prof.dr. (Semiha) S Denktas

Full Professor Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences Department of Psychology, Education & Child Studies/ Clinical Psychology

Location: Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
Room: W T13-58
Telephone: +31104081712
Email: denktas@essb.eur.nl

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Prof. Semiha Denktaş (Istanbul, 1973) studied Clinical & Health Psychology at Utrecht University and Integration & Migration Studies at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. She obtained her PhD on the subject of The Health and Healthcare use of Elderly First Generation Migrants in the Netherlands.

Denktaş played a seminal role in the establishment of the Erasmus University College, serving as Head of the Social & Behavioural Science department from 2013 to 1 September 2018. As of 1 September 2018, she leads the Behavioural Change pillar at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences Rotterdam (ESSB). As of 1 October 2018, Prof. Semiha Denktaş helds the position of Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) at Erasmus…

She has a vast amount of experience in large-scale, multi-disciplinary research programmes. In 2017, she started the Behavioural Insights Group Rotterdam (BIG’R) and HEALTHY’R together with the Municipality of Rotterdam. She continues to serve as Academic Director of these collaborations. Through these vessels and under her leadership, various research projects are being conducted in Rotterdam to examine and achieve behaviour change. These include behavioural studies aimed at promoting improved mental and physical health, with a special focus on marginalised and vulnerable groups.

Denktaş is a board member of Female Academics Moving toward Equity (FAME) of the Erasmus University Rotterdam; a group focused on the participation and empowerment of women in all academic ranks. She is also a board member of the “Coalitie Rotterdammers voor Mekaar” (Coalition of Rotterdammers for Each Other); a Rotterdam-focused coalition that engages its network to detect threats to social cohesion and strengthens and combines existing forces and initiatives to increase social cohesion.

- - - M.K. Sijpkens, S.F. van Voorst, L.C. Potjer, S. Denktas, A.P. Verhoeff, L.C.M. Bertens, A.N. Rosman & E.A.P. Steegers (2019). The effect of a preconception care outreach strategy: the Healthy Pregnancy 4 All study. Bmc Health Services Research, 19:60. doi: 10.1186/s12913-019-3882-y
    - I.A. Peters, A.G. Posthumus, E.A.P. Steegers & S. Denktas (2019). Satisfaction with obstetric care in a population of low-educated native Dutch and non-western minority women. Focus group research. PLoS One (online), 14 (1):e0210506. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0210506
    - I.A. Peters, K.M. Heetkamp, N.T.C. Ursem, E.A.P. Steegers, S. Denktas & M. Knapen (2018). Ethnicity and Language Proficiency Differences in the Provision of and Intention to Use Prenatal Screening for Down's Syndrome and Congenital Anomalies. A Prospective, Non-selected, Register-Based Study in the Netherlands. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 22 (3), 343-354. doi: 10.1007/s10995-017-2364-2
    - A.A. de Vos, S.F. van Voorst, A.G. Posthumus, A.J.M. Waelput, S. Denktas & E.A.P. Steegers (2017). Process evaluation of the implementation of scorecard-based antenatal risk assessment, care pathways and interdisciplinary consultation: the Healthy Pregnancy 4 All study. Public Health, 150, 112-120. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2017.05.010
    - I.A. Peters, K.M. Heetkamp, N. Ursem, E.A.P. Steegers, S. Denktas & M.F.C.M. Knapen (2017). Ethnicity and Language Proficiency Differences in the Provision of and Intention to Use Prenatal Screening for Down’s Syndrome and Congenital Anomalies. A Prospective, Non-selected, Register-Based Study in the Netherlands. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 22 (3), 343-354. doi: 10.1007/s10995-017-2364-2
