Publications
Preferences for redistribution and exposure to tax-benefit schemes in Europe KU Leuven
Laudato Si’s View on Integral Ecology in Light of the Planetary Boundaries Concept KU Leuven
Five Years Later Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Five years after a hunger strike of undocumented migrant workers, participants were interviewed to find out about the long term consequences and what the post-factum evaluation of their participation was. A longitudinal observational study was set up, interviewing 46 of the 100 ex-hunger strikers and combining quantitative and qualitative research. This grassroots study shows that one out of six did not derive any benefit from their ...
OptiBIRTH Vrije Universiteit Brussel
BACKGROUND: Despite evidence supporting the safety of vaginal birth after caesarean section (VBAC), rates are low in many countries.
METHODS: OptiBIRTH investigated the effects of a woman-centred intervention designed to increase VBAC rates through an unblinded cluster randomised trial in 15 maternity units with VBAC rates < 35% in Germany, Ireland and Italy. Sites were matched in pairs or triplets based on annual birth numbers and ...
Electrical (Pain) Thresholds and Conditioned Pain Modulation in Patients with Low Back-Related Leg Pain and Patients with Failed Back Surgery Syndrome Vrije Universiteit Brussel
OBJECTIVE: When evaluating sensory dysfunctions and pain mechanisms in patients with low back pain (LBP), a specific subgroup of patients with radicular symptoms is often excluded. Comparative studies that evaluate sensory sensitivity in patients with a dominant nociceptive and neuropathic pain component are rarely performed. Therefore, the goal of this study was to examine differences in electrical thresholds and conditioned pain modulation ...
The Incremental Hospitalization Cost of Significant Transport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Vrije Universiteit Brussel
AIM: This study aims to determine the incremental cost of acute hospitalization for traumatic brain injury (TBI) compared with matched controls. A second purpose is to identify the factors contributing to this hospital costs.
METHODOLOGY: Analyses were performed on administrative data for injured patients, hospitalized in Belgium between 2009 and 2011 following a road traffic accident. Cases were matched to a control with similar ...
Multi-isotope evidence for the emergence of cultural alterity in Late Neolithic Europe Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The coexistence of cultural identities and their interaction is a fundamental topic of social sciences that is not easily addressed in prehistory. Differences in mortuary treatment can help approach this issue. Here, we present a multi-isotope study to track both diet and mobility through the life histories of 32 broadly coeval Late Neolithic individuals interred in caves and in megalithic graves of a restricted region of northern Iberia. The ...
A cosmopolitan outlook on health workforce development Institute of Tropical Medicine
This gap concerns the skilled HWF required for providing essential health care services across the world in an equitable manner. This thesis takes a cosmopolitan outlook, as coined by Ulrich Beck to describe a reflexive modernity, to study what is required to develop the global health workforce in an equitable manner. It looks into principles and policies of ...