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Researcher
Peter Decat
- Keywords:community participation in primary care services, complexity in health care, self-management, health advocacy, community health workers, community oriented primary care
- Disciplines:Public health care not elsewhere classified, Public health sciences not elsewhere classified, Health promotion and policy, Health and community services, Primary health care
Affiliations
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2018 → Today - Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care (Department)
Member
From1 Sep 2014 → 30 Sep 2018 - Department of Uro-gynaecology (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2006 → 25 Sep 2016
Projects
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- Proportionate Universalism in General PracticeFrom1 Sep 2025 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- Social Prescribing to promote and improve access to health and care services for people in vulnerable situations in EuropeFrom1 Jan 2025 → TodayFunding: HORIZON.2.1 - Health
- Using compassionate communities to improve palliative care initiatives in low-income urban settings in Cape Town, South AfricaFrom1 Sep 2024 → TodayFunding: VLIR-UOS TEAM
- The deployment of community health workers in general practice as a proportional universalism strategyFrom1 Jan 2024 → 31 Dec 2024Funding: BOF - projects
- Scientific framework for the "reform of penitentiary health care in Belgium" program - 2024From1 Jan 2024 → 31 Dec 2024Funding: FOD Public Health, Safety of the food chain and the Environment
- Using compassionate communities to improve palliative care initiatives in low-income urban settings in Cape Town, South AfricaFrom1 Sep 2023 → 31 Aug 2024Funding: VLIR-UOS Global Minds
- Scientific framework for the “reform of penitentiary health care in Belgium” program - Scientific support, analysis and evaluation of the pilot projects launched and financed in this framework by the FPS Public Health and the FPS Justice, with a view to practical and policy recommendations for a more adequate penitentiary health care systemFrom1 Jul 2023 → 31 Dec 2023Funding: FOD Public Health, Safety of the food chain and the Environment
- Reverse innovation: Integration of community health workers in Pirmary Care. What can we learn from experiences in South-Africa?From1 Jan 2023 → 31 Dec 2024Funding: Provinces
- Design of a transdisciplinary people centred intervention plan to reduce the burden of cardiometabolic diseases in local food chain actors in Sacaba, BoliviaFrom1 Sep 2022 → 31 Aug 2024Funding: VLIR-UOS South Initiatives
- Complexity-driven modelling of macro-conditions in patients with Bodily Distress SyndromeFrom1 Nov 2021 → 31 Oct 2025Funding: FWO fellowships
Publications
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- Insights to optimizing health extension workers’ time use and efficiency in Ethiopia : a qualitative study(2025)Published in: GLOBAL HEALTH ACTIONISSN: 1654-9880Issue: 1Volume: 18
- Multidimensional performance enablers of Ethiopian community-based health extension program : a scoping review(2025)Published in: PLOS ONEISSN: 1932-6203Issue: 6Volume: 20
- Wetenschappelijke ondersteuning, analyse en evaluatie van de pilootprojecten gefinancierd door de FOD Volksgezondheid en de FOD Justitie, met het oog op praktijk- en beleidsaanbevelingen voor een adequatere penitentiaire gezondheidszorg(2025)Pages: 404 p.
- Soutien scientifique, analyse et évaluation des projets pilotes initiés et financés dans ce cadre par le SPF Santé publique et le SPF Justice, en vue de recommandations pratiques et politiques pour une amélioration des soins de santé en milieu pénitentiaire(2025)Pages: 404 p.
- Self-management support (SMS) in primary care practice : a qualitative focus group study of care professionals’ experiences(2024)Published in: BMC PRIMARY CAREISSN: 2731-4553Issue: 1Volume: 25
- Time-dependent complexity characterisation of activity patterns in patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome(2024)Published in: BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL MEDICINEISSN: 1751-0759Issue: 1Volume: 18
- Transforming healthcare : a pilot study to improve primary healthcare professionals’ self-management support behaviour through blended learning(2024)Published in: BMC MEDICAL EDUCATIONISSN: 1472-6920Issue: 1Volume: 24
- Induced abortion : a cross-sectional study on knowledge of and attitudes toward the new abortion law in Maputo and Quelimane cities, Mozambique (vol 20, 129, 2020)(2024)Published in: BMC WOMENS HEALTHISSN: 1472-6874Issue: 1Volume: 24
- Outreach work in Belgian primary care practices during COVID-19 : results from the cross-sectional PRICOV-19 study(2024)Published in: BMC PRIMARY CAREISSN: 2731-4553Issue: Supplement 1Volume: 24
- Facilitating self-management support using the behaviour change wheel (BCW) to address healthcare professionals’ behaviour(2024)Published in: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH OPENISSN: 2666-3740Volume: 7