scholarly journals Infographic as a form of communication in public health

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
L Machala Poplašen ◽  
Ž Draušnik ◽  
D Vočanec ◽  
H Brborović
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
International Labour Organisation ◽  
Work Related ◽  
The World ◽  
Forced Labour

Abstract Background Infographics are a communication tool used in the digital environment that can present information, data or knowledge in an easy and understandable way to a wider audience. The aim of this study was to analyze if, and in which areas of public health, infographics are used as a form of communication in Croatia in relation to the world. Methods The research analyses available infographics of leading institutions in public health in relation to Croatia and the world. Results Visualization of key information is an accustomed concept in public health with infographics being a recognizable form of communication and an important part of digital health. However, only a small number of infographics in public health in Croatia are used. Infographics published in Croatia were mainly about exercise, cancer, ageing and stress. In the European Union, the topics found were aging, risk assessment, harassment/violence in the workplace and work-related stress. Infographics from the world addressed child labour, youth employment, gender equality, better work, dialogue promotion, migrant workforce, migration, domestic workers and safety at work. Moreover, International Labour Organisation made interactive media containing infographics - infostories - with topics: young workers, gender gap, migrants, non-standard employment, disability inclusion, forced labour and collective bargaining. Conclusions We suggest to include more public health topics and to raise awareness among Croatian public health experts on the importance of infographics as a form of communication. Key messages Visualization of key statistical data in the style of infographics enables public health professionals to educate their employees and the public. Infographics are excellent tools for communicating important topics and are more likely to drive action and change behavior.

scholarly journals Workshop: EUPHA and Europe-wide action on digital public health

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Health System Strengthening ◽  
World Health ◽  
Collaborative Action ◽  
European Public ◽  
The World

Abstract The World Health Assembly Resolution on Digital Health unanimously approved by WHO Member States in May 2018 demonstrated a collective recognition of the value of digital technologies to contribute to advancing universal health coverage (UHC) and other health aims of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The World Health Organization has just released first ever guideline on digital interventions for health system strengthening. Et the European level, in June 2018 the WHO Regional Office for Europe launched the WHO/Europe initiative for Digitalization of Health Systems and in February 2019 organized the first Symposium on the Future of Digital Health Systems in the European Region. The European Commission in April 2018 published a Communication on Digital transformation of health and care in the digital single market and requested the Expert Panel on effective ways of investing in health (EXPH) to release an evidence-based opinion on how to assess the impact of digital transformation of health services. In such context, the European Public Health Association (EUPHA) has at an early stage acknowledged and understood the crucial importance of applying the potential offered by digitalization to public health. Not only its most prominent members work and research as WHO and EC experts on how to plan, implement and evaluate effective digital public health interventions, but EUPHA itself - as umbrella organization representing public health associations and institutes across Europe had: i) actively participated to the WHO Euro Symposium successfully co-organizing a session on the ‘beautiful marriage’ between digitalization and public health, ii) supported the publication of a EJPH supplement on digital health and iii) has planned to create a EUPHA Section on Digital Health. With the overall goal of positioning the proposed EUPHA Section on Digital Health in the enriching and constructive context of the European Public Health Conference the workshop specifically aims to: present a comprehensive conceptual framework for the application of digital technologies to public health in Europe;present and report on EUPHA collaborative action on digital health, aligned with European institutions;present the structure and content of the EJPH supplement on digital health;present the general aim, specific objectives, scope, mission and preliminary outputs of the proposed EUPHA Section on Digital Health, as well as its synergy with other EUPHA’s Section workPresent the results of two/three specific projects on digital public health to serve as concrete examples of the application of digital solutions to public healthEngage with the audience to promote the active participation of the broader EUPHA community to the activities of the Section, collect interests and best practices, and share ideas and projects worth scaling up at the Section-level. Key messages The ‘beautiful marriage’ between digitalization and public health has to be concretely planned, implemented and evaluated. EUPHA action on digital public health can be further strengthened through the collaborative action and work of its dedicated Section.

