Pressure on healthcare The Netherlands is an aging country. According to the Dutch Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB), the aging of the population will become evident in the next government’s term of office, i.e. 2022–2025, alongside an increase of healthcare costs with an annual average of 2.7% …

Background: In 2009, the Steering Committee for Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Netherlands recommended the implementation of continuous care during labor in order to improve perinatal outcomes. However, in current care, routine maternity caregivers are unable to provide this type of care, resulting …

Public organisations are opening more and more data to increase their transparency. But more often than not, data cannot be opened without modification due to data protection issues. There are Statistical Disclosure Control (SDC) tools that can help to accomplish this. However, these tools are not intuitive …

Dit artikel is een vertaling van het artikel “Digital Radiography Reject Analysis: Results of a Survey Among Dutch Hospitals” dat in de mei/juni 2020 editie van het blad Radiologic Technology is gepubliceerd. Korte samenvatting: In opdracht van de Inspectie voor de Gezondheidszorg is aan een steekproef …

Online article on enhancing leadership in midwifery curriculum on promoting normal birth.

A growing group of cities feels responsible to feed urban populations sustainably. This has stimulated cities to embrace urban agriculture as an alternative in their food system orientation. However, while urban agriculture in all its diversity has arrived in the urban fabric and at planners’ desks, …

Background Eating behaviour of older adults is influenced by a complex interaction of determinants. Understanding the determinants of a specific target group is important when developing targeted health-promoting strategies. The aim of this study was to explore interpersonal determinants of eating behaviours …

Self-organisation in environmental service delivery is increasingly being promoted as an alternative to centralised service delivery. This article argues that self-organised environmental service delivery must be understood in the context of legal rules, especially environmental legislation. The article’s …

Neighbours have been found to influence each other’s behaviour (contagion effect). However, little is known about the influence on sport club membership. This while increasing interest has risen for the social role of sport clubs. Sport clubs could bring people from different backgrounds together. A …

This reports is about content and language integrated learning (CLIL) in multilingual primary classrooms. While in theory CLIL offers many opportunities for inclusive education in multilingual settings, questions remain as to how integrated language teaching can be realised, and what teacher knowledge …