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S. Hinrichs-Krapels

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The widespread use of social networks has created new pathways for sharing and engaging with mental health information, particularly in contexts where access to care is limited and stigma remains high. Platforms like Instagram have become informal spaces for support, especially a ...

Dikes, diseases, and disasters: a risk-based comparison of floods and pandemics

Cross-hazard lessons for managing low-probability, high-impact disasters

This thesis explores how floods and pandemics - two low-probability, high-impact, threat-driven disasters - can be compared through a structured risk-based lens. Both hazards challenge societies due to their rarity and large-scale consequences, but also allow for intervention bef ...

A Socio-Technical System approach to Healthcare Capacity at Deventer Hospital

An integrated research of Technical Workflows and Social Dynamics to enhance Efficiency in Acute Care

The Netherlands faces significant capacity challenges in healthcare due to staff shortages. Many healthcare positions remain unfilled, despite rising demand for medical services. This also impacts the Emergency Department (ED), as higher patient volumes lead to longer wait times ...

Managing Outlying Patients

Exploring Hospital Staff’s Challenges and Safety Considerations in Acute Patient Placement Decisions

Hospitals place patients in overflow beds when specialty departments reach capacity, maintaining patient flow but potentially compromising patient safety. This study examines how hospitals address these risks in daily decision-making. Using a qualitative, single-center approach, ...

Integrating Safety in Hospital Capacity Management

Predicting the Impact of Patient Exposure to Overflow Beds on Patient Mortality

With increasing pressure on healthcare systems, hospitals frequently face bed shortages, requiring patient admissions outside clinically appropriate wards—so-called overflow beds. While efforts are made to place patients in the most suitable available wards, concerns persist rega ...
Universal Health Coverage (UHC) aims to ensure that all individuals have access to essential healthcare services without facing financial hardship. Achieving UHC requires not only the availability of healthcare services but also the delivery of high-quality care, supported by ess ...
Emerging and developing economies are currently growing at a significantly faster pace than their developed counterparts. While the real GDP of advanced economies is expected to grow by 1.7 and 1.8 percent in the years 2024 and 2025 respectively, the real GDP of emerging markets ...

Adoption factors of frugal health innovations

A closer look into enablers and barriers of frugal health innovation adoption

The healthcare sector is facing serious challenges. On the one hand, the population is ageing, resulting in a higher pressure on healthcare resources. On the other hand, less than half of the world’s global population is covered by essential healthcare services due to limiting re ...

From lab to spin-off: Evaluating Dutch Academic Entrepreneurial Ecosystems' Support Mechanisms for Health-Tech Spin-Offs

A Comprehensive Case Study on the Provided Support of Dutch Facilitators in the Academic Entrepreneurial Ecosystems for Health-Tech Spin-offs

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted vulnerabilities in global healthcare systems, emphasizing the need for innovation to enhance resilience, particularly in response to outbreaks and demographic changes like an ageing population. Many of these innovations originate from university ...
Background Issues:
Healthcare is essential for individuals and society, but faces challenges such as diseases, aging populations, financial burdens, and fair distribution of services. Regenerative medicine, which aims to replace or regenerate human cells, tissues, or organs, ...
Neonatal care in the Netherlands is under significant strain due to severe bed capacity and staffing shortages, particularly in the southwestern region, where 36% of hospitals have closed neonatal beds. The current neonatal care system, structured into three escalating levels of ...
Telemedicine has the potential to significantly improve healthcare delivery in low-resource settings (LRS), yet its adoption remains low despite its benefits. This study explores the organizational factors of telemedicine adoption in LRS using qualitative research methods and ada ...
In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the number of depression cases. However, only 9% of depression patients in Indonesia receive appropriate treatment. The rapid advancement of technology highlights the potential for telemedicine to close this gap. Unfortuna ...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many elective surgeries had to be rescheduled as resources suchas beds and ventilators were reallocated, causing significant delays in patient care. To avoid such disruptions in the future effective resource management and planning approaches for ele ...

Drowning in Disease: Understanding Health Risks in a Changing Climate

An Exploratory Data Analysis into the Relationship Between Flood Disasters, Healthcare Systems and Communicable Diseases

Amidst ongoing climate change, communities worldwide face increasing frequency and severity of floods, which cause extensive destruction and pose significant health threats. Post-flood effects include drowning, injuries, and both communicable and non-communicable diseases, varyin ...

Synthetic data generation for research – enabler for privacy-enhancing health data sharing?

A multidisciplinary research on synthetic data generation in healthcare

Data-driven health research, specifically the development of AI models, is hampered by poor data availability and associated administrative burdens, caused complex and fragmented data protection regulation. To reap the benefits of using high quality health data, while safeguardin ...
Hospitals are part of the vital and vulnerable infrastructure in the Netherlands. Failure of such infrastructure may have severe consequences on a national scale. The Dutch flood risk management approach aims to prepare hospitals for floods through spatial adaptation. However, th ...

Greening Elderly Care: The show must go on

A qualitative research on the practical impact of the Green Deal Sustainable Healthcare 3.0 in the Netherlands

The third version of the Green Deal Sustainable Healthcare 3.0 (GD3) in the Dutch elderly care sector represents a dynamic and shared governance model that promotes widespread participation and implementation of sustainability practices. The GD3 provides a blueprint for elderly c ...

A digital platform in information system for Dutch primary care

A study on key stakeholder requirements and architectural requirements on openness

In Dutch primary care, there is a dilemma that needs to be solved: caregivers using different digital platform in information system (DPIS) have difficulties in transferring necessary medical information. Although DPIS, as an emerging technology, assists in the decision making, c ...
In recent years, the medical world has seen rapid digitalisation. Digitalisation of healthcare and the opportunities of remote monitoring can help to keep the healthcare system affordable and accessible. A promising application of remote monitoring is the use of consumer-grade we ...