Nowadays, modern societal trends and technologies enable us to live our lives with comfort and fun. On the one hand, these developments enhance quality of life, on the other hand there are downsides related to our health and happiness. Therefore, in our current society, it is necessary that parents consciously …

Discussions about the importance of the built environment for healthcare delivery extend at least as far back as Hippocrates 1 (400 BC). The iconic Florence Nightingale (1859) also strongly believed in the influence the indoor environment has on the progress of disease and recovery. Today, the role of …

Background: Peer Assessment (PA) in health professions education encourages students to develop a critical attitude towards their own and their peers’ performance. We designed a PA task to assess students' clinical skills (including reasoning, communication, physical examination and treatment skills) …

Background: A quality improvement collaborative is an intensive project involving a combination of implementation strategies applied in a limited “breakthrough” time window. After an implementation project, it is generally difficult to sustain its success. In the current study, sustainability was described …

Background: Changes in reimbursement have been compelling for Dutch primary care practices to apply a disease management approach for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This approach includes individual patient consultations with a practice nurse, who coaches patients in COPD …

Een beweegvriendelijke openbare ruimte heeft een preventieve werking op de gezondheid van mensen en levert daarmee een belangrijke bijdrage aan Healthy Ageing. Maar waar bewogen wordt vinden ook ontmoetingen plaats. De socialiserende werking van beweegvriendelijke hotspots hebben effect op de leefbaarheid …

Summary Social impact assessment (SIA) developed alongside EIA in the early 1970s as a mechanism to consider the social impacts of planned interventions. The early understanding tended to limit the practical application of SIA to the project level, usually within the context of regulatory frameworks, …

This presentation reports on the natural experiment. The developed toolbox with information regarding methods and measurements of physical activity, sedentary behavior and diet will be applied in the context of JOGG-Drenthe. This natural experiment is part of DEDIPAC, a sub project of the Joint Programming …

OBJECTIVES: In health evaluations, physical activity (PA) and cardiorespiratory fitness (maximal oxygen uptake [VO2max]) are important variables. It is not always possible to assess both of them. If the association between self-reported PA and VO2max was strong, it would be possible to use the information …

Vinkhuizen is een wijk waar veel mensen wonen met een lage SES (Sociaaleconomische Status) en er bovengemiddeld sprake is van overgewicht. Door op een impliciete manier bewoners bewust te maken van het thema Gezondheid, is getracht het percentage te verminderen. Deze rapportage is een procesevaluatie …