Henk Hilderink
Biographic Data
| ID | 205180 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Henk Hilderink |
| GIVEN NAMES | Henk |
| FAMILY NAME | Hilderink |
| SIGNATURE | HILDERINK H |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Institute for Public Health and the Environment |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7181-8553 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The role of burden of disease estimates in European Union Health policymaking: A systematic analysis of EU legislation
BACKGROUND: The use of burden of disease (BoD) metrics in policymaking is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. However, there is currently no information available regarding their utilisation in policies at the European level. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to analyse the use of BoD metrics within the European legislation. METHODS: Systematic searches on EUR-Lex were conducted for documents published between 2004 and 2023, to account for Euro…
Quantifying reciprocal relationships between poverty and health: Combining a causal loop diagram with longitudinal structural equation modelling
Income and financial wealth appear to have limited effects on the health of the overall population of The Netherlands. However, there are indications that these effects may be stronger for individuals who are closer to the poverty threshold. Since the estimated effects of physical capability on income and financial wealth are more substantial, a broad recommendation would be that including physical capability in efforts that are aimed at improvin…
Exploring Health Trends Prior to State Pension Age for The Netherlands up to 2040
This study's explorations suggest that a substantial share of people will be in moderate or poor health and, thus, may have difficulty continuing working. Policy aiming at sustainable employability will, therefore, remain important, even in the case of the most favorable scenario
Qualitative modelling of social determinants of health using group model building: The case of debt, poverty, and health
Building a model with GMB helps grasp the complex situation of a wicked problem, for which it is unlikely that its interrelationships result in a fully intuitive understanding with linear mechanisms. Using this approach, effects of SDoH can be made visible and the body of evidence expanded. Importantly, it elicits stakeholders' perspectives on a complex reality and offers a non-arbitrary way of formulating the model structure. This qualitative mo…
The health potential of urban water: Future scenarios on local risks and opportunities
Although cities can be characterised as sources of economic, environmental and social challenges, they can also be part of the solution for healthy and sustainable societies. While most cities are situated close to water, whether inland waterways, lakes, or the sea, these blue spaces are not integrated into urban planning to their full potential and their public health impacts are not always recognised by planning authorities. Furthermore, cities…
Quantitative health impact assessment methodology for societal initiatives: A scoping review
Health initiatives are increasingly situated outside the institutionalised public health sector. The intersectoral character of societal initiatives, along with indirect relationships between initiatives and health, makes making projections of reach, impact and goal achievement complex. This scoping review of the peer-reviewed literature searches for appropriate methods to conduct quantitative health impact assessment for such initiatives. Databa…
Calculating incidence rates and prevalence proportions: Not as simple as it seems
All different operational definitions affect incidence rates and prevalence proportions to some extent. Therefore, it is important that the terminology and methodology is well described by sources reporting these epidemiological measures. When comparing incidence rates and prevalence proportions from different sources, it is important to be aware of the operational definitions applied and their impact
Future impacts of environmental factors on achieving the SDG target on child mortality—A synergistic assessment
Nested archetypes of vulnerability in African drylands: Where lies potential for sustainable agricultural intensification
Food production is key to achieving food security in the drylands of sub-Saharan Africa. Since agricultural productivity is limited, however, due to inherent agro-ecological constraints and land degradation, sustainable agricultural intensification has been widely discussed as an opportunity for improving food security and reducing vulnerability. Yet, vulnerability determinants are heterogeneously distributed in the drylands of sub-Saharan Africa…
Taking multi-morbidity into account when attributing Dalys to risk factors: Comparing dynamic modeling with the GBD2010 calculation method
We argue that the GBD2010 approach is a hybrid of an attributional and counterfactual approach, making the end result hard to understand, while dynamic modelling uses a purely counterfactual approach and thus yields better interpretable results
Opportunities and Challenges for Investigating the Environment-Migration Nexus
Environmental change is an acknowledged factor influencing human migration. Analytical research regarding the relationship between the environment and human migration has increased in recent years yet still faces numerous hurdles, partly due to limited availability of suitable data. We review available data and methodologies for investigating the environment-migration nexus, identifying data inconsistencies resulting from the combination of diffe…
Land Use Dynamics, Climate Change, and Food Security in Vietnam: A Global-to-local Modeling Approach
The use of scenarios as the basis for combined assessment of climate change mitigation and adaptation
Downscaling drivers of global environmental change: Enabling use of global SRES scenarios at the national and grid levels
The health impacts of globalisation: A conceptual framework
This paper describes a conceptual framework for the health implications of globalisation. The framework is developed by first identifying the main determinants of population health and the main features of the globalisation process. The resulting conceptual model explicitly visualises that globalisation affects the institutional, economic, social-cultural and ecological determinants of population health, and that the globalisation process mainly …
Costs, effects, and savings of screening for cystic fibrosis gene carriers
STUDY OBJECTIVE: Evaluating the costs, effects, and savings of several strategies for cystic fibrosis (CF) gene carrier screening. DESIGN: A general model for evaluating prenatal, preconceptional, school, and neonatal carrier screening was constructed. For prenatal and preconceptional screening, two strategies were evaluated: single entry and double entry two step couple screening. Firstly, the Dutch situation was evaluated prospectively; subsequ…
Downscaling drivers of global environmental change: Enabling use of global SRES scenarios at the national and grid levels
Opportunities and Challenges for Investigating the Environment-Migration Nexus
Environmental change is an acknowledged factor influencing human migration. Analytical research regarding the relationship between the environment and human migration has increased in recent years yet still faces numerous hurdles, partly due to limited availability of suitable data. We review available data and methodologies for investigating the environment-migration nexus, identifying data inconsistencies resulting from the combination of diffe…
