Aura Timen

Biographic Data

ID799800
NAMEAura Timen
GIVEN NAMESAura
FAMILY NAMETimen
SIGNATURETIMEN A
AFFILIATIONSNational Institute for Public Health and the Environment
ORCID0000-0002-5793-5443
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS31
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Optimising small island developing states and overseas countries and territories classification for comparative public health research

    Open AccessDorothee Katharina Roβkamp, Anita Huis et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    Aiming to investigate small island resilience in public health emergencies, we found existing classifications of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) failed to provide a homogeneous group suitable for comparative studies. While SIDS classifications highlight small states’ challenges globally, they include countries with vast differences in geography, population, economy and health systems, making them ineffective for studying public health emerg…

  • Perceptions on vaccines, vaccine communication and information needs of healthcare professionals involved in older adult vaccination

    Open AccessManuela Dominique Wennekes, Freek De Haan et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    The global population of older adults is growing. Older adults are more vulnerable to infectious diseases compared to younger adults. Vaccines are available to protect older adults against several infectious diseases, yet their uptake remains sub-optimal. Healthcare professionals (HCP) play an important role in vaccine decisions of older adults and subsequently they could improve the vaccine uptake. This study aims to identify HCPs’ awareness, at…

  • Which sectors should be involved in public health emergency preparedness, response, and recovery decision-making? A Rand-modified consensus procedure among European Union country experts

    Open AccessL S Kengne Kamga, A C G Voordouw et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Not applicable

  • One Health preparedness and response for mosquito-borne viruses

    Open AccessPauline A de Best, Henk Broekhuizen et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    The underrepresentation of the environment domain, regional and local stakeholders in the MBV preparedness and response network underlines the remaining challenge of including all relevant stakeholders. We recommend utilising existing collaborations, identified in this study, and central stakeholders to overcome these bottlenecks

  • Organizational Implications of Long-Term Civil-Military Cooperation During Covid-19

    Open AccessJacobine Janse, Jori Pascal Kalkman et al.ARTICLEArmed Forces & Society2025Cited by: 1References: 37

    During the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries deployed armed forces to national health care facilities to handle an overwhelming patient flow. In contrast to previous domestic military deployments, the support missions lasted for almost two years in many countries. Most research on civil-military collaboration focuses on short-term partnerships and identifies challenges and opportunities of the common effort. However, little is known about the eff…

  • The Dutch Citizen's Understanding and Perception of the Actors Involved in the Netherlands' Covid‐19 Pandemic Response

    Open AccessL S Kengne Kamga, A C G Voordouw et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2024

    INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic was a public health emergency (PHE) of unprecedented magnitude and impact. It provided the possibility to investigate the Dutch citizens' understanding and perception of the actors involved in the Dutch pandemic response as a PHE unfolded. METHODS: Three focus groups (FGs) were held with 16 Dutch citizens in June 2020. Citizens were recruited using the Dutch Health Care Consumer Panel. During the FGs, participa…

  • Exploring Different Sampling Strategies

    Open AccessNora Hamdiui, Maartje Boer et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2024

    INTRODUCTION: In the Netherlands, since 1996, there is a national cervical cancer (CC) screening programme in place for women aged 30-60 years. The participation of Turkish- and Moroccan-Dutch women is very low. To facilitate their informed decision-making, we developed a culturally sensitive educational video, and evaluated it through a questionnaire study. Since we used multiple strategies for the recruitment of respondents, we aimed (1) to exp…

  • Determinants of intended prevention behaviour against mosquitoes and mosquito-borne viruses in the Netherlands and Spain using the MosquitoWise survey

    Open AccessPauline A de Best, Ayat Abourashed et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    This study found differences in knowledge between the Netherlands and Spain but similarities in determinants for intent to use prevention measures, intent to use repellents and intent to remove mosquito breeding sites. Identified determinants can be the focus for future public health interventions to reduce MBV risks

  • Adaptive organizational network response in a crisis

    Open AccessDoret de Rooij, Aura Timen et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review2024References: 18

    The COVID‐19 pandemic posed unprecedented challenges to the joint organizational response of private and public and here especially public health organizations. This is particularly true for airports as central connectors of global travel and trade. For five European airports, we analyzed the interorganizational response based on input from 66 of the 87 different airport partners, using two fictitious scenarios derived from public health practice…

  • Voices of society

    Open AccessSophie Kemper, Renate van den Broek et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    During the COVID-19 pandemic, public groups mobilised themselves in civil-society engagement practices (CSEPs) aiming to improve or suggest alternative epidemic management. This study explores the motivation to establish CSEPs and their perceived contributions to epidemic management, to gain insight whether integrating views of CSEPs could add value. A systematic online search was executed to identify CSEPs focused on COVID-19 management between …

  • Citizen involvement in Covid-19 contact tracing with digital tools

    Open AccessAkke van der Meer, Yannick B Helms et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Most interviewees hold a positive attitude towards self-led CT and using digital tools for this purpose. However, their intention for self-led CT may depend on various factors, such as prior experiences with regular CT, and their perceived self-efficacy to participate. Perspectives and needs of citizens should be considered for the future implementation of self-led CT in practice

  • Evaluating intra-action reviews at points of entry

    Open AccessDoret de Rooij, Miriam van de Watering et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Based on the evaluations, we conclude that the IAR method can be of value during long-term crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic response. Although it is challenging to dedicate time and effort to the organization and attendance of IAR meetings during crisis, the IAR method is feasible in an online setting if appropriate organizing and technical capacity is available. A participatory set-up supports the IAR method as a starting point for continuo…

