Piet Bracke
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 148259 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Piet Bracke |
| NOMBRES | Piet |
| APELLIDO | Bracke |
| FIRMA | BRACKE P |
| AFILIACIONES | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9477-3236 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 123 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 485 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 123 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Carapace of Prevailing Beliefs
The long-term effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on loneliness in European older women and men
This study examines the long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on loneliness among adults aged 65 and over across 27 European countries, focusing on gender differences and the role of government-imposed containment measures. Using longitudinal data from four waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), pre-pandemic (Wave 8), two SHARE Corona surveys (2020-2021), and post-pandemic (Wave 9), the analyses include 49,351…
Trajectories and inequalities in routine healthcare uptake from adolescence to retirement
Background Regular uptake of routine healthcare services can support disease prevention, early detection, monitoring, and timely treatment. Socioeconomically disadvantaged populations often face barriers to healthcare use. However, little is known about how routine healthcare uptake, and inequalities within it, unfold across the life course, or whether these trajectories differ by gender and birth cohort. Methods We used retrospectively collected…
The line is drawn, the fate is cast
Introduction Despite sustained advances in medical innovation and expanded access to healthcare services, inequalities in the uptake of health check-ups persist, pointing to enduring mechanisms in the reproduction of health inequalities. Although Fundamental Cause Theory (FCT) has been widely used to examine such inequalities, it has largely been operationalized at the individual level, with limited attention to institutional arrangements and ins…
‘A gendered family affair’? Examining the role of partners', parents', and parents-in-law's education in preventive healthcare use among older men and women
This study aims to extend the body of research on educational inequalities in preventive healthcare practices among older adults, and their intergenerational reproduction, by investigating the role of family spillovers. Beyond the influence of individuals' own education, we examine how partner's, parents', and parents-in-law's educational attainment relate to participation in colorectal cancer screening and flu vaccination, with particular attent…
Do Health Care Professionals Trust Parents? A Team Ethnography of Childhood Vaccine Hesitancy from Seven European Countries
Social-scientific scholarship on vaccination has often stressed the importance of trust. Vaccine hesitancy has commonly been viewed as determined by the degree of trust that parents have in expert knowledge, health care authorities, and health care professionals (HCPs). Focusing primarily on parents as trustors, the bilateral nature of trust and HCPs’ trust in parents have seldom been considered. This article systematically explores these commonl…
Social connection before and after the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic required major preventive measures that had a substantial impact on social life. Since then, there has been concern for pandemic side-effects on social connection. While short-term increases in poor social connection have been observed during the pandemic, less is known about long-term consequences. Only a few studies have made comparisons of social connection before, during and after the pandemic, showing conflicting result…
Psychotherapists’ Discursive Constructions of Culture and Cultural Conversations in Therapy
Disparities in the quality of mental healthcare services for majoritized versus minoritized clients are pronounced, while therapists draw on intuition and wider societal ideologies rather than professional training to confront the question of how to address clients’ cultural identities and backgrounds in psychotherapy. This signals a gap between theoretical calls for cultural sensitivity and the practical implementation of culturally responsive c…
Where does it start, where does it stop?’
