Goals

To study how to:

  • best connect the living environment of the patient, where lifestyle needs to be adapted, with the healthcare system.
  • optimize the collaboration between and performance of social and healthcare professionals in lifestyle promotion from a behavioural point of view.
  • optimize the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of a common trunk of generic lifestyle advice.
  • evaluate underlying mechanisms and effectiveness of lifestyle and lifestyle programs targeting specific subpopulations (e.g. people in low socio-economic position, patient groups with specific diseases).
  • optimally involve citizens and patients in the design and evaluation of lifestyle projects / programs to improve accessibility and match their needs and capabilities.
  • optimize targeting, content and evaluation of lifestyle programs through smart data (re-)use and analysis.


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Healthcare-related prevention

Research Research programs Healthcare-related prevention

Our purpose

We aim to enable that all patients receive an offer for a lifestyle program that is tailored, acceptable, accessible, feasible, evidence-based, and cost-effective.

Goals

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

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Research groups contributing to this research program

Spokesperson

prof. dr. Pim Assendelft

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