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From acute care maze to acute care network
Acute care agencies in the Netherlands are overwhelmed and this causes major problems. Physician-researcher Naomi Minderhout therefore spent the past few years at the Health Campus in The Hague researching how acute care in the Netherlands can be improved at all levels so that it remains accessible…
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How polluting buildings and machinery make rich countries ever richer
Rich countries are getting richer because of environmentally polluting (construction) investments from the past, largely at the expense of poor countries. This was shown by long-term economic and environmental data. 'The gap between poor and rich countries is widening.' Scientists from the Leiden Institute…
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Carrot or stick: which is better motivation to exercise more?
Free cinema tickets or a step tracker paid for by your health insurance. Some insurers offer rewards to promote healthy behaviour. But does the threat of losing something like a deposit work better? And what do patients think? This is what PhD candidate David de Buisonjé researched.
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Targeted Informed consent: empowering young participants in medical-scientific research
Promotor: J.M. van den Broek Co-promotor: M.C. de Vries
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Irith Kist
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Can predicting the future help us to make better decisions about our health?
Lecture
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Value Based Pituitary Care, implementing Value Based Health Care in a rare disease
PhD defence
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An evidence-based framework for the implementation of digital health technologies in primary healthcare
PhD defence
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tango! professionals lived experience in the transformation of mental health services
PhD defence
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Sexual Health Care in Prostate Cancer for Men and their Partners
PhD defence
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Using Value-Based Health Care Principles To "Fix" Orthopaedic Care Delivery
PhD defence
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The use of mobile health to evolve outpatient thoracic surgical care
PhD defence
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for all? Towards usable and effective eHealth services in different health care settings
PhD defence
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LED3 Lecture: Organoids to model human health and disease in vitro
Lecture
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Heineken Young Scientists Award for three Leiden researchers
Three of the four Heineken Young Scientists Awards for 2022 have gone to researchers from Leiden: chronobiologist Laura Kervezee, physicist Jordi Tura i Brugués and health psychologist Liesbeth van Vliet.
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Saramaccan medical plant knowledge, practices, and beliefs for local health care in Suriname
PhD defence
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At mission's end: The long-term impact of deployment on mental health
PhD defence
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Health problems and risks encountered among healthy and vulnerable Dutch travelers
PhD defence
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Clashing fundamental rights in KLM labour dispute
Can the KLM reject an applicant for a job as a pilot or stewardess if they refuse to get vaccinated against Covid-19? Or put more broadly: can the employer of a new employee demand that they are vaccinated? Those questions were at the centre of court proceedings brought on Thursday by the Dutch Airline…
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Globalizing Palliative Care? A Multi-sited Ethnographic Study
This project investigates the globalization and cultural mediation of palliative care practices, policies and discourses.
- Workshop: ‘Worker’s Health and Material Environment in Port Cities (1300-1700)’ (Leiden University and University Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
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‘Data science has crept into the faculties’ DNA’
From 14 to 29 PhD candidates, seven actively involved faculties and, above all, lots of innovative interdisciplinary research, all with data science as the common denominator. The university’s Data Science Research Programme (DSO) has proven so successful that after five years on a start-up grant it…
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Ellen van Reuler
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Simcha Jong Kon Chin
Science
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Thomas Bäck
Science
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Akinyinka Akinyoade
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Friedo Dekker
Faculteit Geneeskunde
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Rethinking Disability: the Global Impact of the International Year of Disabled Persons (1981) in Historical Perspective
How did disability become a global concern? In this project we will identify the contribution of international agencies, governmental and non-governmental organizations and, just as importantly, disabled people themselves, to the IYDP and by showing the connections, interactions and entanglements between…
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Eduardo Arenas Catalán awarded Theo van Boven Maastricht Research Prize on International Law
Dr. Eduardo Arenas Catalán, lecturer and Academic Coordinator of the Advanced Master’s in European and International Human Rights Law at Leiden Law School, was awarded the Theo van Boven - Maastricht Research Prize 2018 for his doctoral thesis: “Solidarity and the right to health in the era of healthcare…
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Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome: From Clinical to Public Health Perspectives. Results from population-based studies of the Dutch and the Indonesian
PhD defence
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Even unconscious stress can cause stress symptoms
Our vision of stress is starting to change fundamentally. We can suffer stress without even being aware of it, while sleeping as wall as during the day. Professor of Psychology Jos Brosschot will discuss this phenomenon in his inaugural lecture on 2 December.
