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Model-Based Exploration of Societal Aging in the Netherlands

Mismanagement of societal aging is an important threat to health care, social security, and the economy of many nations. A System Dynamics simulation model related to societal aging in the Netherlands and its implications for the Dutch welfare system is used here to generate exploratory scenarios and to test policy robustness across many...

Empowerment of disability benefit claimants through an interactive website: Design of a randomized controlled trial

Background. Individuals claiming a disability benefit after long-term sickness absence, have to undergo medical disability assessments. These assessments, often carried out by specialized physicians, can be complicated by wrong expectations or defensive attitudes of disability benefit claimants. It is hypothesized that empowerment of these...

Interviews for the assessment of long-term incapacity for work: A study on adherence to protocols and principles

Background. Assessments for long-term incapacity for work are performed by Social Insurance Physicians (SIPs) who rely on interviews with claimants as an important part of the process. These interviews are susceptible to bias. In the Netherlands three protocols have been developed to conduct these interviews. These protocols are expert- and...

Overgewicht en obesitas bij jonge kinderen (0-4 jaar): Gedrag en opvattingen van ouders [Overweight and obesity in preschool children (0-4 years): Behaviour and views of parents]

Objective. Description of unhealthy behaviour and views regarding nutrition, physical exercise and education in families with young children, in relation to specific groups with a high risk of overweight. Design. Cross-sectional study. Method. In wellbaby clinics for infants and toddlers in various sites in the Netherlands 534 parents were...

Zunahme der inanspruchnahme von sozialleistungen bei jungen personen mit einer chronischen erkrankung bzw. Behinderung in den Niederlanden = Increasing use of social benefits by young people with chronic illness or disability in the Netherlands

Young handicapped citizens in the Netherlands have increasingly been receiving social benefits or special services during the last five years. Dutch governmental departments have therefore commissioned an applied social policy research. We analyzed six benefits (for example special education, psychological healthcare, and Wajong benefits for...

Medico-legal reasoning in disability assessment: A focus group and validation study

Background. Decisions on disability pensions are based, among others, on medical reports. The way these medical assessments are performed is largely unclear. The aim of the study was to determine which grounds are used by social insurance physicians (SIPs) in these assessments and to determine if the identification of these grounds can help...

Costs associated with persistent allergic rhinitis are reduced by levocetirizine

Background: Allergic rhinitis was recently classified by the ARIA guidelines as persistent or intermittent. Levocetivizine was shown to improve symptoms and health-related quality of life of patients with persistent allergic rhinitis in the XPERT™ study, a 6-month randomized double blind placebo-controlled trial. Objective: To assess the total...

Employment work disability and work days lost in patients with ankylosing spondylitis A cross sectional study of Dutch patients

Objective - To evaluate employment status, work disability, and work days lost in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Methods - A questionnaire was sent to 709 patients with AS aged 16-60. The results of 658 of the patients could be analysed. Results - After adjustment for age, labour force participation was decreased by 15.4% in male...

Relative importance of urbanicity, ethnicity and socioeconomic factors regarding area mortality differences

Tot op zekere hoogte: Stichting Pensioenfonds TNO 1941-1991