School Matters
Structural factors shaping health-seeking behaviour among breast cancer survivors in the Gaza Strip
This paper aims to analyse the enabling and disabling factors for health-seeking behaviour among Palestinian breast cancer survivors in the Gaza Strip. Specifically, it investigates how the availability of and accessibility to healthcare services influence health-seeking behaviour during the detection and treatment stages. The core components of the Right to Health—accessibility, availability, acceptability, and quality serve as the theoretical f…
Sandwich Generation and Ever-married Women’s Perceived Stress
Building on the stress process model and adopting an intersectionality framework, this study highlights the formation of a stronger intergenerational family symbiosis system in China. It offers a systematic understanding of the association between multigenerational caregiving and sandwich women’s stress, extending prior research by exploring the mitigating effect of husbands. Drawing upon China Health and Nutrition Survey data, findings indicate …
The (Stigma) Power of Discourse
Mental health issues, such as depression, are prevalent in Belgium, particularly among individuals with a migration background. General practitioners (GPs) may inadvertently contribute to these disparities through unconscious biases and stereotypes. This study investigates how Belgian GPs’ accounts reflect, perpetuate, or resist stigmatization toward patients with a migration background experiencing mental health issues and how these accounts are…
Adolescents’ stigmatizing attitudes and social distance toward peers with depression
Mental health stigma poses a significant burden on affected individuals, particularly adolescents, who are especially vulnerable to its consequences. However, the processes and predictors of adolescent mental health stigma remain underexplored. Guided by the Etiology and Effects of Stigma model, this study examines a broad range of factors that shape mental health stigma in this population. Data were drawn from the Red Noses Culturally Sensitive …
Navigating mental health issues
The study confirmed that attributing causes to mental health strongly relate to care recommendation patterns. Furthermore, the mediating role of perceived public stereotypical attitudes was recognized in determining the relationship between mental health causal attribution and help-seeking care recommendations
Sex and gender differences in the public stigmatization of persistent somatic symptoms
The role of education as a socialization mechanism in addressing the social gradient in depression treatment in Belgium (2004–2018)
This study demonstrates that education plays a critical role in fostering health-related knowledge and reasoning, making individuals with longer education more likely to engage in rational health behaviors and choose more effective treatments, even when these treatments require more effort and competencies. The findings underscore the importance of considering education as a key determinant of depression treatment inequalities
Notes on the Intersection Between Sociology and Public Health
This article aims to provide a reflection triggered by a ‘round table’ discussion at the VAX-TRUST project final conference regarding the interconnection between health sociology and public health. This interconnection is characterized by complexity, as it involves navigating the various ways in which sociological perspectives can inform and contribute to our understanding of health issues and the development of health interventions. Within these…
Urdu Translation and Psychometric Validation of Stigma Beliefs Scale
Purpose/Aim This study aims to translate and adapt the Personal and Perceived Public Stigma Beliefs Scale from the Eurobarometer into Urdu, subsequently modifying and evaluating its psychometric properties among Pakistani adolescents and young adults. Methods 1328 college students aged 15–24 from Layyah, Punjab, Pakistan participated in this cross-sectional study, using the stigma beliefs scale to measure attitudes toward mental illness. Results …
General practitioners’ repertoires of patients with a migration background and mental health problems
Purpose Despite a higher prevalence of mental health problems among people with a migration background, recent studies indicate these patients have more unmet medical needs and are under-represented in mental health services. General practitioners (GPs) are central gatekeepers in treatment and referral to specialised mental health care. However, their recommendations can be influenced by beliefs, social norms and practices that might prejudice pe…
Loneliness in newly-arrived adolescents in Flanders
Experiences of loneliness amongst newly-arrived adolescent migrants
Diverging Family Behaviors
This study explores cohort changes in first marriage timing in China, focusing on how evolving socioeconomic disparities shape marriage behavior. Using event history analyses and lognormal models, the research draws on 105,209 person-year records from 12 waves of the Chinese General Social Survey (2003-2021), covering individuals aged 18-80. Findings support the Cohort Accretion Hypothesis, showing that more educated and urban adults are delaying…
Walking to the same winter
Coping With a Dead End by Relying on Your Own Compass
Fibromyalgia lacks a coherent illness and treatment model, which includes a set of conceptual ideas shaping individuals' perceptions and understandings of pain, its causing and maintaining factors, and management strategies. Developing personalized illness models that can guide treatment plans and alleviate feelings of uncertainty is of crucial importance. This study investigates how individuals with fibromyalgia develop a personal illness and tr…
Gender differences in depression in 23 European countries. Cross-national variation in the gender gap in depression
The popular legitimacy of European healthcare systems
