Hilde Bastiaens
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 2315344 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Hilde Bastiaens |
| PRENOMES | Hilde |
| SOBRENOME | Bastiaens |
| ASSINATURA | BASTIAENS H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Antwerp |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5509-3406 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Household food insecurity among refugees
Background Over a quarter of Uganda’s population is food-insecure. Agrarian refugee populations are disproportionately affected; however, evidence on how food insecurity varies across refugee settlements by climatic region remains limited.Objective We assessed refugee household food insecurity across three settlements located in different climatic regions of Uganda.Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted among 600 refugees from Kiryandongo,…
Effects of climate change-related hazards on food security and health within refugee settlements in Uganda
BACKGROUND: Climate change presents more dire impacts on food security and health in Africa than any other region worldwide. These impacts are expectedly more pronounced in predominantly agrarian refugee settings like Uganda, which is also the largest refugee host in Africa. However, there is limited contextual evidence regarding the effects of climate change-related hazards in Uganda to guide context-relevant interventions amidst the ongoing aid…
Can a code of professional ethics influence the supply of substandard and falsified medicines? Insights from Ethiopia
Substandard and falsified (SF) medicines are serious global health problems. Their high prevalence is a threat to public health in resource-limited settings. It is assumed that professionals will uphold specific standards of behaviour to protect the public interest and maintain trust. This study assesses whether a professional ethical code can serve as an effective way to prevent and respond to SF medicines by enhancing ethical behaviours in prac…
Understanding Health Perspectives and Values Among People Living in Socio-Economic Vulnerable Circumstances in Flanders
Background: Socio-economic status (SES) is a key health determinant affecting life expectancy, healthcare access, and chronic disease prevalence, yet the health values and needs of people living in socio-economic vulnerable circumstances are often overlooked in traditional health assessments—enforcing health inequities. Approach: This study aims to identify and understand the health perspectives, values, priorities and needs of people living in s…
Shaping Group Antenatal Care in Brussels Metropolitan Region
Group Antenatal Care (GANC) provides a person-centred approach to prenatal care, integrating health care delivery with health promotion, while empowering participants and building a sense of community. GANC has proven to be effective and positively experienced by both participants and care providers and is also feasible to implement. However, introducing such innovative care models in a metropolitan city like Brussels involves navigating both cha…
Understanding challenges in healthcare access
The study reveals the complex and cumulative barriers to healthcare access for socio-economically vulnerable individuals, including competing priorities, system fragmentation, and cultural and language challenges. While informal social networks provide some support, they are insufficient to address systemic issues. Integrating these networks with formal community outreach initiatives could improve coordination and access to healthcare
Additive interaction of conjoint tobacco smoking and heavy drinking on hypertension prevalence in rural Uganda
Tobacco smoke interacts with heavy alcohol consumption to increase the risk of increased blood pressure (BP) when it cooccurs. Integrated intervention strategies targeting both smoking and heavy drinking are essential for reducing the incidence of hypertension in rural Uganda
Adolescent girls and physical activity in public spaces
Physical activity in adolescence is a key determinant of long-term health, yet teenage girls remain consistently less active than boys. Urban public spaces play a central role in facilitating everyday opportunities for physical activity, from informal play to organised sport. However, these spaces are not equally accessible or welcoming to all. They are sites where gendered hierarchies and norms surface, but also where other intersecting structur…
Can Systemic Corruption be Prevented by Legal Means? The Market for Pharmaceuticals in Southern Ethiopia
Some international and national regulatory and policy actors assume thatstrengthening domestic laws and tightening enforcement measures will besufficient to reduce the extra-legal supply of medicines, whether legal, sub-standard, or falsified, to patients in low- and middle-income countries. Thispaper uses a qualitative study of the pharmaceutical market in SouthernEthiopia to argue that this assumption is unjustified, given the commonlack of ins…
Experiences and observations from a care point for displaced Ukrainians
Background: A total of 7,307 Ukrainian refugees moved to Antwerp, Belgium, during the study period (01 April 2022 to 31 December 2022). The city's administration set up three care centers where these people were introduced to the Belgian primary care system, a medical file was created, and acute/preventive/chronic care was delivered. This community case study analyzes the organization and contents of care and reflects upon its meaning for the mai…
Substandard and falsified medicines in African pharmaceutical markets
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…
How Do Physiotherapists Explain Influencing Factors to Chronic Low Back Pain? A Qualitative Study Using a Fictive Case of Chronic Non-Specific Low Back Pain
The lack of a multifactorial approach and the persistent biomedical beliefs suggest that it remains a challenge for physiotherapists to fully integrate the biopsychosocial framework into their management of chronic LBP