Legal Aspects of Protecting the State Border of the Republic of Poland during Pandemics

2020 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 189-204
Author(s):  
Robert Socha
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
The State ◽  
World Health ◽  
Border Control ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The World ◽  
The Republic ◽  
International Threat

The problems raised in this article focus on the issues related to the solutions adopted by the Polish legislator as to the protection of the state border in the context of an international threat. The author presents the legal conditions related to the probability of temporary reintroduction of border control for persons crossing the state border regarded as an internal border of the European Union in the event of a threat to public health. The background for these considerations are legal regulations concerning the change in the organization of the protection of the state border of the Republic of Poland, as introduced due to the World Health Organization’s announcement of the pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus leading to the COVID-19 disease.

scholarly journals 3.E. Workshop: The Role of Digital Public Health in the European Climate Pact and Green deal

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (Supplement_3) ◽  
Author(s):  
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Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Digital Systems ◽  
World Health ◽  
Director General ◽  
European Climate ◽  
The World ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
The Impact

Abstract   Europe is facing two major structural changes: the climate crisis, having a significant impact on public health, and digitalization of the economy, that could play a role in mitigating climate change and its impacts on public health. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected our lives in many ways including how we see public health, the climate change and has created the conditions for the almost exponential growth for telemedicine and digitalization in healthcare. Underlining that the world is facing an increasing innovation and integration of digital tools to address public health and environmental problems, as the UN Secretary-General and the Director-General of the World Health Organization both declared that we are currently fighting a climate “pandemic” in the same way as we are fighting COVID-19. Digital solutions have been implemented to address COVID-19 and impacted by reducing CO2 emissions and improving quality of life. Digital systems, including Artificial Intelligence, robots and drones, are now changing the paradigm of public health and environment management. Due to the complex nature of the information ecosystem our societies and communities live in, a digital public health approach can be managed to reduce harm to individual, community and population health, support social cohesion and trust in emergency response and interventions to deal with climate change. Digital health could, within 10 years establish a new paradigm in public and environmental health. Public health professionals need urgently to tackle digital health to bridge the gap with others areas of healthcare. During the COVID-19 crisis, national public health authorities have been challenged in the way they communicate with the public, engage with communities in collecting data to improve response, providing the scientific evidence, the day-to-day facts and figures. Likewise, The European Climate Pact provides a space for collectively develop and implement climate solutions. The Climate Pact is an open, inclusive and evolving initiative for climate action through an online platform and citizen dialogues and exchanges, it will foster the link between the digital and green transition. This workshop aims to share the experiences of digital public health interventions with significant impact on climate change mitigation during the pandemic. It will be organised as a round table, starting by setting the scene with an introduction to key digital health concepts and challenges. Each speaker will give a short pitch on how they have experienced the challenge of using digital systems in public health and how they approached its management during the crisis. This will be followed by a panel discussion. Participants will have ample time to ask questions to the panellists. The workshop will end with a summary of a selection of tools participants can use in their own environmental management activities and key take home messages from the panellist will be provided as a conclusion. Key messages Digital Public Health has been establishing evidence on interventions with significant effects on reducing the impact of climate crisis. A Partnership is needed across the health system and society to manage this crisis. European Green Deal and Climate Pact could be used as a roadmap in digital public health.

scholarly journals Rethinking Europe: the Lithuanian Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-119
Author(s):  
Violeta Motulaitė
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
European Union ◽  
Lisbon Treaty ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
European Unity ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Eu

The initiative of the Conference on the Future of Europe (CFE) stems out of the necessity to re-evaluate the European Union project after the Brexit, the wave of populism and nationalism and the changing geopolitical environment in the world, as well as to reflect upon the European unity ten years after the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty. As mentioned in this Franco – German initiative, it was meant to address all issues at stake and guide the future of Europe with a view to turning the EU more united and sovereign. It should have focused on policies and it should have identified the main reforms to be implemented as a matter of priority in each block of policies, setting out the types of changes to be made. The current public health crisis has redefined the problems and priorities of the EU. Some issues have become less topical, some have remained relevant and some have emerged as high priorities only now.

scholarly journals The Role of a Medicalized Discourse in the Global Activities of the World Health Organization

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 173-191
Author(s):  
Marta Hoffmann
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
European Union ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
World Health ◽  
Tobacco Policy ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

This article presents selected results of a research project entitled Medicalization strategies of the World Health Organization1 in which the author analyzed and described three WHO policies characterized by a medicalizing approach. These three policies were compared with each other in terms of their conceptual (narrative) and institutional (practical) levels of medicalization and their effects. In order to better understand the role of a medicalized discourse in the global activities of the WHO, these three cases were also compared to one non-medicalizing policy. The aim of this article is twofold: firstly, to present two cases analyzed as part of the project, namely, the tobacco policy (a ‘medicalized’ one) and the ageing policy (a ‘non-medicalized’ one) and secondly, to consider the possible influence of WHO discourse on tobacco and ageing on public health policies in the European Union.

