Healthy Living & Work

Diseases and chronic disorders related to our lifestyle are on the increase. We must, therefore, look at health and care in a different way, and combine prevention and treatment. At TNO, we’re working on social and technological innovations that help people make choices for better health and greater participation in society.

Promoting health with innovations for self-determination

‘We want to help people make the right choices for their health, employability, and productivity. It's not easy when you see what we have to deal with every day. For example, working longer in a healthy way, an often busy or intense living environment, and an intensive lifestyle,’ says TNO's Peter van Dijken.

Together with government agencies, knowledge institutes, and companies, we develop technological and social innovations that improve health and professional employability. In this way, they contribute to:

  • a healthy, vital, and productive population
  • lower healthcare costs
  • more economic growth

Healthy Living active in 6 domains

The Healthy Living unit is active within 6 expertise groups:

  1. Risk Analysis for Products In Development (RAPID)
  2. Microbiology & Systems Biology Expertise Group
  3. Metabolic Health Research Expertise Group
  4. Child Health Expertise Group
  5. Work Health Technology Expertise Group
  6. Sustainable Productivity & Employability

We’re good at identifying major future developments and interventions relevant to these domains. Within the domains, we develop knowledge and expertise in health, health technology, and customised health interventions. Health interventions are methods and technologies that can be used when someone's health is at risk.

For example, we’re contributing to the transformation of youth healthcare through digitalisation. We’re developing an online platform that provides guidelines for youth healthcare and gives parents access to the professionals and advice they need to make the right choices. In addition, we measure and monitor stress and exposure to harmful substances in everyday life.

This leads us to collective public health strategies, personalised intervention strategies, and evidence-based health interventions, especially for the work environment. This creates a basis for interventions and assistive technology to improve both prevention and participation.

Health interventions

We want to significantly reduce the failure rate and thus the development costs of much-needed new drugs. We do this by innovating in the preclinical and clinical phases of drug development.

We also help the general public and professionals make healthy choices by collecting data on health and risks at a personal level. We convert them into valuable information, which we use to provide proactive, tailor-made advice. This personal information supports structural behavioural changes and a healthier lifestyle. We’re convinced that a change in lifestyle is the cure of the future for many diseases.

How do we improve the quality of digital healthcare?

Healthcare is digitalising at a rapid pace. This allows you to collect a lot of data and gain insight into genetic, lifestyle, and environmental factors. We develop useful, safe, and reliable applications that meet everyone's need for personalised healthcare. Privacy is a prerequisite.

We develop interpretations and predictive models of the personal health data for reliable advice and personalised interventions. We’re trying to improve personalised digital health with practical pilots.

Expert groups

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Flying Food takes next step in protein transition with crickets in Africa

Informatietype:
Insight
31 May 2023

With the Flying Food project, TNO, together with partners, is committed to accelerating the protein transition in Africa. The Flying Food consortium is setting up a value chain using crickets as a healthy food.

Symposium: Optimising food and fibre composition

Informatietype:
Event

Trends towards more plant-based foods and alternatives for meat and diary are expected to result in a higher intake of a wide range of fibres. These developments offer new opportunities for optimising food and fibre composition. The symposium will highlight these developments with examples of recent insights and results and will discuss ways for further exploring this complex and challenging field.

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Locatie:
Naturalis Leiden, Darwinweg 2

Ancora Health develops personal diabetes plan with 360 methodology

Informatietype:
Insight
11 May 2023

With the help of TNO's knowledge of diabetic typing, Ancora Health wants to implement a diabetes lifestyle programme within healthcare.

MixMasters uses TNO phenotype test to offer personalised nutrition

Informatietype:
Insight
11 May 2023

TNO is helping MixMasters answer the question 'How can we personalise while remaining user-friendly?' Moreover, during their collaboration, the idea for a new concept was born: FoodiYou.

Personalised Health: Take it personal

Informatietype:
Insight
17 April 2023

TNO helps companies develop scientifically based personalised health applications. Knowledge is translated into applications by using a systems approach, and personalised health is put into practice. An example of this is the collaboration with Gabriele Ronnett of Johnson & Johnson Consumer Health Company.