Conferentie 'Reducing health inequalities from a regional perspective'

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Op 8 en 9 november 2010 organiseerde de Vlaamse overheid, in samenwerking met het Regions for Health Network (WHO-EURO) de conferentie "Reducing health inequalities from a regional perspective: what works, what doesn't work?". Zo’n 270-tal deelnemers bogen zich samen met Europese, internationale, Vlaamse en andere regionale sprekers over de doeltreffendheid van beleidsmaatregelen en initiatieven om gezondheidsongelijkheden terug te dringen.

Conclusies

• Conclusies van de conferentie (PDF)
• Verslag Vlaamse namiddag: Aanzet tot een Vlaams beleid inzake gezondheidsongelijkheden (PDF)

Presentaties dag 1

• Picture of health inequities in European regions (PDF) - Prof Peter Goldblatt
• Health in all policies. Engaging in all spheres of governance (PDF) - Dave Wilcox
• Moving forward equity in health: monitoring social determinants of health and the reduction of health inequalities. Initiative of Spain during its Presidency of the Council of the European Union under the trio ES-BE-HU 2010–2011 (PDF) - Dr Enrique Terol García
• Statement on the lessons learned in Europe (PDF) - Dr Erio Ziglio
• Evidence based initiatives to remove inequity: consider the complexity and look into methodologically justified evaluation methods (PDF) - Prof Margaret Whitehead
• Tackling the gradient in health: towards developing an evaluation framework (PDF) - Aagje Ieven
• Tackling health inequalities through intersectoral action – an example from a region: steps towards policy development (PDF) - Dr Harry Burns
• Inequalities in health: a strategy to narrow the health gap (PDF) - Johan Alleman 
• Bridging the Science - Policy Gap, with an emphasis on working life (PDF) - Lennart Levi 
• Closing the gap in reality (PDF) - Sir Michael Marmot

Presentaties dag 2

• If I were a president (PDF) - Ivo Nuyens
• European perspective on how to proceed: role of the regions (PDF) - Charles Price
• Future prospects for the Regions for Health Network of the World Health Organisation (PDF) - Dr Erio Ziglio

Workshop 1: Equity from the start (focus op kinderen)

• Strategies for tackling the health gradient in children. The impact of the local community (PDF) - Prof Lea Maes
• Family supporters make a difference (PDF) - Rudy De Cock
• Promoting healthy food and physical activity in primary schools and neighbourhoods (PDF) - Inge Kelchtermans
• Healthy School (PDF) - Carina Kainz
• Conclusions workshop 1 (PDF)

Workshop 2: Gender equity (focus op vrouwen)

• Gender Equity: an introduction (PDF) - Piroska Ostlin
• Tackling health inequalities in women with disability within the Program for Humanization of perinatal Care in Andalusia (PDF) - Syra Borras Pruneda
• Providing education on sexual and reproductive health to vulnerable migrants through civic integration programme in Flanders: opportunities and obstacles (PDF) - Thomas Demyttenaere
• Conclusions workshop 2 (PDF)

Workshop 3: Fair employment and decent work (focus op kwetsbare groepen)

• Key considerations on fair employment and decent work (PDF) - Luc Zelderloo
• MostVital (PDF) - Christina Hönickl
• Improving Health and Reducing Inequalities Through Work (PDF) - Yvonne Clarke 
• Because holidays are for every one (PDF) - Marianne Schapmans
• Conclusions workshop 3 (PDF)

Workshop 4: Universal health care - access to health care

• Policy into practice programme: health in local government (PDF) - Annemie Coëme  
• Community oriented care (PDF) - Leen De Roo 
• Liverpool Cancer Awareness and early diagnosis (PDF) - Tony Mercer
• Conclusions workshop 4 (PDF)

Workshop 5: Universal health care - health promotion

• ‘Quit-it-bus’ – The Greater Manchester Public Health Network’s Preventing Heart Disease and Stroke Campaign (PDF) - Anthony Threlfall
• ‘Uitgerookt?’ (PDF) - Françoise Roelandts
• Train-the-Trainer for healthier lives (PDF) - Sheillann Monaghan
• Conclusions workshop 5 (PDF)

Workshop 6: Inequalities and psychiatry

• Bottlenecks in mental health care. The iceberg as a metaphor (PDF) - Tinne Vandensande
• The relation between mental health and poverty within the walls of a psychiatric institution (PDF) - Dominique Danau
• The potential role of social services in providing integrated care on mental health and welfare (PDF) - Ann Desmet 
• KOPP OP! – A regional project to prevent mental health problems in children of parents with psychiatric illness (PDF) - Peter Emmery   
• Addressing inequalities in mental health: building blocks for regional policies to promote mental health and equity (PDF) - Stephan Van den Broucke 
• Conclusions workshop 6 (PDF)

Vlaamse namiddag

• Discussienota Vlaamse namiddag met stellingen (PDF)
• Aanzet tot een Vlaams beleid inzake gezondheidsongelijkheden (PDF)
• Gezondheidsongelijkheden in Vlaanderen. Facts & Figures (PDF) - Herman Van Oyen
• Ongelijk gezond (PDF) - Johan Alleman