Health
The Healthcare Research Center promotes health by conducting research into active neighborhoods, lifestyle interventions, and food safety. The Research Center supports quality care by offering practical assistance in perinatal, family, and elderly care, as well as by implementing healthcare innovations. Additionally, the research center focuses on the educational support of healthcare providers. This knowledge is built upon the results of research.
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Active neighborhoods and lifestyle interventions. Within this focus area, research is conducted on how active neighborhoods and lifestyle interventions can promote health. Health promotion through community-based care, healthy nutrition, sleep, sufficient physical activity, etc., proves to be a crucial approach in healthcare.
👤 point of contact : Julie Vanderlinden
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Nutrition. With our research, we aim to make a positive contribution to the food of the future.
Producing sufficient and healthy food in a sustainable way for a continuously growing global population is one of the greatest challenges of the future. That’s why, in co-creation with our various research partners, we focus our research projects on sustainable and healthy nutrition.👤 point of contact : Tim Torsy
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Perinatal and family care. Research within this focus area centers on parenthood — including the period from the desire to have children through the first 1,000 days after birth — and on families, both nuclear and extended, such as grandparents. We aim to improve support during the transition to parenthood and during challenging periods, such as neonatal intensive care or when a child has a chronic illness. In doing so, we develop various materials and tools, including digital support and the use of virtual reality in pediatrics.
👤 point of contact : Inge Tency
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Health for older people. We connect people in the search for solutions so that everyone can experience a quality life. Using the method of needs-based care, we strengthen the care relationship between older adults in residential settings and their (informal) caregivers.
👤 point of contact : Katrin Gillis
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Care Innovation (ZInn). ZInn conducts research on innovations in care and welfare.
Projects aim to gain insight into the levers for implementing innovations and to explore their impact on caregivers. From a multidisciplinary perspective, we build partnerships among diverse stakeholders — such as care providers, care recipients, care organizations, governments, and companies — driven by a shared enthusiasm for sustainable implementation.👤 point of contact : Robin Decoster
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Educational modules of the future. This includes projects with a strong emphasis on educational support for the end user, such as (future) healthcare providers. These projects investigate changes in competencies and contemporary challenges arising from ongoing developments. This is achieved by offering specific educational modules that are developed based on research findings.
👤 point of contact : Iris Van Steenwinkel