Background: In the Netherlands, general practitioners (GPs) play a key role in provider-initiated HIV testing, but opportunities for timely diagnosis are regularly missed. We implemented an educational intervention to improve HIV testing by GPs from 2015 to 2020, and observed a 7% increase in testing …

Today, we live in a world where every time we turn on our smartphones, we are inextricably tied by data, laws and flowing bytes to different countries. A world in which personal expressions are framed and mediated by digital platforms, and where new kinds of currencies, financial exchange and even labor …

In 1875 explorer Henry Morton Stanley (UK 1841-1904) produced a photograph of Kabaka (King) Muteesa of Buganda (UG, 1838-1884) and his chiefs. Muteesa’s land was positioned on the northern shore of a body of water that we now call Lake Victo-ria, in a country that would later be named after his kingdom. …

Wanneer twee sporters van het zelfde fysieke niveau zijn maakt de persoonlijkheid het verschil in de maximaal haalbare sportprestatie. De persoonlijkheid is te classificeren aan de hand van persoonlijkheidstesten. In dit onderzoek is onderzocht in hoeverre ereklasse rugbyspelers specifieke persoonlijkheidseigenschappen …

Blog: Having a career with overlapping activities in today’s multi-faceted professional music practice requires musicians to exercise many roles at the same time, roles which extend beyond their artistic skills. Musicians need to be innovative, entrepreneurial and communicative, they need to be able …

Stichting Young Focus heeft in samenwerking met Scholengemeenschap Groevenbeek in Ermelo een kleinschalig studentenuitwisselingsprogramma opgezet met jongeren uit de sloppenwijken van Manila. Wat is de impact van de uitwisseling op de studenten? Aangezien armoedebestrijding het achterliggende doel is …

Since the publication of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) study “To Err is human”, followed by “Crossing the Quality Chasm” two years later, patient safety has become an important concern for all involved: patients, professionals and health care organisations (Bleich, 2005; Kohn, 2000). Over the last …

OBJECTIVES: In health evaluations, physical activity (PA) and cardiorespiratory fitness (maximal oxygen uptake [VO2max]) are important variables. It is not always possible to assess both of them. If the association between self-reported PA and VO2max was strong, it would be possible to use the information …

In dit onderzoek staat de vraag centraal, welke relatie er ligt tussen de persoonlijkheid van de mens en de manier van geloven. Het onderzoek is gedaan in een reguliere klassensituatie met jongeren. Daarbij worden hen instrumenten aangereikt om zicht te krijgen op hun persoonlijkheid en worden hulpmiddelen …

To effectively grasp and address sustainability challenges, this chapter argues that we need to expand our predominantly logocentric and linear ways of knowing with more presentational, embodied and sensory means. The chapter traces an exploration of this position through a dialogue between four academic, …