CAPHRI 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 70 PhD defences.
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
To the roots: Green Care Farms as long-term care setting for people living with Dementia
Katharina Rosteius
Reablement and the philosophy’s goal: paving the way for reablement in the Netherlands using global insights
Lise Buma
Moving towards culture change: Insights into relocating nursing home residents with dementia to innovative living arrangements
Mara Brouwers
Same client, different care? Investigating practice variation in home care needs assessment
Jose van Dorst
Acute care demands in older adults: Predicting outcomes, evaluating quality and optimising care
Marleen van der Velde
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
Unlocking value in healthcare: barriers and success factors in the introduction of value-based payment models in the Dutch healthcare system
Diogo Luis Lopes Leao
Capturing and measuring the wider health impacts and associated social value of sustainable investment in public health
Kathryn Ashton
Capacity-building for evidence-informed practice: Advancing local evidence ecosystems in Germany’s public health service
Laura Arnold
Public Health Workforce Development and Professionalization The Implications for Ukraine
Olga Gershuni
The complexity of multi-hospital oncology networks: A widely used and promising structure without a blueprint
Roos van der Ven
A health economic evaluation guideline in low- and middle-income countries: a case study from Lebanon
Caroline Daccache
Health outcomes and health service use during armed conflicts: a comparison of conflict and non-conflict areas in Northern Nigeria
Olabayo A.R. Ojeleke
Public support for solidarity in healthcare financing in the netherlands: Insights from the perspective of the insured
Marloes Meijer
Organising the right care in the right place. Exploring healthcare relocation in the Netherlands from multiple perspectives
Laura Damen
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
The pathway to optimal ankle replacement surgery: The pursuit of solutions
Joris Hermus
Resistance training and muscle-brain crosstalk: implications for cognitive decline in aging and spinal cord injury
Wouter Vints
Walking with the clubfoot child: evolution of clubfoot care in the Netherlands
Arnold Besselaar
Health Inequities and Social 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
Beyond the red lights: understanding the STI/HIV burden and sexual healthcare needs of home-based and migrant sex workers
Charlotte Peters
The impact of neighborhood environments on lifestyle, socioeconomic health disparities, and cardiovascular disease
Jeffrey Alexander Chan
Co-construction of reliable knowledge, good care and profit-making: the ambivalent role of private clinics in Russian healthcare
Mariia Denisova
Modern citizens, unmodern others: Epistemic and everyday governance of difference in dutch migrant integration practices
Nadine Blankvoort
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
The Presentation, Use and Identification of Retracted Publications in the Health Sciences
Caitlin Bakker
Optimization of Diagnosis and Conservative Treatment of Intermittent Claudication in the Netherlands
David Hageman
Electronic consultations between general practitioners and hospital specialists: Shifting expertise, not patients
Ken Peeters
Measuring the potential impact of immunisation on demand for antibiotics and infectious disease-related out-of-pocket expenditure in India
Habib Hasan Farooqui
The association between sedentary behavior and obesity, during pregnancy and early childhood: physical activity and health
Yamuna Ana
Early years matter: Contextual factors shaping caregiving and child development in urban poor neighbourhoods of Bangalore, India
Eunice Lobo
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
Understanding health inequalities among vulnerable populations in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Dieudonné Bwirire Lwabauma
Exposure to Inter-Parental Violence and Child Development
Chitegetse Archangela Minanago
Rethinking mindfulness in health promotion: from trait to targeting eating
Christian Preissner
Metabolic syndrome and its risk factors among early adolescents in Khartoum State, Sudan
Fatima Awad Elkarim Elfaki Mohamed
Unraveling how healthcare professionals perceive antibiotic resistance: From perceptions to practice
Lieve Vonken
A tailored mHealth intervention for improving antenatal care seeking and its determinants among pregnant adolescent girls and young women in South Africa
Ronel Sewpaul