Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are increasingly recognized as strategic contributors to a sustainable society. Although sustainable procurement is widely acknowledged as a key mechanism for advancing sustainability goals, many HEIs encounter persistent barriers to its effective implementation. …

Montessori education has existed for over 100 years, with almost 16,000 schools worldwide. The results from research on Montessori effectiveness are difficult to interpret due to different ways of implementing the method. To elucidate research findings from future studies on Montessori education more …

Digital health measurement offers opportunities to address several primary health care challenges, but health care professionals encounter significant implementation barriers. Therefore, resources need to be developed to facilitate the integration of digital health measurement into daily practice.

Background The Wii Balance Board (WBB) is used as a rehabilitation tool for balance or strength interventions and posturography in balance tasks. Nonetheless, implementation of posturography using the WBB in a clinical setting is hampered by required technical skills for signal processing to obtain meaningful …

The Dutch SDG Barometer 2024 reveals a nuanced perspective on sustainability progress in the Netherlands. While awareness of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) remains high among Dutch organizations, significant challenges persist in their prioritization, implementation and measurement. …

Summary Introduction Daily oral care for older people is important, to obtain and maintain good functional oral health. Nursing staff is involved in the daily oral care and/ or the monitoring of oral health and hygiene, depending on the level of care support that older people need. Yet, the oral health …

Objectives Providing an overview of the clinimetric properties of the steep ramp test (SRT), a short-term maximal exercise test, to assess cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), describing its underlying physiological responses, and summarizing its applications in current clinical and research practice. Data …

Background: Although principles of the health promoting school (HPS) approach are followed worldwide, differences between countries in the implementation are reported. The aim of the current study was (1) to examine the implementation of the HPS approach in European countries in terms of different implementation …

This research is focused on the circumstances related to rainwater flooding in the Municipality of Valkenburg aan de Geul, located in the south of the Netherlands. The town has been dealing with flooding from rainwater for as long as its inhabitants can remember, but the situation became much more severe …