Vincent Lorant
Biographic Data
| ID | 668467 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vincent Lorant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vincent |
| FAMILY NAME | Lorant |
| SIGNATURE | LORANT V |
| AFFILIATIONS | UCLouvain |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2663-332X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Why school tobacco bans fail: Staff engagement in enforcement in Belgian schools
Tobacco control bans are only as effective as their enforcement, and schools are a critical though often overlooked frontline. School tobacco policies (STPs) frequently fail when staff hesitate to act. This study aimed to measure and explain staff engagement in STP enforcement using a newly developed scale. Staff members (n = 624) from 18 Belgian secondary schools took part in the ADHAirE study. Building on previous qualitative studies, we constr…
The relative value of mental health for pandemic response: A discrete choice experiment with stakeholders and the general population in Europe
Dynamics of psychological distress: Understanding the impact of intraindividual and interindividual factors in the Belgian population during the Covid-19 pandemic—a multilevel prospective cohort study
Overall, these findings suggest that the variation in psychological distress between the waves was mostly influenced by social support, loneliness, and social activities, rather than by exposure to COVID-19. Mitigation policies aimed at controlling the pandemic should focus more on addressing specific individual psychosocial vulnerabilities
Acceptability of an e-mental health self-help intervention aiming to improve psychological distress among persons experiencing unstable housing in France
Are Policies Implemented Where Most Needed? Exploring Equity in School‐Based Smoking Prevention in 2013 and 2016 in Six European Cities
BACKGROUND: Health policies are key social determinants of health, but may cause inequalities if their implementation does not match local needs and if resources are misallocated. This study tests the inverse prevention law on school tobacco policies, assessing inequity in their implementation and identifying contributing factors. METHODS: A student survey and a staff survey were conducted in 38 schools across six European cities in 2013 and 2016…
Specialized mental healthcare use for common mental disorders and prescription of antidepressants before and during the Covid-19 pandemic among working-age refugees and Swedish-born individuals – a na…
Refugees, especially those already in a marginalized position, had increased CMD-related mental healthcare use during the pandemic. Strategies to meet the mental health care needs of marginalized refugees are of outmost public health importance
Political hurdles to implementing tobacco control policies: The case of the smoke-free generation policy in Belgium
There is a notable lack of commitment among political parties, both on the left and right, towards endorsing SFG advocacy, indicating weak adherence to the core values of the SFG movement
Context, implementation and mechanisms of impact of a stepped-care WHO psychological intervention for migrants with psychological distress
Migrants often experience psychological distress due to pre-, peri- and post-migration stressors. Scalable interventions like Doing What Matters in Times of Stress (DWM) and Problem Management Plus (PM+) have been developed to address these challenges. This study evaluates a stepped-care program combining DWM and PM+ for migrants in Italy, examining its context, implementation, and mechanisms of impact. A mixed-methods process evaluation was cond…
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…
Psychological distress and online advice-seeking in times of Covid-19: Vertical and horizontal equity of an e-mental health strategy
Voir et faire voir les graphes de réseaux personnels: Questions d’éthique réflexive sur les effets des protocoles de recherche
L'analyse des réseaux personnels étudie les relations sociales des individus et utilise de plus en plus la visualisation de ces réseaux en situation d'enquête. Cependant, le fait de voir son réseau objectivé dans une image ne laisse pas une personne inchangée. S'appuyant sur deux protocoles de recherche différents, cet article présente quelques réactions que suscite la co-construction du réseau personnel à l'aide de visualisations et examine l'im…
Effectiveness of a stepped-care programme of WHO psychological interventions in migrant populations resettled in Italy: Study protocol for the Respond randomized controlled trial
ClinicalTrials.gov, identifier: NCT04993534
Views and experiences of migrants and stakeholders involved in social and health care for migrants in Italy during the Covid-19 pandemic: A qualitative study
Registration number 2021-UNVRCLE-0106707, February 11 2021
Addressing mental health problems among persons without stable housing in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic: Study protocol for a randomised trial. Respond – France
this randomised trial has been registered at ClinicalTrials.gov under the number NCT05033210
Individual, interpersonal, and organisational factors associated with discrimination in medical decisions affecting people with a migration background with mental health problems: The case of general …
