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The End-of-Life Care Research Group conducts high-quality scientific research in end-of-life care in Belgium and across Europe. Researchers from different scientific backgrounds work in a common research structure to facilitate interdisciplinary collaborative research. The group is spearheaded by a number of experienced researchers and strives to optimize the training and support of junior researchers in order to expand future expertise in ...

Integrated health care delivery: Integrated care has been defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as: "The management and delivery of health services such as that people receive a continuum of health promotion, disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, disease management, rehabilitation and palliative care services, through the different levels and sites of care within the health system, and according to their bio-psycho and social ...

The department GESG mainly develops research activities in the following domains: 1. Economical aspects of HIV/AIDS; 2. Terminal (palliative) home care: pain management; 3. Needs in potentially lethal conditions and in the elderly, stressing informal care; 4. Gerontechnology; 5. Health indicators in Youth; 6. Chemical and physical factors of occupational load, especially biological monitoring; 7. Evaluation of primary health care training for ...