This chapter describes the health status of EU citizens, including trends in life expectancy, the main causes of death, health inequalities, the occurrence of communicable and chronic diseases, and mental health issues. It shows modifiable risk factors to health, including smoking, alcohol consumption, illicit drug use, unhealthy nutrition, lack of physical […]

anytime, online. The Clinical Management of Patients with COVID-19 course series is developed for healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The course provides crucial knowledge necessary to provide safe, effective quality patient care.  The course series consists of 6 courses, which include video lectures and downloadable presentations that have been […]

anytime, online. The COVID-19 pandemic affects older people disproportionately, especially those living in long-term care facilities (LTCF) with significant impact on mortality and morbidity. Concerted action is needed to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 by enhancing infection prevention and control (IPC) measures within LTCF. In many countries, long-term care facilities […]

11th to 15th January 2021, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Due to COVID-19, the 2020 Health Systems Summer Institute will be offered through the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 2021 Winter Institute session on January 11-15, 2021. All courses are expected to be offered again during the 2021 Summer Institute […]

Even though the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that “immunization is one of modern medicine’s greatest success stories” with around 2 to 3 million deaths prevented every year, in 2019 WHO rated vaccine hesitancy as one of the 10 biggest threats to global health worldwide. The session on Vaccine […]

by Simon Raffl. Before the beginning of my 6th year at the Medical University of Vienna, I decided to do an additional internship somewhere abroad, and I eventually chose to go to Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand. I was eager to work in an English-speaking environment, and my interest […]

Call for newcomer applications for the Young Forum Gastein (YFG) 2020 The European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) is pleased to announce it will once more offer a limited number of scholarships to young professionals working in the field of health to enable their participation in the #EHFG2020 conference as YFG […]

4th March to 15th April 2020, online challenge. The World Health Organization (WHO), supported by the UN Office of Information and Communications Technology (UN-OICT) and UNAIDS challenge you to use your bright minds and entrepreneurial skills to address one of the urgent health challenges for the next decade : Keeping young people safe.  The range […]

17th to 20th June 2020, Torino, Italy. The EACR annual congress brings together thousands of cancer researchers in a four day congress dedicated to basic, preclinical and translational cancer research across a wide breadth of topics.  It will highlight the latest research and bring together the cancer research community to […]

WHO Europe, Helsinki, Copenhagen, 11th November 2019. Engaging with the arts can be beneficial for both mental and physical health. This is a key conclusion of a new report from the WHO Regional Office for Europe analysing the evidence from over 900 global publications – the most comprehensive review of […]