News on health and wellbeing
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Paper Max Pachali, Arjen van Lin and Bart Bronnenberg accepted for publication at Marketing Science
25th May 2022The paper from Max Pachali, Arjen van Lin, and Bart Bronnenberg titled: EXPRESS: How Do Nutritional Warning Labels Affect Prices? (co-authored with Marco Kotschedoff at KULeuven and Erica van Herpen at Wageningen University) has been accepted for publication at Marketing Science.
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Collaboration in networks welfare sector does not get off the ground enough
09th May 2022Networks that operate within the implementation of the Wmo 2015 (Social Support Act) succeed in connecting important organizations. At the same time, they have limited success in creating an integrated offer.
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Contact with peers helps victims to reinvent themselves
17th February 2022Social support is of great importance to victims of crime, for example, but exactly how that support works was still unclear. With support from the Dutch Victim Support Network (Slachtofferhulp Nederland), Pien van de Ven therefore investigated the role of both support from the social environment and from fellow-sufferers in dealing with a victim experience.
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European Research Council awards TILT researchers grant to develop safer mental health apps
08th February 2022The European Research Council has awarded a so-called Proof of Concept Grant worth 150,000 euros to Prof. Linnet Taylor and Dr. Tineke Broer in order to develop a new rating system for app safety.
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COVID-19 pandemic aggravates PTSD symptoms, anxiety and depression symptoms among victims
25th January 2022Adults victimized by physical violence, accidents and serious threats during the COVID-19 pandemic more often suffer from severe PTSD symptoms, anxiety and depression symptoms than adults victimised before this pandemic. They also more often suffer from general mental health problems and lower coping self-efficacy levels.
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Shifting the starting point of the deductible in healthcare insurance reduces healthcare costs
01st July 2021Under the Dutch Healthcare Insurance Act (Zorgverzekeringswet), everyone faces a mandatory deductible: people have to pay the first € 385 (in 2020) of their healthcare costs out of their own pocket. The purpose of the deductible is to make insured individuals aware of the costs of healthcare by having them pay some of these costs themselves. However, this deductible has a number of drawbacks. Having studied these as part of her PhD research, Minke Remmerswaal shows that other forms of cost-sharing schemes, such as shifted deductibles and co-insurance rates, are more effective. On July 2, she will defend her PhD thesis at Tilburg University.
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Data science helps to organize care for severe psychiatric patients more efficiently
22nd April 2021The complexity of problems that people with severe psychiatric conditions, such as psychoses, fase, makes the care for these patients difficult to design. Especially combined with long waiting lists and shortages of personnel in menthal healthcare. Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) can help to organize mental healthcare more efficiently, is evident Sascha Kwakernaak's docoral research, which she defends on April 30 at Tilburg University.
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Tilburg University and CZ pool expertise in Healthcare System Knowledge Institute
16th March 2021Tilburg University (specifically, the Tilburg School of Economics and Management) and healthcare insurer CZ will be working together in the Healthcare System Knowledge Institute/Academic Collaborative Center for the purpose of gathering and creating knowledge of healthcare systems, the Dutch system in particular. To many parties such knowledge is indispensable for outlining a well-substantiated policy. On March 18, 2021, Tilburg University and CZ signed an agreement formalizing their collaboration.
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Mental health Dutch population reasonably stable despite Covid-19 crisis
03rd March 2021At the end of 2020 around 17% of the adult population in the Netherlands was suffering from mild to severe feelings of fear and depression. In addition around 6% reported severe symptoms of fear and depression. But these percentages dit not differ from those of 2018 and 2019, a new scientific study by CentERdata, Tilburg University and Nivel has shown.
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Majority of managers reluctant to hire applicants with mental health problems
15th January 2021A new Tranzo survey of 670 executives in all Dutch sectors shows that a majority (64%) is reluctant to hire applicants with mental health problems. In addition, one in three managers would not quickly hire an employee who has ever had mental health problems, even if those problems are no longer an issue. The publication will soon be published in the renowned journal Occupational & Environmental Medicine (OEM).
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Large increase in loneliness but small decrease in mental health problems after the COVID-19 outbreak
11th January 2021Emotional loneliness among Dutch adults increased in the summer of 2020, compared to loneliness in November 2019 (from 18% to 25%). Among adults who were lonely after the COVID-19 outbreak but not lonely before the outbreak, the prevalence of mild to severe anxiety and depression symptoms also increased (from 18% versus 26%).
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Modular care focuses on patients
03rd December 2020Vincent Peters shows in his doctoral research how cooperation can be at its best when care is provided by a modular care organization. This he illustrates using the provision of health care to children with Down syndrome.
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Partnership project ‘Follow the Dot to Beat your Anxiety’ starts December 1st
30th November 2020With the support of a Public-Private Partnership grant of Health~Holland, Topsector Life Sciences & Health, Janniek de Jong is starting a research project into the use of Virtual Reality (VR) in the treatment of children and adolescents with post-traumatic stress symptoms on December 1st, 2020.
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Researchers have developed an app against needle fear
23rd November 2020People in the Netherlands will soon have the opportunity to receive vaccination against COVID-19. However, an estimated 35% of all people suffer from needle fear. Elisabeth Huis in 't Veld has developed a game app which, based on thermal images of the face, can predict whether somebody is about to faint.
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No increase in mental problems after the COVID-19 outbreak in the Netherlands, except among specific groups such as job seekers
10th September 2020The prevalence of Dutch adults with mild to severe anxiety and depression symptoms during COVID-19 outbreak in March 2020 was similar to the prevalence in November 2019 (about 17%). However, specific groups such as job seekers and students more often had anxiety and depression symptoms than employed adults.