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Researcher

Olaf Timmermans

  • Research Expertise:a. Healthy region (HERE) i. Objective and Keywords In the Special Interest Group (SIG), professionals from the government, the public and private sectors are connected to each other around the central theme of destination development of the city of Antwerp and the surrounding area towards a vital and healthy region for its citizens and visitors. from tourism, study and businesses and professional organizations. This approach is already in full development through the professorship of Prof. Olaf Timmermans Healthy Region of the HZ University of Aplied Sciences Vlissingen for the Zeeland region. The concept of a health region is recent. It comes down to installing partnerships aimed at the health (prevention, care and cure) of the population and visitors in cities and regions. This can be translated into the provision of health care, into health policy and into connecting different sectors, e.g. between health care and tourism, connecting disciplines with the therapeutic landscape of cities and regions, municipal health policy in the context of building of a vital community in urban and rural contexts. In short, all initiatives that contribute to Vital Health Regions. This means the following objectives: • Offering a platform for cross-sectoral networking with the aim of converting the opportunities of the city of Antwerp and the surrounding area and the Zeeland region, as a Vital Health Region, into workable market-product combinations. • Knowledge sharing with the aim of offering frameworks that can lead to substantive projects, designed by governments, public and private sectors and knowledge institutions • Positioning the city of Antwerp and the surrounding area and the Zeeland region as a Vital Health Region, with a focus on landscape, living environment, cross-sector connections with regard to health and regional development for a wide audience.
  • Keywords:HEALTHY CITIES, HEALTH PROMOTION, HEALTH CARE INNOVATION, HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH, Medicine
  • Disciplines:Anaesthesiology, Bioinformatics and computational biology, Biomechanics, Biophysics, Cardiac and vascular medicine, Dermatology, Diagnostics, Endocrinology and metabolic diseases, Gastro-enterology and hepatology, Gerontology and geriatrics, Gynaecology and obstetrics, Hematology, Immunology, Intensive care and emergency medicine, Laboratory medicine, Medical biochemistry and metabolism, Medical imaging and therapy, Medical systems biology, Microbiology, Molecular and cell biology, Morphological sciences, Neurosciences, Oncology, Ophthalmology and optometry, Orthopaedics, Otorhinolaryngology, Palliative care and end-of-life care, Paediatrics and neonatology, Physiology, Psychiatry and psychotherapy, Regenerative medicine, Respiratory medicine, Surgery, Tropical medicine, Urology and nephrology, Other clinical sciences, Forensic medicine, Nursing, Nutrition and dietetics, Speech, language and hearing sciences, Other paramedical sciences, Other medical and health sciences
  • Research techniques:expertise with research projects in all domains (acute care, mental health, residential aged care and primary care) around nursing and interprofessional practice environments related to different health and vitality outcomes of patients and caregivers. Expertise with various research techniques, both qualitative and quantitative, with a specialty in qualitative research into regression analyzes and especially qualitative research into participatory action research.
  • Users of research expertise:researchers on a healthy region and involved stakeholders / professionals from the government, the public and private sectors