WHO/Europe | Using the arts to improve health: WHO pioneers large-scale, arts-based health interventions who.int - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from who.int Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
21-04-2021
Engaging in writing has been shown to have potential health benefits.
A new partnership project initiated by WHO/Europe and the Nordic Culture Fund sets out to explore effective and sustainable strategies for integrating arts and culture into the wider health-care sector. Led by WHO/Europe’s flagship unit on behavioural and cultural insights for health, it will bring together academics, artists, cultural institutions, health-care practitioners and policy-makers from different countries.
Through implementing an arts-based health intervention in Denmark and Romania, the aim of the research is to identify good practices for the implementation of effective and sustainable arts and health interventions, while studying the impact on the local population.
WHO/Europe | Using the arts to improve health: WHO pioneers large-scale, arts-based health interventions who.int - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from who.int Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
15-04-2021
Although the WHO European Region has experienced an overall decrease in alcohol consumption levels, this trend is only associated with the progress achieved by a small number of countries mainly from the eastern part of the Region. With a few notable exceptions, western European countries, including countries within the European Union (EU), have made little or no progress in the reduction of alcohol consumption.
This dynamic is highlighted in the new WHO/Europe report “Making the WHO European Region SAFER. Developments in alcohol control policies, 2010–2019”. The report assesses the latest steps Member States have made towards implementing evidence-based and effective alcohol control measures.
14-04-2021
WHO Europe highlights the lack of effective eye screening for people with diabetes
The aims are simple: to reduce the risk of diabetes and ensure that all people who are diagnosed have access to equitable, comprehensive, affordable and quality management of their condition.
Much work remains to be done. Insulin was discovered 100 years ago, yet far too many people still are unable to access this essential, life-saving medicine.
Today, at a high-level online summit, the World Health Organization calls for renewed action on diabetes by launching the Global Diabetes Compact, a collective effort to improve care for people with diabetes and increase service resources, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic when services, including those for people with diabetes, are under increasing pressure.