  • Kaleidoscopic integration

    Open AccessLea Lösch, Wendy Willems et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2023References: 28

    The integration of different types of knowledge in epistemically hierarchical settings remains one of the greatest challenges when developing standards for healthcare practices. In this article, we open up the notion of knowledge integration and empirically examine the various ways in which different types of knowledge interact and can be integrated. To allow us to focus on the diverse forms of knowledge as well as their interaction and integrati…

  • Civil–military cooperation in the management of infectious disease outbreaks

    Open AccessJacobine Janse, Jori Pascal Kalkman et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    INTRODUCTION: Civil-military cooperation (CMC) in infectious disease outbreak responses has become more common, and has its own cooperation dynamics. These collaborations fit WHO's call for multisectoral cooperation in managing health emergencies according to the emergency management cycle (EMC). However, the literature on CMC on this topic is fragmented. The core aim of this review is to understand the breadth and dynamics of this cooperation by…

  • Public engagement in decision‐making regarding the management of the Covid‐19 epidemic

    Open AccessSophie Kemper, Frank Kupper et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2022

    BACKGROUND: In the management of epidemics, like COVID-19, trade-offs have to be made between reducing mortality and morbidity and minimizing socioeconomic and political consequences. Traditionally, epidemic management (EM) has been guided and executed attentively by experts and policymakers. It can, however, still be controversial in the public sphere. In the last decades, public engagement (PE) has been successfully applied in various aspects o…

  • The development of a culturally sensitive educational video

    Open AccessNora Hamdiui, Martine Bouman et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2022

    BACKGROUND: In the Netherlands, all women aged 30-60 years are invited to participate in the national cervical cancer screening programme, which is aimed at early detection and treatment of precancerous lesions. One fourth of the Dutch population has a migration background, with Turkish and Moroccan immigrants being the largest immigrant populations. Turkish- and Moroccan-Dutch women show lower screening participation rates and a higher incidence…

  • Dynamics in public perceptions and media coverage during an ongoing outbreak of meningococcal W disease in the Netherlands

    Open AccessMarion de Vries, Liesbeth Claassen et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    The real-time insights into the interrelated dynamics of public perceptions, responses, and media coverage provide an integrated portrait of the social developments during this outbreak. The focus on IMD severity and the absence of doubt in the public discussion about vaccine safety may have played an important role in the societal response to this outbreak and the recommended vaccine

  • Patient and public engagement in decision-making regarding infectious disease outbreak management

    Open AccessSophie Kemper, MEJ Bongers et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    INTRODUCTION: Worldwide, people experience the effects of infectious disease outbreaks on a regular basis. These effects vary from direct impact of the virus on health, to indirect impact of control measures on day-to-day life. Yet, incorporating the experiences, views and ideas of patients and the public in decision-making in managing outbreaks does not take place on a structural basis. However, this might be beneficial. We examined the current …

  • Assessing training needs in infectious disease management at major ports, airports and ground-crossings in Europe

    Open AccessDoret de Rooij, Evelien Belfroid et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Background The implementation of core capacities as stated in the International Health Regulations (IHR) is far from complete, and, as the COVID-19 pandemic shows, the spreading of infectious diseases through points of entry (POEs) is a serious problem. To guide training and exercises, we performed a training needs assessment on infectious disease management among professionals at European POE. Methods We disseminated a digital questionnaire to r…

  • Information needs during an emerging outbreak of meningococcal W135 disease in the Netherlands

    Open AccessMarion de Vries, Feray R Çoban et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Our results suggest that healthcare professionals might not have been optimally equipped or prepared for questions from teenagers and their parents at the beginning of the vaccination campaign. We recommend public health institutes to timely assess and meet information needs about new vaccines in healthcare professionals to optimally equip them for consultations

  • Decision-making, barriers, and facilitators regarding cervical cancer screening participation among Turkish and Moroccan women in the Netherlands

    Open AccessNora Hamdiui, Eline Marchena et al.ARTICLEEthnicity and Health2021Cited by: 3References: 5

    OBJECTIVES: Whether the lower Dutch cervical cancer (CC) screening participation of Turkish- and Moroccan-Dutch women is based on informed decision-making is unknown. Our aim was to explore how and why Turkish- and Moroccan-Dutch women decide to participate or not in the current Dutch CC screening programme as well as to learn their perceptions on self-sampling. DESIGN: Six focus group discussions were conducted between March and April 2019 with …

  • Educating, training, and exercising for infectious disease control with emphasis on cross-border settings

    Open AccessDoret de Rooij, Evelien Belfroid et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2020

  • Clustering of chronic hepatitis B screening intentions in social networks of Moroccan immigrants in the Netherlands

    Open AccessNora Hamdiui, Vincent Busken et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    The findings of our pilot study show clustering of screening intention among individuals in the same network. This provides opportunities for social network interventions to encourage participation in hepatitis B screening initiatives

  • Preferential differences in vaccination decision-making for oneself or one’s child in The Netherlands

    Open AccessJoram Hoogink, Frederik Verelst et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Vaccine effectiveness and disease severity are key attributes in vaccination decision-making for adults making a decision for themselves and for parents who decide for their children. Hence, public information campaigns for both adult and child vaccination should primarily focus on these two attributes. In addition, reinforcing social norms may be considered

  • Towards defining core principles of public health emergency preparedness

    Open AccessEvelien Belfroid, Dorothee Katharina Roβkamp et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    This prioritised set of consensus principles can provide a foundation for countries aiming to evaluate and improve their preparedness for public health emergencies. The recommendations are practical, support generic preparedness planning, and can be used by all countries irrespective of their current level of preparedness