Researcher
Sara Willems
- Keywords:discrimination, equity, Quality of care, patient safety, social inequality, primary health care
- Disciplines:Public health care not elsewhere classified, Public health sciences not elsewhere classified, Quality assurance, Public health services not elsewhere classified, Sociology of health, Health management, Health promotion and policy, Health and community services, Primary health care, Sociology of social class, Social differentiation, stratification and social mobility
Affiliations
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2018 → Today - Department of Public Health and Primary Care (Department)
Responsible
From1 Oct 2018 → 30 Sep 2022 - Department of Public Health and Primary Care (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2018 → 30 Sep 2022 - Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care (Department)
Member
From1 Jan 2000 → 30 Sep 2018
Projects
1 - 10 of 12
- Revisiting health and social care in the community for disadvantaged elderly citizens: developing a socio-spatial professional orientationFrom1 Jan 2024 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- EdisTools: Explaining and reducing discrimination of ethnic minority patients in healthcareFrom23 Dec 2023 → TodayFunding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Valorization of PRICOV-19 Study: Translating scientific findings into policy recommendations for preparedness and response to infectious disease outbreaks in European primary care practicesFrom1 Jun 2023 → TodayFunding: BOF - various
- Refine the set of indicators and methodologies from the project 'Develop a set of indicators and a methodology for data collection to map the GP shortage'From15 Oct 2022 → 14 May 2023Funding: Department of Welfare, Public Health and Family
- PRICOV-19 study: dissemination of the results on equity aspects of quality care and patient safetyFrom21 Feb 2022 → 1 Apr 2023Funding: Foundations, funds and other with scientific goal
- Sports-based and recreational activities as a means to address smoking initiation in disadvantaged adolescents: introducing and testing a new approach to prevention in hard-to-reach groupsFrom1 Sep 2021 → TodayFunding: Nonprofit institution or equivalents
- Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees (CESSMIR): Migration and Social Mobility: Creating Impact through ParticipationFrom1 Jan 2020 → TodayFunding: BOF - research organisations
- Urban Academy: a collaboratorium for sustainability issues in GhentFrom1 Jan 2020 → TodayFunding: BOF - research organisations
- University of Toronto - UGent PartnershipFrom1 Nov 2019 → TodayFunding: BOF - mobility
- Training tools for explaining and reducing ethnic discrimination in the fields of education, health care, housing and labourFrom1 Jan 2019 → 31 Dec 2022Funding: FWO Strategic Basic Research (SBO)
Publications
31 - 40 of 78
- Active outreach to vulnerable patients during COVID-19 : a common practice or exception in primary health care?(2022)
Authors: Esther Van Poel, Claire Collins, Maria Vanden Muijsenbergh, Peter Groenewegen, Emmily Schaubroeck, Stefanie Stark, Victoria Tkachenko, Isabelle Dupie, Hector Falcoff, Liubové Murauskiene, et al.
Number of pages: 1 - Making sense of process evaluation : exploring the theory-of-change underlying a sport-for-development intervention to promote health in socially vulnerable populations(2022)Edition: 1Series: Advances in leisure studies
Authors: Emelien Lauwerier, Karen Van der Veken, Sara Willems
Pages: 77 - 94 - Has the COVID-19 pandemic led to changes in the tasks of the primary care workforce? An international survey among general practices in 38 countries (PRICOV-19)(2022)
Authors: Peter Groenewegen, Esther Van Poel, Peter Spreeuwenberg, Ronald Batenburg, Christian Mallen, Liubove Murauskiene, Antoni Peris, Benoit Pétré, Emmily Schaubroeck, Stefanie Stark, et al.
- To ask or not to ask? What factors were associated with a pro-active communication of general practitioners and their patients concerning domestic violence during the COVID-19-pandemic(2022)
Authors: Lisa Fomenko, Ines Keygnaert, Esther Van Poel, Claire Collins, Raquel Gómez Bravo, Päivi Korhonen, Merja Laine, Liubove Murauskiene, Athina Tatsioni, Sara Willems
Number of pages: 1 - Safety culture and the positive association of being a primary care training practice during COVID-19 : the results of the multi-country European PRICOV-19 study(2022)
Authors: Bianca De Sá e Silva, Zlata Ozvacic Adzic, Pierre Vanden Bussche, Esther Van Poel, Bohumil Seifert, Cindy Heaster, Claire Collins, Canan Tuz Yilmaz, Felicity Knights, Maria de la Cruz Gomez Pellin, et al.
- Responding to COVID-19 : the suitability of primary care infrastructure in 33 countries(2022)
Authors: Adam Windak, Katarzyna Nessler, Esther Van Poel, Claire Collins, Ewa Wójtowicz, Liubove Murauskiene, Kathryn Hoffmann, Sara Willems
- The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on primary care physicians in Israel, with comparison to an international cohort : a cross-sectional study(2022)
Authors: Limor Adler, Shlomo Vinker, Anthony D. Heymann, Esther Van Poel, Sara Willems, Galia Zacay
- Community sport and social inclusion : enhancing strategies for promoting personal development, health and social cohesion(2021)
Authors: Marc Theeboom, Hebe Schaillée, Rudi Roose, Sara Willems, Emelien Lauwerier, Lieve Bradt
- ‘Maybe we can turn the tide’ : an explanatory mixed-methods study to understand how knowledge brokers mobilise health evidence in low- and middle-income countries(2021)
Authors: Theresa Norton, Daniela C Rodriguez, Catherine Howell, Charlene Reynolds, Sara Willems
Pages: 9 - 28 - Health equity in times of a pandemic : a plea for a participatory systems approach in public health(2021)
Authors: Emelien Lauwerier, Sara Willems, Maïté Verloigne