In order to promote healthy lifestyles in adolescents aged between 12 and 14 years using games and activities, the “Bidasoatik Mundura, Sasoi Erronka” programme has been launched, as part of the European Pre-Start project, in 10 secondary schools in Bidasoa. The European Pre-Start project aims to identify and create a tool for identifying the risk factors associated [...]

Milan will host the 8th European Conference on Public Health, at which the Cookbook for ACT (Advancing Care Coordination and Telehealth Deployment) will be launched, from 14 to 18 October. At 11 Am on 14 October, as part of the session dedicated to “Post-crisis opportunities, from a budget-based approach to achieve better results and performance”, Cristina [...]

Training of the professionals who will participate in Mastermind is the launchpad for this intervention, which will roll-out an on-line cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for patients with mild or moderate depression. During October and November 2015, professionals from the organisations participating in Mastermind, namely HUA and Araba Region, OSI Ezkerraldea Enkarterri Cruces, OSI Barrualde Galdakao, [...]

The aim of this meeting is to make further progress in the use of ICT in integrated care as a solution to current challenges.   The slogan of this V edition, which will be held at the Cosmo Caixa (Barcelona) on 12 and 13 November, is “ITC: the best solution today and for the healthcare [...]

The aim of this meeting is to present the research and innovation strategies currently being implemented in the Basque health system. The XXII European Week for Advanced Management, the slogan for which is “Advanced management to achieve advanced organisations” will be held in the Basque Country between 26 October and 6 November. At the same [...]

This II edition, which is intended to share the available knowledge and experiences regarding the launch of initiatives focussing on integrated care, will be held on 18 November. The integrated care organisation model, in which Osakidetza has been immersed for many years, is based on a person-centred population approach in order to facilitate access to [...]

Barcelona will host the forthcoming edition of ICIC, the slogan for which is “A Movement for Change: Enabling People-Centred and Integrated Health and Social Care”.   This conference, which is co-organised by the PIAISS of the Catalan Regional Government, the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona (HCB), the ITESSS Forum and the Fundación TicSalut, will be held [...]

Recruitment of adolescents aged between 12 and 14 years, who will be included in the health promotion and lifestyle modification programme, will commence in October. The group-based intervention of the Pre-Start project Prevention Strategies for Adolescents at Risk of Diabetes, led by Dr. Itziar Vergara, the aim of which is to approach aspects related to [...]

The Basque Country, represented by Kronikgune and Osakidetza, leads the European Carewell project, which mainly focuses on improving the care and care services provided to multiply co-morbid patients via two pathways: the coordination of integrated care, and empowerment, care and support at home by way of the development and use of new information and communication [...]

The aim of the recently launched European Pre-Start project is to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention to promote healthy lifestyles amongst adolescents aged between 12 and 14 years. The increase in obesity and physical inactivity in adolescents is provoking an increase in diseases more often associated with adults, such as metabolic syndrome, type II [...]