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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 ...

Concerted research program in health economics at Kinshasa School of Public Health. University of Antwerp

Diana De Graeve
Economics
DRC lacks necessary resources to provide efficient and equitable health services. Reinforcing local capacity is essential to constructively evaluate all health-care financing alternatives, to demonstrate the economic burden of health-related conditions, and to meaningfully determine the value of proposed programs and interventions, appropriate within the Congolese context. To provide efficient and equitable health services for improving the ...

Clinical and public health research to improve maternal and newborn health & to control sexually transmitted infections Institute of Tropical Medicine

Vincent De Brouwere
Reproductive and Maternal Health, Université Sidi Mohammed Ben Adballah - Fez (USMBA), Fundacio Centre de Recerca en Salut International de Barcelona, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Université Mohammed V - Souissi - Rabat (UM5S), Institut National d'Administration Sanitaire, Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux II (ISPED-UB2), Université Cadi Ayyad - Marrakech (UCAM), Universtity of Southampton, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Institute of Tropical Medicine

The overall aim of the proposed staff exchange programme is to establish a long lasting collaboration between Moroccan, South African and European research teams involved inclinical epidemiological and public health research. This effort should ultimately lead to improved mother and child health and better control of sexual transmitted diseases.

The proposal is therefore structured in seven work packages:

1. Management and ...

the development of a public health monitor for mental health KU Leuven

Ronny Bruffaerts
Public Health Psychiatry

The reform of mental health care started more than a decade ago. Several innovations characterize this thorough transformation process (such as the creation of mobile teams for both crisogenic and more chronic patients, the thickening or intensification of care, the concretization of the recovery vision, the establishment of psychological care in primary care, ...). In order to monitor the actual effects of the reforms in a dynamic way and ...

Food biodiversity and associations with cancer risk and mortality - from metabolic pathways to public health recommendations mutually beneficial for human and planetary health Ghent University

Carl Lachat
Department of Food Technology, Safety and Health

The hypothesis underlying the project U+2018BioHealthU+2019 is that food biodiversity in human diets contributes to better health outcomes while simultaneously protecting our ecosystems. Therefore, BioHealth aims to assess how species diversity in diets is associated with cancer risk and mortality in European populations. Biological pathways underlying these associations will also be investigated as well as co-benefits for planetary health. ...

Strategic Research Programme: End-of-life in cancer and non-cancer patients: public health, health services and clinical research. Addressing present and future challenges in palliative care. Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Luc Deliens
Experimental and Applied Psychology, Philosophy - Moral Sciences, Public Health Care, Medical Sociology, Supporting clinical sciences, Clinical sciences, End-of-life Care Research Group, Family Medicine and Chronic Care, Critical Care, Ghent University
End-of-life in cancer and non-cancer patients: public health, health services and clinical research

Salivary metabolomics as a new tool for unraveling stress obesity pathways in adolescents from a clinical public health perspective Ghent University

Stefaan De Henauw
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety

The high prevalence and treatment resistance of obesity urges further exploration into early diagnosis and prevention. This is especially important at young age, when metabolic and psychological development are ongoing. Psychological factors like stress can favor obesity, but researchers still struggle with the complex processes towards disease susceptibility. This project aims to elucidate pathways and identify potential clinical biomarkers ...

Perinatal depression in (pregnant) mothers: 'From prevalence to prevention' – A precision medicine approach within a public health perspective KU Leuven

Titia Hompes
Mind-body Research, Woman and Child, Public Health Psychiatry, Academic Center for General Practice, Clinical Psychology
Perinatal Depression (PD) is one of the most common complications (10-20%) during the perinatal period. Although studies clearly suggest that PD may has a considerable negative impact both in the short term and in the long run on (expectant) parents, their offspring and their environment, there is a clear need for longitudinal analytical epidemiological studies in this area given the large heterogeneity in developmental trajectories associated ...

Advancing the state of patients rights’ enforcement in the public and private health care facilities in South India Institute of Tropical Medicine

Complexity and Health, Health Policy, Equity and Health
Patients rights’ are “those rights that are attributed to a person seeking health care”. Some of the levers to enforce patient rights are health ombudsman, litigation, patient grievance redressal systems, media and public protests. Patients rights’ are important because it has implications for the quality of health care. An effective and a functional patient grievance redressal system acts as a key accountability tool but can also galvanize ...