Healthcare and wellbeing
Good mental and physical health for all is a necessary condition for broad prosperity. Conversely, major societal challenges affect our health and well-being. How do we keep healthcare affordable, sustainable and accessible for everyone? What technological and other innovations can help? Together with health and welfare practitioners, our scientists work on these fundamental questions from the social and behavioral sciences, economics, public law and governance, digital sciences, law and ethics.
How to promote healthy lifestyles in an equitable manner
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News in health and wellbeing
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Our Mind Wanders Almost Half of the Time
18th March 2024Why is it that there are so many more conditions for a happier life than before, yet people often continue to focus on negative aspects of life? Michael Vlerick addresses this question in his book, "Waarom we niet gelukkiger zijn" ("Why We Aren't Happier"), providing us with tools to become content individuals within our means.
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Development of facial expressions in virtual human agents can help healthcare and education
10th January 2024Technology, such as computer graphics and machine learning, has helped to develop virtual agents that closely resemble humans in appearance and show increasingly human-like communicative behaviors. In her dissertation, Julija Vaitonyte did research on people’s perceptions of the appearance and behavior of virtual agents.
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Turn it for the better: How can VR help solve the global problem of unhealthy diets?
11th December 2023How can Virtual Reality technology help solve the global problem of unhealthy diets? Rachelle de Vries and her team are developing and evaluating an immersive multisensory VR food environment with 'Smell-e Technology' to research food choice behavior. Watch her presentation at TEDxBreda on this technology and the power of smell.
Partnerships
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Academic Collaborative Center for Digital Health & Mental Wellbeing
We aim to make the usage of digital tools and interventions for mental wellbeing and a healthy lifestyle accessible for everyone by 2030.
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Tranzo
Tranzo is the scientific center for care and wellbeing of the Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences of Tilburg University. Tranzo wants to build a bridge between science and practice in the area of care and wellbeing. The objective is to promote an evidence-based approach by working in co-creation with practitioners to develop and exchange knowledge.
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Zero Poverty Lab: Stopping generational poverty
Solving poverty is a global task. Living in poverty damages people’s mental and physical health. Poverty stunts children's development, causes much suffering and stress, and costs society a lot of potential due to illness and loss. Even in the Netherlands, many people live in poverty. The Zero Poverty Lab aims to break the cycle of generational poverty by clarifying the effect of poverty on the (child’s) brain and investigate how we can help prevent and remedy these effects.
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Zero Hunger Lab
Tilburg University’s Zero Hunger Lab is a research group that aims to achieve global food security through the power of data science.
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