Ton H.M. van Schaik and Karin Strengers-Olde Kalter, Het Arme Roomse Leven. Geschiedenis van de katholieke caritas in de stad Utrecht

Ton H.M. van Schaik and Karin Strengers-Olde Kalter, Het Arme Roomse Leven. Geschiedenis van de katholieke caritas in de stad Utrecht (Hilversum: Verloren, 2016, 276 pp., isbn 978 90 8704 578 4)

Ton H.M. van Schaik and Karin Strengers-Olde Kalter, Het Arme Roomse Leven. Geschiedenis van de katholieke caritas in de stad Utrecht

Ton H.M. van Schaik and Karin Strengers-Olde Kalter, Het Arme Roomse Leven. Geschiedenis van de katholieke caritas in de stad Utrecht (Hilversum: Verloren, 2016, 276 pp., isbn 978 90 8704 578 4)

Skills als basis voor een nieuwe (re-)integratiepraktijk

Substantial and continuous shifts in skills demands urge us to rethink education, labour market and reintegration policies and practices. In this article, we argue for a more skills based approach to (re)integration. This skills based (re)integration practice is based more on up-to-date, complete and validated skills sets of candidates, than on diplomas and other, more or less, outdated and incomplete proxies to one’s current skills. Such a new reintegration practice seems feasible if the actual and complete skills set of an individual becomes the starting point for both matching, guidance and (up/re)skilling efforts. Intersectoral mobility, alternative career pathways and suitable training and development routes can be designed on a more fine-grained skills basis, with occupations considered more as dynamic sets of tasks requiring specific skills. This new (re)integration practice presupposes a common skills language, which is being developed in the Netherlands, Competent NL. Sectoral and intersectoral experiments with skills instruments using this language, such as skills passports, are conducted to optimize their quality and effectiveness. Since first experiments with skills instruments seem promising, we argue that more room for experiment is required. So that integration in the labor market can be sustained and reintegration practices can be prevented

First results of an action program for integrated services of care, cure and community in the Netherlands

Conference abstract of the 14th International Conference on Integrated Care, Brussels, April 2-4 2014

Improving a web-based employability intervention for work-disabled employees:results of a pilot economic evaluation

Purpose The purpose of this study is to improve web-based employability interventions for employees with work-related health problems for both intervention content and study design by means of a pilot economic evaluation. Methods Uptake rate analysis for the intervention elements, cost effectiveness, cost utility and subgroup analyses were conducted to identify potential content-related intervention improvements. Differences in work ability and quality-adjusted life years and overall contribution of resource items to the total costs were assessed. These were used to guide study design improvements. Results Sixty-three participants were a-select allocated to either the intervention (n = 29) or the control (n = 34) group. Uptake regarding the intervention elements ranged between 3% and 70%. Cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analyses resulted in negative effects although higher total costs. Incremental effects were marginal (work ability -0.51; QALY -0.01). Conclusions The web-based tool to enhance employability among work disabled employees requires improvements regarding targeting and intensity; outcome measures selected and collection of cost data. With respect to the studies of disability and rehabilitation, the findings and methods presented in this pilot economic evaluation could guide the assessment of future assistive "e-health" technologies. IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATION The methods presented in this pilot economic evaluation have large potentials to guide the assessment of future assistive e-health technologies addressing work-disabilities. The findings show that the web-based tool requires content related improvements with respect to targeting and intensity to enhance employability among work disabled employees. The findings show that the web-based tool would benefit from improvements related to the study design by more adequately selecting and collecting both outcome measures and cost data. The burden attributable to large-scale studies and implementation issues were prevented as the outcomes of the pilot economic evaluation did not support the implementation of the web-based tool