Monday 14 October 2024 will see the launch of the Healthy Society programme, a collaboration between Medical Delta, Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities and the South Holland colleges. It will take place at the South Holland Province's Healthy Minds Festival.
The festival brings together people from knowledge institutions, municipalities, GGD, housing associations and the business community. All parties committed to (public) health, ranging from topics such as food to a healthy living environment. Professor of health policy Jessica Kiefte-de Jong, urban planner Marianne Lefever and journalist and writer Teun van de Keuken will discuss the question: who should take the lead in promoting the health of Zuid-Holland citizens?
In workshops participants will work on cases such as: How can you effectively reach young people with health information? How do you introduce a lunch culture in your company? How do you create a healthy school environment? How can you work with residents to come up with ideas that promote the health of a neighbourhood? All this in the context of major social developments such as ageing, urbanisation, migration, digitalisation and economic and political trends.
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The Healthy Society programme is a continuation of the previously published white paper ‘Healthy Society: towards a healthy society for all’. The starting point for this paper is: making society healthier and closing the health gap will never succeed just by encouraging people to live healthier lives. An integrated approach that links the medical, social, technological and physical domains is needed.
Read all articles of the paper (in English)
For instance, political scientist Jet Bussemaker from LUMC Public Health, explains why it pays to use healthcare money to tackle debt. She and also others stress that sometimes you have to start somewhere very different from someone's lifestyle. Among other things, TU Delft architecture expert Machiel van Dorst advocates wider galleries in flats to promote social interaction, because, he says: ‘The most important environment is your fellow human beings. Gynaecologist Eric Steegers from Erasmus MC wants to reduce infant mortality in poor neighbourhoods and asks pregnant women about money stress too.
Andrea Evers, who is Professor of Healthy Society at Leiden University: ‘This issue covers a multitude of social aspects of health, from debt relief and housing conditions, for example, to care for vulnerable groups and insights on behavioural influence and prevention.’
The Festival Healthy Minds will take place Monday 14 October 2024 from 12:30 - 17:30 at the Provinciehuis, Zuid-Holland Plein 1, Den Haag
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