Biography
Hester van de Bovenkamp is professor of Patient Sciences at ESHPM. The role of patients in healthcare isf her key research interest. She is involved in the development of Patient Sciences as a field of expertise, which focuses on patient experiences, participation, and representation. The unique collection of patient stories that Hester coordinates is an important basis for this research. Analyzing these stories through a combination of qualitative research and text mining enables in-depth understanding of patient experiences which can be translated to lessons for healthcare improvement. She combines these insights with research focusing on related issues of health care governance, such as institutional layering, regulatory pressure, and reflexive governance. She studies for example how different levels of patient participation and representation interact, how rules can be established that enable person-centred care or how the input of citizens can be used in the shift towards more reflexive governance arrangements. Hester is member of many research collaboratives, in which research and practice are brought together by academics from different disciplines, patients, healthcare organizations and policy makers.
***Teaching** Within the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management I coordinate the HEPL course Comparative Health Policy, supervise Master theses and am involved as a lecturer in different courses in the Bachelor and Master programs.
Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management
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Work
- Nada Akrouh, Rik Wehrens, Erna Scholtes & Hester van de Bovenkamp (2024) - Beyond the Queue: Exploring Waiting Practices in the Stories of Patients with Breast Cancer - Health Expectations, 27 (6) - doi: 10.1111/hex.70086 - [link]
- Ploon Defourny, Nienke van Sambeek, Hester van de Bovenkamp, Floortje Scheepers & Marjolijn Heerings (2024) - Dynamics of recovery in psychosis, stigmatization, and microaggressions in mental healthcare: A qualitative study of service users’ narratives - BMC Psychiatry, 24 - doi: 10.1186/s12888-024-06262-5
- Hester van de Bovenkamp (2024) - Patientenwetenschappen: verhalen ophalen, vertalen en laten meebepalen
- Teyler van Muijden, Leonoor Gräler, Job van Exel, Hester van de Bovenkamp & Violet Petit-Steeghs (2024) - Different views on collaboration between older persons, informal caregivers and care professionals - Health Expectations, 27 (3) - doi: 10.1111/hex.14091 - [link]
- Gijs Steinmann, Hester van de Bovenkamp, Antoinette de Bont & Diana Delnoij (2024) - Value-based health care in translation: from global popularity to primary care for Dutch elderly patients - Sociology of Health and Illness, 46 (4), 683-701 - doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13728 - [link]
- Bert de Graaff, Hester van de Bovenkamp, Karin Kalthoff & Roland Bal (2024) - Het belang van inspraak en tegenspraak tijdens crisis: het potentieel van cliënten- en patiëntenvertegenwoordiging - [link]
- Bert de Graaff, Suzanne Rutz, Annemiek Stoopendaal & Hester van de Bovenkamp (2024) - Involving citizens in regulation: A comparative qualitative study of four experimentalist cases of participatory regulation in Dutch health care - Regulation & Governance, 18 (4), 1411-1425 - doi: 10.1111/rego.12589 - [link]
- Hester van de Bovenkamp, Josje Kok, Annemiek Stoopendaal & Anne Margriet Pot (2024) - Vertellen en daarbij mag je best tellen: over het potentieel van narratieve verantwoording - [link]
- Hester van de Bovenkamp, Bert de Graaff, Karin Kalthoff & Roland Bal (2024) - The Patient Representation Struggle during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Missed Opportunities for Resilient Healthcare Systems - Health Expectations, 27 (1) - doi: 10.1111/hex.13877 - [link]
- Nienke van Pijkeren, Iris Wallenburg, Hester van de Bovenkamp, S (Siri) Wiig & Roland Bal (2024) - Caring Peripheries: How care practitioners respond to processes of peripheralisation - Sociologia Ruralis, 64 (1), 64-81 - doi: 10.1111/soru.12459 - [link]
- Marjolijn Heerings, Hester van de Bovenkamp, Mieke Cardol & Roland Bal (2024) - Burden of support: a counter narrative of service users’ experiences with community housing services - Disability and Society, 39 (3), 743-766 - doi: 10.1080/09687599.2022.2087490 - [link]
- Hester van de Bovenkamp, Josje Kok, Annemiek Stoopendaal & Anne Margriet Pot (2023) - Het potentieel van narratieve verantwoording - Tijdschrift voor Toezicht, 2023 (3-4), 129-134 - [link]
- Koray Parmaksiz, Hester van de Bovenkamp & Roland Bal (2023) - Does structural form matter?: A comparative analysis of pooled procurement mechanisms for health commodities - Globalization and Health, 19 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s12992-023-00974-1 - [link]
- Nada Akrouh, Rik Wehrens & Hester van de Bovenkamp (2023) - Samen verkennen, dieper begrijpen: Het belang van citizen science in exploratieve analyse van patiëntervaringsverhalen - KWALON. Tijdschrift voor Kwalitatief Onderzoek in Nederland, 28 (3), 187-197 - [link]
- Sabrina Huizenga, Hester van de Bovenkamp, Lieke Oldenhof & Roland Bal (2023) - The clocks run at slightly different speeds. Clashing timeframes in COVID-19 health risk governance - Health, Risk and Society, 25 (7-8), 366-386 - doi: 10.1080/13698575.2023.2255619 - [link]
- Bert de Graaff, Sabrina Huizenga, Hester van de Bovenkamp & Roland Bal (2023) - Framing the pandemic: Multiplying “crises” in Dutch healthcare governance during the emerging COVID-19 pandemic - Social Science & Medicine, 328 - doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115998 - [link]
- Hester van de Bovenkamp (2022) - Best Supervisor 2021
- Hester van de Bovenkamp (2016) - Frans Rutten Research Award
Thesis HCM
- Level
- master - jaar 2
- Year Level
- master - jaar 2
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GW4030MD
Quality and Safety
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GW4007MV
Quality and Safety
- Level
- master - jaar 1
- Year Level
- master - jaar 1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GW4007MD
Module Knowledge
- Level
- bachelor 1
- Year Level
- bachelor 1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GW114K
Integration project
- Level
- Bachelor 3
- Year Level
- Bachelor 3
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GW309I
Politics, Policy & Law
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GW4594M