Cities against poverty and exclusion: health inequalities (21-22/4/10, Gent)

Cities against poverty and exclusion: health inequalities (21-22/4/10, Gent)

The first of EUROCITIES' four seminars organised as part of our campaign for the 2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, will focus on tackling health inequalities in cities.

Practitioners from five cities - Ghent, Genoa, Leeds, Nottingham and Tallinn - will compare their approaches to tackling health inequalities, with particular emphasis on improving access to healthcare, collecting evidence on the success of health programmes and how activities in other policy areas, such housing, contribute to improving health. The conclusions from this seminar series will contribute to the recommendations which will be submitted by EUROCITIES to the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO) in December.

The seminar is organised in cooperation with the University of Ghent.
Els De Vos, City of Ghent: els.devos@gent.be
Anna Drozd, EUROCITIES Programme Officer - Social Inclusion/ PROGRESS: anna.drozd@eurocities.eu

The series of four seminars to be held this year will each focus on a different theme. These are: unemployment (Katowice, 10-11 May), health inequalities (Ghent, 7-8 June), area based solutions to social exclusion (Budapest, 14-15 June) and child poverty (Newcastle, 30 September-1 October). The conclusions from each of the seminars will contribute to the recommendations which will be submitted by EUROCITIES to the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO) in December.

Meer lezen:
http://tinyurl.com/yaorewn  
http://www.eurocities.eu/uploads/load.php?file=Draft_agenda_Ghent_21-22_4_2010-CGRE.pdf: Programma

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