    - S. Van Voorst, C.A. ten Kate, L. De Jong-Potjer, E.A.P. Steegers & S. Denktas (2017). Developing social marketed individual preconception care consultations: which consumer preferences should it meet? Health Expectations, 20 (5), 1106-1113. doi: 10.1111/hex.12555
    - I.A. Peters, A.G. Posthumus, J. Reijerink-Verheij, H.M.E. van Agt, M.F.C.M. Knapen & S. Denktas (2017). Effect of culturally competent educational films about prenatal screening on informed decision making of pregnant women in the Netherlands. Patient Education and Counseling, 100 (4), 776-782. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2016.11.007
    - A.A. Vos, S.F. van Voorst, E.A.P. Steegers & S. Denktas (2016). Analysis of policy towards improvement of perinatal mortality in the Netherlands (2004-2011). Social Science & Medicine, 157, 156-164. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.01.032
    - S.F. van Voorst, S.L.A. Plasschaert, L.C. Potjer, E.A.P. Steegers & S. Denktas (2016). Current practice of preconception care by primary caregivers in the Netherlands. European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care, 21 (3), 251-258. doi: 10.3109/13625187.2016.1154524
    - V.L.N. Schölmerich, H. Ghorashi, S. Denktas & P. Groenewegen (2016). Caught in the middle? How women deal with conflicting pregnancy-advice from health professionals and their social networks. Midwifery, 35, 62-69. doi: 10.1016/j.midw.2016.02.012
    - J. van der Kooy, J.P. de Graaf, E. Birnie, S. Denktas, E.A.P. Steegers & G.J. Bonsel (2016). Different settings of place of midwife-led birth: evaluation of a midwife-led birth centre. SpringerPlus, 5 (1):786. doi: 10.1186/s40064-016-2306-2
    - S. Temel, Ö Erdem, A.J.J. Voorham, G.J. Bonsel, E.A.P. Steegers & S. Denktas (2015). Knowledge on preconception folic acid supplementation and intention to seek for preconception care among men and women in an urban city: a population based cross-sectional study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 15 (1):340. doi: 10.1186/s12884-015-0774-y
    - A. Woodend, V.L.N. Schölmerich & S. Denktas (2015). Preventing major depressive disorder: how behavioural economics can help. American Journal of Public Health, 25 (3). doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckv170.078
    - J. Poeran, S. Denktas, E. van der Weg, J. de Graaf, H.W. Torij, G. Bonsel & E.A.P. Steegers (2015). De opbrengsten van vier jaar ‘Klaar voor een Kind’:een grootstedelijk multidisciplinair gezondheidsprogramma voor verloskundige zorg in Rotterdam. Tijdschrift voor Gezondheidswetenschappen, 93 (7), 250-253. doi: 10.1007/s12508-015-0101-z
    - A.A. Vos, M.J. van Veen, E. Birnie, S. Denktas, E.A.P. Steegers & G.J. Bonsel (2015). An instrument for broadened risk assessment in antenatal health care including non-medical issues. International Journal of Integrated Care, 15 (1). doi: 10.5334/ijic.1512
    - A.A. Vos, A. Leeman, A.J.M. Waelput, G. Bonsel, E.A.P. Steegers & S. Denktas (2015). Assessment and care for non-medical risk factors in current antenatal healthcare. Midwifery, 31 (10), 979-985. doi: 10.1016/j.midw.2015.06.008
    - A.A. de Vos, S. Denktas, G.J.J.M. Borsboom, G. Bonsel & E.A.P. Steegers (2015). Differences in perinatal morbidity and mortality on the neighbourhood level in Dutch municipalities: a population based cohort study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 15 (1):201. doi: 10.1186/s12884-015-0628-7
    - S.F. van Voorst, A.A. Vos, L. Potjer, E.A.P. Steegers & S. Denktas (2015). Effectiveness of general preconception care accompanied by a recruitment approach: a community based cohort study (the Healthy Pregnancy 4 All study). BMJ Open, 5 (3):e006. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006284
    - A.A. Vos, S.F. van Voorst, A. Waelput, E.A.P. Steegers & S. Denktas (2015). Score card-based antenatal risk selection, care pathways, and interdisciplinary consultation: cluster randomized controlled trial (the Healthy Pregnancy 4 All study). Trials, 16 (1):8. doi: 1186/1745-6215-16-8
