Join the opportunity to exchange, learn and improve on Empowerment, Community Building, Health Literacy and Education! Was the slogan of this Symposium helt in Utrecht, The Netherlands last November 2019. The centre for empowering people and communities (CEmPaC) and Gezondheidspact Utrecht organized this one day symposium as part of the Utrecht Health week. The organization of…
On 20 March a consortium of industry, patients, politicians and NGOs launched a manifesto with a few ideas for the new European Commission. A the event in the European Parliament all invited speakers acknowledged the importance of health in citizens’ wellbeing and the added value of a cross-sectoral approach. In order to achieve a social…
As advised on our Newsflash of Feb. 12th, EHFF has offered a small team to assess a quality tool being used in WP7 of the current Joint Action. There will be 5 site visits, the first of which we are now reporting on. Basia Kutryba has just visited Finland with colleagues from EPF and the…
The EHFF managed project CEMPaC (see website: www.cempac.org) presented a pre-conference workshop on Wednesday 13th, hosted by Jim Phillips and Jeni Bremner, co-Directors of this European Patient Empowerment initiative on ‘Collective Health Literacy- Empowering communities to become health Literate’. It was well attended and there was good interaction between the participants. The following summary of…
By Bernie Merkel, Community Member EHFF It sounded simple enough: the invitation was to write about one major health issue of the last twenty years, what if anything it has taught us, and how things could and should change in the next ten to twenty years. But the problem is that there are so many…
Podcast 1: Climate obligations – our children are wakening We’re very pleased to launch our new podcast series, Beyond the Obvious, which is co-organised by Feasta and the European Health Futures Forum. The hosts, Seán O’Conláin and Caroline Whyte, will explore a range of topics with guests from a wide variety of backgrounds. There will be…
Blog by David Goldberg At the end of last year, Dr Atul Gawande wrote an article in the Medical Journal ‘Annals of Medicine’ which caused sufficiently interest to be reprinted in the New Yorker magazine. The link to the whole article is here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-hate-their-computers Essentially this is a thought piece about the benefits and is…
Here at EHFF we have always been very invested in supporting good mental health and mental health care. We were rather disappointed at the start of the PROSTEP project that the Commission wouldn’t agree to the Consortium including mental health as one of the key chronic disease areas to be studied in the context of…
The EHFF has been invited to support Chrodis Plus WP7. Work package 7 of the Chrodis Plus Joint Action is entitled ‘fostering quality of care for people with chronic disease’. The Work package leaders have asked EHFF, as a collaborating partner in the action, to assist them in part of the work package (led by…
We would like your attention for the following. A very interesting project called Complex Urban Systems for Sustainability and Health (CUSSH). This is a four-year Wellcome Trust funded project led by Prof Mike Davis (UCL) with Prof Susan Michie (CBC) as a Co-Investigator. The project aims to bring about city-wide transformations to reduce carbon emissions…