JA-CHRODIS health promotion webinar

JA-CHRODIS HEALTH PROMOTION: GOOD PRACTICES AND TRANSFERABILITY IN THE FIELD OF HEALTH PROMOTION AND CHRONIC DISEASES PREVENTION ACROSS THE LIFE CYCLE

The second JA-CHRODIS webinar took place on Tuesday, 11th of October, from 14-15h (CET).

Alexander Haarmann from the German Federal Center for Health Education (BZgA), task leader of the Health Promotion and Disease Prevention work package, provided an overview of the outcomes & results achieved.

BACKGROUND

Many chronic diseases are preventable, or their onset can be delayed, through policies and interventions that address modifiable individual and social risk factors. Yet only 3% of health costs in EU Member States are presently invested in prevention measures, whereas about 97% are spent on treatment.

The EU REFLECTION PROCESS ON CHRONIC DISEASES (September 2013) identified the potential that lies in systematically mapping, validating and transferring good practices that exist across the EU in relation to health promotion and primary prevention of chronic disease.

The Health Promotion work package worked to develop this potential, focusing on cardiovascular diseases, stroke and type 2 diabetes. The work has taken into account lifestyles and health-related behaviour as well as the socioeconomic determinants that influence them.

More information on JA-CHRODIS website: www.chrodis.eu