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How funders can shape epistemically just practices in grantmaking: an implementation science-oriented call Open

Noa E M Kolpa, Roel Kamerling, Sreeparna Chattopadhyay, Emmanuel Ojo, Mulatu Biru , et al. · 2025

Gains and pains: a qualitative study on the implications of value-based health care for professionals Open

Veerle van Engen, Igna Bonfrer, Fabio Mieris, M.A.G. Ensink, Anne M. Stiggelbout , et al. · 2025

Association of socioeconomic inequality in cardiovascular disease risk with economic development across 57 low- and middle-income countries: Cross-sectional analysis of nationally representative individual-level data Open

Callum Brindley, Tom Van Ourti, Igna Bonfrer, Owen O’Donnell · 2024

Economic development was associated with higher and more unequal CVD risk, which may warrant shifting targeting of CVD primary prevention to socially disadvantaged groups.

Enhancing Patient Response to Patient-Reported Outcome Measures: Insights From a Leading Dutch University Hospital Open

Veerle van Engen, Céline L van Lint, Ingrid Peters, Kees Ahaus, Martina Buljac‐Samardžić , et al. · 2024

Response rates to PROMs improved but remained below desired levels, despite multiple strategies. Hospitals may benefit from effective patient feedback on PROMs and tailoring strategies to engage specific patient groups. These approaches ca…

Enhancing Clinicians’ Use of Electronic Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Outpatient Care: Mixed Methods Study Open

Veerle van Engen, Igna Bonfrer, Kees Ahaus, Monique Den Hollander-Ardon, Ingrid Peters , et al. · 2024

Background Despite the increasing use of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) for collecting self-reported data among hospital outpatients, clinicians’ use of these data remains suboptimal. Insight into this issue and strategies to en…

A decade of change towards Value-Based Health Care at a Dutch University Hospital: a complexity-informed process study Open

Veerle van Engen, Martina Buljac‐Samardžić, Robert J. Baatenburg de Jong, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Kees Ahaus , et al. · 2024

Background While healthcare organizations in several countries are embracing Value-Based Health Care (VBHC), there are limited insights into how to achieve this paradigm shift. This study examines the decade-long (2012–2023) change towards…

Correction: Health seeking behaviours and private sector delivery of care for non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review Open

Callum Brindley, Nilmini Wijemunige, Charlotte Dieteren, Judith Bom, Bruno Meessen , et al. · 2024

Health seeking behaviours and private sector delivery of care for non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review Open

Callum Brindley, Nilmini Wijemunige, Charlotte Dieteren, Judith Bom, Bruno Meessen , et al. · 2024

Health seeking behaviours and private sector delivery of care for non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries: protocol for a systematic review Open

Callum Brindley, Nilmini Wijemunige, Charlotte Dieteren, Judith Bom, Maarten F. M. Engel , et al. · 2023

Introduction The burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has increased substantially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and adapting health service delivery models to address this remains a challenge. Many patients with NCD se…

Effects of performance-based capitation payment on the use of public primary health care services in Indonesia Open

Novat Pugo Sambodo, Igna Bonfrer, Robert Sparrow, Menno Pradhan, Eddy van Doorslaer · 2023

Identifying consensus on activities that underpin value-based healthcare in outpatient specialty consultations, among clinicians Open

Veerle van Engen, Igna Bonfrer, Kees Ahaus, Martina Buljac‐Samardžić · 2023

Public preferences for policies promoting a healthy diet: a discrete choice experiment Open

Charlotte Dieteren, Igna Bonfrer, Werner Brouwer, Job van Exel · 2022

Background Worldwide obesity rates have nearly tripled over the past five decades. So far, policies to promote a healthier diet have been less intrusive than those to reduce tobacco and alcohol consumption. Not much is known about public s…

Effects of a smartphone application on maternal health knowledge and dietary diversity among pregnant women in India: a randomized single center pilot study Open

Charlotte Dieteren, Subhanwita Sarkar, Sumiti Saharan, Igna Bonfrer · 2022

Background India contributes to one-fifth of infant and maternal deaths globally. Healthy lifestyles during pregnancy combined with good quality health care can help to avoid many maternal and neonatal deaths. Access to appropriate informa…

Billing And Insurance–Related Administrative Costs: A Cross-National Analysis Open

Barak D. Richman, Robert S. Kaplan, Japees Kohli, Dennis Purcell, Mahek A. Shah , et al. · 2022

Billing and insurance-related costs are a significant source of wasteful health care spending in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development nations, but these administrative burdens vary across national systems. We executed a mi…

