Willem Van De Put
Biographic Data
| ID | 3572797 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Willem Van De Put |
| GIVEN NAMES | Willem |
| FAMILY NAME | Van De Put |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DE PUT W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3306-5287 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Quality of care for chronic conditions
There is a growing need to implement high quality chronic care to address the global burden of chronic conditions. However, to our knowledge, there have been no systematic attempts to define and specify aims for chronic care quality. To address this gap, we conducted a scoping review and Delphi survey to establish and validate comprehensive specifications. The Institute of Medicine's (IOM) quality of care definition and aims were used as the foun…
A framework for chronic care quality
Frameworks conceptualising the quality of care abound and vary; some concentrate on specific aspects such as safety, effectiveness, others all-encompassing. However, to our knowledge, tailoring to systematically arrive at a comprehensive care for chronic conditions quality (CCCQ) framework has never been done. We conducted a scoping review and Delphi survey to produce a CCCQ framework, comprehensively delineating aims, determinants and measurable…
Descriptive assessment of Covid-19 responses and lessons learnt in Cambodia, January 2020 to June 2022
As a member state of the International Health Regulations 2005, Cambodia is continuously strengthening its capacity to respond to health emergencies and prevent the international spread of diseases. Despite this, Cambodia’s capacity to prevent, detect and rapidly respond to public health threats remained limited at the onset of the pandemic, as was the case in most countries. This paper describes epidemiological phases, response phases, strategy …
How has Guinea learnt from the response to outbreaks? A learning health system analysis
INTRODUCTION: Learning is a key attribute of a resilient health system and, therefore, is central to health system strengthening. The main objective of this study was to analyse how Guinea's health system has learnt from the response to outbreaks between 2014 and 2021. METHODS: We used a retrospective longitudinal single embedded case study design, applying the framework conceptualised by Sheikh and Abimbola for analysing learning health systems.…
Decolonisation initiatives at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
In a global context, the pernicious effects of colonialism and coloniality are increasingly being recognised in many sectors. As a result, calls to reverse colonial aphasia and amnesia, and decolonise, are getting stronger. This raises a number of questions, particularly for entities that acted as agents of (previous) colonising countries and worked to further the progress of the colonial project: What does decolonisation mean for such historical…
Ensuring continuity of care during the Covid-19 pandemic in Guinea
Background: The emergence of the COVID-19 has disrupted the health and socioeconomic sectors, particularly in resource-poor settings such as Guinea. Like many sub-Saharan countries, Guinea is facing shortcomings related to its fragile health system and is further affected by the passage of the Ebola virus disease. The pandemic has worsened the socio-economic situation of the poorest people, leading to their exclusion from health care. To promote …
Improving access to and use of maternal health services during Covid-19
The purpose of this study was to document the experience of health providers' capacity strengthening during health crises and the contribution of such to the health system and the population resilience in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic in Guinea. We conducted a cross-sectional study using routine data collected from 41 health facilities in the project intervention areas, including associative health centers, community health centers, and distr…
Guinea’s response to syndemic hotspots
box ### Syndemic hotspots The Guinean health system has been severely overstretched this year. It has to deal with several concurrent (re-)emerging infectious diseases—Ebola, Lassa fever, measles, meningitis, yellow fever, vaccine-derived poliomyelitis1—as well as a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (figure 1). A case of the highly infectious Marburg viral disease was also detected in August.2 Figure 1 Geographical distribution of COVID-19, Eb…
Leveraging smart glasses for telemedicine to improve primary healthcare services and referrals in a remote rural district, Kingandu, DRC, 2019–2020
BACKGROUND: Telemedicine enables new forms of medical consultation and is expanding worldwide. Patients in sub-Saharan Africa could potentially benefit substantially from telemedicine. OBJECTIVE: To improve primary healthcare services, especially referrals to the district hospital, for the population in three health centres in the rural district Kingandu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by introducing Smart Glasses, and leveraging th…
Willingness to comply with physical distancing measures against Covid-19 in four African countries
box The world is facing an unprecedented crisis related to the COVID-19 pandemic with many unknowns, which has led to much confusion and anxiety.1 Public health measures have for centuries been the cornerstone of the response to epidemics.2 Among them, physical distancing measures aim to reduce contact between infected and uninfected people.3 As part of the global COVID-19 response, they have been widely used to slow down the spread of the virus …
Inspiring Life in Frozen Communities
Starting mental health services in Cambodia
Starting mental health services in Cambodia
Decolonisation initiatives at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