The use of scenarios as the basis for combined assessment of climate change mitigation and adaptation
Land Use Dynamics, Climate Change, and Food Security in Vietnam: A Global-to-local Modeling Approach
Future impacts of environmental factors on achieving the SDG target on child mortality—A synergistic assessment
Costs, effects, and savings of screening for cystic fibrosis gene carriers
STUDY OBJECTIVE: Evaluating the costs, effects, and savings of several strategies for cystic fibrosis (CF) gene carrier screening. DESIGN: A general model for evaluating prenatal, preconceptional, school, and neonatal carrier screening was constructed. For prenatal and preconceptional screening, two strategies were evaluated: single entry and double entry two step couple screening. Firstly, the Dutch situation was evaluated prospectively; subsequ…
Costs, effects, and savings of screening for cystic fibrosis gene carriers
STUDY OBJECTIVE: Evaluating the costs, effects, and savings of several strategies for cystic fibrosis (CF) gene carrier screening. DESIGN: A general model for evaluating prenatal, preconceptional, school, and neonatal carrier screening was constructed. For prenatal and preconceptional screening, two strategies were evaluated: single entry and double entry two step couple screening. Firstly, the Dutch situation was evaluated prospectively; subsequ…
The health impacts of globalisation: A conceptual framework
This paper describes a conceptual framework for the health implications of globalisation. The framework is developed by first identifying the main determinants of population health and the main features of the globalisation process. The resulting conceptual model explicitly visualises that globalisation affects the institutional, economic, social-cultural and ecological determinants of population health, and that the globalisation process mainly …
Downscaling drivers of global environmental change: Enabling use of global SRES scenarios at the national and grid levels
The use of scenarios as the basis for combined assessment of climate change mitigation and adaptation
Land Use Dynamics, Climate Change, and Food Security in Vietnam: A Global-to-local Modeling Approach
Opportunities and Challenges for Investigating the Environment-Migration Nexus
Environmental change is an acknowledged factor influencing human migration. Analytical research regarding the relationship between the environment and human migration has increased in recent years yet still faces numerous hurdles, partly due to limited availability of suitable data. We review available data and methodologies for investigating the environment-migration nexus, identifying data inconsistencies resulting from the combination of diffe…
Nested archetypes of vulnerability in African drylands: Where lies potential for sustainable agricultural intensification
Food production is key to achieving food security in the drylands of sub-Saharan Africa. Since agricultural productivity is limited, however, due to inherent agro-ecological constraints and land degradation, sustainable agricultural intensification has been widely discussed as an opportunity for improving food security and reducing vulnerability. Yet, vulnerability determinants are heterogeneously distributed in the drylands of sub-Saharan Africa…
Taking multi-morbidity into account when attributing Dalys to risk factors: Comparing dynamic modeling with the GBD2010 calculation method
We argue that the GBD2010 approach is a hybrid of an attributional and counterfactual approach, making the end result hard to understand, while dynamic modelling uses a purely counterfactual approach and thus yields better interpretable results
Calculating incidence rates and prevalence proportions: Not as simple as it seems
All different operational definitions affect incidence rates and prevalence proportions to some extent. Therefore, it is important that the terminology and methodology is well described by sources reporting these epidemiological measures. When comparing incidence rates and prevalence proportions from different sources, it is important to be aware of the operational definitions applied and their impact
Future impacts of environmental factors on achieving the SDG target on child mortality—A synergistic assessment
Quantitative health impact assessment methodology for societal initiatives: A scoping review
Health initiatives are increasingly situated outside the institutionalised public health sector. The intersectoral character of societal initiatives, along with indirect relationships between initiatives and health, makes making projections of reach, impact and goal achievement complex. This scoping review of the peer-reviewed literature searches for appropriate methods to conduct quantitative health impact assessment for such initiatives. Databa…
Exploring Health Trends Prior to State Pension Age for The Netherlands up to 2040
This study's explorations suggest that a substantial share of people will be in moderate or poor health and, thus, may have difficulty continuing working. Policy aiming at sustainable employability will, therefore, remain important, even in the case of the most favorable scenario
Qualitative modelling of social determinants of health using group model building: The case of debt, poverty, and health
Building a model with GMB helps grasp the complex situation of a wicked problem, for which it is unlikely that its interrelationships result in a fully intuitive understanding with linear mechanisms. Using this approach, effects of SDoH can be made visible and the body of evidence expanded. Importantly, it elicits stakeholders' perspectives on a complex reality and offers a non-arbitrary way of formulating the model structure. This qualitative mo…
The health potential of urban water: Future scenarios on local risks and opportunities
Although cities can be characterised as sources of economic, environmental and social challenges, they can also be part of the solution for healthy and sustainable societies. While most cities are situated close to water, whether inland waterways, lakes, or the sea, these blue spaces are not integrated into urban planning to their full potential and their public health impacts are not always recognised by planning authorities. Furthermore, cities…
Quantifying reciprocal relationships between poverty and health: Combining a causal loop diagram with longitudinal structural equation modelling
Income and financial wealth appear to have limited effects on the health of the overall population of The Netherlands. However, there are indications that these effects may be stronger for individuals who are closer to the poverty threshold. Since the estimated effects of physical capability on income and financial wealth are more substantial, a broad recommendation would be that including physical capability in efforts that are aimed at improvin…
The role of burden of disease estimates in European Union Health policymaking: A systematic analysis of EU legislation
BACKGROUND: The use of burden of disease (BoD) metrics in policymaking is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. However, there is currently no information available regarding their utilisation in policies at the European level. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to analyse the use of BoD metrics within the European legislation. METHODS: Systematic searches on EUR-Lex were conducted for documents published between 2004 and 2023, to account for Euro…
Economics (11 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Population (9 works) · Public health (8 works) · Environmental resource management (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Environmental Science (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Climate change (4 works)