Management of Low Back Pain
The high proportion of physiotherapists unfamiliar with guidelines and demonstrating attitudes and beliefs not in line with evidence-based management of LBP is concerning. It is crucial to develop efficient strategies to enhance knowledge of guidelines among physiotherapists and increase their implementation in clinical practice
Dietary outcomes of community-based CVD preventive interventions
Objective: We aimed to synthesise available evidence on the effects of community-based interventions in improving various dietary outcome measures. Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Setting: We searched databases including Medline, EMBASE, PSYCINFO, CINAHL and the Cochrane registry for studies reported between January 2000 and June 2022. The methodological quality of the included studies was evaluated using the Cochrane risk of bias to…
Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases in Community Settings and Primary Health Care
Cardiovascular diseases are the world's leading cause of mortality, with a high burden especially among vulnerable populations. Interventions for primary prevention need to be further implemented in community and primary health care settings. Context is critically important to understand potential implementation determinants. Therefore, we explored stakeholders' views on the evidence-based SPICES program (EBSP); a multicomponent intervention for …
Implementation of a malaria prevention education intervention in Southern Ethiopia
Low attendance of parents in the training was the major challenge for the success of MPE. National malaria program should ensure the access to malaria prevention measures; and future studies using increased frequency of the intervention embedded with monitoring adherence to the intervention protocol shall be conducted to improve the gains from existing malaria interventions
Level of cardiovascular disease knowledge, risk perception and intention towards healthy lifestyle and socioeconomic disparities among adults in vulnerable communities of Belgium and England
Knowledge towards CVD risks and prevention is low in vulnerable communities. Males have a higher intention towards PA while females towards a healthy diet and it also greatly varies across level of education. Moreover, those born outside Europe and with low household income have lower healthy diet intention than their respective counterparts. Hence, CVD preventive interventions should be participatory and based on a better understanding of the in…
Vitamin Nature
Visiting nature is positively associated with physical and mental well-being. The role of nature became more pronounced during the coronavirus outbreak in the spring of 2020. Countries all over the world implemented confinement measures to reduce the transmission of the virus. These included but were not limited to the cancelation of public events, schools, and non-essential businesses and the prohibition of non-essential travels. However, going …
Nature's Contributions to Human Health
Nature's contributions to human health (NCH) have gained increased attention internationally in scientific and policy arenas. However, little attention is given to the role of the health care sector in this discussion. Primary health care (PHC) is a vital backbone for linking knowledge and practice within the organization of health care. The objective of this scoping review is to evaluate how international overview reports and scientific literatu…
What Is the Impact of a Context-Specific Training Program for Home-Based Carers? An Evaluation Study
Introduction: In South Africa (SA), home-based carers (HBCs) play a crucial role at the community level for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) including diabetes mellitus (DM) public health care. The work of HBCs requires them to be knowledgeable about diabetes, and lack of knowledge has implications on their roles for the provision of health information and dietary advice. HBCs need to be provided with specific training to develop their knowledge …
Acceptability of a community cardiovascular disease prevention programme in Mukono and Buikwe districts in Uganda
The community CVD prevention programme was highly acceptable among CHWs and community members in Mukono and Buikwe districts of Uganda amidst a few burdens and opportunity costs. Suggestions made by study participants to improve programme effectiveness informed programme design and implementation for impact
Cardiovascular disease prevention knowledge and associated factors among adults in Mukono and Buikwe districts in Uganda
ISRCTN Registry ISRCTN15848572 , January 2019, retrospectively registered
Exploring how the urban neighborhood environment influences mental well-being using walking interviews
Mental well-being in cities is being challenged worldwide and a more detailed understanding of how urban environments influence mental well-being is needed. This qualitative study explores neighborhood factors and their interactions in relation to mental well-being. Individual semi-structured walking interviews were conducted with 28 adults living in the Brussels-Capital Region. This paper provides a detailed description of physical neighborhood …
Talking to the people that really matter about their participation in pandemic clinical research
BACKGROUND: Pandemics of new and emerging infectious diseases are unpredictable, recurrent events that rapidly threaten global health and security. We aimed to identify public views regarding provision of information and consent to participate in primary and critical care clinical research during a future influenza-like illness pandemic. METHODS: Descriptive-interpretive qualitative study, using focus groups (n = 10) and semi-structured interview…
Exploring how the urban neighborhood environment influences mental well-being using walking interviews