This paper showed that lower levels of trust among GPs' towards their migrant patients and high GP workloads contribute to an increased ethnic bias in medical decision-making. This may perpetuate ethnic inequalities in mental health care. Future researchers should develop an intervention to decrease the ethnic inequities in mental health care by addressing GPs' trust in their migrant and ethnic minority patients
Implementation of a computer-assisted face-to-face intervention for mapping the social support networks of patients with severe mental illness in routine clinical practice: Analysis of the appropriate…
BACKGROUND: Social support is a key dimension of personal recovery for patients with severe mental disorders. Although clinicians and health professionals should monitor the social support resources of patients in order to provide effective treatment, no specific tool or intervention exist for that purpose. Egonet is a computer-assisted intervention for health and social services that enables the mapping, assessment and fostering of patients' soc…
Use of generic social services and social integration of patients with a severe mental illness in Belgium: Individual and services network determinants
BACKGROUND: Patients with severe mental illnesses (SMI) have low levels of social integration, which could be improved if they used social services. To our knowledge, however, the extent to which they use generic social services remains unknown. AIMS: We assessed the extent to which patients with SMI use generic social services and the factors that may drive that usage. METHOD: = 517, participation rate = 53%) in 19 networks of services, covering…
Mental Distress and Its Contributing Factors Among Young People During the First Wave of Covid-19: A Belgian Survey Study
Background: The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and its associated measures led to high levels of mental distress in the general population. Previous research indicated that young people are especially vulnerable for a wide range of mental health problems during the pandemic, but little is known about the mechanisms. This study examined mental distress and its contributing factors among young Belgian people. Methods: An online survey wa…
A Latent Class Analysis of Health Lifestyles in Relation to Suicidality among Adolescents in Mauritius
Suicidality, which includes suicidal thoughts, planning, and suicide attempts, results mainly from a combination of psychological, sociological, and environmental factors. Despite a high prevalence of suicidality among adolescents in Africa, only a few studies have considered these factors simultaneously. The objective of the study was to identify the prevalence of suicidality, to draw up profiles of concomitant risks, and to examine the associat…
The association between socioeconomic position and vigorous physical activity among adolescents: A cross-sectional study in six European cities
This study showed that across European cities adolescent VPA is positively related to both family-based SEP and adolescents' own SEP. When analysing socioeconomic differences in adolescent VPA, one should consider the use of multiple indicators of SEP
Healthcare system performance in continuity of care for patients with severe mental illness: A comparison of five European countries
The personal social network of psychiatric service users
BACKGROUND: For psychiatric service users, the personal social network offers resources such as behavioural guidance, social support, and coherence of care delivery. So far, most research on the subject has assessed the availability of these resources using size and composition measures. However, the availability of network resources also depends on the cohesion of the relationships between network members, a topic that is rarely addressed in the…
Academic Well-Being and Structural Characteristics of Peer Networks in School
Peer networks at school and students' position in these networks can influence their academic well-being. We study here individual students' network position (isolation, popularity, social activity) and peer network structures at the school level (centralization, density, clustering, school connectedness) and their relations to students' academic well-being (school burnout, SB; schoolwork engagement, SE). Classroom surveys for 14-16-year-olds ( N…
Enhancing implementation of smoke-free places: A comparative qualitative study across seven European cities
Smoking beliefs across genders, a comparative analysis of seven European countries
In some countries, gender-specific interventions might be implemented; however, two opposing strategies might be used, depending on whether such programs are aimed at boys or girls
Deprivation and mortality: The Implications of Spatial Autocorrelation for Health Resources Allocation
Fiscal decentralisation and infant mortality rate: The Colombian case
A European comparative study of marital status and socio-economic inequalities in suicide
Contextual factors and immigrants’ health status: Double jeopardy
Does country influence the health burden of informal care? An international comparison between Belgium and Great Britain
Equity in prevention and health care
