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Department of Health Services Research

Focusing on Chronic Care and Ageing

 Maastricht University, The Netherlands

On June 28 the Department of Health Care and Nursing Science has been merged with the Department of Health Organization, Policy and Economics. The new name is Department of Health Services Research, Focusing on Chronic Care and Ageing.

On this website you will find information about staff, research topics, publications of staff members, educational activities as well as several links to allied institutions and other related websites.

The Department of Health Care and Nursing Science is a specialist research and educational unit embedded within the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University.

Latest news

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Promotion of Ramon Daniels on July 7.

Reina de Kinderen is voted winner for the National Pfizer HT Academy on June 7.

Math Gulpers received the Crebolder Award for Societal Impact on May 19.

Joan Vermeulen received price for best poster presentation on May 19.

Josianne Boyne has won the Nursing Investigator Award on May 18-19.

Hans Maarse: book presentation on May 16.  

Dirk Ruwaard appointed Professor Public Health and Health Care Innovation on April 1.

The mission of the Department of Health Care and Nursing Science is the realization of high-quality multidisciplinary research, education and implementation of knowledge in order to realize (top-class) care within the MUMC+ and other care institutions in the field of health care and nursing science. The primary domain is the study of problems in the field of health care and nursing and the effects for the patient, as well as developing and testing effective interventions and models. That domain stretches out as far as the entire ‘care-chain’.

The Department of Health Care and Nursing Science focuses on:  

• research in health care and nursing science in which causes and effects of  care needs are studied, care is evaluated and new interventions are being developed and tested;
• research into the effective organization and structure of integrated health care;
• scientific education in the domain of health care and nursing science;
• the implementation of effective interventions;
• the use of evidence in this area in medical and health care scientific education;
• the use of evidence in education for nurses and other caregivers (such as physicians, physical therapists, occupational therapists and midwives);
• stimulating evidence-based thinking and acting in nurses and other caregivers working in the health care sector.