INRICH Member Profile Card
Hein Raat
Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam
Physician specialised in community medicine and public health
Methodolgy of social sciences and social epidemiology
Business administration in the setting of public health
Type of member: Regular
Telephone: 0031 10 70 38 580
Email Address: h.raat@erasmusmc.nl
Mailing Address: P.O.Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Collaborative Projects
CIHR project.
Current research interests
Pathways between social disadvantage and adverse health outcomes
RCTs and cRCTs of inteventions to improve population health
E-health interventions (E-health4Uth)
Methodology of "Patient Reported Outcomes" (PROs) and health-related quality of life
Research priorities
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty). Social into the biological and epigenetic. | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies. Need to define poverty. Need to study social gradients as well as poverty. Multi-level studies - Society, Family & Individual. Regional studies (within countries). Which indicators? for example, perception of health vs. objective measures of health (these may be more reliable in studying mechanisms).
Selected publications
Bouthoorn, S. H., Gaillard, R., Steegers, E. A., Hofman, A., Jaddoe, V. W., Lenthe, F. J., & Raat, H. (2012). Ethnic Differences in Blood Pressure and Hypertensive Complications During Pregnancy: The Generation R Study. Hypertension, 60(1), 198-205. doi:10.1161/hypertensionaha.112.194365
Grieken, A. V., Ezendam, N. P., Paulis, W. D., Wouden, J. C., & Raat, H. (2012). Primary prevention of overweight in children and adolescents: a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of interventions aiming to decrease sedentary behaviour. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 9(1), 61. doi:10.1186/1479-5868-9-61