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Public Health in the EU: state-of-play and key policy challenges

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A number of developments are changing the public health landscape in Europe. These include demographic changes and the impact of the economic crisis on health budgets, particularly those related to prevention and health promotion. While EU public health policy complements national policies, it encourages cooperation across countries and facilitates coordination. Particularly, EU public health policy generates economies […]

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Global Status Report on Violence Prevention 2014

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475,000 people were murdered in 2012, making homicide the third leading cause of death for men between the ages of 15 and 44, according to this report. This is a 16{ddf8d179d1bf712bb2a88ff2ad95ebdf63eaa5463c845d2f093b25848387ba96} decrease since 2000 but non-fatal violence remains widespread, taking a particular toll on women and children. One in four children has been physically abused; one in

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Every day 1000 people in Europe develop TB

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An estimated 360,000 Europeans developed tuberculosis (TB) in 2013, or around 1000 people a day. According to new data published by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the WHO Regional Office for Europe, this figure was about 6{ddf8d179d1bf712bb2a88ff2ad95ebdf63eaa5463c845d2f093b25848387ba96} lower than in 2012, continuing a sustained decline over the last decade across

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COALAS

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2012 – 2015 This was an East Kent Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust (EKHUFT) project in partnership with ESIGELEC, Universite de Picardie Jules Verne, University of Essex and the University of Kent. The Health and Europe Centre provided the administrative support for EKHUFT’s medical physics and neuro-rehabilitation departments who worked with their academic colleagues to develop

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Dementia: Self Sustaining Communities

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May 2014. Our annual conference showcased award winning innovative initiatives and projects from across Europe and the UK, aimed to better support people with dementia living in the community or care home environment.   The programme includes speakers’ details, and the presentations below are listed in the order they appear on the programme: Brainport Development Alexian Research Center

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SYSIASS

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2011 – 2015 This Interreg-funded project has designed an intelligent electric wheelchair, which is a great improvement on existing wheelchairs as it allows autonomous guidance and efficient and secure communication to be established with the equipment. The Health and Europe Centre provided administrative support to the East Kent Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust who worked

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Octavia

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2012 -KMPT, in partnership with Sing for Your Life and the Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health (already KMPT service providers) was successful in bidding for EU Grundtvig funding to develop a two-year project to share knowledge, expertise and best practice with partners from across Europe working in the field of Arts

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Self Efficacy: An International Literature Review

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2009 – 2011 This project built on previous research undertaken in Kent which looked at the values and attitudes of young people that pre-determine their life choices. The research further explored the rationale that certain young people seem to be more susceptible to ‘risky’ behaviours like crime, drug abuse, anti-social behaviour, homelessness, poor health, benefit dependency and

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Cross Border Association of Public Health and Social Medicine

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2009 – 2010 This project focused on establishing a cross border Association of Public Health and Social Medicine with colleagues in Kent and Medway and the Somme in France. The cross border Association shared and compared ways of addressing health threats/ challenges, perceptions, community practices and responses to specific health issues – especially in the prevention of long term

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Bien-être: Healthy Communities

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2005 – 2007 Bien-être was a cross border two-year healthy schools and communities project between a multi-agency partnership in Kent and Pas-de-Calais, France which started in September 2005. The objectives of Bien-être were to create cross-border and local learning networks – comprising of those involved with the health and education of children and the well-being of communities

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