Background: Urban slums are characterised by unique challenging living conditions, which increase their inhabitants’ vulnerability to specific health conditions. The identification and prioritization of the key health issues occurring in these settings is essential for the development of programmes that …

The future will be warmer with more tropical days, heat stress and related impacts for the healthy and liveable city. This is clear from many scientific studies and papers. Yet many local governments in the Netherlands claim to have insufficient understanding of the importance of these impacts in order …

Factsheet vanuit het eerste werkpakket van het RAAK project 'vitalisering van de sportvereniging'. Kerntaak van de verenigingsondersteuner is om bij te dragen aan 'vitalisering' (het maatschappelijk toerusten en toekomstbestendig maken) van de sportvereniging. De sportvereniging heeft daarbij niet alleen …

Background: The Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA) is an instrument to assess malnutrition and its risk factors. Some items of the PG-SGA may be perceived as hard to comprehend or difficult by healthcare professionals. The objective was to evaluate if and how dietitians’ perceptions …

The world population is ageing rapidly. As society ages, the incidence of physical limitations is dramatically increasing, which reduces the quality of life and increases healthcare expenditures. In western society, ~30% of the population over 55 years is confronted with moderate or severe physical limitations. …

Achtergrond: Zorg verlenen gaat onvermijdelijk gepaard met de confrontatie met ethische dilemma’s. Ethische dilemma’s kunnen ertoe leiden dat zorgverleners in een negatieve spiraal terecht komen en zich distantiëren van hun werk. Ethiekondersteuning is gericht op het ondersteunen van professionals in …

Objective in the promotion of periconceptional health, appropriate attention has to be given to the perceptions of those who are most vulnerable, such as women with a relatively low socioeconomic status based on their educational attainment. The aim of this study was to explore these women's perceptions …

Professionals and clients see the potential of apps and wearables in supporting an active lifestyle. However, they are not yet widely used due to barriers such as limitations of current apps and concerns about the use by clients. Future research ideas: • Gain more insight into the factors that explain …

The digital platform Youth Quarter is built by youth care organizations with the intention to facilitate youth care professionals to share knowledge. The adoption of Youth Quarter is investigated using the USE IT-adoption-model. Interviews with 27 youth care professionals demonstrated that the main problem …

This dissertation describes a research project about the communication between communication vulnerable people and health care professionals in long-term care settings. Communication vulnerable people experience functional communication difficulties in particular situations, due to medical conditions. …