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ZonMW Clinical Fellowship for Charlotte van Laake
Wednesday, November 23, 2022
Charlotte van Laake will conduct further research into chronic pain in spinal cord injury patients.
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Cigarettes no less affordable since 2010 despite tobacco tax increases
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
The affordability of cigarettes in the Netherlands remained virtually unchanged between 2010 and 2020. This has emerged from research by Maastricht University (UM), and makes it clear that the excise duty increases have been insufficient to make smoking less affordable.
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Four CAPHRI projects awarded MUMC+ Next Step grant
Thursday, November 10, 2022
The awarded projects all contribute to MUMC+'s mission to work on health promotion in the broadest sense.
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Lessons from the corona crisis
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
The covid pandemic brought pressure to bear on many things. Neurology professor Karin Faber and assistant professor of Healthcare Management Daan Westra look back on a turbulent time.
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Menthol smokers are more likely to quit smoking after European menthol ban
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
The EU ban on menthol cigarettes and roll-your-own tobacco introduced in May 2020 led menthol smokers to be more likely to try to quit smoking and to be successful in quitting compared to non-menthol smokers. At the same time, a third of menthol smokers say they still smoke menthol cigarettes despite the ban.
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Nieuw boek: 'Gezonde stad'
Friday, September 23, 2022
Op 7 oktober verschijnt het boek 'Gezonde stad. Uitsluiting en ontmoeting in de publieke ruimte' door Klasien Horstman en Mare Knibbe
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VHC COVID-19 study awarded once again
Thursday, September 15, 2022
Rachel Gifford, Daan Westra, Frank van de Baan and Dirk Ruwaard won the ‘Best International Paper Award’ from the Healthcare Management division at the Academy of Management and the ‘Best ECR Paper award’ from the Society for Studies in Organizing Health Care.
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Esther Boudewijns nominated for Albert Schweitzer Prize 2022
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Our PhD candidate Esther Boudewijns has been nominated for the Albert Schweitzer Prize 2022 with the project 'Cooking should not kill'!
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Children from poorer families live shorter and less healthy (and the Dutch government is not adressing this well)
Friday, August 12, 2022
Stress over high energy and grocery costs has a direct effect on the health of people who already have little to spend, warns Professor Gera Nagelhout. According to her, the government can do more to remedy that problem. This is important, because children from underprivileged families in our country live on average fifteen years shorter in good health.
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Learning and improving with the use of data
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
How can the use of data support learning and improvement within care teams and across organisations? PhD students Merel van Lierop (Maastricht University) and Alies Depla talk about their action research in elderly care and in integrated birth care: 2 different sectors, working on similar processes.
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Living Lab Assistive Technology Self-Reliance launched
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
On 26 July the Living Lab Assistive Technology Self-Reliance (AWH-Z) was officially launched. CAPHRI is one of the core partners. AWH-Z is one of 5 Dutch Living Labs Assistive Technology that are supported by ZonMw for a period of 6 years.
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'Government should do more to protect the public from health risks'
Friday, July 15, 2022
On 15 July, Maastricht University and GGD Zuid Limburg will say goodbye to Professor Maria Jansen. For many years she has worked to promote health policy with a closer alignment between research and practice. In her farewell speech, Jansen advocates a stronger role for government in improving public health and equal health opportunities.
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Kootstra Talent Fellowship for Casper Webers
Tuesday, July 5, 2022
Casper Webers, post-doctoral researcher at CAPHRI, has been awarded a Kootstra Talent Fellowship (KTF).
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Better rehabilitation for people with long-term corona complaints
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
The PINCOR study will be studying the effect of a person-centered, integrated approach for recovery of COVID-19 with coordination and cooperation of all disciplines involved within a Regional COVID-19 rehabilitation network.
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Second CCCDay in Maastricht
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
On 21 June the second CAPHRI - Centre for Health and Society Düsseldorf Collaboration Day (CCCDay) took place in Maastricht.