This paper provides an empirical study of the between-individual and between-country differences in the popular legitimacy of European healthcare systems. In order to explain two dimensions of popular legitimacy (satisfaction and support for state responsibility), we assess the impact of self-interest motives (income and personal health), ideology (egalitarianism) and institutional arrangements (level of service provision, and private and governm…
The Pivotal Role of Women in Informal Care
Supporting and caring for each other are crucial parts of the social tissue that binds people together. In these networks, men and women hold different positions: Women more often care more for others, listen more to the problems of others, and, as kin keepers, hold families together. Is this true for all life stages? And are social conditions, among other things bound to the organization of work and family, an essential explanation of these diff…
Educational expansion and the education gradient in health
Overeducation and depressive symptoms
In general, well-educated people enjoy better mental health than those with less education. As a result, some wonder whether there are limits to the mental health benefits of education. Inspired by the literature on the expansion of tertiary education, this article explores marginal mental health returns to education and studies the mental health status of overeducated people. To enhance the validity of the findings we use two indicators of educa…
The association between network social capital and self-rated health
Gender differences in depression in 25 European countries after eliminating measurement bias in the CES-D 8
Macro‐level gender equality and depression in men and women in Europe
A recurrent finding in international literature is a greater prevalence of depression in women than in men. While explanations for this gender gap have been studied extensively at the individual level, few researchers have studied macro‐level determinants of depression in men and women. In the current study we aim to examine the micro–macro linkage of the relationship between gender equality and depression by gender in Europe, using data from the…
Economic Hardship and Depression across the Life Course
Previous research in the United States suggests that depression related to economic hardship decreases with age. We test whether this pattern can be generalized to other developed nations. Based on data from 23 countries in the European Social Survey (2006-2007), multilevel analyses show that the moderating role of age depends on the socio-political context. While the hardship-depression link is not significantly different across the life course …
The social norm of unemployment in relation to mental health and medical care use
The relationships between unemployment, mental health (care) and medication use among 50-65 year-old men (N = 11,789) and women (N = 15,118) are studied in Europe. Inspired by the social norm theory of unemployment, the relevance of regional unemployment levels and workplace closure are explored, using multilevel analyses of data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement. In line with the social norm theory, the results show that - only fo…
Depression in women and men, cumulative disadvantage and gender inequality in 29 European countries
Education, Mental Health, and Education-Labor Market Misfit
Higher-educated people experience enhanced mental health. We ponder whether the mental health benefits of educational attainment are limitless. At the individual level, we look at the impact of job-education mismatch. At the societal level, we hypothesize that diminishing economic returns on education limit its mental health benefits. Using a subsample of individuals aged 20 to 65 years (N = 28,288) from 21 countries in the European Social Survey…
The (re)production of health inequalities through the process of disseminating preventive innovations
Fundamental Cause Theory suggests the replacement of mechanisms that produce the persistent relationship between socioeconomic status and health over time. Understanding how this process operates is central to explaining the reproduction of health inequality. We use data from the Onco-barometer survey (2010) to test a set of hypotheses derived from FCT, Diffusion Of Innovations theory and the intersection between these theories to examine how soc…
Measurement equivalence of the CES-D 8 depression-scale among the ageing population in eleven European countries
Reconsidering inequalities in preventive health care
While there are abundant descriptions of socioeconomic inequalities in preventive health care, knowledge about the true mechanisms is still lacking. Recently, the role of cultural health capital in preventive health-care inequalities has been discussed theoretically. Given substantial analogies, we explore how our understanding of cultural health capital and preventive health-care inequalities can be advanced by applying the theoretical principle…
Medicalization of the Uncertainty? An Empirical Study of the Relationships between Unemployment or Job Insecurity, Professional Care Seeking, and the Consumption of Antidepressants
In addition to concerns about the treatment gap in mental health (MH) care, an increasing number of researchers are paying attention to the medicalization of daily life. Framed in a context characterized by a growth in the use of antidepressants and at the same time economic instability, the aim of this study is to unravel the relations between employment status/job insecurity, seeking professional care for MH problems, and antidepressant use. Da…
Assessing Provider Bias in General Practitioners’ Assessment and Referral of Depressive Patients with Different Migration Backgrounds
Stigma, Social Structure, and the Biomedical Framework
The study discusses the stigma experiences of service users in mental health care, within the debate on the role of the biomedical framework for mental health care and power relations in society. Interview data of inpatient users ( n = 42) and care providers ( n = 43) from two Belgian psychiatric hospitals were analyzed using a constructivist grounded theory approach: Findings offer insight into how stigma experiences are affected by social struc…
