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Quitting smoking is easier if you're rewarded for it. According to research by Maastricht University (UM), employees find quitting easier to maintain if they are given a reward, in addition to following a smoking cessation training programme at work.

Victoria von Salmuth has been awarded the Maastricht University One Young World Scholarship 2018. She will attend the One Young World Summit in The Hague on 17-20 October 2018.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is so impressed by ‘Senior Friendly Communities’ that it has recently labelled the cross-border project for seniors in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine as a “Best Practice” for Europe.

Health economists and Health Technology Assessment (HTA) scientists of Maastricht University (School CAPHRI) have organised on behalf of the European Health Economics Association (EUHEA) the 12th European Conference on Health Economics (11-14 July).

At the IUSTI conference on sexually transmitted infections, Prof.dr. Christian Hoebe, professor infectious disease control (GGD South Limburg and CAPHRI research line IPG) received the best oral presentation award for his talk on the femcure study.

Congratulations to Kei Long Cheung, now postdoc at CAPHRI, who defended his thesis titled 'The Use of an Economic Decision Support Tool in the Context of Tobacco Control - Prerequisites for the development of a support tool for economic decision-making'.

The CaRe Award 2018 has been awarded to Ben Wijnen. Wijnen won the prize for his PhD dissertation Pleidooi voor betere meetinstrumenten voor mensen met epilepsie; zelfmanagement bij patiënten met epilepsie kosteneffectief (‘Call for better measurement instruments for people with epilepsy: self...

The CaRe Award 2018 has been awarded to Ben Wijnen for his dissertation titled “Health Technology Assessment in Epilepsy: Moving Towards Patient-Centered, Efficient Care”.