Projects
Empowering teachers and health care workers in providing school-based sexual and reproductive health education to promote gender equality KU Leuven
This project aims to reduce gender inequality in education. Girls in Tanzania often are deprived of uppersecondary education because of pregnancy and early marriage.
Also both male and female adolescents are at high risk of sexual transmitted infections. Formal Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) education is not compulsory yet in schools, and teachers struggle with a lack of competence and experience discomfort in teaching key SRH ...
Reverse innovation: Integration of community health workers in Pirmary Care. What can we learn from experiences in South-Africa? Ghent University
South Africa, like most African countries, has years of experience in deploying health guides or community health workers to provide healthcare to vulnerable groups. They are pioneers in this field, and our healthcare system can learn from their experience. This is a form of reverse innovation or trickle-up innovation, where the experience and knowledge from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are shared with high-income countries. This ...
Development and organization of a training on sexual violence for health care workers at Belgian hospitals Ghent University
Sexual violence is a public health problem worlwide affecting many people in Belgium as well. With this training for health care workers in Belgian hospitals we aim to contribute to a better identification, treatment and referral of victims of acute and non-acute sexual violence. The training consists of 3 moduels: sexual violence identification, holistic care for victims of acute and non-acute sexual vioelnce in Belgian hospitals and case ...
PSYCHOLOGICAL RESILIENCE OF HEALTH CARE WORKERS IN THE CONTEXT OF A PANDEMIC – LONGITUDINAL APPROACHES KU Leuven
Based on data of the longitudinal study RECOVID (Recovering Emotionally after COVID), we aim to analyze the predictors of diminished psychological resilience in health care workers as well as the relation between resilience and psychological disorder or drug and alcohol abuse. We want to identify the fixed and modifiable risk factors that influence resilience, to permit hospital managers and authorities to predict and manage diminishing ...
Sero-prevalence and sero-conversion study of health care workers and their households, Democratic Republic of the Congo Institute of Tropical Medicine
Shared decision-making for lung cancer prevention: patient-steered development and evaluation of a patient and health care workers decision aid. University of Antwerp
Heat Indicators for Global Health (HIGH Horizons): monitoring, Early Warning Systems and health facility interventions for pregnant and postpartum women, infants and young children and health workers Ghent University
Climate change has impacted people worldwide. In some places its impact can lead to natural disasters, while in others it leads to extremes of heat or cold. Particularly vulnerable groups like pregnant women, infants, frontline health workers and older citizens can be significantly affected by these changes. The EU-funded HIGH Horizons project aims to better prepare us for these eventualities by developing personalised early warning systems, ...
Building an evidence base to support and enhance community health workers' (informal) use of mobile phones in Ghana, Malawi and Ethiopia Hasselt University
Magnet4Europe: Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Health Care Workplace. KU Leuven
Over 23 million Europeans work in health care. Burnout, anxiety, sleep disorders, depression, and associated stigma are more common among health care workers, and exact a huge toll on individuals and families, particularly on women who are the majority of health care workers, and on society by erosion of productivity and safety of health services. Magnet4Europe transfers, modifies, scales up, and evaluates an evidence-based model of ...