PhD Dissertations 2025
Explore all PhD dissertations completed at CAPHRI in 2025, showcasing the breadth and depth of research within our institute. The dissertations are organized by research line, reflecting CAPHRI’s approach to public health and primary care. In 2025, CAPHRI has supported a total of 31 PhD defences to date.
Browse the dissertations from 2025 by research line:
Ageing and Long-Term Care
Exploring Shared Decision Making in Swiss Acute Psychiatric Care
Caroline Gurtner
Keep on learning! Fostering continuous learning and improvement in long-term nursing care
Elisabeth Aldegonda van Lierop
Fair and meaningful comparison of inpatient fall rates in acute care hospitals
Niklaus Stefan Bernet
Creating Value-Based Health Care
Collective health, individual lives: utilizing routine data in a population health management approach for type 2 diabetes
Rose Julie Geurten
All that glitters isn’t gold: Examining how and why organizations collaborate to address wicked problems in healthcare
Robin E. J. Peeters
Defining and professionalising the role of Parkinson nurses: competency development for personalised Parkinson’s care
Marlena van Munster
Exploring health insurance literacy in the Netherlands: citizens' skills and needs in choosing a health insurance policy
Laurens Holst
Which route to take? Supporting the decision-making process of curatively treated breast cancer patients concerning their aftercare trajectory
Linda Klaassen
Functioning, Participation and Rehabilitation
Secondary shoulder surgery in brachial plexus birth palsy patients: Long term results and novel insights
Stijn de Joode
Improving sleep quality in nurses who work irregular shifts: necessity and first steps towards intervention
Uthman Albakri
Health Inequities and Societal Participation
The spectrum of COVID-19 epidemiology: from public health alarm state to long-term struggle
Demi Pagen
Have a little faith: Validating student voices in vocational education
Esther M. A. Geurts
Implementing home-based sexual health care in public health: An evidence-based integrated care approach for ending the HIV epidemic
Hanneke Goense
Sight Under Siege: understanding corneal infections and ccular health
Judith Veugen
Local context as compass: public health care in Maastricht 1900-1940
Lucie Bastiaens
Optimising Patient Care
A mixed-methods investigation of the trajectories of patient-reported functional mobility in people with Parkinson's disease
Anne-Marie Hanff
Improving the reproducibility and reporting quality of search strategies in biomedical systematic reviews
Melissa Lyle Rethlefsen
Understanding health inequalities among vulnerable populations in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Dieudonné Bwirire Lwabauma
Promoting Health & Personalised Care
Which route to take? Supporting the decision-making process of curatively treated breast cancer patients concerning their aftercare trajectory
Linda Klaassen
Improving uptake of Prevention of Mother to-Child Transmission services in Sudan
Ibrahim Elsiddig Elsheikh Ahmed Badr
From tobacco policy to person: multilevel influences on smoking cessation
Nikita Lee Poole
Using stepped care to strategically organize ehealth and promote self-care: experiences from public sexual health care in the Netherlands
Filippo Zimbile
Learning shared decision making in postgraduate medical education
Anouk Baghus
