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Pregnancies come with both joyful anticipation and a whole range of worries: Is the mother eating and relaxing enough? Is the baby developing properly? But what we tend to completely overlook, is the fact that one in five women develop mental health problems during pregnancy. The PRoF consortium awarded a project initiated by Ghent University to detect and treat mental problems as part of routine prenatal care.
Every year, PRoF awards innovative projects in the health care sector that are a perfect match with the PRoF mission: bringing together interdisciplinary professionals (care, medical, companies, universities, etc.) to envision and create new health care concepts. No wonder then, that the “toolkit for perinatal mental health” received the PRoF award. |
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This toolkit is a co-creation of Ghent University, the Karus Mother & Baby Centre, the community health centres in Ghent, Maternity Care East Flanders, the Department of Neonatology of the Ghent University Hospital, and the Mother & Baby Unit of the Zoersel hospital. The partners shared knowledge and expertise and together, they created a practical solution to help women with mental health problems during pregnancy.
As many as one in five women develop these problems, but detection often comes too late. The toolkit offers a range of practical tools and training programs that can be easily implemented within routine prenatal care. The toolkit helps doctors and midwives to better detect mental problems, so that they can intervene and start treatment more quickly. The PRoF consortium was delighted to hand out the 2018 PRoF Award to this project, praising its positive impact on both mother and baby.
As many as one in five women develop these problems, but detection often comes too late. The toolkit offers a range of practical tools and training programs that can be easily implemented within routine prenatal care. The toolkit helps doctors and midwives to better detect mental problems, so that they can intervene and start treatment more quickly. The PRoF consortium was delighted to hand out the 2018 PRoF Award to this project, praising its positive impact on both mother and baby.
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The second PRoF UGent award received 16 candidates from the international healthcare innovation landscape. As you will notice when browsing trough all applications we received, the topics are very diverse.
The Jury read all applications carefully and ranked them according to the criteria of the call. The top three was invited to present their case in a 15 minute speech at the symposium in Gent on May 25, 2016. The symposium started with a warm welcome from Jan Van Hecke, Coordinator of the PRoF Consortium, who thanked especially for this day-to-day 7th anniversary, the very first participants of the PRoF initiative: Valerie Dhaeze, Piet Verhoeve, Ronny Pieters, Serge Lefevere, Chris Deroock and Paul Merlevede. |
Followed by a presentation by the chair holder prof. dr. R. Peleman, who presented his vision on future healthcare challenges and how the PRoF consortium is developing solutions for these challenges.
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Next the winner of l_ast year: "cycling through your past" explained how the concept evolved into a commercial product: Activate for health, written as "Activ84Health". (www.activ84health.eu)
During the development the Activ84Health team incorporated user testing and validation in order to design a solution fit for the elderly. The colours of the navigation arrows is especially adapted for maximum visibility for the target group. Roel Smolders, the CEO, explained how winning the award in 2015 helped accelerating their plans and that the PRoF Chair Award created value beyond the prize money. The award also helpt to build credibility, peer support and last but not least: customers. |
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Unfortunately Herman Van Rompuy, former President of the European Council and chairman of the Jury, could not be present. However the PRoF consortium received a personal video message in which he addressed the attendees.
The core of the symposium were the three nominees that were invited to present their contribution in a 15 minute speech before the Jury and the audience.
The five nominees selected by the Jury, were:
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The winner of 2016 is the project "INGA wellbeing", a project that focuses on comfortable clothing for care situations which enables the patient to feel a person again. The Jury appreciated the vision that strong links to the PRoF values as well as the ambition of the INGA wellbeing team.
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We like to especially thank for this PRoF Award 2016 edition:
The members of the professional jury The sponsors: KBC represented by Karen Sterckx Modular Lighting represented by Bart Maeyens Boone International represented by Koen Van Hecke The PRoF Consortium represented by Jan Goddaer Last but not least, the PRoF chair holder Prof Dr R Peleman and his team |
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The first PRoF UGent award received 33 candidates from the international healthcare innovation landscape. We received files from Germany, Greece, Italy, The Netherlands, Turkey, United Kingdom and of course also from Belgium. As you will notice when browsing trough all applications we received, the topics are very diverse.
The Jury read all applications carefully and ranked them according to the criteria of the call. The top five was invited to present their case in a 15 minute speech at the symposium in Gent on May 27, 2015. The symposium started with a presentation by chair holder prof. dr. R. Peleman, explaining his vision on healthcare. During this presentation he made the link between a recently published book "The digital doctor", by Robert Wachter. According to prof. Peleman, the visions described in the book match perfectly with the projects that have been built by the PRoF consortium in the past. |
Next Jan Van Hecke, coordinator of the PRoF Consortium, give a first time view of its unique findings to find the answer on the question "How can you motivate volunteers to act and how to get escape from Social isolation Moments". The latter is especially a challenge for society. Current already 25% or 1/4 of the under 25s know Social isolation, 15% or 1/6 of the people over 65 know this as well. More details on this will be published soon.
The core of the symposium were the five nominees that were invited to present their contribution in a 15 minute speech before the Jury and the audience.
The five nominees selected by the Jury, were:
The core of the symposium were the five nominees that were invited to present their contribution in a 15 minute speech before the Jury and the audience.
The five nominees selected by the Jury, were:
- EXercise Prescription in Everyday practice & Rehabilitative Training Flowchart Project, by Prof. dr. Dominique Hansen
- Converge, by Dr Nick Rowe
- Cycling through your past, by Jan Smolders, Wannes Meert & Roel Smolders
- We take care!, by Paul Braem
- Pilot Project Astor Geel, by Els Kuypers
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While the audience took a break, the Jury deliberated to appoint the winner of the 2015 contest. It was up to Herman Van Rompuy, former President of the European Council, take the stage and announce the winners for 2015. In his speech he reflected on the PRoF Honorary award he received in 2013 and the further progress the PRoF consortium has made since. Finally he announced the results from the Jury.
The winner of 2015 is the project "Cycling through your past", a project that combined care insights and entrepreneurship to build a solution which has a high potential. They received the award from the former President of the European Council, H. Van Rompuy, along with 10.000EUR presented by KBC. We like to especially thank for this PRoF Award 2015 edition: . The members of the professional jury . The sponsors: KBC represented by Johan Lema Boeckx Architecture & Engineering, represented by Serge Lefevere The PRoF Consortium represented by Jan Goddaer . Last but not least, the PRoF chairholder Prof Dr R Peleman and his team |
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