therapeutics with health data integration Ghent University
The Somnology group of the Dpt. of Respiratory Diseases at the Ghent University Hospital will commit to taking a leading role in the development of new innovative approaches to characterising sleep disorders in general and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in particular. Such new approach is mandatory now that it has become clear that OSA and many other sleep disorders are heterogeneous conditions that present as distinct phenotypes and ...