Health behavior epidemiology
Mission
Our mission is to increase the healthy life expectancy by generating scientific and policy-relevant knowledge on the determinants of health behaviors.
Content
Health behaviors, such as physical activity, diet, alcohol consumption and smoking, have a major impact on healthy life expectancy. The determinants of health behaviors are complex and multifaceted, including individual, social, and environmental factors. Our research is aimed at understanding the development of health behaviors over the life course and to identify periods of increased susceptibility for behavioral change. We evaluate lifestyle interventions focusing on disease risk reduction to improve the healthy life expectancy of the general population. We analyze data from large, population-based cohort studies, such as Lifelines.
| Senior staff | |||
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| Name | Function/collaboration | e-mail address | Topic |
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Nynke Smidt (unit chair) |
Assistant professor Unit chair |
n.smidt umcg.nl | Health behavior epidemiology from a life course perspective |
| Aart Liefbroer | Full professor | a.c.liefbroer umcg.nl | Life course demography |
| PhD fellows | Collaboration | ||
| Sjanna Bosman | Internal Medicine/Geriatrics, UMCG | s.bosman umcg.nl |
Pharmacotherapy of sleeping problems among older Internal Medicine/ hospitalized patients |
| Reinder Broekstra | Social Psychology, Institute for Medical Education, IBM | r.broekstra umcg.nl | Big data and the dilemma of innovative knowledge versus threats to personal integrity |
| Carel-Peter van Erpecum | Health Sciences, UMCG | c.p.l.van.erpecum umcg.nl |
How obesogenic are Dutch neighborhoods? |
| Marlies Feenstra | Internal lMedicine/Geriatris | m.feenstra01 umcg.nl | Functional recovery trajectories in hospitalized older adults |
| Liza Hoveling | Health Sciences, UMCG, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute | l.a.hoveling umcg.nl |
Unraveling the mediating pathways between socio-economic status and health |
| Lluis Mangot Sala | NIDI |
Life-course transitions, socio-economic status and health behaviors |
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| Joanne Muller | NIDI | Socio-economic background, family life course and later life economic outcomes: a cros-national comparison | |
| Jacobien Niebuur | Sociology, health psychology | j.niebuur umcg.nl | Let Old be Gold |
| Maaike Pouw | Internal Medicine/Geriatrics | m.a.pouw umcg.nl | Hospital at Home care for elderly patients with cognitive impairment: a randomized feasibility trial |
| Willem Vermeulen | NIDI |
Understanding differences in divorce rates between municipalities |
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| Joyce Vrijsen | Internal Medicine/Geriatrics | j.vrijsen umcg.nl | Uptake and effectiveness of Dementia Risk Reduction program among middle-aged people with a family history of dementia |
| Daniel van Wijk | NIDI | Job insecurity and family formation | |
| Last modified: | 12 August 2024 12.36 p.m. |