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Re-engineering the process of cancer clinical research in data driven health care systems. KU Leuven

Isabelle Huys
Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy

The current framework surrounding the clinical development of medicines has provided patients with many innovative therapies whose safety, quality and efficacy have been empirically demonstrated. However, many important aspects relating to the use of these therapies in real-life conditions are often neglected during the clinical development stage, including how to combine them with other existing treatments, how they compare to alternatives, ...

BUILDING EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH OF HUMAN-ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS WITH GEOSPATIAL AND EARTH OBSERVATION TECHNOLOGIES KU Leuven

Anton Van Rompaey
Geography and Tourism

HES-GEO project aims to enhance existing research capacity and stimulate scientific excellence in the Institute of Geography and Spatial Management (IGSM), Jagiellonian University, in studying human-environmental systems (HES) of the Anthropocene, along variety of urban-rural-marginal gradients, at various spatial and temporal scales and using tools and data available through Earth observation (EO) and geospatial technologies. HES-GEO will ...

Health economic evaluations of health care systems and public health campaigns University of Antwerp

Lander Willem
Primary and interdisciplinary care Antwerp (ELIZA)
Health economic evaluations based on mathematical modelling provide many opportunities in the fields of epidemiology, health care management and quality of care. The aim of this research project is to apply and extend model-based health economic research to primary care practices, nursing teams, infectious disease management and multi-morbidity. Part 1 targets out-of-hours care in Belgium, which is increasingly organized in general practitioner ...

Underlying dimensions of population health: a longitudinal multicountry analysis of health production and health system's efficiency. University of Antwerp

Philippe Beutels
Centre for Health Economics Research and Modelling of Infectious Diseases (CHERMID), Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute (VAXINFECTIO)
Health expenditure in wealthy countries (eg Belgium) increased much over the last 50 years. Growth in health care resources and their use (more and better diagnostics, medication, hospitals, nurses and physicians) may often have surpassed economic and population growth. Knowing how different ways of making health care available translated into different levels of population health is key to evaluating health system efficiency. We want to study ...

Effects of antiretrovirals for HIV on African health systems, maternal and child health Institute of Tropical Medicine

W V Damme
Health Policy

To explore health system consequences of the rapid scale-up of HIV treatment programs, focusing on maternal and child health outcomes (related to MDGs 4 and 5). The research attempts to link micro-level data (demographic impact), meso-level data (health facilities) and macro-level data (national policy) in Uganda, Tanzania and Burkina Faso The Health Policy & Financing Unit of ITM is leading the work on Human Resources for Health for the ...

The challenge of equitable perinatal mental health coverage through local health systems in rural Uganda Institute of Tropical Medicine

Azucena Bardaji, J.G.F. Bunders - Aelen, Bart Criel
Socio-ecological Health Research, Equity and Health
The following PhD research proposal outlines a basic format for a three-year study which focuses on realising equitable quality perinatal mental health coverage through local health systems change in rural Uganda. The study design is based on a mixed-methods transdisciplinary methodology, which aims to work through an iterative Action Research Spiral and is participatory in nature. The research proposes to both study and work with concerned ...

European network staff eXchange for integrAting precision health in the health Care sysTems KU Leuven

Isabelle Huys
Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy

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 ...

Artificial intelligence as a basis for human health engineering: from cell manufacturing processes to real-time health monitoring systems KU Leuven

Jean-Marie Aerts
Surface and Interface Engineered Materials (SIEM), Animal and Human Health Engineering (A2H)

In this research we aim at developing and applying artificial intelligence or machine learning based methods to facilitate medical/health data analysis and development of medical/health monitoring systems. Firstly, an algorithm for cell mitosis event detection is developed for tissue engineering applications. Then, the machine learning based method will be extended and applied to various wearable medical/health monitoring systems.

The impact of alternative care integration strategies on Health Care Networks' performance in different Latin American health systems Institute of Tropical Medicine

Luisa Vazques, Renilde Everaert, Jean-Pierre Unger
Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Senora del Rosario, Universidad de Chile, Universidad Nacional del Rosario, Fundaçao Universidade de Pernambuco, Consorci de Salut i d'Atencio Social de Catalunya, Instituto de Medicina Integral Prof. Fernando Figueira, Universidad Veracruzana, Universidad de la República
Health services fragmentation is one of the main obstacles to effective health care in Latin-America, particularly for chronic diseases. This research builds upon results from Equity-LA (FP7-B-223123) and focuses on one of the most promoted policies to respond to fragmentation in LA, the development of Integrated Health Care Networks (IHN). The general objective is to evaluate the effectiveness of different care integration strategies in ...