    - V.L.N. Schölmerich, A.G. Posthumus, H. Ghorashi, E.A.P. Steegers, A.J.M. Waelput, P. Groenewegen & S. Denktas (2014). Improving interprofessional coordination in Dutch midwifery and obstetrics: a qualitative study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 14 (1):145. doi: 10.1186/1471-2393-14-145
    - V.L.N. Schölmerich, Ö Erdem, G.J.J.M. Borsboom, H. Ghorashi, P. Groenewegen, E.A.P. Steegers, I. Kawachi & S. Denktas (2014). The association of neighborhood social capital and ethnic minority density with pregnancy outcomes in the Netherlands. PLoS One (online), 9 (5):e95873. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095873
    - A.A. Vos, A.G. Posthumus, G. Bonsel, E.A.P. Steegers & S. Denktas (2014). Deprived neighborhoods and adverse perinatal outcome: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, 9 (8), 727-740. doi: 10.1080/13876988.2015.1015360
    - I.A. Peters, V.L.N. Schölmerich, D. van Veen, E.A.P. Steegers & S. Denktas (2014). Recruitment of non-Western ethnic minority participants for reproductive health peer education. Journal for multicultural education, 8 (3), 162-178. doi: 10.1108/JME-02-2014-0013
    - S. Temel, S.F. van Voorst, L. Potjer, S. Denktas & E.A.P. Steegers (2014). A national summit on preconception care: a summary of definitions, evidence and recommendations. Journal of Community Genetics, 6 (1), 107-115. doi: 10.1007/s12687-014-0204-2
    - A.G. Posthumus, V.L.N. Schölmerich, E.A.P. Steegers, I. Kawachi & S. Denktas (2014). The association of neighborhood social capital and ethnic density with late initiation of antenatal care in the Netherlands. PLoS One (online), 9 (5):e95873. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095873
    - J. van der Kooy, N.B. Valentine, E. Birnie, M. Vujkovic, J.P. de Graaf, S. Denktas, E.A.P. Steegers & G.J. Bonsel (2014). Validity of a questionnaire measuring the World Health Organisation concept of health system responsiveness with respect to perinatal services in the Dutch obstetric care system. Bmc Health Services Research, 14 (1):622. doi: 10.1186/s12913-014-0622-1
    - S. Denktas, V.J.J. Poeran, S.F. van Voorst, A.A. Vos, L.C. Potjer, A.J.M. Waelput, E. Birnie, G.J. Bonsel & E.A.P. Steegers (2014). Design and outline of the Healthy Pregnancy 4 All study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 14 (1):253. doi: 10.1186/1471-2393-14-253
    - S. Temel, S.F. van Voorst, B. Jack, S. Denktas & E.A.P. Steegers (2014). Evidence based preconceptional life style interventions. Epidemiologic Reviews, 36 (1), 19-30. doi: 10.1093/epirev/mxt003
    - A.A. de Vos, S. Denktas, G.J. Bonsel & E.A.P. Steegers (2014). Heterogeneity in causality of perinatal outcomes on neighbourhood level: a population based study. Reproductive Sciences, 21 (3), 358-359.
    - E.A.P. Steegers, S. Denktas, J.P. de Graaf & G. Bonsel (2013). Sociale verloskunde voorkomt armoedeval. Medisch Contact, 68 (14), 714-717.
    - S. Temel, E. Birnie, H.M. Sonneveld, A.J.J. Voorham, G.J. Bonsel, E.A.P. Steegers & S. Denktas (2013). Determinants of the intention of preconception care use: lessons from a multi-ethnic urban population in the Netherlands. International Journal of Public Health, 58 (2), 295-304. doi: 10.1007/s00038-012-0396-3
    - V.J.J. Poeran, A.F.G. Maas, E. Birnie, S. Denktas, E.A.P. Steegers & G.J. Bonsel (2013). Social deprivation and adverse perinatal outcomes among Western and non-Western pregnant women in a Dutch urban population. Social Science & Medicine, 83, 42-49. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.02.008
    - S. Denktas, R. Bakker, M. Vujkovic, G. Bonsel & E.A.P. Steegers (2012). Mogelijke additionele voordelen van preconceptiezorg bij de vrouw voor de volksgezondheid. Tijdschrift voor Sociale Geneeskunde, 90, 539-547.
    - B. van der Zee, I.D. de Beaufort, E.A.P. Steegers & S. Denktas (2012). Perceptions of preconception counselling amon g women planning a pregnancy: a qualitative study. Family Practice, 30 (3), 341-346. doi: 10.1093/fampra/cms074
    - S. Denktas, G.J. Bonsel & E.A.P. Steegers (2012). Perinatal health in Rotterdam, the Netherlands--experiences after 2 years of 'Ready for a baby'. Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, 156.
