Publicaties
Community health insurance amidst abolition of user fees in Uganda: the view from policy makers and health service managers Universiteit Gent
Advance care planning in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other chronic life-limiting conditions Vrije Universiteit Brussel
People live longer primarily because of improved public health, medical knowledge, and technology. This resulted in a growing population of older people and a fundamental change in the main cause of death, i.e. due to chronic life-limiting illnesses. Chronic-life-limiting illnesses are characterized by prolonged disease trajectories, with a functional decline over months or years and are responsible for more than 73% of the ...
Determinants of effective treatment coverage for major depressive disorder in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys KU Leuven
Understanding the limitations of “quasi-mandatory” approaches to enrolment in community-based health insurance: Empirical evidence from Tanzania KU Leuven
Initiation and continuity of maternal healthcare: examining the role of vouchers and user-fee removal on maternal health service use in Kenya Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Can social capital help explain enrolment (or lack thereof) in community-based health insurance? Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
CBHI has achieved low population coverage in West Africa and elsewhere. Studies which seek to explain this point to inequitable enrolment, adverse selection, lack of trust in scheme management and information and low quality of health care. Interventions to address these problems have been proposed yet enrolment rates remain low. This exploratory study proposes that an under-researched determinant of CBHI enrolment is social capital. ...
Frequency of participation in external quality assessment programs focused on rare diseases Universiteit Antwerpen KU Leuven Vrije Universiteit Brussel Universiteit Gent
Development and operationalization of a data framework to assess quality of integrated diabetes care in the fragmented data landscape of Belgium Vrije Universiteit Brussel Universiteit Antwerpen
BACKGROUND: To assess the quality of integrated diabetes care, we should be able to follow the patient throughout the care path, monitor his/her care process and link them to his/her health outcomes, while simultaneously link this information to the primary care system and its performance on the structure and organization related quality indicators. However the development process of such a data framework is challenging, even in period of ...