Online Magazine
2020
This edition of EuroHealthNet magazine features features the most noteworthy projects and developments in the field of health equity and health promotion in Europe today. We look at some of the ways public health organisations have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, but we also focus on what comes next: how do we ‘build back better’?
Edition 16 covers:
- Where do we go from here? - EuroHealthNet editorial
- Diving into data: Developments in global health inequalities research - CHAIN & EuroHealthNet
- Hosting migrants in a crisis: access to COVID-19 health care services for migrants and refugees in Greece - Prolepsis
- Social homes - foundations for building back better - Public Health Scotland
- Support materials for coping with grief in times of COVID-19 in Spain - Ministry of Health Spain (also available in Spanish)
- Preventing and counteracting interpersonal violence - Tuscany Region (also available in Italian)
- Keeping our ageing population active – the role of healthcare professionals - Institute of Public Health (in Ireland and Northern Ireland)
- Health promoting hospitals and health services - even more important during the pandemic - Gesundheit Österreich GmbH
- Aligning Health Promoting Communities and the Sustainable Development Goals: the Icelandic experience - Directorate of Health in Iceland & EuroHealthNet
- Good Practice Portals: mapping and evaluating interventions for health promotion, disease prevention and equity across Europe - DoRS & EuroHealthNet
This issue of EuroHealthNet magazine features the most noteworthy projects and developments in the field of health equity and health promotion in Europe today, especially looking at how the public health community has responded to the health and social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and how it is planning to build back better.
Edition 15 covers:
- Three ways forward in a post COVID-19 world - EuroHealthNet editorial
- Learning the lessons of the past to restore the nation’s health and prevent widening health inequalities post-COVID-19 - The Health Foundation
- Supporting older people in remote areas in a post COVID-19 time - NIJZ & The University of Ljubljana
- Mental health of the French population during the COVID-19 pandemic: results of the CoviPrev survey - SPF (Also available in French)
- Local mental health support in Slovenia during COVID-19: setting up primary health care helplines - NIJZ
- Applying behavioural science in the battle against the coronavirus - RIVM
- The story from Italy: COVID-19 and inequity - ISS
- Using mHealth to empower patients to take control of their diabetes - NCPHA
- How to deliver interpersonal relationship counseling and addiction prevention to parents and children during a pandemic - Riga City Council
- A handbook for creating health-promoting home offices - FGÖ
- Gender-sensitive workplace health promotion: why it is important and how it can be implemented in practice - FGÖ
2019
This issue of EuroHealthNet magazine features the most noteworthy projects and developments in the field of health equity and health promotion of children and young people in Europe today.
Modern and dynanmic responses to public health challenges, explained by those working at the front line.
Edition 14 covers:
- Editorial: Where has 10 years of ‘solidarity in health’ left us?
- Talking “place” – a public health conversation for everyone? - By NHS Scotland
- Cities improving public health with public gardens - By ICLEI
- Delivering effective psychological support through shared understanding - By Ipso
- Working on the wellbeing of migrant children and their families - by Pharos
- Physical activity on prescription: Exporting 20 years of Swedish experience - By the Public Health Agency of Sweden
- Making the case for sustainable investment in wellbeing and health equity – A practical guide - By Public Health Wales
- Nutri-Score: The story so far - by Public Health France
This issue of EuroHealthNet magazine features the most noteworthy projects and developments in the field of health equity and health promotion of children and young people in Europe today.
Modern and dynanmic responses to public health challenges, explained by those working at the front line.