    - S. Denktas, A.J. Waelput, S.F. van Voorst, A.A. Vos, G. Bonsel, L. De Jong-Potjer & E.A.P. Steegers (2012). Healthy Pregnancy 4 All. Preconceptiezorg en risicoselectie tijdens de zwangerschap. Tijdschrift voor Sociale Geneeskunde, 90, 479-483.
    - A.G. Posthumus, V.L.N. Schölmerich, A.J. Waelput, A.A. Vos, L. De Jong-Potjer, R. Bakker, G. Bonsel, P. Groenewegen, E.A.P. Steegers & S. Denktas (2012). Bridging Between Professionals in Perinatal Care: Towards Shared Care in The Netherlands. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 17, 1981-1989. doi: 10.1007/s10995-012-1207-4
    - S. Denktas, G.J. Bonsel, E.J. van der Weg, A.J.J. Voorham, H.W. Torij, J.P. de Graaf, H.I.J. Wildschut, I.A. Peters, E. Birnie & E.A.P. Steegers (2012). An Urban Perinatal Health Programme of Strategies to Improve Perinatal Health. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 16, 1553-1558. doi: 10.1007/s10995-011-0873-y
    - B. van der Zee, I.D. de Beaufort, S. Temel, G. de Wert, S. Denktas & E.A.P. Steegers (2011). Preconception care: An essential preventive strategy to improve children's and women's health. Journal of Public Health Policy, 32 (3), 367-379.
    - V.J.J. Poeran, S. Denktas, E. Birnie, G.J. Bonsel & E.A.P. Steegers (2011). Urban perinatal health inequalities. Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, 24 (4), 643-646. doi: 10.3109/14767058.2010.511341
    - J. van der Kooy, V.J.J. Poeran, J.P. de Graaf, E. Birnie, S. Denktas, E.A.P. Steegers & G.J. Bonsel (2011). Planned Home Compared With Planned Hospital Births in the Netherlands: Intrapartum and Early Neonatal Death in Low-Risk Pregnancies. Obstetrics and Gynecology, 118 (5), 1037-1046.
    - S. Denktas, G.T. Koopmans, E. Birnie, M.M.E. Foets & G.J. Bonsel (2010). Underutilization of prescribed drugs use among first generation elderly immigrants in the Netherlands. Bmc Health Services Research, 10 (176), 1-11. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-10-176
    - S. Denktas, A.J.J. Voorham, G.J. Bonsel, J.D. Spittje, M. Huizer & M. Willems (2009). Grootstedelijke perinatale gezondheid. Programmatische aanpak van perinatale sterfte in Rotterdam. Tijdschrift voor Sociale Geneeskunde, 87, 199-202. doi: 10.1007/BF03082237
    - S. Denktas, G.T. Koopmans, E. Birnie, M.M.E. Foets & G.J. Bonsel (2009). Ethnic background and differences in health care use: a national cross-sectional study of native Dutch and immigrant elderly in the Netherlands. International Journal of Equity in Health, 8 (35), 1-9.
    - E.A.P. Steegers, J.P. de Graaf, J.A.M. Laudy, T. Voorham, M.J. Happel, S. Denktas, J.D. Spittje, B. van der Zee, M.C. Huizer, H.I.J. Wildschut & G.J. Bonsel (2008). Recht op een goede start. Medisch Contact, 63, 100-101.
    - J.P. de Graaf, A. Ravelli, H.I.J. Wildschut, S. Denktas, A.J.J. Voorham, G.J. Bonsel & E.A.P. Steegers (2008). Perinatale uitkomsten in de vier grote steden en de prachtwijken in Nederland. Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, 152, 2734-2740.
    - C.O. Agyemang, S. Denktas, M.A. Bruijnzeels & M.M.E. Foets (2006). . Validity of the single-item question on self-rated health status in Turkish and Moroccan elderly versus native Dutch elderly in the Netherlands. Public Health, 1-8.
