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Thematic Network Innovation for age-friendly environments in the European Union (AFE-INNOVNET)
Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2016,
The overarching goal of AFE-INNOVNET is to set up a large EU wide community of local and regional authorities (LRAs) and other relevant stakeholders who want to work together to find smart and innovative evidence based solutions to support active and healthy ageing and develop age-friendly environments (AFE).Many innovative solutions supporting active and healthy ageing have been developed as pilo ...
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Intervention Research On Health Literacy among Ageing population (IROHLA)
Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2015,
The IROHLA project aims at innovating the conceptual understanding of health literacy interventions in Europe. Health literacy is one of the social determinants of health and reflects how well persons can understand, digest and critically reflect on information with regard to health and illness. People with sufficient health literacy skills are able to act proactively on health issues, take their ...
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"DRIVERS: Addressing the strategic Determinants to Reduce health Inequality Via 1) Early childhood development, 2) Realising fair employment, and 3) Social protection" (DRIVERS)
Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2015,
"There is evidence that social gradients in health exist both between and within countries. This research proposal will build on the recommendations of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) and the Marmot Review of Health Inequalities, as well as on two European reviews commissioned by the EC and WHO Europe that are currently underway. It will focus on three of the key drivers to ...
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Social Platform identifying Research and Policy needs for Sustainable Lifestyles (SPREAD)
Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2012,
The concept of sustainable lifestyles refers to patterns of behaviour shaped by personal and social interactions and conditioned by environmental and socio-economic contexts that aim at improving well-being and health of present and future generations. Sustainable lifestyles embrace economic, social, technical, cultural, legal and environmental aspects at individual, local, national, EU and intern ...
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Tackling the Gradient: Applying Public Health Policies to Effectively Reduce Health Inequalities amongst Families and Children (GRADIENT)
Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2012,
"Health inequalities are currently regarded as one of the most important public health challenges in the EU. There is however not sufficient knowledge of what actions are effective to reduce the gradient in health inequalities. 'Tackling the Gradient' aims to address this, to ensure that political momentum is maintained and that operational strategies can be developed to make progress on this issu ...
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