Health Lab

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Health, Care and Well-being

The Health Lab's ambition is to bring together researchers and community stakeholders who are inspired to study and help bring about the transition to sustainable, high-quality, people-centered care that is accessible to all. In doing so, the Lab focuses on three I's: Institutions, Identity and Innovation.

Thinking about health, care and wellbeing is often disease-centred, hospital-oriented and physician-centric rather than person- and community-centred. As a result, care systems are often ill-equipped to meet the challenge of doing more with relatively less. Redesigning systems requires a different logic, a way of thinking and acting in which health, care and wellbeing become an integral part of life rather than a series of disconnected encounters with the healthcare system. The Health Lab aims to bring together researchers and societal stakeholders who are inspired to explore and contribute to the transition to sustainable, high-quality, person-centred and accessible care. The Lab focuses on three I’s: Institutions, Identity and Innovation.

About

Onze onderzoeksthema's

Lianne Cremers (left) studies long-term crises and well-being, through visual anthropology (ethnographic films and art) and organizational studies. She investigates responses to COVID-19 in schools and nursing homes and looks at organizational trauma.

Sierk Ybema (right) researches change processes and collaboration. He analyzes how actors give meaning to situations and interact with each other, revealing the dynamics of collaboration.