TEMPORARY PROTECTION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

2019 ◽  
pp. 238
Author(s):  
Inese Stepule
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
European Union ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Temporary Protection ◽  
The People ◽  
The World

Due to social and economic changes in society, a person's ability to adapt to changing living conditions has diminished. If a person cannot adapt himself, the people around him, especially family members, suffer from this. These sufferings include such shortcomings as violence, trauma, sexual exploitation of children, etc. The study deals with temporary protection against domestic violence. The topic is relevant, since domestic violence is one of the main public health problems. Every year, a large number of people suffer from domestic violence throughout the world. Unfortunately in Latvia compared to other countries of the European Union, domestic violence is a very big problem. Not only women, but also children, the elderly, as well as men, suffer from domestic violence.

An Alcohol Policy in the European Union?

1994 ◽  
Vol 11 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 264-267
Author(s):  
M.J. Van Iwaarden
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
European Union ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Alcohol Policy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Alcoholic Beverages ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Alcohol Control ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The World

Although the production and consumption of alcoholic beverages in Europe ranks among the highest in the world, resulting in many social and public health problems, measures to create an EU level alcohol control policy are yet to be made. Alcoholic beverages are currently regarded mainly as one product among many other products and the related restrictions are, for the most part, market oriented. The Nordic Countries, the author argues, cannot therefore expect much from EU as regards alcohol policy. Rather, he concludes, it is the other way around. However, Article 129 of the Treaty of Maastricht could perhaps form the basis for a general EU health policy.

scholarly journals Infografika kao oblik komunikacije na području zaštite zdravlja i sigurnosti na radu

Sigurnost ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-38
Author(s):  
Lovela Machala Poplašen ◽  
Željka Draušnik ◽  
Dorja Vočanec ◽  
Hana Brborović
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Work Safety ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
Present Information ◽  
The World

SUMMARY: Infographics are a communication tool used in the digital environment that can present information, data or knowledge in an easy and understandable way to a wider audience. This article presents infographics as a form of communication and describes and outlines its possibilities in the field of public health and health care, with special emphasis on health and safety at work. Visualization of key statistical data, standardized elements, systems and practices in the style of infographics enables health and safety specialists to easily educate their employees about the consequences of poor health, the risks involved in work processes and the non-implementation of work safety processes and safety measures. The paper analyzes available infographics of leading institutions in the field of health and work safety in Croatia and in the world. Infographics are a recognizable form of communication worldwide. However, there is only a small number of infographics in the field of health and work safety in Croatia. It is important to raise awareness of the importance of infographics among Croatian experts working in the field of health and work safety because of the possibilities that infographics offer as a form of communication. Infographics should not be neglected because they can be used to present important information and directions in an easily understandable and universal way to various audiences.

scholarly journals Nanomedicines in the European translational process

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Bremer-Hoffmann ◽  
Valeria Amenta ◽  
François Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Present Report ◽  
World Health Organisation ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
World Health ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Medical Needs ◽  
Therapeutic Concepts ◽  
The World ◽  
Scientific Technical

AbstractIn 2013, the World Health Organisation (WHO) released an update of the report on “Priority Medicines for Europe and the World” with the aim to bridge the gap between public health needs and the current research and development priorities. A number of emerging technologies are currently explored for their potential to respond to the identified unmet medical needs. Nanotechnology has the potential to offer scientific/technical solutions for some of these pharmaceutical gaps. The present report investigates to what extent projects funded by the European Commission will lead to innovative formulations as well as new therapeutic concepts, if clinical studies in European Member States investigating nanomedicines and finally if nanotech based products authorised in the European Union will contribute to identified public health needs.

scholarly journals Antibiotics and Animal Agriculture: The Need for Global Collective Action

2020 ◽  
pp. 297-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Anomaly
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
European Union ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Antibiotic Resistance ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Animal Agriculture ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Regulations

Abstract The use of antibiotics in animal agriculture is steadily increasing, especially in developing countries. The European Union and a handful of developed countries have implemented policies to scale back the use of antibiotics, recognizing its role in the global rise of antibiotic resistance. But many farmers who raise animals live in poor countries without public health regulations, or work for large corporate entities that can move their operations to places with weak regulations. To minimize the careless use of antibiotics around the world, we need multi-lateral coordination between states on some common standards for the use of antibiotics in animals.

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