Prevention and Healthcare Research

The healthcare system is coming under pressure from the growing number of people suffering from chronic disorders in the Netherlands. To ensure that the available resources can continue to meet the demand without compromising access to healthcare, we need to look at health from a different perspective. What is required is an approach that pays attention to the differences between people and better reflects their personal experience and the context in which they live.

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Prevention: Let’s do it together!

Submitted initiatives within the NWA OCR calls - Route HSR P&T addressed some of the 2018 Knowledge Agenda Prevention themes and doma

Users’ perspective on preventive activities

User involvement is essential to make preventive activities effective. The 21/22 NWO prevention projects consist of: 1.

Healthy living environment for a healthy weight - empowering migrant citizens to co-create environment responsive healthy lifestyles

Migrant citizens living in the Netherlands have a disproportionately higher burden of cardiometabolic diseases compared to other populati

Redefining Supermarket Revenues: A Systems Transition Approach Combining Public Health and Economic Perspectives

Er is wetenschappelijke consensus dat de voedselomgeving, met name supermarkten, een belangrijke bijdrage levert aan ongezonde keuzes.

Iedereen heeft het in zich

In dit project willen we het brede publiek informeren over én betrekken bij biomedisch onderzoek: in het bijzonder de (on)mogelijkheden v

Voluptas cinetica: de levenscyclus van het coronavirus

Hoewel de wereld momenteel beheerst wordt door het SARS-coronavirus-2, hebben slechts enkelen haar nanowereld mogen aanschouwen.

vmbo in beweging

Mensen worden wereldwijd steeds inactiever, met alle negatieve gevolgen van dien.

Een onverwachte alliantie voor het portretteren van kanker

Wetenschapscommunicatie staat voor de uitdaging om mee te gaan in de huidige communicatie- en informatie- trends om ook de jongste genera

Als het te mooi lijkt om waar te zijn….

Wetenschappelijke resultaten worden nogal eens te rooskleurig gepresenteerd als oplossing voor een (medisch) probleem.

Optoacoustic sensor and ultrasonic microbubbles for dosimetry in proton therapy

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Preparing for vector-borne virus outbreaks in a changing world: a One Health Approach

Unexpected infectious diseases outbreaks are increasingly common due to multiple global changes.

Preventing and Tackling the Opioid Epidemic

Opioids are an indispensable step in the WHO pain relief ladder, but they also cause serious side effects and addiction.

Don’t be late! Postponing cognitive decline and preventing early unemployment in patients with multiple sclerosis

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is the most common neurological disorder among young adults (20-40 years), causing, next to physical symptoms, co

BioClock: The Circadian Clock in Modern Society

Since the start of life on Earth, virtually every species evolved under a 24-hour light-dark cycle, giving rise to an internal biological

Feeling Good, Despite Illness; Accessible eHealth supporting the well-being of chronically ill children. The eHealthJunior consortium.

In the Netherlands, approximately 1 million children (0-25 years) have a chronic disease.

The Virtual Human Platform for Safety Assessment

Assessment of the safety of chemicals and pharmaceuticals is traditionally based on animal testing.

DARTBAC: Dutch Antimicrobial Resistance Technology development and Biofilm Assessment Consortium

The DARTBAC project will prepare the Netherlands for the time when antibiotics are much less effective in the prevention and eradication

Public Realm Entrance and Societal Alignment of Germline Editing (PRESAGE); towards societal alignment of high impact genetic technologies

Human germline gene editing (HGGE) introduces heritable genetic alterations to ‘the human germline’ and has the potential to impact clini

METAHEALTH: Health in a microbial, sociocultural and care context in the first 1000 days of life

Modern society is highly segregated, and inequalities in health among different groups of individuals keep increasing.

From co-creation to innovative animal-free solutions for bio-electrical organ dysfunction: a CIRCULAR research approach

Treatment and diagnostics of several diseases, including the cardiac arrhythmia atrial fibrillation (AF), are only moderately effective.

CureQ: Predict, Delay & Cure polyglutamine(Q) caused neurodegeneration

A distinct group of dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disorders is caused by a CAG repeat expansion within the relevant genes, inclu

Dynamic Integrative Risk forEcasting to Conquer overTreatment of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ: DIRECT-DCIS

In the Netherlands 2,300 women each year, face a diagnosis of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS).

MenoPause: More healthy and productive years for Peri-menopausal women

Menopause is a major life event marking the end of a woman’s reproductive years.

ECOTIP: identifying tipping points of the effects of living environments on the ecosyndemics of lifestyle-related illness

Without intervening, over the next decade 40% of the Dutch adults will suffer from a chronic non-communicable lifestyle-related disease (

We cover these questions

Welke vragen hopen we met dit project te beantwoorden? Deze vragen zijn gegroepeerd in de volgende clustervragen.