Gesundheit inklusiv: Betriebliche Gesundheitsförderung für Mitarbeiter mit Beeinträchtigungen

  Karina Lattner and Gert Lang

Die Lebens- und Arbeitssituation für Menschen mit Beeinträchtigungen weisen zwar spezifische Rahmenbedingungen der gesundheitlichen Ungleichheit auf, sind jedoch häufig von Aktivitäten und Methoden der Betrieblichen Gesundheitsförderung exkludiert. Ein innovatives BGF-Projekt …

Workplace health promotion for employees with disabilities: introducing ‘Health Inclusive’

  Karina Lattner and Gert Lang

The living and working conditions of people with disabilities are linked to health inequalities, but the same people are often excluded from activities and methods of workplace health promotion. An …

The role of the voluntary and community sector in addressing health inequity in Wales

  Alisha Davies, Richard Kyle, Daniel Jones and Alice Willatt

Emerging Drivers of Vulnerability to Health Inequity in the Context of COVID-19:  Perspectives and response from the Voluntary and Community Sector in Wales A new report, funded by Public Health …

Beyond COVID-19, can the world address the challenges of childhood infectious diseases and inequalities?

  Elodie Besnier

Despite massive progresses in the last decades, infectious diseases remain a major threat to young children’s life and health in low- and middle-income countries. This burden affects children unequally, with …

Oral health and public health: the effects and costs of Periodontitis

  José João Mendes, João Botelho, Vanessa Machado, Bjorn Klinge, António Pedro Alves de Matos and Gil Alcoforado

Periodontitis, a gum condition related to plaque, is one of the world’s most prevalent health conditions – although lower income groups suffer the most. It affects the whole body, and …

Designing a model of healthcare for migrant agricultural workers

  Giovanni Gorgoni, Marco Marsano, Giuseppe Memola and Ettore Attolini

In Italy’s hot and rural south, migrants are working the land.  Their social, economic, and legal status – coupled with a lack of understanding of and access to the health …

Living, working, and COVID-19: how the lives of women and young people have changed

  Anna Gallinat

 Since COVID-19 arrived in Europe, Eurofound has been researching how the pandemic is changing the way we work and live. Here they summarise some of their findings on gender inequalities …

Health promoting hospitals and health services – even more important during the pandemic

  Dr. Rainer Christ and Birgit Metzler

For 30 years, health promoting hospitals have been helping to re-orient health services towards health promotion and prevention. Their vision is of comprehensive and ambitious organisation-wide reforms. Guidance has been …

Good Practice Portals: mapping and evaluating interventions for health promotion, disease prevention and equity across Europe

  Luisella Gilardi and Alison Maassen

Good practice portals help practitioners, policy makers and researchers to find evaluated tools and interventions. Here, we look at the development of one portal in Italy.  This portal focuses on …

Learning the lessons of the past to restore the nation’s health and prevent widening health inequalities post-COVID-19

  Rita Ranmal and Tim Elwell-Sutton

A healthy population is one of any nation’s most important assets. We have known for a long time that not everyone has the same opportunity to access the things they …