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Kootstra Talent Fellowship for Alena Kamenshchikova
Sunday, December 6, 2020
Alena Kamenshchikova (RL Health Inequities and Societal Participation) was awarded a Kootstra Talent Fellowship. During the next months she will study the challenges of cross-border infectious disease control.
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CAPHRI Midterm Evaluation 2017-2019
Thursday, November 26, 2020
On Tuesday 1 December 2020, CAPHRI will host an assessment committee that will be reviewing the performance of CAPHRI and our six Research Lines during the period 2017-2019. The primary aim of the midterm review is to reveal and confirm the quality and the relevance of the research to society and to improve these where necessary.
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Consortium receives €11 million grant in the fight against antibiotic resistance
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
As part of the National Science Agenda, NWO is providing a grant of 9.8 million euros to the DARTBAC project: Dutch Antimicrobial Resistance Technology development and Biofilm Assessment Consortium. An international interdisciplinary consortium led by MUMC+/CAPHRI researcher dr. Chris Arts will spend the next 6 years researching new technological solutions to the explosively growing problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
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Best PhD Research award for Dorijn Hertroijs
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Dorijn Hertroijs won the Karolinska Medical Management Centre & EHMA Research Award for the best PhD research in the past two years.
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Onderzoek naar huisartsenzorg tijdens de COVID-19 pandemie van start
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Nivel and the University Medical Center Groningen, in collaboration with the Departments of Family Medicine of MUMC+ (RL Optimising Patient Care) and Radboud UMC Nijmegen, started a study (funded by ZonMw) into “Changes in organisation and use of care in GP practices and GP out-of-hours centres: lessons from the covid- 19 pandemic ”
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Evaluation allied health rehabilitation care COVID-19 patients
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
A national research consortium will evaluate allied health rehabilitation care for COVID-19 patients in close collaboration with the professional field. The consortium consists of researchers from various knowledge centers throughout the Netherlands, including the Department of Physiotherapy and Epidemiology of CAPHRI's research line Functioning, Participation and Rehabilitation.
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A healthy school lunch and more exercise in primary school helps tackling obesity
Thursday, November 5, 2020
RIVM, Maastricht University / CAPHRI, Wageningen University & Research and VU University Amsterdam studied the support, feasibility, affordability and impact of healthy school lunches and more physical exercise at all Dutch primary schools. The results are promising.
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Hilde Verbeek appointed member of Council for Medical Sciences
Monday, October 26, 2020
Since 1 November Hilde Verbeek joins the Council for Medical Sciences of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
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Can your neighbourhood make you sick?
Monday, October 26, 2020
Low individual socioeconomic status (SES) is known to be associated with a higher risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Hans Bosma and colleagues found out that living in a low property value neighbourhood in Maastricht is associated with higher rates of T2DM, independently of individual SES.
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Nursing homes will go all out to prevent visiting bans during the second coronavirus wave
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Dutch nursing homes say they want to avoid closing their doors to visitors during the second coronavirus wave if there is an infection among residents. At the same time, they say they can’t guarantee there will be no more visiting bans.
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Cum laude for Floor van den Brand
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
On 21 October Floor van den Brand obtained her PhD with the Cum Laude predicate. She studied the effects of financial incentives for smoking cessation
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Groot onderzoek naar antistoffen coronavirus
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
De GGD Zuid Limburg, GGD Limburg-Noord, Provincie Limburg en Maastricht UMC+ starten vanaf vrijdag 23 oktober een onderzoek naar antistoffen en de verspreiding van het coronavirus in Limburg. De resultaten van het onderzoek geven straks belangrijke informatie voor inwoners, beleidsmakers én wetenschappers over het virus en de verspreiding in Limburg.
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Recognizing palliative care needs in patients with advanced heart failure
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
The tool I-HARP (Identifying Heart Failure Patients with Palliative Care Needs) has been launched recently This tool facilitates caregivers in the timely identification of palliative care needs in patients with advanced heart failure and their loved ones.
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Improving personalized treatment in oncology
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
The Dutch Cancer Society (KWF) awarded a grant (€950.000) to the research project ‘Improving personalized treatment in oncology. Towards shared decisions based on integrated information regarding treatment options, health status and patient preferences’.
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Futureproof Practice Family Medicine located in the South of Limburg
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
PlusPraktijken: a futureproof and sustainable practice in family medicine.
