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Addressing the underlying cause of healthy living
A healthy lifestyle and obesitas are only partly a medical problem. Frank van Lenthe, professor social epidemiology, argues that policy makers can do more than they think.
Lees meerHospital seeks an answer to the backlog in procedures
The COVID-19 pandemic created a mount of suspended operating room procedures. In the Erasmus MC alone, 5000 patients are awaiting their procedures. The question health care planners face is, whom to serve first? The hospital is working on an answer.
Lees meerHein Raat about the love for his job and inter-disciplinary exchanges
His first encounter with a medical sociologist in the 80s turned out ominous for his future career in social medicine. Today, Hein Raat is the professor in youth health care at Erasmus MC, where he focuses on innovation amongst others: “The succesful organization of youth health care in the Netherlands offers potential lessons for other…
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