Projects
Socialising mental health care: Competences of health professionals in transition HOGENT
For better health in university and college students: pin-pointing the interplay between social support, study stress, substance use and mental health across different study programs. University of Antwerp
Magnet4Europe: Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Health Care Workplace. KU Leuven
Over 23 million Europeans work in health care. Burnout, anxiety, sleep disorders, depression, and associated stigma are more common among health care workers, and exact a huge toll on individuals and families, particularly on women who are the majority of health care workers, and on society by erosion of productivity and safety of health services. Magnet4Europe transfers, modifies, scales up, and evaluates an evidence-based model of ...
The challenge of equitable perinatal mental health coverage through local health systems in rural Uganda Institute of Tropical Medicine
the development of a public health monitor for mental health KU Leuven
The reform of mental health care started more than a decade ago. Several innovations characterize this thorough transformation process (such as the creation of mobile teams for both crisogenic and more chronic patients, the thickening or intensification of care, the concretization of the recovery vision, the establishment of psychological care in primary care, ...). In order to monitor the actual effects of the reforms in a dynamic way and ...
Country Vignettes on Good Practices in Mental Health in Primary Health Care. University of Antwerp
The association of mental health with the cardiometabolic risk profile of children and adolescents and the role of sleep, health behaviours and weight status in this association. Ghent University
Obesity and cardiometabolic disorders are increasing worldwide amongst children and adolescents. This PhD project aims to investigate whether mental health aspects are risk factors for cardiometabolic disorders in European children and adolescents using data from the IDEFICS/I.Family cohort to strengthen prevention and intervention strategies. Special emphasis is given to the role of sleep in this association.