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Marianne Nieuwenhuijze benoemd tot hoogleraar Midwifery/Fysiologische Verloskunde
Thursday, October 8, 2020
Marianne Nieuwenhuijze is benoemd tot bijzonder hoogleraar Midwifery/Fysiologische Verloskunde bij Universiteit Maastricht.
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Timo Clemens new Vice-Chairman VHC
Thursday, October 1, 2020
Dr. Timo Clemens is appointed vice-chairman of CAPHRI’s research line Creating Value-Based Health Care (VHC).
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Also fewer HPV infections in unvaccinated women
Thursday, October 1, 2020
Petra Woestenberg obtained her PhD (Cum Laude) with her dissertation called: "Measuring the effects of HPV16/18 vaccination on HPV positivity and anogenital warts". Petra investigated the effects of the HPV vaccination programme in the Netherlands. Her research concluded that HPV vaccination is very effective in protecting against HPV infection.
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“Why not move Carnival to summer?”
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Christian Hoebe, professor of Social Medicine and head of Infectious Disease Control at the GGD Zuid-Limburg, discusses his passion for social medicine, his childhood in Alkmaar and, of course, the fight against COVID-19.
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Research shows urgent need to teach healthy habits in primary school
Monday, September 21, 2020
Children’s health improves if they have a healthy lunch at school, get varied exercise and are taught in class about healthy behaviour. These are the findings of the ‘Healthy Primary School of the Future’ project, the final results of which will be announced during a symposium in Venlo on Tuesday, September 22.
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Jan Hamers nominated for 2020 Huibregtsen Prize
Saturday, September 12, 2020
Prof. Jan Hamers, professor of Care for the Elderly is one of the six nominees for the 2020 Huibregtsen Prize, which is awarded to recent research that is both scientifically innovative and socially relevant.
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ERC Starting Grant for Olga Zvonareva and Francesca Rapino
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
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Show the importance of public health, especially now!
Monday, September 7, 2020
With an inspiring campaign in Maastricht, Public Health students of Maastricht University have contributed to the launch of the global initiative 'This is Public Health' (TIPH). Their goal? To showcase what public health is and why it is so vitally important for promoting and protecting the health and wellbeing of our communities.
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ERC Starting Grant for Olga Zvonareva
Thursday, September 3, 2020
Olga Zvonareva has received an ERC Starting Grant, which is an European research grant for young academics at the career stage at which they are starting their own independent research team or programme.
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Patients with severe COPD benefit from a daily dose of morphine
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
The daily use of low-dose morphine tablets by patients with a severe form of the lung disease COPD has a positive effect on quality of life, and has no negative side effects. These are the findings of a recent study by Cindy van den Berg-Verberkt and Dr Daisy Janssen of the Ciro knowledge centre and Maastricht University (UM).
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Prestigious grant for study on relocation of nursing home residents
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Hilde Verbeek, Jan Hamers (RL Ageing and Long-Term Care) and their team were awarded a grant of € 1.730.000 by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS). They will study how relocations in nursing home care be improved for residents and their loved ones, while contributing to their quality of life and quality of care.
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ZonMw grant for study on the effect of the coronacrisis on hospitals in Limburg
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Dirk Ruwaard, Daan Westra (RL Creating Value-Based Health Care) and their team received a ZonMw grant of €493.413 for their research project 'Improve, adapt, overwork? Understanding and learning from hospitals' adaptations to COVID-19 and their effects on professional functioning and recovery'.
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How to make ethically responsible corona policy?
Thursday, June 25, 2020
Associate Professor in public health ethics Peter Schröder-Bäck studied the effects of the European debt crisis on health. He is now advising policymakers across Europe on the ethics of responding to the corona crisis.
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Aggie Paulus appointed Professor of ‘Economics of Education and Healthcare’
Thursday, June 25, 2020
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Kennisagenda Zorg op de Juiste Plek aan VWS aangeboden
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Dirk Ruwaard, voorzitter van het Kennisplatform de Juiste Zorg op de Juiste Plek (JZOJP), heeft 24 juni 2020 de Kennisagenda 'Zorg op de juiste plek' aan het Ministerie van VWS aangeboden.
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“Ethnic or racial categories in health research don’t capture the complexity behind health inequalities”
Friday, June 19, 2020
After George Floyd was killed by an American police officer, many hundreds of thousands of people all over the world took to the streets to protest against racism. These protests also prompt self-reflection at UM: what is the current situation in terms of the use of race and racism in Dutch health care and health research? We asked Alana Helberg-Proctor.
