Patricia Van Pelt
Biographic Data
| ID | 6780956 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Van Pelt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Pelt |
| SIGNATURE | VAN PELT P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Province of Antwerp |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Development and implementation of a community health literacy hub, ‘Health Kiosk'—A grassroots innovation
Being health literate is important to get sufficient health information, to navigate the health system, to access appropriate care and to be able to self-manage health. As such it is a key determinant of health. There is a need for innovative measures to improve health literacy among people living in socioeconomically vulnerable circumstances. Literature shows that this innovation needs to: have “low-threshold access” to health resources in a com…
Prevention Platform
A brand new prevention platform calls for decisive investment in prevention. It is unique because the platform acts across policy domains, as well as policy levels and language borders. The platform aims to promote health for all, contributing to more quality of life and healthy life years. We aim at a transformation from curative care (curative) to ensuring that people are born healthy and stay healthy (preventive). This fits seamlessly with the…
Community health workers as bridge builders towards integrated care
In response to COVID-19 pandemic, which exacerbated the access to care challenges for people living in socio-economic vulnerable circumstances, the Belgian Federal Government gave the National Institute for Sickness and Disability Insurance (NIHDI) and the National InterMutualist College (Intermut) the task to introduce community health workers (CHWs) throughout Belgium. CHWs are “frontline public health worker[s] who [are] a trusted member of a …
A community health literacy Hub
Introduction: Being health literate is important to get sufficient health information, to navigate the health system, to access appropriate care and to be able to self-manage health. As such it is a key determinant of health. There is a need for innovative measures to improve health literacy among people living in socioeconomically vulnerable circumstances. In response to this need, a low treshold community health literacy hub was developed and i…
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Development and implementation of a community health literacy hub, ‘Health Kiosk'—A grassroots innovation
Being health literate is important to get sufficient health information, to navigate the health system, to access appropriate care and to be able to self-manage health. As such it is a key determinant of health. There is a need for innovative measures to improve health literacy among people living in socioeconomically vulnerable circumstances. Literature shows that this innovation needs to: have “low-threshold access” to health resources in a com…
Prevention Platform
A brand new prevention platform calls for decisive investment in prevention. It is unique because the platform acts across policy domains, as well as policy levels and language borders. The platform aims to promote health for all, contributing to more quality of life and healthy life years. We aim at a transformation from curative care (curative) to ensuring that people are born healthy and stay healthy (preventive). This fits seamlessly with the…
Community health workers as bridge builders towards integrated care
In response to COVID-19 pandemic, which exacerbated the access to care challenges for people living in socio-economic vulnerable circumstances, the Belgian Federal Government gave the National Institute for Sickness and Disability Insurance (NIHDI) and the National InterMutualist College (Intermut) the task to introduce community health workers (CHWs) throughout Belgium. CHWs are “frontline public health worker[s] who [are] a trusted member of a …
A community health literacy Hub
Introduction: Being health literate is important to get sufficient health information, to navigate the health system, to access appropriate care and to be able to self-manage health. As such it is a key determinant of health. There is a need for innovative measures to improve health literacy among people living in socioeconomically vulnerable circumstances. In response to this need, a low treshold community health literacy hub was developed and i…
Business (4 works) · Health care (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Government (linguistics (2 works) · Health education (2 works)