OBJECTIVES: This study compares the scope of practice of Dutch dental hygienists (DHs) educated through a 2- or 3-year curriculum ('old-style DHs') with that of hygienists educated through a new extended 4-year curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree ('new-style DHs'), with the aim to investigate whether …

The purpose of this article was to describe a child-friendly modified constraint-induced movement therapy protocol that is combined with goal-directed task-specific bimanual training (mCIMT-BiT). This detailed description elucidates the approach and supports various research reports. This protocol is …

1e alinea column: "Een mens heeft twee oren en één mond om twee keer zoveel te luisteren dan te praten,"- Confucius. Internet dwingt organisaties tot echt luisteren, omdat samenwerken anders te duur wordt. In de 'digital age' gaat het daarom over het bouwen van ecosystemen, 'to share is to gain', en …

Study Type – Aetiology (individual cohort) Level of Evidence 2b What's known on the subject? and What does the study add? Recent studies have already shown associations between generalized joint hypermobility (GJH) and voiding and defecation dysfunction and/or slow transit constipation. Changes in extracellular …

In vocational rehabilitation, empowerment is understood as the notion that people should make an active, autonomous choice to find their way back to the labour process. Following this line of reasoning, the concept of empowerment implicitly points to a specific kind of activation strategy, namely labour …

Voor u ligt het verslag dat ik schreef naar aanleiding van mijn afstudeeronderzoek, welke ik gedaan heb ter afronding van mijn opleiding theologie en levensbeschouwing aan de Hogeschool Windesheim te Zwolle. De aanleiding van mijn onderzoek is geweest dat ik tijdens mijn stage in een verpleeghuis zag …

Full text via link. The goal of this study is to examine the impact of Self-leadership styles on the dimensions of Entrepreneurial Orientations in organisations in Dubai and the Netherlands: Innovativeness, Risk Taking and Proactiveness. The study also distinguishes the impact of Self-leadership styles …

This chapter discusses the development of health impact assessment (HIA) in The Netherlands. HIA in The Netherlands began in the early 1990s and developed along two different lines: one shaped by the public health approach and the other stemming from the environmental field. Public health-based HIA evolved …

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 …