Projects
Toward a sustainable and affordable healthcare: Exploring the potential of subsidiarity in the care for adults with congenital heart disease KU Leuven
Congenital heart disease (CHD) occurs in 9.3 per 1,000 newborns. It comprises a wide spectrum of simple, moderate, and complex severity lesions. To date, more than 90% of children born with CHD can reach adulthood. Irrespective of the treatment received in childhood, these patients cannot be considered to be cured when reaching adulthood, and therefore need life-long care. Since CHD comprises a wide spectrum of heart lesions, patients may be ...
Towards a sustainable and affordable health care: Exploring the possibilities of subsidiarity in the care of complex chronic diseases Ghent University
This project aims to develop and test a methodology for the determination of the most appropriate setting of care for patients with complex chronic conditions (CCC’s), depending on clinical outcomes
and healthcare expenditures. Adults with Congenital Heart Disease will be investigated as a sample case for the broader spectrum of CCCs
Towards a sustainable and affordable healthcare: Exploring the potential of subsidiarity in the care for complex chronic conditions. KU Leuven
Chronic conditions impose a significant impact on healthcare systems and expenditures. Special groups of interest are patients with complex chronic conditions (CCCs) such as congenital heart disease (CHD). These patients are growing in number. In most countries, they are predominantly cared for in tertiary care centers, yet the lost-to-follow-up rate is relatively high. Hence, strategies are needed to safeguard the accessibility and ...
Subsidiarity and constitutionalised multilevel governance of international trade. University of Antwerp
Subsidiary social provision before the welfare state. Political theory and social policy in nineteenth-century Belgium KU Leuven
This study is about the origins of the Belgian welfare state; more specifically, about both the policy origins and the ideological origins of the Belgian welfare state. The historical origins of the Belgian modern welfare state are often traced back to the introduction of social insurances in national legislation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. However, this legislation only confirmed a system that had ...
Development of a cascading approach for zero-waste valorization of agricultural and food residues. University of Antwerp
Sabbatical René Belderbos: Agglomeration and De-Agglomeration: (Foreign) Expansion and Divestmen KU Leuven
The title of the research I envisage to focus on during my sabbatical is Agglomeration and De-Agglomeration: (Foreign) Expansion and Divestment. It groups a number of research projects that I aim to pursue in collaboration with Japanese scholars. I have ample experience in research collaboration with Japan and earlier stays have led to a number of published papers. A number of projects started in more recent years have however not progressed ...
The repatriation of the Japanese spouses living in North Korea (1959-2014). A case study of Japan's multi-track diplomacy. KU Leuven
Due diligence beyond borders: unravelling the extraterritoriality of human rights and environmental due diligence frameworks using the EU’s Proposal on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive as a test case KU Leuven
Sustainability is at the core of the European Union's policy objectives, leading it to develop a wide range of regulatory initiatives targeting all stakeholders active in the internal market. In this context, the European Commission unveiled its Proposal on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive which aims to impose mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence obligations on large EU and non-EU companies (the “Proposal” or ...