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‘This is a golden age for science’
Friday, June 12, 2020
Maurice Zeegers is not only professor of Complex Genetics and Epidemiology, but also scientific director of the Maastricht research school CAPHRI (Care and Public Health Research Institute). And during these corona times, he also functions as research partner of the WHO Evidence Collaborative. A discussion about the delicate balance between scientific rigour and social impact.
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Online tool helps people in making decisions on long-term care
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
People who need long-term care sometimes have to make fundamental decisions, e.g. on a preferred therapy or living situation. Karin van Leersum (RL Promoting Health and Personalised Care) and colleagues developed the online tool www.watikbelangrijkvind.nl together with clients, informal caregivers and independent care coordinators.
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You are responsible for others’ health
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
The importance of UM’s Smart Start-up protocol.
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Staying DEDICATED in times of COVID-19
Friday, May 15, 2020
Normally, the researchers involved in the DEDICATED project, are working on an approach to empower nursing staff in providing palliative dementia care. Now the involved nurses and other care professionals are working around the clock to provide the best possible care, the DEDICATED team is pausing on-site research activities. Instead, they are contributing from behind the scenes. How?
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Times that call for flexibility
Friday, May 15, 2020
One of the things Raissa Derckx looked forward to in her PhD was to focus her attention on one single subject. Fast forward to last month, when her supervisor told her she should probably consider herself a full-time coronavirus researcher for the time being, as her ‘own’ topic (chlamydia management in primary care) was coming to a relative stand-still due to the virus. Now she is involved in two important COVID-19 related research projects.
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Isolation in time of pandemic is a luxury
Friday, May 15, 2020
Remaining isolated in time of pandemic is a luxury. This does not only apply to those with vital professions who continue to serve society. It also applies to low-resource settings, where people have no other choice but to keep on as usual to be able to provide food for the family, irrespective of the health risks, and where access to care is challenging.
Read the column by Milena Pavlova, prof. of Health Economics and Equity (RL Creating Value-Based Healthcare).
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Milena Pavlova appointed professor Health Economics and Equity
Monday, May 11, 2020
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Jos Schols benoemd tot visiting professor aan de Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Monday, May 11, 2020
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Responsibility of experts
Saturday, May 9, 2020
"In contrast to viruses, experts have a great responsibility to recognise borders". A column by prof. Rik Crutzen
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“Your COVID-19 Risk” tool
Friday, May 8, 2020
Helping people improve their behaviour to reduce their risk of contracting the coronavirus. That is the goal of the online tool ‘Your COVID-19 Risk’, which was launched last week. The tool was developed by an international group of 150 volunteers from 35 countries, including several CAPHRI behavioural scientists.
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Assessment of Corona Burden Tool
Thursday, May 7, 2020
The Assessment of Corona Burden Tool (Corona Ziektelastmeter), developed by Lung Foundation Netherlands and CAPHRI, helps people who were infected with the novel coronavirus to get more control over the complaints they may experience.
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Making work from home work for you
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Fatigue, headaches, irritability, or sleep problems? These might be symptoms of stress caused by the unfamiliar demands of working from home. Angelique de Rijk studies work stress in nurses – and worries about the current situation and the transition back to normal.
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Managing the COVID-19 pandemic in China: managing trust and accountability
Monday, May 4, 2020
In late 2019, China became the first country to be hit by the novel coronavirus pandemic, and many cities were locked down in 2020 to prevent transmission. The country’s response to the coronavirus has raised questions about control measures and establishing public accountability and trust in a non-democratic context. Ronghui Yang (RL Health Inequities and Societal Particiation) traces discussions among citizens about the response to the coronavirus pandemic by following Chinese social media platforms.
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Walking Dead re-visited: a tale on corona, uncontrollability and a more beautiful world
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
A column by Hans Bosma, professor of Social Epidemiology.
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Biomass use and COVID-19: A novel concern
Friday, April 24, 2020
Evidence supports the link between air pollution and COVID-19 and thus it is likely that exposure to indoor smoke due to cooking increases the risk of COVID-19. An outbreak of COVID-19 in slum communities where the concept of physical distancing is next to impossible could easily overwhelm the public health system.
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All for one & one for all: how to stimulate more inclusive research?
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Participation in scientific research can be difficult or impossible for some groups in our society. As long as certain groups are excluded from research, we will not have a complete understanding of that which we are studying and the societal relevance of research is reduced. This project aims to increase awareness about this topic and gives us the possibility to investigate and disseminate best practices of inclusive research methods.
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