BACKGROUND: Prenatal healthcare is likely to prevent adverse outcomes, but an adequate review of utilization and its determinants is lacking. OBJECTIVE: To review systematically the evidence for the determinants of prenatal healthcare utilization in high-income countries. METHOD: Search of publications …

Promotion of a healthy pregnancy is a top priority of the health care policy in many European countries. Perinatal mortality is an important indicator of the success of this policy. Recently, it was shown that the Netherlands has relatively high perinatal death rates when compared to other European countries. …

This meta-analysis investigated the long term effects of prevention programs conducted during early and middle childhood on criminal offending during adulthood. The analyses included 3611 participants in 9 programs. The effect size for adult criminal offending was significant, but small in magnitude …

Ambient intelligence technologies are a means to support ageing-in-place by monitoring clients in the home. In this study, monitoring is applied for the purpose of raising an alarm in an emergency situation, and thereby, providing an increased sense of safety and security. Apart from these technological …

Onderzoek in het sociaal-psychiatrische werkveld vindt de laatste jaren maar beperkt plaats in Nederland. Er wordt weliswaar onderzoek gedaan naar in het buitenland ontwikkelde programmas, zoals ACT (Assertive Community Treatment), IRB (Integrale Rehabilitatie Benadering), IPS (Individual Placement & …

This book, ‘Outreach work and imminent eviction: RAAK research’, is a report of the results obtained from the examination of these innovations. The first chapter contains a description of the pilot projects, which brought together care workers from the Blankenberg Foundation and Dynamo for early intervention …

In this chapter the autor explores the contours and possible effects of the WMO for the local government level. First she gives a short overview of the main features of the WMO (PAR. 2.5). Then she describes the challenges that local government is confronted with, especially the political decisions that …

In de vorige masterclass legde Jean Pierre Wilken een stevig fundament voor de support benadering, hij bouwde al bijna een klaar en af huis. Voor de metafoor van ontwikkelingskracht zijn we nog niet zover. Ik heb wel geprobeerd elementen en dilemma's bij elkaar te leggen. Startpunt is de wet op de maatschappelijke …