133:poster Impact evaluation of a smartphone application to improve maternal health knowledge and diet among pregnant women in India Open

CM Dieteren, S Sarkar, S Saharan, Igna Bonfrer · 2022

Introduction With maternal mortality ratios higher than 100 per 100,000 live births in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), reducing these deaths features high on international public health agenda. In LMICs, mHealth intervention…

Value-Based Healthcare From the Perspective of the Healthcare Professional: A Systematic Literature Review Open

Veerle van Engen, Igna Bonfrer, Kees Ahaus, Martina Buljac‐Samardžić · 2022

Introduction: Healthcare systems increasingly move toward “value-based healthcare” (VBHC), aiming to further improve quality and performance of care as well as the sustainable use of resources. Evidence about healthcare professionals' cont…

Prevalence and inequality in persistent undiagnosed, untreated, and uncontrolled hypertension: Evidence from a cohort of older Mexicans Open

Charlotte Dieteren, Owen O’Donnell, Igna Bonfrer · 2021

Hypertension is the leading risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and substantial gaps in diagnosis, treatment and control signal failure to avert premature deaths. Our aim was to estimate the prevalence and assess the socioeconom…

Dying to know: does performance-based financing reduce mortality? Open

Igna Bonfrer · 2021

Overheidsmaatregelen om overgewicht tegen te gaan Open

Charlotte Dieteren, Werner Brouwer, Igna Bonfrer · 2021

Samenvatting Het stimuleren van gezond gedrag staat hoog op de politieke agenda. Overheidsmaatregelen op het gebied van gezonde voeding staan echter nog in de kinderschoenen. Onlangs pleitte de Raad voor Volksgezondheid en Samenleving dan …

Overheidsmaatregelen om overgewicht tegen te gaan; "Effectief voor anderen, maar niet voor mij" Open

Charlotte Dieteren, Werner Brouwer, Igna Bonfrer · 2021

Het stimuleren van gezond gedrag
staat hoog op de politieke agenda. Overheidsmaatregelen op het gebied van gezonde voeding staan echter
nog in de kinderschoenen. Onlangs pleitte de Raad
voor Volksgezondheid en Samenleving dan o…

Socioeconomic inequalities in lifestyle risk factors across low- and middle-income countries Open

Charlotte Dieteren, Igna Bonfrer · 2021

Socioeconomic inequalities in lifestyle risk factors across low- and middle-income countries Open

Charlotte Dieteren, Igna Bonfrer · 2021

Background The heavy and ever rising burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) warrants interventions to reduce their underlying risk factors, which are often linked to lifestyles. To effectivel…

Socioeconomic inequalities in unhealthy lifestyles in low- and middle-income countries Open

Charlotte Dieteren, Igna Bonfrer · 2020

Background: The heavy and ever rising burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) warrants interventions to reduce unhealthy lifestyles. To effectively target these interventions, it is important …

Socioeconomic inequality in unhealthy lifestyles across low and middle income countries: a different case than in high income countries Open

Charlotte Dieteren, Igna Bonfrer · 2019

Background: The link between unhealthy lifestyle factors and non-communicable diseases is evident from a range of studies. Policy makers in high income settings have access to information identifying segments of the population where unheal…

Impact of Financial Incentives on Early and Late Adopters among US Hospitals: observational study Open

Igna Bonfrer, José F. Figueroa, Jie Zheng, E. John Orav, Ashish K. Jha · 2018

No evidence that hospitals that have been operating under pay for performance programs for more than a decade had better process scores or lower mortality than other hospitals was found. These findings suggest that even among hospitals tha…

The Effects of Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme on Maternal and Infant Health Care Utilization Open

Igna Bonfrer, Lyn Breebaart, Ellen Van de Poel · 2016

Increasing equitable access to health care is a main challenge African policy makers are facing. The Ghanaian government implemented the National Health Insurance Scheme in 2004 and the aim of this study is to evaluate its early effects on…

Health shocks, coping strategies and foregone healthcare among agricultural households in Kenya Open

Igna Bonfrer, Emily Gustafsson‐Wright · 2016

Risks are a central part of life for households in low-income countries and health shocks in particular are associated with poverty. Formal mechanisms protecting households against the financial consequences of shocks are largely absent, e…

Evaluating Health Care Financing Reforms in Africa Open

Igna Bonfrer · 2015

__Abstract__ \n \nAfrica is on a steady economic growth path. Over the last decade, most Sub-Saharan African \n(SSA) countries outperformed European and North-American countries’ growth rates, as \nshown in Figure 1. A number of SSA countr…

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