Projects
Consortium Preventive Oral Health Care as partner organisation for preventive oral health care in a risk population. KU Leuven
This project aims to contribute to facilitate oral health and prevention of oral disease of the population, and more specifically in risk populations by means of development of methodologies, sensitisation, structural measures, as well as help and guidance during implementation of the latter by intermediate organisations. The populations will be reached by relevant intermediate organisations in order to achieve the policy priorities and ...
Supporting the development of self-regulation in infants: a promising strategy in preventive mental health care. University of Antwerp
Supporting the development of self-regulation in infants: a promising strategy in preventive mental health care Ghent University
A major challenge of the newborn child is to learn to regulate internal states (physiological, emotional, and cognitive) and behavior. The child’s self-regulation stems from successful co-regulation between the baby and its caregiver(s) and constitutes the basis of mental health. Regulation problems (RP) in early childhood are the seeds for emergent developmental psychopathology and for persistent mental health problems later in life. Given ...
Understanding the social context of co- and self-regulatory problems: a promising strategy in preventive mental health care. University of Antwerp
Socio-economic inequalities in preventive health care Ghent University
This research project aims to develop a better understanding of the social roots of preventive health-related behavior by combining recent theory formation on preventive health care use with insights
from theoretical approaches that have traditionally been developed outside the domain of health (care), namely a life course perspective.
Supporting the development of self-regulation in infants: a promising strategy in preventive mental health care KU Leuven
Knowledge Gap (KG): Infant self-regulation is hypothesized to originate from or persist within parental co-regulation, which itself largely depends on parental self-regulation. Yet, the study of early RP is limited by a lack of clear concepts, objective measures and diagnostic criteria. In clinical contexts, professionals often have to rely on subjective assessments of mother, father and child problems. Furthermore, the proposed links between ...
Diseases from A to Z: preventive health care for small ruminants. KU Leuven
This project aims to raise awareness among small ruminant keepers of the problems associated with outbreaks of animal diseases that have negative consequences for both the animals and the farm. In addition, during the project, ways of business management will be demonstrated that, by means of an integrated approach, can prevent health problems or detect them quickly.
Health promotion and disease prevention in primary care training: a Belgian framework from European guidelines (PROPELLER) University of Antwerp
Prevention of perinatal mental health problems in culturally and linguistically diverse populations: Development and implementation of a screening tool in primary care and community-based settings KU Leuven
During the perinatal period, i.e., pregnancy and the first postnatal year, 20% of (expectant) mothers struggle with perinatal mental health (PMH) problems. PMH problems can severely affect (expectant) mothers, their (unborn) children, the (expectant) co-parents and their support network. Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) women seem to be a population at risk. Namely, CALD women are more likely to be exposed to key risk factors for ...