This category includes articles about public health projects and interventions that aim to reduce health inequalities and the effect of socioeconomic position and social determinants on health status.
CBO is a not-for-profit research organisation and has expertise in health promotion and quality improvement in health care. CBO was founded in 1979 as Central Accompagnement Organization for peer review …
Continue reading “Netherlands – Dutch Institute for Healthcare Improvement (CBO)”
A strategy for equity in health has been under development in Germany since 2001. This is co-ordinated by the Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA) acting as the central coordinating …
Continue reading “Municipal Partner Process: “Healthy Growing Up for All!””
On the 20th February 2013, the European Commission adopted its long-awaited Social Investment Package (SIP) for Growth and Cohesion. The SIP builds on the idea that welfare systems have contributed …
Continue reading “Investing in human capital, a game-changer for Europe”
The Equity Action final conference will take place in Brussels, Belgium, on 23rd January 2014 at the European Commission. Experts on health inequalities, officials and policy makers from Member States and …
Protecting and promoting health in the workplace is of the utmost importance given the centrality of work to many Europeans. Work provides a source of income and social protection, helps …
Continue reading “Healthy Workforce: A key component of our lives”
Health Inequalities are a complex phenomenon, and entail lower life-spans and healthy-life years for millions of people in the EU. They undermine quality of life, well-being, the principle of solidarity, …
Continue reading “What is being done to tackle Health Inequalities in the EU?”
In 2020, cervical cancer accounted for 2.5% of all new cancer cases diagnosed in women (excluding non-melanomxa skin cancers). It was also responsible for the deaths of 2.4% of women …
Continue reading “Increasing uptake: the impact of Slovakia’s free HPV vaccination rollout”
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