Edition 13 covers:
- Support children and families now to protect the health of adults tomorrow - an editorial by Caroline Costongs, EuroHealthNet Director
- Food aid and healthy nutrition programmes in school: what works? - by the DIATROFI Programme Research Team, Greece
- Two approaches to promoting healthy diets amongst children in Austria - by Mag. Melanie Bruckmüller, Nutritionist at the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, and Mag. Rita Kichler of the Austrian Health Promotion Foundation
- A system wide approach to improving outcomes in First 1000 days - by Angela Jones, Consultant in Public Health at the Cwm Taf Morgannwg Local Public Health Team
- Europe's Environmental Pollution & Children's Brain Development - by Kam Sripada, Ph.D., researcher based at CHAIN - Centre for Global health Inequalities Research
- The Positive Parenting Intervention in Spain - by Pilar Campos Estaban, Deputy Director of Health Promotion and Public Health Surveillance and Alberto Martín-Pérez Rodriguez, External Technical Officer, both at the Sub-directorate of Health Promotion and Public Surveillance at the General Direction of Public Health, Quality and Innovation
- An integrated health monitoring model for good, lifelong health - by Maria do Carmo Ferin Cunha, Chief Nursing Officer and Mafalda Lourenço, Social Development Coordinator, both at the Nossa Senhora de Bom Sucesso Foundation, Portugal
- Parenting is caring: a focus on Early Child Development interventions - on the behalf of the DoRS (Health Promotion Document Centre) working group on health inequalities and early childhood interventions, Italy
- Prevenire è prendersi cura: un focus sugli interventi di Early Child Development - per il gruppo di lavoro DORS, composto da psicologhe e documentaliste, che si occupa di disuguaglizante di salute e degli interventi sulla prima infanzia
- The Youth Aware of Mental Health (YAM) Programme: school-based mental health promotion and youth empowerment - by Vladimir Carli, senior lecturer in suicide prevention at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, and Camilla Wasserman, a doctor in Health Sciences with an MA in Anthropology
- Interactive e-coaching platform boots resilience of Flemish youth - by Anne Verlinden, a clinical psychologist working on mental health promotion at the Flanders Institute of Healthy Living
- The future starts early. It's time to invest in children's well-being - by Réka Tuyongi, head of advocacy at Eurochild, and Dorota Sienkiewicz, policy coordinator at EuroHealthNet
2018
EuroHealthNet magazine features the most noteworthy projects and developments in the field of health equity, and health promotion in Europe today.
Modern and dynamic responses to public health challenges, explained by those working at the front line.
Edition 12 covers:
- Inequalities on the rise - an editorial by Caroline Costongs, EuroHealthNet Director
- Good health now, but problems in store for the future? How the accumulation of health and social issues will affect the future health of vulnerable groups - by Henk Hilderink and Mariek Verschuuren of RIVM, the Netherlands
- What is the European Semester and how can it help health bodies? - by Alexandra Latham, Communications Coordinator at EuroHealthNet
- SAFE (Sexual Awareness for Everyone) Project - By Mandy Wilmot of Volunteering Matters
- Identifying similar health-related behaviour and attitudes in school children; the Hungarian experience - By Péter Csizmadia of the Hungarian Public Health Center
- Exploring the links between employment and health promotion within the German Prevention Act - by Frank Lehman of the German Center for Health Promotion and Health Education (BZgA). (Also available in German)
- Using the European Structural and Investment Funds to improve health - by Andrew Barnfield, Coordinator of the Practice platform at EuroHealthNet
- Improving health, environmental sustainability and equity at the local level through a focus on food systems - by Ingrid Stegeman, Program Manager at EuroHealthNet, and Marjolijn Vos of the Flemish Institute of Healthy Living
- How to transfer good practices in integrated care internationally: From self-assessment to knowledge transfer and improvement in care - By Dr Francesca Avolio of AReSS Puglia, and Donna Henderson and Dr Andrea Pavlickova of the Scottisch government
- Tackling undernutrition with a new food and nutrition label for care- and nursing homes - By Marc Delwaide of the Wallonian Agency for a Life of Quality. (also available in French)
EuroHealthNet magazine features the most noteworthy projects and developments in the field of health equity, and health promotion in Europe today.
Modern and dynamic responses to public health challenges, explained by those working at the front line.
Edition 11 covers:
- The “lifestyle drift” of health promotion - Editorial by Caroline Costongs, EuroHealthNet Director
- ProMIS: driving health promotion in Italy - By Antonio Maritati of the Veneto Region
- Sexuality Education – An essential contribution to young people’s health and well-being - By Nathalie Bélorgey of the German Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA)
- The European Social Fund – an instrument to reduce health inequalities - By Nikola Tilgale – Platace of the Riga City Council
- The role of art and culture in health care and health promotion - By Päivi Nykyri of the Finnish Federation for Social Affairs and Health and Kirsi Lajunen of the Arts Promotion Centre Finland
- Investment for Health and Wellbeing: a New WHO Collaborating Centre in Wales - By Professor Mark A Bellis and Dr Mariana Dyakova of Public Health Wales
- 100 Years of public health activities in Poland
- A new initiative on mental well-being and drug prevention in Norway - By Hildegunn Brattvåg and Ellen Paulssen of the Norwegian Directorate of Health
- Reducing School Failures: a road to health and sustainable regional development - By Elisabeth Bengtsson of Region Västra Götaland Sweden
- Don’t DWELL on it…take action! An individual, holistic approach to supporting people with type 2 diabetes - By Alice Chapman-Hatchett of the Health and Europe Centre
2017
EuroHealthNet magazine features the most noteworthy projects and developments in the field of health equity, and health promotion in Europe today.
