Projects
Balancing socio-economic and public health impact of COVID-19 for its sustainable control and mitigation (SOPHIA) Ghent University
Given the uncertainty about the further development of the COVID-19 pandemic, decision makers urgently need to balance the immediate public health impact of the virus and the - yet uninvestigated - psychological and socio-economic impacts of the mitigation measures that were imposed to safeguard our health care system. Just as the spread of COVID-19 itself, these effects are spatially heterogeneous and scale dependent, hence the need to ...
Balancing socio-economic and public health impact of COVID-19 for its sustainable control and mitigation (SOPHIA) KU Leuven
Given the uncertainty about the further development of the
COVID-19 pandemie, decision makers urgently need to balance the immediate public health impact of
the virus and the - yet uninvestigated - psychological and socio-economic impacts of the mitigation
measures that were imposed to safeguard our health care system. Just as the spread of COVID-19
itself, these effects are spatially heterogeneous and scale dependent, ...
Public Health, Sociology & Ethics of the End of Life Ghent University
This initiative will work with a thematic framework to capture and structure the envisioned research projects, both in the short term (including already running projects) and in the long term. The overarching framework itself can be revised, with a repositioning of themes or addition of new emergent themes or subthemes over time. All three themes stand to benefit greatly from the interdisciplinary collaboration guaranteed in this initiative. ...
IRIS: Pathogenesis, clinical and public health aspects. University of Antwerp
Strengthening Environmental Surveillance to Advance Public Health Action Ghent University
The ODIN project aims at strengthening capacity for genomics and bioinformatics database management skills for generating, maintaining, and querying large genomic epidemiology data sets in sub-Saharan countries. To reach this goal, ODIN will develop a genomic surveillance system relying on environmental monitoring of major communicable disease agents and antimicrobial resistance in community wastewater and other environmental samples ...
Three short-term assignments within the framework of the Support Centre for Welfare, Public Health and Family via addendum4. KU Leuven
Three short-term assignments: 1. Comparative study of existing classifications for the care of people with disabilities and older people in order to assess the current resource needs; 2. Enforcement and dispute resolution within the policy area of welfare, public health and family; 3. Analysis of problems, needs and questions concerning the upbringing and behaviour of children at the age of 36 months. More information and an overview of the ...
Social Innovation in Public Health Impulse fellowship programme Institute of Tropical Medicine
Applied research into the practice of inspection and law enforcement within the policy area of Welfare, Public Health and Family. KU Leuven
The different - public and private - actors responsible for the supply of social care and assistance need to focus on the quality of care. The government, charged with the (constitutional) responsibility for the policy on care and its implementation, should encourage this. One of the guiding instruments that is at the public authorities’ disposal to achieve this, is the supervision of the social care institutions and facilities.
The ...