Positive Health, Lifestyle and Leadership
Today’s healthcare is no longer primarily about preventing disease. People want to stay healthy and continue to participate in society. The focus needs to be on people and not diseases. To achieve this and contribute to a positive society, more attention needs to be paid to health promotion and self-management by patients. In other words: from illness and care to health and behaviour.
The key area Positive Health, Lifestyle and Leadership is being developed in collaboration with the MST and is in line with the upcoming vision ‘Key vision Medisch Spectrum Twente on vitality and lifestyle’. Primary objectives in this key area include:
1. Implementing the Positive Health Approach in healthcare and education;
2. Improving lifestyle based on the intrinsic motivation of patients, citizens, employees;
3. Increasing the leadership role of healthcare professionals.
Research Lines
Positive Health provides a new approach to health with a broader perspective on health which emphasises promoting self-reliance and resilience and is considerably more aligned with the intrinsic motivation of patients; lifestyle changes are a good example of Positive Health. Working from a Positive Health perspective requires the education and training of current and future health professionals.
A healthy lifestyle contributes to both mental and physical well-being and can also help prevent disease. Especially in hospitals, a lot can be gained by placing more emphasis on prevention and not just on treatment. This requires a good transfer and cooperation with primary care.
The Best Practice Unit method is being further developed, focusing on increasing the leadership role of healthcare professionals, interprofessional collaboration and also team learning together with the patient.
Projects & developments within this key area:
- COVID study MST and ZGT: the Spider’s Web of Positive Health is used for a subpopulation, to obtain a health overview over time.
- Continued development of the Best Practice Unit (MST and Saxion)
- Curriculum review Master’s in Advanced Nursing Practice with Positive Health as common thread
Het team
Sandra van Hogen-Koster
Professor of Positive Health, Lifestyle and leadership
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This key area is also included in the following courses:
Partners
All partners share the ambition to join forces more closely to create fit-for-future healthcare, focusing on a healthy lifestyle for patients and future health professionals who focus on Positive Health, leadership, lifestyle and innovation.
