News and stories about Smarter Choices for Better Health

In this blog post, PhD candidate Marlies Bär explains why trends in inequality differ between age groups.

In this blogpost dr. Judith Bom will inform you regarding the development of a measure to assess individual well-being.

In neighbourhoods that make social progress, underweight babies are less likely to be born than in neighbourhoods that don’t.

Preferences play a central role in measuring the benefit of different health interventions. In this blog Måns Abrahamson explains ‘laundering’ of preferences.

In this blogpost dr. Frank Eijkenaar talks about alternative payment systems in healthcare. Current methods often focus on 'volume' instead of 'value'.

Francisca Vargas Lopes researches natural experiments to study the effects of reforms and programmes in mental and long-term care.

In this blog post, Professor Hans van Kippersluis outlines some ideas on how the ambitions of the Dutch Prevention Agreement could be realised.

Samare Huls studies how well methods that elicit self-reported health preferences measure what they intend to measure.

The Standardized Mortality Ratios (SMRs) calculated on a regional level instead of hospital level might provide a more valid quality indicator.

New health measures were recently proposed by the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and Environment (RIVM).