Publications by authors named "H Bosma"
Background: To improve the sustainable employability (SE) of employees in low-skilled jobs, there is an urgent need to implement more effective approaches for this group.
Objective: This evaluation study aimed to get insight into the effect and implementation process of an organisational intervention called 'Healthy HR' (HHR), which promoted the job control and SE of employees in low-skilled jobs in two Dutch organisations.
Methods: An effect evaluation with a pretest-posttest design and a mixed-methods process evaluation were conducted.
Article Synopsis
- The study examines how socioeconomic position (SEP), food environments, walkability, and greenspace impact type 2 diabetes (T2D) risk, focusing on their interconnection.
- Lower SEP correlates with a higher risk of T2D, with significant hazard ratios indicating a strong link between education, income, occupation, and diabetes prevalence.
- Environmental factors only weakly mediate the relationship between SEP and T2D, suggesting that while lower SEP leads to a less healthy environment, this isn't the primary driver for increased diabetes risk.
Article Synopsis
- The study explores the relationship between air pollution and its impact on cognitive functioning and brain health, given the rise in dementia cases and a lack of cures.
- It involved 4,002 participants from The Maastricht Study, analyzing various brain integrity markers and cognitive abilities while considering their residential air pollution exposure.
- Results showed no significant links between air pollution and cognitive performance or most brain markers, but a curvilinear relationship was noted where both low and high exposures were related to reduced grey matter volume.
Objective: We aim to study the "golden youth" hypothesis, which suggests that risky behaviors might be prevalent among affluent adolescents in post-Communist countries of Europe (PCCE) with high income inequality.
Methods: We included 71,119 adolescents aged 11-15 from 14 PCCE participating in the Health Behavior in School-aged Children survey 2017/18. A K-means cluster analysis was conducted to group adolescents based on risky behavior.
Aim: Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a common chronic disease that disproportionally affects groups with a low socioeconomic position (SEP). This study aimed to examine associations between childhood SEP and incident T2D, independent of adult SEP.
Methods: Longitudinal data from The Maastricht Study were used (N=6,727, 55.