About
The Centre for Population, Family and Health carries out fundamental and policy supporting research in social demography and sociology of family, well-being and health. We aim to contribute to the understanding of family dynamics through the life course with special attention to health, employment, intergenerational solidarity and the impact of policy.
The core themes of family formation and dissolution, the combination of work and family and the socialization of care are studied using advanced quantitative and qualitative research methods. Read more
"Half of students deals with depressive feelings" - Nina Van Eekert in HLN
Caroline Masquillier's documentary: a disease with no name
"Should governments increase the birth rate?" - Karel Neels in Knack
"Local Childcare Availability and dual-earner fertility: variation in childcare coverage and birth hazards over place and time" Jonas Wood & Karel Neels
"The African child in kinship care - A systematic Review." Esther Ariyo, Dimitri Mortelmans & Edwin Wouters
"The association between women's social status and the medicalisation of female genital cutting in Egypt." Van Eekert, Leye & Van de Velde
"Challenges for child support schemes: Accounting for shared care and complex families" Elke Claessens & Dimitri Mortelmans
"Evidence-based interventions to reduce tuberculosis stigma: a systematic review" Nina Sommerland, Edwin Wouters, Caroline Masquilier