In a global context, the pernicious effects of colonialism and coloniality are increasingly being recognised in many sectors. As a result, calls to reverse colonial aphasia and amnesia, and decolonise, are getting stronger. This raises a number of questions, particularly for entities that acted as agents of (previous) colonising countries and worked to further the progress of the colonial project: What does decolonisation mean for such historical…
Starting mental health services in Cambodia
Willingness to comply with physical distancing measures against Covid-19 in four African countries
box The world is facing an unprecedented crisis related to the COVID-19 pandemic with many unknowns, which has led to much confusion and anxiety.1 Public health measures have for centuries been the cornerstone of the response to epidemics.2 Among them, physical distancing measures aim to reduce contact between infected and uninfected people.3 As part of the global COVID-19 response, they have been widely used to slow down the spread of the virus …
Inspiring Life in Frozen Communities
Guinea’s response to syndemic hotspots
box ### Syndemic hotspots The Guinean health system has been severely overstretched this year. It has to deal with several concurrent (re-)emerging infectious diseases—Ebola, Lassa fever, measles, meningitis, yellow fever, vaccine-derived poliomyelitis1—as well as a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (figure 1). A case of the highly infectious Marburg viral disease was also detected in August.2 Figure 1 Geographical distribution of COVID-19, Eb…
Leveraging smart glasses for telemedicine to improve primary healthcare services and referrals in a remote rural district, Kingandu, DRC, 2019–2020
BACKGROUND: Telemedicine enables new forms of medical consultation and is expanding worldwide. Patients in sub-Saharan Africa could potentially benefit substantially from telemedicine. OBJECTIVE: To improve primary healthcare services, especially referrals to the district hospital, for the population in three health centres in the rural district Kingandu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by introducing Smart Glasses, and leveraging th…
Ensuring continuity of care during the Covid-19 pandemic in Guinea
Background: The emergence of the COVID-19 has disrupted the health and socioeconomic sectors, particularly in resource-poor settings such as Guinea. Like many sub-Saharan countries, Guinea is facing shortcomings related to its fragile health system and is further affected by the passage of the Ebola virus disease. The pandemic has worsened the socio-economic situation of the poorest people, leading to their exclusion from health care. To promote …
Improving access to and use of maternal health services during Covid-19
The purpose of this study was to document the experience of health providers' capacity strengthening during health crises and the contribution of such to the health system and the population resilience in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic in Guinea. We conducted a cross-sectional study using routine data collected from 41 health facilities in the project intervention areas, including associative health centers, community health centers, and distr…
Descriptive assessment of Covid-19 responses and lessons learnt in Cambodia, January 2020 to June 2022
As a member state of the International Health Regulations 2005, Cambodia is continuously strengthening its capacity to respond to health emergencies and prevent the international spread of diseases. Despite this, Cambodia’s capacity to prevent, detect and rapidly respond to public health threats remained limited at the onset of the pandemic, as was the case in most countries. This paper describes epidemiological phases, response phases, strategy …
How has Guinea learnt from the response to outbreaks? A learning health system analysis
INTRODUCTION: Learning is a key attribute of a resilient health system and, therefore, is central to health system strengthening. The main objective of this study was to analyse how Guinea's health system has learnt from the response to outbreaks between 2014 and 2021. METHODS: We used a retrospective longitudinal single embedded case study design, applying the framework conceptualised by Sheikh and Abimbola for analysing learning health systems.…
Decolonisation initiatives at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
In a global context, the pernicious effects of colonialism and coloniality are increasingly being recognised in many sectors. As a result, calls to reverse colonial aphasia and amnesia, and decolonise, are getting stronger. This raises a number of questions, particularly for entities that acted as agents of (previous) colonising countries and worked to further the progress of the colonial project: What does decolonisation mean for such historical…
Quality of care for chronic conditions
There is a growing need to implement high quality chronic care to address the global burden of chronic conditions. However, to our knowledge, there have been no systematic attempts to define and specify aims for chronic care quality. To address this gap, we conducted a scoping review and Delphi survey to establish and validate comprehensive specifications. The Institute of Medicine's (IOM) quality of care definition and aims were used as the foun…
A framework for chronic care quality
Frameworks conceptualising the quality of care abound and vary; some concentrate on specific aspects such as safety, effectiveness, others all-encompassing. However, to our knowledge, tailoring to systematically arrive at a comprehensive care for chronic conditions quality (CCCQ) framework has never been done. We conducted a scoping review and Delphi survey to produce a CCCQ framework, comprehensively delineating aims, determinants and measurable…
Medicine (11 works) · Nursing (10 works) · Environmental health (8 works) · Health care (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Population (6 works) · Public health (5 works) · Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research (5 works) · Family medicine (4 works)