Healthcare and wellbeing
How do we keep healthcare affordable, socially responsible and sustainable? What (technological) developments can help to decongest the care sector and organize more tailored care? How do we integrate biological, social and psychological perspectives when examining development over the life course? Scientists from the social and behavioral sciences are working on these fundamental questions together with experts from the healthcare practice, patients and researchers in the fields of economics, public administration, digital sciences, law and ethics.
Experts and their expertise
Jolanda de Vries about the fear of dying
News in Health and Wellbeing
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Invitation Erasmus University: academic conference resilience and recovery after Covid-19
17th May 2021On Thursday May 20, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioral Sciences is organizing an online conference on the unprecedented social impact of Covid-19 and human behaviour as a critical factor for crisis management. During this scientific conference, researchers from different disciplines present their research and share their findings. Researchers from Tilburg University are cordially invited. You can register up to and including May 18.
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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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Parents' care for kids with type 1 diabetes
07th April 2021Parents of children with type 1 diabetes struggle with the question of whether and how their child is able to gradually take over his/her own diabetes care. The condition requires the necessary care, knowledge, skills and discipline to prevent complications. Jori Aalders investigates the question in his thesis "Whose diabetes is it anyway". PhD Defence April 7.
Partnerships
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We Care provides a platform for collaboration
Interdisciplinary research to improve patient care in collaboration with the Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital (ETZ) in Tilburg.
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PROFIEL study contributes to quality of life of people with cancer
PROFIEL study is an international partnership for the collection and sharing of data on the quality of life of (former) cancer patients, in cooperation with Integraal Kankercentrum Nederland (IKNL).
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A good start for everyone
Tilburg University contributes to this challenge through a variety of projects for different target groups. New knowledge is collected in order to gain an even better insight into which social challenges exist.
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Tranzo
Tranzo is the scientific center for care and wellbeing of the Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences of Tilburg University. Tranzo wants to build a bridge between science and practice in the area of care and wellbeing. The objective is to promote an evidence-based approach by working in co-creation with practitioners to develop and exchange knowledge.
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