Study objective: There is an increasing body of evidence about socioeconomic inequality in preventive use, mostly for cancer screening. But as far as needs of prevention are unequally distributed, even equal use may not be fair. Moreover, prevention might be unequally used in the same way as health care in general. The objective of the paper is to assess inequity in prevention and to compare socioeconomic inequity in preventive medicine with that…
A social network analysis of substance use among immigrant adolescents in six European cities
Access to Childcare Services: The Role of Demand and Supply-Side Policies
Self-assessed health of elderly people in Brussels: Does the built environment matter
Ethnicity, socio-economic status and health research: Insights from and implications of Charles Tilly's theory of Durable Inequality: Table 1
BACKGROUND: Ethnic inequalities in health status and healthcare remain substantial in Europe, and addressing them is becoming a priority. However, the best way to respond to such a challenge is, as yet, unclear. The research community is grappling with the contribution of socio-economic discrimination to ethnic inequalities. METHODS: The authors present a new theoretical analysis, based on the landmark work of Charles Tilly on 'Durable Inequality…
Peer, school, and country variations in adolescents’ health behaviour: A multilevel analysis of binary response variables in six European cities
Using matched areas to explore international differences in population health
Inequalities in adolescent self-rated health and smoking in Europe: Comparing different indicators of socioeconomic status
BACKGROUND: Although there is evidence for socioeconomic inequalities in health and health behaviour in adolescents, different indicators of socioeconomic status (SES) have rarely been compared within one data sample. We examined associations of five SES indicators with self-rated health (SRH) and smoking (ie, a leading cause of health inequalities) in Europe. METHODS: Data of adolescents aged 14-17 years old were obtained from the 2013 SILNE sur…
Obesity: Trend in inequality: Table 1
Overweight and obesity prevalences increased during the 1980s and 1990s in the USA 1 and in Europe. 2 Belgium is no exception to this trend. Using a sub-sample of working men (aged 40-54), the Belgian Interuniversity Research on Nutrition and Health (BIRNH) study showed that prevalence of obesity rose from 9% in 1978 to 15% in 1993. 2 Recent findings have shown that overweight and obesity diVered in areas within a region or country, 1 3 but that …
Obesity: Trend in inequality: Table 1
Overweight and obesity prevalences increased during the 1980s and 1990s in the USA 1 and in Europe. 2 Belgium is no exception to this trend. Using a sub-sample of working men (aged 40-54), the Belgian Interuniversity Research on Nutrition and Health (BIRNH) study showed that prevalence of obesity rose from 9% in 1978 to 15% in 1993. 2 Recent findings have shown that overweight and obesity diVered in areas within a region or country, 1 3 but that …
Deprivation and mortality: The Implications of Spatial Autocorrelation for Health Resources Allocation
Equity in prevention and health care
Study objective: There is an increasing body of evidence about socioeconomic inequality in preventive use, mostly for cancer screening. But as far as needs of prevention are unequally distributed, even equal use may not be fair. Moreover, prevention might be unequally used in the same way as health care in general. The objective of the paper is to assess inequity in prevention and to compare socioeconomic inequity in preventive medicine with that…
Socio-economic inequalities in suicide: A European comparative study
BACKGROUND: Social factors have been shown to be predictors of suicide. It is not known whether these factors vary between countries. AIMS: To present a first European overview of socio-economic inequalities in suicide mortality among men and women. METHOD: We used a prospective follow-up of censuses matched with vital statistics in ten European populations. Directly standardised rates of suicide were computed for each country. RESULTS: In men, a…
A European comparative study of marital status and socio-economic inequalities in suicide
Depression and socio-economic risk factors: 7-Year Longitudinal Population Study
BACKGROUND: Low socio-economic status is associated with a higher prevalence of depression, but it is not yet known whether change in socio-economic status leads to a change in rates of depression. AIMS: To assess whether longitudinal change in socio-economic factors affects change of depression level. METHOD: In a prospective cohort study using the annual Belgian Household Panel Survey (1992-1999), depression was assessed using the Global Depres…
Contextual factors and immigrants’ health status: Double jeopardy
Good practice in health care for migrants: Views and experiences of care professionals in 16 European countries
Health care professionals in different services experience similar difficulties when providing care to migrants. They also have relatively consistent views on what constitutes good practice. The degree to which these components already are part of routine practice varies. Implementing good practice requires sufficient resources and organisational flexibility, positive attitudes, training for staff and the provision of information