Modern and dynamic responses to public health challenges, explained by those working at the front line.
Making the shift to prevention and promotion
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Digital Marketing to Children: a New Public Health Challenge
Companies are increasingly using digital channels to market products to children. Why is digital marketing so effective? Should we be concerned about [...]
The new food and activity triangles
New nutrition and physical activity guides have just been published by the Flemish Institute for Healthy Living. Designed to make every citizen [...]
Can social investment help the public sector become outcomes focused?
The Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SALAR) represents all local and regional authorities in Sweden. For the last six years [...]
Health Diplomacy – past, present and future
Interest in the topic of health diplomacy has been growing recently. This article describes how health diplomacy has developed , and considers [...]
Citizen Science in the Public Health field –win some, lose some
Can lay people do public health research? And if so, what would be the challenges and benefits? These questions were at the [...]
CHAIN – a new centre for the international study of socioeconomic inequalities in health
A new research centre focusing on global health inequalities was launched at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) on 23 [...]
Improving the health of people in isolated and vulnerable situations.
We are witnessing a general decline in the health of people in vulnerable and isolated situations. This article looks at the common challenges [...]
Linking International Health Cooperation and Migration: The Global Health Center of Tuscany Region
The Global Health Centre (GHC) facilitates the development of synergies among different groups of professionals working in the Tuscany Region in [...]
80 Ways to a more sustainable future
What kind of policies, practices or innovations are being applied across the EU that support people’s efforts to behave in ways that [...]
Addressing Health Inequalities faced by LGBTI people
On the 1st and 2nd of February 2018, during the Health4LGBTI conference in Brussels, the European Commission will launch a new and [...]
The EuroHealthNet magazine, published twice per year, highlights the most interesting projects and developments in the field of health promotion in Europe.
This edition covers:
- Social inclusion of older people through volunteering
- Smoke-Free Sports Stadia: A case study in implementing protective measures in the absence of legislation.
- Monitoring the Dutch National Prevention Program
- HiNEWS project: Health Inequalities in European Welfare States.
- The Swedish Experience of developing and Implementing a national mental health strategy, and efforts to prevent suicide.
- Combating food insecurity & Promoting Healthy Nutrition in schools in disadvantaged areas across Greece
- Spanish strategy on health promotion and prevention and its local implementation.
2016
The EuroHealthNet magazine highlights the most interesting projects and developments in the field of health promotion in Europe.
In this Issue:
- Health Promotion and prevention as part of primary care services in Hungary
- How the Netherlands and PHAROS are reducing health inequalities and improving health literacy
- The alcohol harm paradox – Or why alcohol related harm affects poor people more, although they drink less
- The Riga Initiative: Cross-border collaboration for healthier lifestyles and healthy tourism
- A multi-disciplinary and knowledge exchange approach to health promotion at the DoRS Centre, Italy
- TEAviisari, a tool for benchmarking health promotion capacity building in Finland
- 30 Years after the Ottawa Charter: Is it Still Relevant in the Face of Future Challenges for Health Promotion?
The EuroHealthNet magazine highlights the most interesting projects and developments in the field of health promotion in Europe
2015
The sixth edition of EuroHealthNet online magazine focuses on its members and partners activities. Focusing on the ways to move towards sustainable societies, this edition also shows what is done at national, regional and local levels to tackle health inequalities.
EuroHealthNet is very pleased to publish the fifth edition of its online magazine.This fifth edition reflects a wide variety of health promoting approaches, policies, events, research and developments by EuroHealthNet and its members. It is encouraging to see that in many places across Europe, there are committed professionals working and thinking innovatively about how to improve the health of people in their countries.
2014
This fourth edition of the EuroHealthNet online magazine reflects a wide variety of health promoting approaches, policies, events, research and developments by EuroHealthNet and its members and partners. It is encouraging to see that in many places across Europe, there are committed professionals working and thinking innovatively about how to improve the health of people in their countries.
Through the publication of its magazine, EuroHealthNet aims to explain its projects, its objectives and its ways of working. We hope you will enjoy reading our news and articles of our members will contribute to EuroHealthNet’s activities through your comments.
2013
Through the publication of its magazine, EuroHealthNet aims to explain its projects, its objectives and its ways of working. We hope you will enjoy reading our news and articles of our members will contribute to EuroHealthNet’s activities through your comments.
Through the publication of its magazine, EuroHealthNet aims to explain its projects, its objectives and its ways of working. We hope you will enjoy reading our news and articles of our members will contribute to EuroHealthNet’s activities through your comments.