International Day of Families

Today is Family Day, all over the world workshops, seminars, policy meetings, exhibitions and events to raise awareness of the importance of families are being organized. This year’s theme is: “Ensuring work family balance.”

This year’s International Day of Families highlights the need for work-family balance. The aim is to help workers everywhere provide for their families financially and emotionally, while also contributing to the socio-economic development of their societies.” United Nations (UN), Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

In 1993 a UN resolution was adopted to reflect the importance of families and securing their status within … Read more

Share

European Patient’s Rights Day

Today marks the 6th European Patients’ Rights Day and this years theme is: “Active Ageing citizens at the center of EU health policy”. Active Citizens Network  is organizing events on 15th and 16th of May in Brussels to bring attention to active ageing of European citizens.

Due to demographic transition the number of citizens above 65 is rapidly increasing. According to WHO Europe, median age of Europeans is already the highest in the world, and the proportion of people aged 65 and older is forecast to increase from 14% in 2010 to 25% in 2050. If you … Read more

Share

European Heart Failure Awareness Day 2012

heartfailureawarenessdayOn 11th, 12th and 13th of May (depending on the country) Heart Failure Awareness Days across Europe are organized.

What is Heart Failure? Heart failure is a condition, were the heart is no longer able to pump enough blood in a sufficient matter around the body. It is often a result of coronary heart disease, heart attack or high blood pressure, conditions having a weakening impact on the heart. Symptoms may be shortness of breath, coughing, weight gain, swollen ankles, tiredness, weakness or rapid hear rate. Heart failure is a chronic condition but by adapting your … Read more

Share

Welcome HEIDI

Who is Heidi? Heidi is a little girl living in the Swiss mountains with her grandfather and her stories are told in one of the most famous children books but this is not a story about her. It’s about: Health in Europe Information and Data Interface.

On Wednesday the 6th October 2010 DG SANCO gave a workshop at the European Health Forum Gastein introducing HEIDI. The innovative European health information system was presented and sources which will feed into the system introduced. In an interactive discussion, participants could express their expectations and needs, … Read more

Share

Growing stronger together

Today, we celebrate EUROPE day. On 9th of May 1950, the French foreign minister Robert Schuman, read a declaration in front of international press, calling France, Germany and other European countries to pool their coal and steel production together.
His proposal was to create a supranational European Institution managing the coal and steel industry, leading to the creation of the European Coal and Steel community, forming the grounding stones of what we now know to be the European Union (EU). Founding members of the EU were Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. In 1957 the European … Read more

Share
Page 1 of 8012345...102030...Last »