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Care: General practitioners’ decision-making on child and youth mental health problems and the influence of their (lived) experience''
PhD defence
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Why fundamental science matters
Why do we need fundamental science? For a lot of reasons, speakers showed at the Lustrum Symposium ‘Science Matters’. This symposium was held on 18 March 2016 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Faculty of Science.
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Research
The research carried out within the unit Health, Medical and Neuropsychology investigates the psychological factors of health and disease, and the development of innovative treatment.
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Leiden University Medical Anthropology Network (LUMAN)
The Leiden University Medical Anthropology Network (LUMAN) brings medical anthropologists together with the aim of fostering interfaculty collaborations and creating common ground for working interdisciplinary on health-related themes in Leiden and beyond.
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Career prospects
A master's degree in Psychology at Leiden University combines theoretical knowledge with academic and professional skills, making you an attractive candidate for many employers.
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About Healthy Society
The research area "Health and well-being in a healthy society" studies the institutional and behavioral factors that play a role in health and well-being for people of all ages.
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Soils2Guts
Steering soil microbiomes for better crop quality: the holy grail to improve human health?
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Better screening can help GPs recognise anxiety disorders earlier
Only one in five young people with emotional health problems such as an anxiety disorder receives appropriate professional help. GPs often fail to properly recognise the signals in children and young people, according to psychologist Semiha Aydin. How can we improve this? PhD defence 23 February.
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Programme structure
The master's specialisation Occupational Health Psychology consists of three main parts: the mandatory and elective courses, a thesis and an internship.
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About the programme
PHM offers you the tools to navigate through, and give direction to, the complex and changing health care landscape by using an interdisciplinary approach. Become the broker to improve health and societal outcomes for citizens and patients.
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LUMC Partnership
This partnership is based on an academic collaboration between the Leiden University Medical Center and the Institute of Public Administration, research has been conducted on leadership in the domain of health care in times of crisis.
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Admission and Application
This guide will give you the necessary help and guidance in submitting your application for the master’s specialisation Health and Medical Psychology at Leiden University.
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Topic: Healthy lifestyle: Nudging and self-regulation
We are all aware of the importance of a healthy lifestyle. However, at the same time we also experience many difficulties when we are trying to change our behavior to become more healthy. For example, more often than not our good intentions to exercise more or to eat fewer unhealthy snacks fail miserably…
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Programme structure
The master's specialisation Health and Medical Psychology consists of three main parts: the mandatory and elective courses, a thesis and an internship.
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Career prospects
A master's degree in Psychology at Leiden University combines theoretical knowledge with academic and professional skills, making you an attractive candidate for many employers.
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Career prospects
As an academic strategic partner of PHM, you have the skills to look and act across domains and integrally solve complex healthcare issues. This is requested in a wide range of healthcare organizations and businesses and in government.
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Meaning and R/S (religion and spirituality) in medical healthcare
The project focuses on communication processes regarding spirituality and existential issues in the medical health care in the Netherlands
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Topic: Persistent physical symptoms
Persistent somatic symptoms are long term symptoms that lack a clear medical explanation. These symptoms have a high prevalence where most people know someone who experiences such symptoms or they experience such symptoms themselves. Symptoms can vary greatly in and between people. While one person…
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Internationalisation enriches: malaria research in Indonesia and lectures by professors from Nigeria
Leiden University has secured an impressive 12 European exchange grants. This is good news for students, lecturers and researchers from home and abroad.