The social gradient in preventive healthcare use
Little is known about the origins of the stratified nature of preventive health behaviour. In this paper, we introduce theory and methodology from the field of social mobility research. Intergenerational socially mobile individuals can provide insights into the central discussion about how health lifestyles or cultural health capital develop over the life course, as they have encountered different contexts of socialisation, each with its own char…
Keeping it in the family
This study examines whether health inequalities exist between lone and cohabiting mothers across Europe, and how these may differ by welfare regime. Data from the European Social Survey were used to compare self‐rated general health, limiting long‐standing illness and depressive feelings by means of a multi‐level logistic regression. The 27 countries included in the analyses are classified into six welfare regimes (Anglo‐Saxon, Bismarckian, South…
Associative Stigma among Mental Health Professionals
In contrast with growing attention given to the stigma experiences of mental health service users, the stigma literature has paid almost no attention to mental health professionals. This study focuses on experiences of associative stigma among these professionals. We investigate the link between associative stigma and three dimensions of burnout as well as job satisfaction among mental health professionals, and the link of associative stigma with…
Sports – idrott – esporte – deporte – sportovní The problem of equivalence of meaning in comparative sports research
For the past fifteen years, there has been an increase in the number of studies comparing countries, regions and cultures on sports-related dimensions, and sports participation in particular. Research of this kind always rests on the assumption of equivalence of meaning, that is, comparisons between countries/regions/cultures are only worthwhile when they all measure things in the same way. Unfortunately, this issue has been seriously underdevelo…
The Institutional Foundations of Medicalization
In this study, we question (1) whether the relationship between unemployment and mental healthcare use, controlling for mental health status, varies across European countries and (2) whether these differences are patterned by a combination of unemployment and healthcare generosity. We hypothesize that medicalization of unemployment is stronger in countries where a low level of unemployment generosity is combined with a high level of healthcare ge…
Ready, Willing, and Able
The mental health consequences of the economic crisis in Europe among the employed, the unemployed, and the non-employed
The three-year persistence of depressive symptoms in men and women
Parental Divorce and Depression
Experiencing a parental divorce in childhood can have a significant impact on depression in adulthood. Investigating this relationship among 4,727 men and women of the Panel Study of Belgian households, we found not only a direct influence of parental divorce on depression, but also an indirect effect through specific relationship characteristics in adulthood. Separate analyses of respondents involved in a partner relationship yielded similar res…
Boredom during Day Activity Programs in Rehabilitation Centers
Day structuring while providing meaningful activities for persons with chronic mental health problems is a key goal of day activity programs in rehabilitation centers. Nevertheless, research has seldom investigated organizational characteristics promoting the experience of meaningfulness in clients. This study explores these organizational determinants using information gathered from 646 clients of fifty-three rehabilitation centers providing day…
Organizational and Individual Level Determinants of Stigmatization in Mental Health Services
Stigmatization and Self-Esteem of Persons in Recovery From Mental Illness
Background: Persons with mental health problems often experience stigmatization, which can have detrimental consequences for their objective and subjective quality of life. Previous research seeking for elements buffering this negative association focused on coping strategies and revealed that none of the most often used strategies is successful. Aims: This article studies whether peer support among clients can moderate this negative link, and to…
The Pivotal Role of Women in Informal Care
Supporting and caring for each other are crucial parts of the social tissue that binds people together. In these networks, men and women hold different positions: Women more often care more for others, listen more to the problems of others, and, as kin keepers, hold families together. Is this true for all life stages? And are social conditions, among other things bound to the organization of work and family, an essential explanation of these diff…
Mental health in a gendered context
The Experience of Daily Hassles, Cardiovascular Reactivity and Adolescent Risk Taking and Self-Esteem
Based on Boyce and Ellis' model on context and biological sensitivity to the context, this article analyzes the interaction between the experience of daily hassles and experimentally induced cardiovascular reactivity as an indicator of stress reactivity, in explaining risk taking and self-esteem. This study found, in a sample of 599 adolescents, that (1. daily hassles were more strongly related to risk taking in boys and girls with high vs. low l…
Divorce, divorce rates, and professional care seeking for mental health problems in Europe
The higher rates of professional care seeking for mental health problems among the divorced or separated only partially correlates with their more severe mental health problems. In countries where marital dissolution is more common, the marital status gap in professional care seeking is narrower, partially because professional care seeking is more common among the married or cohabiting
