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Goals

  • To increase our qualitative and quantitative insights in the current contextualization of communication, its integration in health care planning, documentation and information transfer, by accounting for sex, gender, culture and other factors related to health inequity like social exclusion, poverty, inadequate housing, a lower social economic status, limited intellectual capacities, or a limited level of health literacy. 
  • To develop new and actualize existing knowledge and theory around contextualized communication and care processes. 
  • To develop, actualize and implement methods to code, understand, quantify, and document personalized contextualized communication and care.  
  • To develop and implement interventions for all those involved to increase personalized contextual communication and care.  
  • To evaluate its impact on patients and relatives, healthcare professionals, health outcomes and costs. 


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Research Research programs Contextual, personalized communication and care

Our mission

We aim to enhance contextualized communication as a prerequisite to deliver meaningful person-centered care.

Goals

See some of the most important goals for this research program.

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Research groups contributing to this research program

Gender in primary and transmural care

Sabine Oertelt-Prigione's research group focuses on the integrating sex and gender dimensions into research, clinical care and teaching.

Health inequities in intellectual disabilities

Jenneken Naaldenberg's research group focuses on health, healthcare, medical care, data linkage and epidemiology, in order to contribute in reducing inequities experienced by people with an intellectual disability.

Meaning and ethics regarding the end of life

Els van Wijngaarden's research group examines existential and ethical questions surrounding death and dying in old age. It explores how people navigate the end of life in modern society, focusing on the growing trend of managing death and the impact of choice on ageing and dying.

Spokesperson

prof. dr. Yvonne Engels

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Spokesperson

dr. Els Van Wijngaarden

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