Biography
Prof.dr. Kim Putters (1973) is Professor of Health Management at the institute of Health Policy and Management of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. As a public administration scientist he is part of the Healthcare Governance department. He wrote his PhD on the reforms in Dutch healthcare towards more entrepreneurship in health management (Geboeid ondernemen: een studie naar het management in de Nederlandse ziekenhuiszorg,Van Gorcum, Assen, 2001). Putters was worked at the department of Public Administration within the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Erasmus University until 2003, and at the Tilburg School of Politics and Administration at the Tilburg University until 2008. From 1997 until 2003 he also worked as an advisor to the Ministry of Health at the Council for Health and Social Service (de Raad voor de Volksgezondheid en Zorg).
Research
Two methods are central in the research of professor Kim Putters:
- A multidisciplinary approach of health management and its behavior in between market, government, professional domains and civil society.
- An intersectoral orientation on the causes and consequences of blurring boundaries between health and other sectors and networks (amongst which are housing, mobility and welfare).
The research issues are:
- Hybrid organisations within a public-private and professional context. Healthcare institutions have to respond to incentives of the market, government policies, professional demands and societal needs all at the same time. Changing markets, increasing needs and new technological possibilities ask for studies how this works and can be improved.
- Entrepreneurship and innovation can improve healthcare services in terms of efficiency, quality and patient centeredness. Yet, several barriers hinder innovation. We study how innovations are being developed and spread, what chances and limitations look like and how this influences the roles and responsibilities of suppliers, providers, financers, patients, doctors and governmental bodies.
- Relationship between research, knowledge, policy and practice. How can professional and policy practices be improved by science and knowledge? How do new ways of quality management, patient empowerment and transparency improvement work out in practice? And how can we bring science and practice closer to each other in health management.
Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management
- putters@eshpm.eur.nl
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Work
- Hugo Peeters, Lieke E. Oldenhof, Wilma van der Scheer & Kim Putters (2023) - Bedtime negotiations: Unravelling normative complexity in hospital-based prevention - Sociology of Health and Illness, 45 (5), 1082-1100 - doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13633 - [link]
- Margot Kersing, Liesbet van Zoonen, Kim Putters & Lieke Oldenhof (2022) - The changing roles of frontline bureaucrats in the digital welfare state: The case of a data dashboard in Rotterdam’s Work and Income department - Data & Policy, 4 (E24) - doi: 10.1017/dap.2022.16 - [link]
- Betty Steenkamer, Esther de Weger, Hanneke Drewes, Kim Putters, Hans Van Oers & C. (Caroline) Baan (2020) - Implementing population health management: an international comparative study - Journal of Health Organization and Management, 34 (3), 273-294 - doi: 10.1108/JHOM-06-2019-0189 - [link]
- Betty Steenkamer, Hanneke Drewes, Kim Putters, Hans van Oers & Caroline Baan (2020) - Reorganizing and integrating public health, health care, social care and wider public services: a theory-based framework for collaborative adaptive health networks to achieve the triple aim - Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 25 (3), 187-201 - doi: 10.1177/1355819620907359 - [link]
- Betty M. Steenkamer, Hanneke W. Drewes, Natascha Van Vooren, Caroline A. Baan, Hans Van Oers & Kim Putters (2019) - How executives' expectations and experiences shape population health management strategies - BMC Health Services Research, 19 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s12913-019-4513-3 - [link]
- MI Broese van Groenou, A de Boer, Kim Putters, K Henkens, H Nies, Pearl Dykstra, H van Solinge, C Van Campen & S Kooiker (2017) - Symposium The future of informal care [Symposium De toekomst van de informele zorg] - Tijdschrift Gerontologie en Geriatrie, 48 (2), 77-88 - doi: 10.1007/s12439-017-0208-6 - [link]
- FD Vennik, Hester van de Bovenkamp, Kim Putters & Kor Grit (2016) - Co-production in healthcare: rhetoric and practice - International Review of Administrative Sciences, 82, 150-168 - doi: 10.1177/0020852315570553 - [link]
- Lieke Oldenhof, Annemiek Stoopendaal & Kim Putters (2016) - From boundaries to boundary work: middle managers creating inter-organizational change - Journal of Health Organization and Management, 30 (8), 1204-1220 - doi: 10.1108/JHOM-03-2016-0041 - [link]
- Jeroen Postma, Lieke Oldenhof & Kim Putters (2015) - Organized professionalism in healthcare: articulation work by neighbourhood nurses - Journal of Professions and Organization, 2 (1), 61-77 - doi: 10.1093/jpo/jou008
- FD Vennik, SA Adams & Kim Putters (2015) - Scripting the active patient in online health communities - Assistive Technology, 9 (2), 86-99 - doi: 10.1108/JAT-10-2014-0023
- Kim Putters (1999) - Social Entrepreneurship, the next step (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Kim Putters (1999) - Health Impact Screening: the possibilities for European public health policies (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Kim Putters (1998) - The political and administrative context of health impact assessment (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Kim Putters, Tom Grinten & Pauline Meurs (1998) - Social Entrepreneurship in Dutch healthcare (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Kim Putters (1998) - De bestuurlijke inbedding van gezondheideffectsscreening (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Kim Putters (1997) - Governance of Dutch Health Care: Hospital Management within a mixed Public-Private Context (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic
- Kim Putters, Lieke Oldenhof & J. Postma (2015) - Best Article Award Academy of Management for 'Justification work: how compromising enables public managers to deal with conflicting values'
Academic Development & Skills
- Level
- bachelor 1
- Year Level
- bachelor 1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GWAVV-24