According to Barnardo’s, an international survey of children’s well-being reveals the eight-year-olds in England are less happy than those in Romania, Poland and Algeria. England ranks 13 out of 16 countries when it comes to children’s life satisfaction, with only South Korea, Nepal and Ethiopia faring worse. More than 17,000 children from 16 countries were […]
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Quality Action is the EU co-funded ‘Joint Action on Improving Quality in HIV Prevention’ involving 45 partner organisations from 26 Member States. It promotes practical tools and materials to maximise the quality of HIV prevention projects and programmes. Five practical quality improvement tools are ready, and more than 80 practical applications of the tools have
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Based on the available scientific evidence, the EU’s independent scientific committee has published its preliminary opinion that ultraviolet radiation (UVR) is a complete carcinogen, both an initiator, and a promoter. There is strong evidence that sunbed exposure causes skin melanoma, squamous cell carcinoma and, to a lesser extent, basal cell carcinoma, especially when exposure starts
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This European initiative wanted to promote healthy lifestyles and took a fun and upbeat approach to healthy eating, focusing on 6 messages: Enjoy shopping for a healthy meal Enjoy cooking Enjoy eating together Enjoy drinking water Enjoy colourful fruits and vegetables Enjoy physical exercise Although aimed at the general public, the project was targeted to
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The World Health Assembly recently adopted a global target for all countries to renew their efforts to halt the rise of obesity in children under 5 by 2025. The Commission’s recommendations to address childhood obesity cover six areas: promotion of intake of healthy foods; promotion of physical activity; preconception and pregnancy care; early childhood diet and
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Cancer incidence is rising in the WHO European Region – the total number of new cancer cases diagnosed in 2012 was 3.7 million, and the number is estimated to increase by 25{ddf8d179d1bf712bb2a88ff2ad95ebdf63eaa5463c845d2f093b25848387ba96} by 2030, to reach 4.6 million. WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has issued a new edition of a code of
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Europeans are living longer but high levels of tobacco and alcohol consumption, combined with rising obesity could mean that the life expectancy of future generations will fall. Download the report
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March 2015. This was the closing conference of the IMPRESS Health 2 project. The programme includes speaker details and the presentations are listed in the order they were delivered. The reasons for the project Faiza Khan Research overview Stephen O’Connor and Philippe Lorenzo Intervention overview Mun-Yee Tung Intervention 01 Jean-Luc Schmit Intervention
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June 2014. All the evidence shows that investing in the health and wellbeing of our children and young people brings life-long benefits – not only to the young people themselves but also to their families and wider society. Attendees at this seminar had the opportunity to hear examples from the UK and abroad of good
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Fewer people are dying from stroke and heart attacks than before, but rising levels of obesity and diabetes, particularly among younger people, are going to push mortality rates higher, according to a new OECD report. Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes: Policies for Better Health and Quality of Care points out that although there has been a
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