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Energy transition for all? A third of the world's population still cooks on open fires
Thursday, June 16, 2022
In a new study, PhD student Esther Boudewijns developed two practical tools to improve the implementation of cleaner cooking in low-wage countries. The results of the research will be published on June 16 in The Lancet Planetary Health.
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Large-scale study of sustainable employability of firefighters
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
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OAinject: Fighting osteoarthritis
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
CAPHRI is part of the OAinject consortium, funded by the Perspectief program of the Dutch Research Council (NWO),
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A new tool for healthcare providers in supporting patients in work and income
Thursday, May 12, 2022
Many healthcare providers deal with patients who have questions about work and income. In practice, however, it is difficult to give the patient specific and appropriate advice. To this end, a new tool was developed by CAPHRI-PhD candidate Maarten Butink and Prof. Dr. Angelique de Rijk.
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UM Impact Prize for Katya Sion
Thursday, April 14, 2022
During the annual Maastricht University Dinner, Katya Sion (CAPHRI/ Living Lab Ageing and Long-Term Care Limburg) received the Impact Prize for her thesis "Connecting conversations: experienced quality of care from the resident’s perspective: a narrative method for nursing homes".
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Large-scale study on cuts in numbers of tobacco outlets in the Netherlands
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
The Dutch government has pledged to cut the number of tobacco points of sale and thus reduce the visibility of tobacco in society. From 2024, supermarkets will no longer be allowed to sell tobacco. This week will see the start of a large-scale study over four years on the implementation and effects of the new legislation.
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Cross-border collaboration within the emergency medical service during the COVID-19 pandemic
Thursday, March 17, 2022
New research by the International Knowledge and Information Centre on public safety, an Interreg project lead by Maastricht University, indicates that existing cross-border collaboration in EU border regions has only limited resilience in crisis situations.
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Angelique de Rijk rapporteur of EU-plan ‘Cancer and Employment’
Thursday, March 3, 2022
The EU working group “cancer & employment” presented recommendations to further improve Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan by regarding return-to-work support as integral part of cancer survivorship.
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‘Bacteria & Borders': An artistic research project
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Bacteria & Borders is a collaboration between visual artist Marlies Vermeulen and social scientist Alena Kamenshchikova
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Costs overweight and obesity over €79 billion a year
Tuesday, February 1, 2022
The average societal costs of people with obesity and overweight are almost €11.500 per year. This leads to a total cost for the Netherlands of more than €79 billion per year. This is the outcome of the study Burden of disease study of overweight and obesity; the societal impact in terms of cost-of-illness and health-related quality of life.
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Developing a measurement scale that captures the full dimensions of health
Monday, January 31, 2022
Recently, ZonMw awarded a grant worth 742.000 euros to Marieke Spreeuwenberg and her team to develop a measurement scale for integrative health approaches.
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New: UM Graduate School training programme
Thursday, January 20, 2022
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Daisy Janssen appointed professor in Old Age Medicine
Friday, January 14, 2022
The chair is an important link in interdisciplinary education and research in the field of care for the elderly in a vulnerable position within the Living Lab Ageing and Long-Term Care Limburg.
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Katarzyna (Kasia) Czabanowska appointed professor of Public Health Leadership and Workforce Development
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
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Fewer patients visited GP due to asthma or COPD during the covid-19 pandemic
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
Since the start of the corona pandemic in March 2020, the use of general practitioner care by patients due to asthma or COPD has been persistently lower than in 2019, the year before the corona pandemic.
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Green light for LIME 2.0 care innovation programme
Monday, December 20, 2021
The Province of Limburg has awarded a second tranche of subsidy of 2,040,000 euros to the 'Kennis-As' project LIME (LImburg MEet). LIME has proven itself in recent years as an accessible and interdisciplinary knowledge center and innovation platform for healthcare.
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Veni grant for Daan Westra
Thursday, December 16, 2021
The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) awarded a prestigious Veni grant to Daan Westra.
