Publicaties
SMART2D-development and contextualization of community strategies to support self-management in prevention and control of type 2 diabetes in Uganda, South Africa, and Sweden Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde Vrije Universiteit Brussel Universiteit Antwerpen
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and its complications are increasing rapidly in low- and middle-income countries, as well as among socioeconomically disadvantaged populations in high-income countries. Support for healthy lifestyle and self-management is paramount but not well implemented in health systems, and there is need for knowledge on how to design and implement interventions that are contextualized and patient centered and address special needs ...
Infection prevention and control strategies in the era of limited resources and quality improvement: A perspective paper Universiteit Hasselt Universiteit Gent
Cadmium exposure in the population: from health risks to strategies of prevention. Universiteit Hasselt KU Leuven
Strategies to identify and reach young women who sell sex with HIV prevention and care services: lessons learnt from the implementation of DREAMS services in two cities in Zimbabwe Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Background: Young women who sell sex (YWSS), are underserved by available HIV prevention and care services. The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) Partnership aimed to reduce the risk of HIV acquisition among vulnerable populations of adolescent girls and young women, including YWSS, in 10 sub-Saharan African countries. We describe 2 methods, respondent-driven sampling (RDS) and peer outreach, used to ...
Travel-acquired scrub typhus: emphasis on the differential diagnosis, treatment, and prevention strategies Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Prevention and treatment strategies for contextual overgeneralization Vrije Universiteit Brussel KU Leuven
At the core of anxiety disorders lies the tendency to generalize fear from a threatening to a safe situation. A deeper understanding of the mechanisms that facilitate and restrain generalization in humans is therefore needed. Rodent studies showed that pre-exposure to a context that is similar to the threatening context enhanced generalization to the similar context. In Experiment 1 we replicated these animal findings in humans ...