This information is only available in Dutch. Aandacht voor publieke gezondheid De GGD zorgt voor de uitvoering van de wettelijke taken uit de Wet publieke gezondheid en de aanvullende taken die door de 18 Zuid-Limburgse gemeenten aan de GGD Zuid Limburg zijn opgedragen. In de regio Zuid-Limburg wonen ongeveer 600.000 mensen. Voor alle inwoners in de [...]
A delegation of 18 professionals from the Veneto region In Italy visited Limburg (NL) from the 15th until the 17th of July. There were representatives of different organizations present: Director Health and Social Care Area, Director LEA and Primary Care Sector, Director Veneto University Hospital, Director Padova University Hospital, Directors of various Local Health Units (Hospitals) [...]
During the annual meeting WHO Regions for Health Network (RHN), 11–12 June 2018, Gothenborg (Sweden), the report 'Healthy settings for older people are healthy settings for all: the experience of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy' was presented. This report shows how age-friendly environments have been created at the subnational level, using examples primarily from the Autonomous Region [...]
During World Health Organization's (WHO) High-level regional meeting in Sitges (16-18 April, 2018), the article 'Health Systems respons to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs): the opportunities and challenges for leapfrogging' was presented. With Brigitte van der Zanden, director of the euPrevent | EMR foundation, as one of the voices from the WHO European Region. Read the whole [...]