Organisations
Medical Sociology Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The main research areas of MESO are: 1. Socio-economic health inequalities; 2. Financial thresholds in health care (unequal access to health care); 3. Technology assessment in health care; 4. Immigrants and health care; 5. The transformation of nursing; 6. Euthanasia; 7. Prevention of cancer; 8. Terminal care; 9. Sentinel (health) events in rehabilitation centres.
Family Medicine and Chronic Care Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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 ...
Centre for Academic Heritage and Archives Ghent University
Interfaculty Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law KU Leuven
The activities of the Centre for Bio-Medical Ethics and Law (part of the Faculty of medicine, but with an interdisciplinary structure), are - besides teaching and documentation - mainly directed towards research.The expertise of the Centre spans a wide variety of disciplines including ethics, law, philosophy and theology and close links are maintained with various medical and care disciplines. The staff is composed of senior academic ...
Anesthesiology and Algology KU Leuven
A. Expansion of the Clinical Research Unit of the department of anaesthesiology. This unit is at the disposition of 1. Stafmembers of the department who wish to initiate and conduct clinical research in their subspeciality. 2. Companies active in health care who wish to submit their products for evaluating in a clinical environment. 3. Health care manger who wishes to investigate organisation, cost explosion and containment in health care. B. ...
Centre for Ethics Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The members of the team have experience in Normative Ethics, Moral Sciences and Applied Ethics. As a team we are interested in the interrelation between theoretical and practical aspects of ethics (1). Hereby we carry out empirical research in a interdisciplinary context (2). Ethical theories demonstrate their practical relevance in all kind of cases wherein persons justify their acts. We question these situations against the background of ...
Department of Head and Skin Ghent University
Department of Stomatology and Maxillofacial Surgery Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Topic A : Orthognatic surgery : diagnosis, etiology, treatment planning Topic B : Maxillo-facial traumatology Topic C : Laser therapy Laser in dentistry Topic D : Dental implantology Topic E : Cranio-mandibular dysfunction Topic F : Forensic dentistery
End-of-life Care Research Group Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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 ...