Mental well-being in cities is being challenged worldwide and a more detailed understanding of how urban environments influence mental well-being is needed. This qualitative study explores neighborhood factors and their interactions in relation to mental well-being. Individual semi-structured walking interviews were conducted with 28 adults living in the Brussels-Capital Region. This paper provides a detailed description of physical neighborhood …
Substandard and falsified medicines in African pharmaceutical markets
Talking to the people that really matter about their participation in pandemic clinical research
BACKGROUND: Pandemics of new and emerging infectious diseases are unpredictable, recurrent events that rapidly threaten global health and security. We aimed to identify public views regarding provision of information and consent to participate in primary and critical care clinical research during a future influenza-like illness pandemic. METHODS: Descriptive-interpretive qualitative study, using focus groups (n = 10) and semi-structured interview…
Nature's Contributions to Human Health
Nature's contributions to human health (NCH) have gained increased attention internationally in scientific and policy arenas. However, little attention is given to the role of the health care sector in this discussion. Primary health care (PHC) is a vital backbone for linking knowledge and practice within the organization of health care. The objective of this scoping review is to evaluate how international overview reports and scientific literatu…
What Is the Impact of a Context-Specific Training Program for Home-Based Carers? An Evaluation Study
Introduction: In South Africa (SA), home-based carers (HBCs) play a crucial role at the community level for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) including diabetes mellitus (DM) public health care. The work of HBCs requires them to be knowledgeable about diabetes, and lack of knowledge has implications on their roles for the provision of health information and dietary advice. HBCs need to be provided with specific training to develop their knowledge …
Acceptability of a community cardiovascular disease prevention programme in Mukono and Buikwe districts in Uganda
The community CVD prevention programme was highly acceptable among CHWs and community members in Mukono and Buikwe districts of Uganda amidst a few burdens and opportunity costs. Suggestions made by study participants to improve programme effectiveness informed programme design and implementation for impact
Cardiovascular disease prevention knowledge and associated factors among adults in Mukono and Buikwe districts in Uganda
ISRCTN Registry ISRCTN15848572 , January 2019, retrospectively registered
Exploring how the urban neighborhood environment influences mental well-being using walking interviews
Mental well-being in cities is being challenged worldwide and a more detailed understanding of how urban environments influence mental well-being is needed. This qualitative study explores neighborhood factors and their interactions in relation to mental well-being. Individual semi-structured walking interviews were conducted with 28 adults living in the Brussels-Capital Region. This paper provides a detailed description of physical neighborhood …
Vitamin Nature
Visiting nature is positively associated with physical and mental well-being. The role of nature became more pronounced during the coronavirus outbreak in the spring of 2020. Countries all over the world implemented confinement measures to reduce the transmission of the virus. These included but were not limited to the cancelation of public events, schools, and non-essential businesses and the prohibition of non-essential travels. However, going …
Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases in Community Settings and Primary Health Care
Cardiovascular diseases are the world's leading cause of mortality, with a high burden especially among vulnerable populations. Interventions for primary prevention need to be further implemented in community and primary health care settings. Context is critically important to understand potential implementation determinants. Therefore, we explored stakeholders' views on the evidence-based SPICES program (EBSP); a multicomponent intervention for …
Implementation of a malaria prevention education intervention in Southern Ethiopia
Low attendance of parents in the training was the major challenge for the success of MPE. National malaria program should ensure the access to malaria prevention measures; and future studies using increased frequency of the intervention embedded with monitoring adherence to the intervention protocol shall be conducted to improve the gains from existing malaria interventions
Level of cardiovascular disease knowledge, risk perception and intention towards healthy lifestyle and socioeconomic disparities among adults in vulnerable communities of Belgium and England
Knowledge towards CVD risks and prevention is low in vulnerable communities. Males have a higher intention towards PA while females towards a healthy diet and it also greatly varies across level of education. Moreover, those born outside Europe and with low household income have lower healthy diet intention than their respective counterparts. Hence, CVD preventive interventions should be participatory and based on a better understanding of the in…
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…
How Do Physiotherapists Explain Influencing Factors to Chronic Low Back Pain? A Qualitative Study Using a Fictive Case of Chronic Non-Specific Low Back Pain
The lack of a multifactorial approach and the persistent biomedical beliefs suggest that it remains a challenge for physiotherapists to fully integrate the biopsychosocial framework into their management of chronic LBP
Management of Low Back Pain
