European Institute of Women's Health, CLG on LinkedIn: The EIWH calls for an EU Strategy for Women's Health in the next EU Mandate (2024)

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The EU Elections can impact women's health in the next mandate.The Women's Health Interest Group and the EIWH call for a dedicated focus on the reduction of inequities in Women's Health across the life course and the health care continuum. We need our future MEPs to work to reduce inequities in women's health.@European Commission@Eurohealthnet@EPF@AGE-@PlatformEurope@EFN@CPME@Eurocarers@

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The Women's Health Interest Group and the EIWH call for a dedicated focus on the reduction of inequities in Women's Health across the health care continuum.@European Commission @European Cancer Leagues, @CBIG-Screen Project,@EPF@EPHA@ECO@TBCT

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In the next EU Mandate,the EIWH calls for an EU Strategy for Women's Health@ECL,@EHN,@EFN@EMA@ECBOG@EU4Health@Eurohealthnet

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In the next EU Mandate,the EIWH calls for an EU Strategy for Women's Health@ECL,@EHN,@EFN@EMA@ECBOG@EU4Health@Eurohealthnet

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In the next EU Mandate, Public Health must be strengthened to include a more gender sensitive approach to health.@CBIG-Screen@ECL@EUBeating Cancer,@WHO@CPE@Together Breast Cancer

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EIWH celebrates achievements of the IDEAHL project !The month of May was the final month of the IDEAHL project, which aimed to develop new models of and approaches to digital health literacy. A two-year project, IDEAHL focused on digital health literacy and how to empower citizens in their understanding and use of and access to digital health literacy and eHealth.The EIWH were the Irish partner in a consortium made up of 14 partners from 10 EU Members States. Among its many work strands, the IDEAHL project included running interventions and large-scale co-creation activities across Europe. Overall, theco-creation involved over 1,300 different stakeholders, from citizens and patients to healthcare and social services, policy makers, non-health sectors, academia, and so on. In Ireland, the EIWH ran six co-creation sessions and the data from these helped inform one major achievement of the IDEAHL project, a European digital Health Literacy Strategy. Another of the many achievement of the IDEAHL project that EIWH were very involved in was a dedicated toolkit to review the issues of gender and inclusion and ethics and privacy in relation to (digital) health literacy.The IDEAHL project has achieved a phenomenal amount over the past two years. From the mapping exercise of digital Health Literacy, to the large co-creation activity to the European digital Health Literacy Strategy, to mention but a few, the output from this project has been exceptional. EIWH were especially pleased to see the attention put on issues of gender and inclusion, and how to ensure that barriers to full participation are removed for all citizens. We are very proud of the work we carried out over the two years of the project, and to have been part of such a successful Consortium. To find out more, please visit www.ideahl.eu or eurohealth.ie.

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Tuesday, 21 May saw a hybrid event take place in Dublin, Ireland and online which focused on women’s health and digital health literacy. As part of the IDEAHL project, the EIWH wanted to highlight the issues that exists relating to digital health literacy and women’s health, and the importance of working to prevent barriers and exclusion.In addition to the results of the IDEAHL project, the event heard from numerous angles on the importance of health literacy and where barriers can exist. Professor Janusz Janczukowicz, Medical University of Lodz, Chair of the WHO Academy Quality Committee and the Consultant in education for WHO EURO, spoke on digital health literacy and misinformation, and Mary Patricia Acom, Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights Project Officer, AkiDwA spoke about migrant women in Ireland and how they navigate sexual and reproductive health in the digital era. Dr Heidi Siller, University of Klagenfurt, Austria, spoke on digital health literacy and domestic violence, and Dr Vanessa Moore of the EIWH finished the seminar with a presentation of the IDEAHL project and its achievements.The IDEAHL project, funded by the European Commission, is a project aiming to develop new models of and approaches to digital health literacy. This is done in conjunction with a large number of focus groups to help shape a comprehensive and inclusive EU digital health literacy strategy. The IDEAHL consortium is composed of 14 partners from 10 EU states. Among other things, as part of IDEAHL the EIWH carried out an in-depth literature and policy review on digital health literacy and gender and inclusion, as well as a wide-ranging series of co-creation activities. Findings from these activities were presented, as well as the digital health literacy strategy which is one of the main outcomes of the IDEAHL project.To find out more, please https://www.ideahl.eu or eurohealth.ie.@medical University LODZ@AKIDWA@EIWH

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