Projecten
Health equity and financial protection in Asia Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
In much of Asia, households are liable for large out-of-pocket payments when they use health services. As a result, many fail to seek care or get inadequate care, while others seek care but end up in financial difficulty. Expanding insurance is one obvious policy solution, but private and community-based insurance schemes have rarely been successful, and social insurance schemes have struggled with the problem of covering the informal sector ...
Salmonella Paratyphi A: The emergence of a neglected pathogen in Asia Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Salmonella
The Gram-negative bacteria Salmonella causes a variety of clinical syndromes in humans, ranging from a mild gastro-enteritis to a life-threatening blood stream infection. Most widely known are the serovars Salmonella Typhi and Salmonella Paratyphi A that cause typhoid and paratyphoid fever respectively (also known combined as ‘enteric fever’). In contrast with other, non –typhoidal, Salmonella serovars ...
UNFPA Regional office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECARO) Work Plan with Ghent University/ANSER (Academic Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Policy) - 2023 Universiteit Gent
UNFPA Regional office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECARO) Work Plan with Ghent University/ANSER (Academic Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Policy) Universiteit Gent
UNFPA - Reimbursable Loan Agreement: "strengthen the capacities of governments and civil society networks of the Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) region in the development and implementation of high quality and impact oriented national plans and str Universiteit Gent
Tituli honorarii: monumentale eregedenktekens. Vergelijkend en maatschappelijk onderzoek naar "the epigraphic habit" op het Italisch schiereiland, de westelijke provincies en Asia Minor Universiteit Gent
Monumentale eregedenktekens vormen de basis van het epigrafisch onderzoek, waarbij nieuw licht wordt geworpen op aspecten van de Romeinse maatschappij, zoals sociale mobiliteit. Zorgde de romainisatiegraad in de provincies voor een imitatie van het model? De invloed van provinciale subculturen wordt nagegaan. Aandacht wordt besteed aan de sociale stratificatie en mobiliteit binnen de provincies en de verhouding tot hét Romeinse ...
Milieuvervuiling in wetlands van Oost Asia: verschillen in effecten tussen macroinvertebraten en trekvogels (COAST-IMPACT) Universiteit Antwerpen
Onderaanneming in het kader van het WHO-project: " Influenza illness and vaccination in Asia: Data collection of Social Contacts and Mixing Patterns" Universiteit Hasselt
Protecting the rural poor against the economic consequences of major illness : A challenge for Asian transitional economies. Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Major illness in the family has become an important cause of household impoverishment in China and the ex-command economies of Southeast Asia, as these countries have managed the transition to a market economy. This is related to the low levels of government funding of health care and the rising cost of medical care. The Governments of China and Cambodia have recently announced major policy initiatives to address this problem and the ...