The research by the student doctors’ office of the UvA/HvA has resulted in a number of websites related to preventative healthcare for students, including
www.ik-student.nl and a number of (scientific) publications.
Websites preventative healthcare for students
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How healthy are you?
The time you spend as a student is a time in which stress and/or lifestyle can affect the extent to which a student feels healthy. Studentengezondheidstest (student health test) is an initiative by the student doctors’ office to help students recognise possible health problems at an early stage, by providing personal feedback, information, useful links and tips for improvement.
Go to: www.studentengezondheidstest.nl and see what you score on health and lifestyle in comparison to your fellow students. - Where can you go with your health problems and questions?
At www.gezond-studeren.nl (healthy studying) you will find all the relevant provisions and information on health and studying. This concerns both medical information and tips to tackle study problems. The website offers information, useful links, tips and online tests. - www.studentenartsen.nl
Publications
Over the past decades various research projects have been published. Below you will find a selection of the publications.
- The research we did into student behaviour regarding looking for help, also resulted in an international publication. It examines the results of the research in-depth.
Context guides illness-identity - In 2007 staff at the student doctors’ office wrote an article on the relationship between study delay and health issues. This article shows that study progress is a good indicator of the presence of health issues with students. Health-related profiles of study delay in university students in the Netherlands
- Health problems are often related to a negative experience of the study situation:
The subjective health and study experience of students at the University of Amsterdam (In Dutch). - On the relationship between problem perception of tobacco, alcohol and drug use by students: The students who experience their tobacco, alcohol and/or drug use as a problem, report more health problems than students who don’t experience their tobacco, alcohol and/or drug use as a problem.
Problem perception in Dutch university students using tobacco, alcohol and drugs