The Media Education Centre is in the Consultative Status with UN ECOSOC
As we propel into the future, one thing becomes increasingly clear: health literacy is not just a luxury, but an absolute necessity. In a world where health information is omnipresent in people`s information ecosystems and their everyday lives, people and systems must be capable of deciphering what’s truly beneficial for Continue Reading →
Let’s kick off 2024 with new opportunities! Training Tuesdays will take place from 23 January to 13 February, every Tuesday at 11.00 CET, when the Health Policy Platform team will go over the Platform’s main features so you can more easily use it to promote your work and connect with Continue Reading →
Building trust and equal access to healthcare” represented the opportunity to launch the “Health Literacy Guide” available in eight different languages, which was produced as part of the Strategic Action Plan on Human Rights and Technologies in Biomedicine (2020-2025) to allow all people, including those in vulnerable situations, more effective Continue Reading →
Thanks to Kristine SørensenEmpowering leaders on health literacy by design; Executive Advisor and Founder of Global Health Literacy Academy, President of International Health Literacy Association. It is the time of year when we look back and look forward to guiding our way forward. Around the world, calls to action are Continue Reading →
Improving health literacy in populations provides the foundation on which citizens are enabled to play an active role in improving their own health, engage successfully with community action for health, and push governments to meet their responsibilities in addressing health and health equity. Meeting the health literacy needs of the Continue Reading →
About Interests and Competencies: Infodemia – Infodemic (in cooperation with the Institute for Public Health) An Infodemic is too much information including false or misleading information in digital and physical environments during a disease outbreak. It causes confusion and risk-taking behaviors that can harm health. It also leads to mistrust Continue Reading →
An Infodemic is too much information including false or misleading information in digital and physical environments during a disease outbreak. It causes confusion and risk-taking behaviors that can harm health. It also leads to mistrust in health authorities and undermines the public health response. An Infodemic can intensify or lengthen Continue Reading →
A Sustainable Future for Humanity Over the next decade, we will all make choices which will determine the future of our advanced technological society. The COVID-19 and monkeypox pandemics, through which the world is now living, are as graphic an example as could be desired of the instability of our Continue Reading →
The project Action for Health and Equity: Addressing medical Deserts – or AHEAD – aims to reduce health inequalities by addressing the challenge of medical deserts and medical desertification in Europe. Medical deserts are isolated or depopulated areas with such significant falling numbers of medical practitioners and overall health workforce Continue Reading →
MEC Health Laboratory (HL) news: Ph.D. Stefan Mandic-Rajcevic, Head of the HL, participated in the Sabin Vaccine Institute and UNICEF, in partnership with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance Present the Vaccination Acceptance Research Network (VARN) 2023 Conference… This meeting will be an in-person event. Conference sessions will provide a space for Continue Reading →