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Healthcare for undocumented migrants
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Together with her master’s students, Milena Pavlova is investigating the access to healthcare of undocumented migrants. Her findings give cause for concern: in many countries, this group has no or little access to healthcare.
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Borders and viruses, and how to deal with those
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
How do public health professionals manage Infectious Disease Control (IDC) in a very dynamic and densely populated Euregion such as the Euregion Meuse-Rhine with its active social life across the borders? That is what Dr. Alena Kamenshchikova and her colleagues wanted to find out. From December 2020 until April 2021, they investigated the way Euregional public health professionals in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands tried to control COVID-19.
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Choices of hospitals in times of crisis; what does it do to staff?
Monday, December 13, 2021
Daan Westra en Bram Fleuren, leiden samen het project: ‘Uitproberen, aanpassen, opbranden? In dit project onderzoeken zij hoe ziekenhuizen zich aan de COVID-19 pandemie aanpassen en welke gevolgen dit heeft voor de duurzame inzetbaarheid van hun personeel.
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Welcome to Francine Schneider: our new PhD Community Coordinator
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
Francine Schneider is our new PhD Community Coordinator as of 1 December 2021.
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Winners Pitch your PhD!
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
33 high-quality pitches were submitted by our Phd candidates. After a careful pre-selection, 8 of them were selected to pitch their work at the CAPHRI online Research Meeting and had a chance to win the Jury or Audience PhD Pitch Award 2021.
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Dissertation Award for Alena Kamenshchikova and Esther Steenaart
Thursday, November 25, 2021
During the online CAPHRI Research Meeting on 23 November the Dissertation Award 2021 was presented to Alena Kamenshchikova and Esther Steenaart. The Dissertation Award recognizes the completion of an outstanding dissertation by a CAPHRI PhD candidate in 2020.
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CAPHRI Societal Impact Team Award for research on COVID-19 in nursing homes
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
On 23 November, the team within research institute CAPHRI that investigates COVID-19 in nursing homes received the CAPHRI Societal Impact Team Award for the great national and international impact their research has had on the well-being of nursing home residents.
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Tobacco discouragement is only effective from €12 per cigarette pack
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
The only way to get enough people to quit smoking to achieve the goals of the National Prevention Agreement is to substantially increase the excise duty on tobacco products. This is the conclusion of research by Maastricht University (UM) on the price sensitivity of people who smoke cigarettes or rolling tobacco.
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Catharina Pijls Dissertation Prize for Floor van den Brand
Thursday, November 18, 2021
Floor van den Brand has won the Catharina Pijls Dissertation Prize for her ‘excellent research in the field of health sciences’.
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New approach is needed in the fight against chlamydia
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Chlamydia is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted disease (STD) worldwide and in the Netherlands. The clinical and public health relevance of widespread case finding by testing for asymptomatic Chlamydia infections is under debate.
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Towards inclusive research at Maastricht University: survey results & video
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Researchers from Maastricht University, Maastricht for Everybody, and IVO Research Institute formed a project team and received funding from the UM Diversity & Inclusivity office to examine inclusive research practices, barriers, and needs among Maastricht University research staff. Read more about the results!
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Silvia Evers new Scientific Director CAPHRI
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Prof. dr. Silvia Evers is appointed as scientific director of CAPHRI as of 1 November 2021. She succeeds Prof. dr. Maurice Zeegers.
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Astrid van Tubergen appointed professor Outcome and innovation in rheumatology practice
Thursday, September 9, 2021
Astrid van Tubergen has been appointed professor Outcome and innovation in rheumatology practice. She will give her inaugural lecture on 17 September.
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2 awards for paper on hospital adaptations to the COVID-19 pandemic
Friday, July 30, 2021
Best International Paper Award and the Best Theory to Practice Award for paper 'To Uncertainty and Beyond: Cataloging Hospitals' Adaptations during the COVID-19 pandemic'.
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Co-creation Impact Compass: Working together for more impact
Thursday, July 15, 2021
Do you want to improve the impact of your research or innovation project? You can find and select an appropriate co-creation method yourself!
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