Access to Childcare Services: The Role of Demand and Supply-Side Policies
Ethnicity, socio-economic status and health research: Insights from and implications of Charles Tilly's theory of Durable Inequality: Table 1
BACKGROUND: Ethnic inequalities in health status and healthcare remain substantial in Europe, and addressing them is becoming a priority. However, the best way to respond to such a challenge is, as yet, unclear. The research community is grappling with the contribution of socio-economic discrimination to ethnic inequalities. METHODS: The authors present a new theoretical analysis, based on the landmark work of Charles Tilly on 'Durable Inequality…
Does country influence the health burden of informal care? An international comparison between Belgium and Great Britain
Using matched areas to explore international differences in population health
Good practice in mental health care for socially marginalised groups in Europe: A qualitative study of expert views in 14 countries
Experts across Europe hold similar views on what constitutes good practice in mental health care for marginalised groups. Care may be improved through better service organisation, coordination and information
Towards fair health policies for migrants and ethnic minorities: The case-study of ETHEALTH in Belgium
The ETHEALTH group was an example of scientific advice on a global health issue. It also demonstrated the feasibility of coming up with a comprehensive strategy to decrease ethnic health inequalities, even in a political context where migration issues are sensitive. Two final lessons may be highlighted at the end of the first phase of the ETHEALTH project: firstly, the combination of scientific knowledge and practical expertise makes recommendati…
Fiscal decentralisation and infant mortality rate: The Colombian case
Alcohol drinking among college students: College responsibility for personal troubles
Educational and college authorities need to acknowledge universities' responsibility in relation to their students' drinking behaviour and to commit themselves to support an environment of responsible drinking
Psychiatric Advance Directives as a complex and multistage intervention: A realist systematic review
Culturally competent interventions in Type 2 diabetes mellitus management: An equity-oriented literature review
OBJECTIVES: Although, culturally competent (CC) interventions aim to reduce health inequalities for ethnic minorities, they have been criticized on the grounds that they increase prejudice and stereotyping. It remains unclear whether CC interventions really can reduce health inequalities among ethnic minorities. The purpose of this review is to assess whether CC interventions in the management of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) match the recommen…
Self-assessed health of elderly people in Brussels: Does the built environment matter
Binge drinking at University: A social network study in Belgium
Many university students engage in risky alcohol consumption behaviour during their stay at university. So far, however, most studies have relied on cross-sectional surveys and paid little attention to the role of social ties. University students, however, are socially connected, so it is likely that their alcohol consumption behaviour is also connected. We hypothesized that university students' social positions within their networks are related …
Johan Mackenbach, awarded an honorary doctorate for his work on health inequalities, in a discussion of burning issues in tackling health inequalities
On 20 March 2015, Professor Johan Mackenbach of the Erasmus University Medical Centre was awarded a doctorate honoris causa by the Catholic University (Université Catholique) of Louvain, Belgium, for his outstanding contribution to the analysis of health inequalities in Europe and to the development of policies intended to address them. In this context, a debate took place between Professor Mackenbach, Professor Maniquet, a well-being economist, …
Implementing a Nation-Wide Mental Health Care Reform: An Analysis of Stakeholders’ Priorities
School smoking policies and educational inequalities in smoking behaviour of adolescents aged 14–17 years in Europe
BACKGROUND: Studies on the effects of school smoking policies are inconclusive and there is no research on whether the effects of school policies vary by educational level. We examined the association between school smoking policies and smoking behaviour among adolescents aged 14-17 years in Europe and assessed educational inequalities in these associations. METHODS: Data on 10,325 adolescents from 50 schools in six European cities were obtained …
A social network analysis of substance use among immigrant adolescents in six European cities
Adolescent alcohol use and parental and adolescent socioeconomic position in six European cities
Across the six European cities, adolescent drinking was associated with adolescents' own SEP, but not with parental SEP. Socio-economic inequalities in adolescent drinking seem to stem from adolescents' own situation rather than that of their family
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