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 …
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Good Practice Portals: mapping and evaluating interventions for health promotion, disease prevention and equity across Europe
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 …
Prevenire e contrastare la violence interpersonale
La violenza domestica è un problema ovunque in Europa, ulteriormente aggravatata dalle recenti misure di lockdown. In Toscana, Italia, diversi servizi lavorano assieme per prevenire e curare la violenza interpersonale …
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Materiales de apoyo para afrontar el duelo en tiempos de coronavirus en España
Las situaciones de duelo en el contexto de la pandemia por COVID-19 han sido y siguen siendo momentos en los que las personas necesitan un apoyo especial. El trabajo realizado …
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Supporting older people in remote areas in a post COVID-19 time
During the pandemic, access to healthcare has been limited and we have been forced to become more isolated. Under these conditions, how can we help older people to live independent …
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Local mental health support in Slovenia during COVID-19: setting up primary health care helplines
In Slovenia, health promotion centers – embedded within all primary care centers – are the main providers of preventive and health-promotion services, including mental health services. Soon after the pandemic …
The story from Italy: COVID-19 and inequity
Italy was the first European country to be hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. While the rest of the world watched, staff at the Italian National Institute of Health were under …
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Using mHealth to empower patients to take control of their diabetes
A pilot study has taken place to examine how mHealth can empower people to adhere to diet, exercise, and medication plans to manage their disease. Experts from the Bulgarian National …
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How to deliver interpersonal relationship counseling and addiction prevention to parents and children during a pandemic
Riga City Council started providing remote psycho-emotional support to families and teachers for the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic, to try to mitigate some of the effects of additional …
A handbook for creating health-promoting home offices
As working from home becomes the norm for many, how can employees be supported to develop health-promoting home offices? Experts from Austria have created a handbook, explained here. Written …
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Gender-sensitive workplace health promotion: why it is important and how it can be implemented in practice
Sex and gender are important determinants of health, but we often lack criteria for effective gender-sensitive work place health promotion. A team at the Austrian Health Promotion Fund are working …
Delivering effective psychological support through shared understanding
Value Based Counselling was designed as short-term psychological support in emergency situations when other services were not available. Today, its method of using shared cultural backgrounds and experiences amongst counsellors …
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Working on the wellbeing of migrant children and their families
To help migrant children to thrive in new environments Pharos is delivering support to careers and teachers. Their efforts aim to both support children’s development, and to reduce inequalities. By …
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Food aid and healthy nutrition programmes in schools: what works?
What is the best way to reduce food insecurity and obesity in schools? That’s one of the main questions studied by the DIATROFI programme. Since 2012 more than 110,000 students …
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