The increasing demand for care and rising personnel shortages are putting pressure on interrelationships and cooperation between the various parties. The transition requires a reweighting of vested interests and a redefinition of everyone's role concerning other parties. This requires a social science understanding of identity processes, change processes, and cooperation issues.
Theme: Identities
By prioritizing health and wellness rather than running a healthcare service, not only does the organizational logic of the system change but also the roles and identities of managers, policymakers, healthcare professionals, patients, citizens, residents, and their loved ones.
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Citizen in charge? Vulnerable attempts to democratize healthcare
This research investigates the efforts of professional healthcare providers to involve citizens more actively in organizing their services.
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Shared decision making with back patients
This project investigates how the use of outcome information can support back-patients and healthcare providers in the process of Shared Decision Making.
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NAVIGATE-HIV Research
This research explores how perceptions and conditions within hospitals influence the treatment of people living with HIV in Suriname. In collaboration with healthcare professionals and people living with HIV, we use creative methods to investigate the challenges they encounter.
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