Biography
Tim van Meurs is a PhD candidate at the Department of Public Administration and Sociology of Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Tim van Meurs’s research is primarily focused on the role of socioeconomic status in the uptake of health information and health campaigns. His PhD project “How to provide health information to those who need it most” is funded by the Erasmus Initiative Smarter Choices for Better Health. In this mixed-methods project, Tim studies why lower socioeconomic strata disregard health information more than higher strata and subsequently aims to diminish the socioeconomic inequality in health. Combining a background in cultural sociology with insights from public health research, he focuses on the role of institutional distrust in this health gap.
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- vanmeurs@essb.eur.nl
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- Tim van Meurs, Willem de Koster, Jeroen van der Waal & Joost Oude Groeniger (2024) - Sugar tax and product reformulation proposals reduce the perceived legitimacy of health-promotion institutions: a randomized population-based survey experiment - European Journal of Public Health - doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckae013 - [link]
- Tim van Meurs (2023) - No appetite for meddling: The role of anti-institutionalismin educational differences in the receptivity to nutrition interventions
- Tim van Meurs & Joost Oude Groeniger (2022) - Van frikandel tot quinoasalade - Sociologie magazine, 30 (4)
- Tim van Meurs, Joost Oude Groeniger, Willem de Koster & Jeroen van der Waal (2022) - Receptive to an authoritative voice? Experimental evidence on how patronizing language and stressing institutional sources affect public receptivity to nutrition information - SSM - Population Health, 20 - doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101295 - [link]
- Tim van Meurs, Feray R. Çoban, Willem de Koster, Jeroen van der Waal & Joost Oude Groeniger (2022) - Why are anti-smoking health-information interventions less effective among low-socioeconomic status groups?: A systematic scoping review - Drug and Alcohol Review, 41 (5), 1195-1205 - doi: 10.1111/dar.13466 - [link]
- Tim Van Meurs, Joost Oude Groeniger, Willem De Koster & Jeroen Van Der Waal (2022) - Suggested explanations for the (in)effectiveness of nutrition information interventions among adults with a low socioeconomic status: A scoping review - Journal of Nutritional Science, 11 - doi: 10.1017/jns.2022.42 - [link]
- Tim van Meurs, Joost Oude Groeniger, Willem de Koster & Jeroen van der Waal (2022) - An incongruous intervention: Exploring the role of anti-institutionalism in less-educated individual’s limited uptake of nutrition information - Sociology of Health and Illness, 44 (2), 432-450 - doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13430 - [link]
- Tim van Meurs (2018) - Book Review: Break Beats in the Bronx: Rediscovering Hip-Hop’s Early Years - Cultural Sociology (online), 12, 566-567 - doi: 10.1177/1749975518786841
- Tim van Meurs (2018) - Book review: Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism - Cultural Sociology (print), 12, 426-427 - doi: 10.1177/1749975518786827 - [link]