The high proportion of physiotherapists unfamiliar with guidelines and demonstrating attitudes and beliefs not in line with evidence-based management of LBP is concerning. It is crucial to develop efficient strategies to enhance knowledge of guidelines among physiotherapists and increase their implementation in clinical practice
Dietary outcomes of community-based CVD preventive interventions
Objective: We aimed to synthesise available evidence on the effects of community-based interventions in improving various dietary outcome measures. Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Setting: We searched databases including Medline, EMBASE, PSYCINFO, CINAHL and the Cochrane registry for studies reported between January 2000 and June 2022. The methodological quality of the included studies was evaluated using the Cochrane risk of bias to…
Experiences and observations from a care point for displaced Ukrainians
Background: A total of 7,307 Ukrainian refugees moved to Antwerp, Belgium, during the study period (01 April 2022 to 31 December 2022). The city's administration set up three care centers where these people were introduced to the Belgian primary care system, a medical file was created, and acute/preventive/chronic care was delivered. This community case study analyzes the organization and contents of care and reflects upon its meaning for the mai…
Substandard and falsified medicines in African pharmaceutical markets
Shaping Group Antenatal Care in Brussels Metropolitan Region
Group Antenatal Care (GANC) provides a person-centred approach to prenatal care, integrating health care delivery with health promotion, while empowering participants and building a sense of community. GANC has proven to be effective and positively experienced by both participants and care providers and is also feasible to implement. However, introducing such innovative care models in a metropolitan city like Brussels involves navigating both cha…
Understanding challenges in healthcare access
The study reveals the complex and cumulative barriers to healthcare access for socio-economically vulnerable individuals, including competing priorities, system fragmentation, and cultural and language challenges. While informal social networks provide some support, they are insufficient to address systemic issues. Integrating these networks with formal community outreach initiatives could improve coordination and access to healthcare
Additive interaction of conjoint tobacco smoking and heavy drinking on hypertension prevalence in rural Uganda
Tobacco smoke interacts with heavy alcohol consumption to increase the risk of increased blood pressure (BP) when it cooccurs. Integrated intervention strategies targeting both smoking and heavy drinking are essential for reducing the incidence of hypertension in rural Uganda
Adolescent girls and physical activity in public spaces
Physical activity in adolescence is a key determinant of long-term health, yet teenage girls remain consistently less active than boys. Urban public spaces play a central role in facilitating everyday opportunities for physical activity, from informal play to organised sport. However, these spaces are not equally accessible or welcoming to all. They are sites where gendered hierarchies and norms surface, but also where other intersecting structur…
Can Systemic Corruption be Prevented by Legal Means? The Market for Pharmaceuticals in Southern Ethiopia
Some international and national regulatory and policy actors assume thatstrengthening domestic laws and tightening enforcement measures will besufficient to reduce the extra-legal supply of medicines, whether legal, sub-standard, or falsified, to patients in low- and middle-income countries. Thispaper uses a qualitative study of the pharmaceutical market in SouthernEthiopia to argue that this assumption is unjustified, given the commonlack of ins…
Household food insecurity among refugees
Background Over a quarter of Uganda’s population is food-insecure. Agrarian refugee populations are disproportionately affected; however, evidence on how food insecurity varies across refugee settlements by climatic region remains limited.Objective We assessed refugee household food insecurity across three settlements located in different climatic regions of Uganda.Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted among 600 refugees from Kiryandongo,…
Effects of climate change-related hazards on food security and health within refugee settlements in Uganda
BACKGROUND: Climate change presents more dire impacts on food security and health in Africa than any other region worldwide. These impacts are expectedly more pronounced in predominantly agrarian refugee settings like Uganda, which is also the largest refugee host in Africa. However, there is limited contextual evidence regarding the effects of climate change-related hazards in Uganda to guide context-relevant interventions amidst the ongoing aid…
Can a code of professional ethics influence the supply of substandard and falsified medicines? Insights from Ethiopia
Substandard and falsified (SF) medicines are serious global health problems. Their high prevalence is a threat to public health in resource-limited settings. It is assumed that professionals will uphold specific standards of behaviour to protect the public interest and maintain trust. This study assesses whether a professional ethical code can serve as an effective way to prevent and respond to SF medicines by enhancing ethical behaviours in prac…
Understanding Health Perspectives and Values Among People Living in Socio-Economic Vulnerable Circumstances in Flanders
Background: Socio-economic status (SES) is a key health determinant affecting life expectancy, healthcare access, and chronic disease prevalence, yet the health values and needs of people living in socio-economic vulnerable circumstances are often overlooked in traditional health assessments—enforcing health inequities. Approach: This study aims to identify and understand the health perspectives, values, priorities and needs of people living in s…
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