Mortality, health and health seeking behaviour

This research theme has a focus on community health-seeking behaviour, health service provision and their demographic and health outcomes at population level. 

Ongoing research projects

• Patterns of care; a study of family demography
• Early feeding behaviour in relation to inequities in health outcomes 
• Health workers in interaction with clients: The role of personal and professional identities and culture in behaviour of health workers
• Older adults in the Northern Netherlands: well-being and ageing in place 
• Subjective well-being of the elderly in Pakistan 
• The effect of home-making on the well-being of elderly Antillean immigrants 
• Provision and utilisation of maternal health services in Dharwad, India
• Decomposition of life expectancy changes by cause of death 
• Regional mortality and the influence of internal migration