Gender differences in depression in 25 European countries after eliminating measurement bias in the CES-D 8
Gender differences in depression in 23 European countries. Cross-national variation in the gender gap in depression
Health and well-being in radically changing societies
The association between network social capital and self-rated health
Sports – idrott – esporte – deporte – sportovní The problem of equivalence of meaning in comparative sports research
For the past fifteen years, there has been an increase in the number of studies comparing countries, regions and cultures on sports-related dimensions, and sports participation in particular. Research of this kind always rests on the assumption of equivalence of meaning, that is, comparisons between countries/regions/cultures are only worthwhile when they all measure things in the same way. Unfortunately, this issue has been seriously underdevelo…
Economic Hardship and Depression across the Life Course
Previous research in the United States suggests that depression related to economic hardship decreases with age. We test whether this pattern can be generalized to other developed nations. Based on data from 23 countries in the European Social Survey (2006-2007), multilevel analyses show that the moderating role of age depends on the socio-political context. While the hardship-depression link is not significantly different across the life course …
Depressive symptoms among immigrants and ethnic minorities
How do men with paraplegia choose activities in the light of striving for optimal participation? A qualitative study, based on a phenomenological–hermeneutical method
The objective of this study was to explore the experiences of men with paraplegia with regard to how they choose activities. The study involved a qualitative research design, based on a phenomenological-hermeneutical method. The findings revealed that the activities participants were choosing could be on a continuum between the individual's self and the influence from their environment. On this continuum, the choice to perform activities was infl…
Attitudes Toward Community Mental Health Care
Macro‐level gender equality and depression in men and women in Europe
A recurrent finding in international literature is a greater prevalence of depression in women than in men. While explanations for this gender gap have been studied extensively at the individual level, few researchers have studied macro‐level determinants of depression in men and women. In the current study we aim to examine the micro–macro linkage of the relationship between gender equality and depression by gender in Europe, using data from the…
Associative Stigma among Mental Health Professionals
In contrast with growing attention given to the stigma experiences of mental health service users, the stigma literature has paid almost no attention to mental health professionals. This study focuses on experiences of associative stigma among these professionals. We investigate the link between associative stigma and three dimensions of burnout as well as job satisfaction among mental health professionals, and the link of associative stigma with…
Genderverschillen in professioneel zorggebruik in 25 Europese landen - Een onderzoek naar de impact van medicaliseringsattitudes en genderstratificatie
Gender differences in professional health service use in 25 European countries A study on the impact of medicalisation attitudes and gender stratification .In this paper we investigate the impact of gender stratification on the gender gap in both medicalisation attitudes and professional health care use. Furthermore, we examine to what extent medicalisation attitudes explain the gender gap in professional health care use. Using data from the seco…
Breaking Up, Breaking Hearts? Characteristics of the Divorce Process and Well-Being After Divorce
This article expands existing research on divorce and mental health by considering the divorce process and how it relates to the postdivorce well-being of men and women. Drawing on gender role theories, we focus on conflict, duration of the divorce process, initiation, moving house, and feelings of (in)equity. Men and women aged 25 to 60 years who had divorced no more than 5 years were selected from the population-based survey Divorce in Flanders…
Ward features and stigma experiences of mental health service users in Belgium and England
BACKGROUND: Stigmatizing attitudes can impair the quality of life of people with mental health problems. Psychiatric hospitalization can generate stigma. Are some approaches to care less stigmatizing than others? AIMS: This study was designed to replicate findings from Flanders, Belgium in an English context, investigating how ward size and treatment approach affected service users' expectations and experiences of stigma. METHODS: The translated …
Community experiences and perceptions of reproductive health vouchers in Kenya
The findings of this paper showed that the voucher program in Kenya is viewed by the community members as a feasible system for increasing service utilization, improving quality of care, and reducing financial barriers to accessing reproductive health services. However, the techniques of program execution such as proper information and availability of the distributors as well as local attitudes influence whether vouchers are purchased and used
The popular legitimacy of European healthcare systems
This paper provides an empirical study of the between-individual and between-country differences in the popular legitimacy of European healthcare systems. In order to explain two dimensions of popular legitimacy (satisfaction and support for state responsibility), we assess the impact of self-interest motives (income and personal health), ideology (egalitarianism) and institutional arrangements (level of service provision, and private and governm…
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