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The European Health Literacy Conference
Museum of Natural Science, Brussels November 22 -23, 2011
WHCA introduced system scorecard approach concepts to the meeting and will help with report finding dissemination. 150 people from more than 20 countries took part in the conference and discussed the developments and policy impacts of the health literacy survey results, which were launched. European Commissioner for health John Dalli opened the conference which was endorsed by several members of the European Parliament: Christofer Fjellner, Karin Kadenbach, Pat the Cope Gallagher and Antoniya Parvanova. [read more...]
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9th International Dialogue on Population and Sustainable Development
Education Matters: Empowering Young People for a Healthy Future
Berlin, KfW, October 19 – 20, 2011
WHCA staff engaged small group activities in the Market place and World Café sessions aimed at capturing their collective wisdom and experience in advocating, implementing, sustaining and strengthening human rights approaches to sexual and reproductive health.
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Communicable disease prevention among Roma
28-29 November 2011, Rainers hotel, Vienna (Austria)
WHCA supplied background research paper, planning, facilitation and rapporteur services in this international conversational conference whose scope was two-fold:
- to share best practices and lessons learned in improving access of Roma population to public health programs to prevent communicable diseases, by bringing together key stakeholders from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Spain with experience in working with and for Roma.
- to provide an opportunity of identifying ways of improving health seeking behaviour and empowering Roma people to take part in the processes affecting their health considering the social, historical, cultural and behavioural context.
Thus the overall aim of the meeting was to provide a forum for discussion on how knowledge and experiences could be used to stimulate the use of preventive services in the area of communicable diseases. [read more about ECDC]
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Facilitating training workshops and meetings: an in-house communication workshop
11-12 October 2011, ECDC, Stockholm - Sweden
WHCA has organised and conducted a 2-day workshop at ECDC.
The aims of workshop:
1. To explore the role of facilitators in training workshops and meetings.
2. To review current, and introduce alternative ways to organise and run training workshops and meetings.
3. To gain practical experience in using different facilitation and meeting organisational approaches.
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Tackling seasonal flu in Europe: Success stories from European countries
13 October 2011, ECDC, Stockholm - Sweden
WHCA moderated discussions at the ECDC 2nd influenza immunisation behavioural and communication workshop that intended to identify, analyse and discuss various communication actions that — in some countries — have contributed to enhanced influenza vaccination coverage.