Background: Despite evidence supporting the safety of vaginal birth after caesarean section (VBAC), rates are low in many countries. Methods: OptiBIRTH investigated the effects of a woman-centred intervention designed to increase VBAC rates through an unblinded cluster randomised trial in 15 maternity …

The World Health Organization (WHO) strives to assist and inspire cities to become more ‘age-friendly’ through the Global Age-Friendly Cities Guide. An age-friendly city offers a supportive environment that enables residents to grow older actively within their families, neighbourhoods and civil society, …

Background: Patient Reported Experience Measures are promoted to be used as an integrated measurement approach in which outcomes are used to improve individual care (micro level), organisational quality (meso level) and external justification (macro level). However, a deeper understanding of implementation …

CoSIE is een acroniem voor ‘Co-creation of Service Innovation in Europe’ . Het project staat voor het samen met burgers – in cocreatie – ontwerpen en verbeteren van sociale dienstverlening van de overheid om zo bij te dragen aan sociale inclusie en vernieuwing van de (lokale) democratie . Co-creatie …

Interventions to improve children’s physical activity in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) settings are needed. This randomized controlled trial examines the effects of a preschool-based playground program for ECEC teachers in a deprived urban area. On intervention preschools, the PLAYgrounds …

Kwantitatieve gegevens domineren sinds jaar en dag verantwoordings- en evaluatieprocessen en –systemen bij overheden en maatschappelijke organisaties, terwijl veel bestuurders, professionals en burgers beseffen dat dit maar een deel van de werkelijkheid vangt. Ze willen dat buurten veerkrachtig zijn, …

Objective: To gain insight into patient participation in general practice by examining if and how patients' question-asking behaviour has changed over the years (2007-2016). Methods: A random set of real-life video-recorded consultations collected in 2015-2016 (n = 437) was observed and compared with …

Abstract Background: Many countries in Europe have implemented managed competition and patient choice during the last decade. With the introduction of managed competition, health insurers also became an important stakeholder. They purchase services on behalf of their customers and are allowed to contract …

Although public management and human resource management research has extensively investigated the motivational effects of organizational rules, the original utility of organizational rules—uncertainty reduction—has remained overlooked. This study takes a cognitive perspective by examining how organizational …

QUOTES “[Veel] mannen dragen een pak. Deze pakken zijn er in verschillende soorten: confectiepakken en maatpakken. […] Doordat [confectiepakken] in massa’s worden geproduceerd zijn [ze] over het algemeen goedkoper, maar dit leidt wel tot beperkte keuzemogelijkheden en de pasvorm die maar bij 5% van de …