Quality Action, a Joint Action of European Union member states, aimed to promote the health of the community by maximising the quality of HIV prevention projects and programmes. Its final conference earlier this year brought together more than 120 representatives from governmental and non-governmental organisations to share their experiences in applying five quality improvement tools. […]
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According to Barnardo’s, an international survey of children’s well-being reveals the eight-year-olds in England are less happy than those in Romania, Poland and Algeria. England ranks 13 out of 16 countries when it comes to children’s life satisfaction, with only South Korea, Nepal and Ethiopia faring worse. More than 17,000 children from 16 countries were
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Vyteris Andriukaitis made the following points in a speech recently: The definition of health as proposed by the World Health Organization is: “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”. Unfortunately for too long we have been focusing on care and cure, while
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This European initiative wanted to promote healthy lifestyles and took a fun and upbeat approach to healthy eating, focusing on 6 messages: Enjoy shopping for a healthy meal Enjoy cooking Enjoy eating together Enjoy drinking water Enjoy colourful fruits and vegetables Enjoy physical exercise Although aimed at the general public, the project was targeted to
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In the EU, around 90 million tons of foods are wasted yearly (2006 estimate), while 55 million people suffer from food poverty, according to the President of the European Federation of Food Banks. Food donation is a key lever in Europe’s solutions both to reduce food waste and alleviate food poverty and social exclusion. This
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Ministers of health from the 53 Member States of the WHO European Region have signed up to a roadmap that will make it possible for coming generations to make tobacco a thing of the past. The roadmap lists the actions with the greatest impact in specific areas. One area involves the denormalization of tobacco, by:
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A new data tool for the European Core Health Indicators has been launched, to replace the existing ‘Heidi’ data tool. This new tool presents relevant and comparable information on health at the European level in an interactive way, covering five groups of indicators: demographic and socio-economic factors health status health determinants (smoking, alcohol etc) health
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February 2015. This seminar brought together policy-makers and practitioners for a stimulating and informative overview of the situation in Europe and the UK with regard to tobacco use and legislation. Our speakers – Hazel Cheeseman from ASH and Kate Knight from SmokeFree South West – are experts in both the rise of e-cigarettes and the
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June 2014. All the evidence shows that investing in the health and wellbeing of our children and young people brings life-long benefits – not only to the young people themselves but also to their families and wider society. Attendees at this seminar had the opportunity to hear examples from the UK and abroad of good
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A paper from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction explores illicit drug problems and responses and the different forms they can take in city environments. It addresses four areas: urban spaces and drug use, responses to city-level drug problems, city-level drugs strategies, and the coordination and funding of city-level policies. To download
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