Goals

  • Increasing qualitative and quantitative insights in current contextualization of communication, its integration in health care planning, documentation and information transfer, taking sex, gender, culture and other factors related to health inequity (social exclusion, poverty, inadequate housing, having a lower social economic status, having limited intellectual capacities) into account.
  • Developing new and actualising existing knowledge and theory around contextualized communication and care processes.
  • Developing, actualising and implementing methods to quantify and document personalized, understandable contextualized communication and care.
  • Developing and implementing interventions to increase personalized contextual communication and care.
  • Evaluating its impact on patients and relatives, on healthcare professionals, and costs.


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Research Research programs Contextual, personalized communication and care

Our purpose

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

Allied health sciences

Philip van der Wees's research group aims to have a significant impact on people’s daily lives through research and education in allied healthcare.

Gender in primary and transmural care

Sabine Oertelt-Priogione'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.

Spokesperson

prof. dr. Yvonne Engels

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Spokesperson

dr. Els Van Wijngaarden

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