  - - V.J.J. Poeran, S. Denktas, E. Birnie, E.J. van der Weg, T. Voorham, E.A.P. Steegers & G.J. Bonsel (2012). Zwangerschap en geboorte in Rotterdam: een lokale gezondheidsrapportage. Tijdschrift voor Gezondheidswetenschappen, 90 (8), 496-503. doi: 10.1007/s12508-012-0168-8
- - S.F. van Voorst, S. Temel, S. Denktas & E.A.P. Steegers (2013). Preconceptiezorg. In Handboek vrouwspecifieke geneeskunde. Houten: Prelum Uitgevers
  - S. Denktas, S. Temel, A.J.J. Voorham, G.J. Bonsel, E. Birnie & E.A.P. Steegers (2011). Preconceptiezorg: hoe bereik je de mensen? In Reproductieve geneeskunde, gynaecologie en obstetrie anno 2011 (pp. 305-310). Haarlem: DCHG Medische Uitgeverij
  - G.J. Bonsel, S. Denktas & E.A.P. Steegers (2011). Samenhangende organisatie van preconceptiezorg in de grote stad. Voorbeelden uit Rotterdam. In Reproductieve geneeskunde, gynaecologie en obstetrie anno 2011 (pp. 311-315). Haarlem: DCHG Medische Uitgeverij
  - S. Denktas (2002). Allochtonen in dienst van de GGD. In Minderhedenmonitor Rotterdam 2001 (pp. 139-155). Rotterdam: ISEO/EUR & COS Gemeente Rotterdam
  - S. Denktas & W. van der Zanden (2002). Demografie en Huisvesting. In Minderhedenmonitor Rotterdam 2001 (pp. 8-29). Rotterdam: ISEO/EUR & COS Gemeente Rotterdam
  - S. Denktas (2001). Geestelijke gezondheidszorg. In Minderhedenmonitor Rotterdam 2000 (pp. 125-145). Rotterdam: ISEO/EUR & COS Gemeente Rotterdam
  - S. Denktas (2001). Demografie. In Minderhedenmonitor Rotterdam 2000 (pp. 7-15). Rotterdam: ISEO/EUR & COS Gemeente Rotterdam
  - S. Denktas (2000). Deelgemeenten: beleid en praktijk. In Minderhedenmonitor Rotterdam 1999. Rotterdam: ISEO/EUR COS Gemeente Rotterdam
  - S. Denktas (2000). De gezondheid van allochtonen. In Minderhedenmonitor Rotterdam 1999 (pp. 65-126). Rotterdam: ISEO/EUR & COS Gemeente Rotterdam
  - S. Denktas & R. Vogels (1999). Minderhedenorganisaties en algemene instellingen. In Minderhedenmonitor Rotterdam 1998 (pp. 119-148). Rotterdam: ISEO/EUR & COS Gemeente Rotterdam
  - J. Dagevos & S. Denktas (1999). De vertegenwoordiging van minderheden in twee gemeentelijke diensten: slaag- en faalfactoren. In Minderhedenmonitor Rotterdam 1998 (pp. 79-111). Rotterdam: ISEO/EUR & COS Gemeente Rotterdam
  - S. Denktas & R. Vogels (1999). Etnische minderheden in Rotterdam, demografische gegevens. In Minderhedenmonitor Rotterdam 1998 (pp. 125-145). Rotterdam: ISEO/EUR & COS Gemeente Rotterdam
- - G.J. Bonsel, E. Birnie, S. Denktas, J. Poeran & E.A.P. Steegers (2010). Lijnen in de Perinatale Sterfte, Signalementstudie Zwangerschap en Geboorte. (Intern rapport). : Erasmus MC: University Medical Center Rotterdam
- - S. Denktas & A. Burdorf (2016). Wordt het geen tijd om de grote gezondheidsverschillen in Nederland op te lossen? Een essay over de oorzaken en de oplossingen. In opdracht van de Raad voor de Volksgezondheid en Samenleving: Den Haag.
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Jan/2017
End date approval
Dec/2019
Place
ROTTERDAM
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Academic Director
Healthy'r
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Feb/2017
End date approval
Jan/2020
Place
ROTTERDAM
Description
Academic Director
Wetenschappelijk congres arch
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Feb/2018
End date approval
Feb/2021
Place
ROTTERDAM
Health Psychology
Title
Health Psychology
Year
2018
Year level
(Level 300)
Full Professor
University
Erasmus University Rotterdam
School
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Department
Department of Psychology, Education & Child Studies/ Clinical Psychology
Country
The Netherlands
Telephone
+31104081712
Endowed Professor
University
Erasmus University Rotterdam
School
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Department
Erasmus University College (EUC)
Country
The Netherlands

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