The Nightlife Em-powerment and Well Being Implementation Project are happy to announce that the submission of contributions to NIGHTS 2013 is now officially open! NIGHTS 2013. Health, pleasure and communities, is a first International Conference derived from the “Nightlife Em-powerment and Well Being Implementation Project (NEWIP – www.safernightlife.org)” supported by the European Agency for Health and …
The Third EUSPR conference was held in Kraków, Poland on 6-7 December 2012. The conference theme was Common risk and protective factors, and the prevention of multiple risk behaviours. View full report…
“Common risk and protective factors, and the prevention of multiple risk behaviours” Several health related behaviours share common risk factors and comprehensive programmes could be effective by addressing them together. Health services have tended to overlook the potential for prevention to intervene between the emergence of problems or vulnerabilities early in life and manifestations, for …
Institute for Research and Development “Utrip” has published the guidelines and recommendations as part of the “Pilot implementation of the European prevention programme EU-Dap in a school year 2010/2011 in the Republic of Slovenia” (is financially supported by a grant from Switzerland under the Swiss Contribution to the enlarged European Union). Download PDF for more …
Second EUSPR Conference, 8-9 December 2011, Lisbon, Portugal “Synergy in prevention and health promotion: individual, community, and environmental approaches” Further information is available on the link. Read more…
“Synergy in prevention and health promotion: individual, community, and environmental approaches” Leaflet (includes the programme) Prevention is a “hard” problem. We cannot just give out medicines to change behavior, and simple approaches on their own are unlikely to be sufficient. Lifestyle behaviors most relevant for health, such as eating choices or physical activity, cannot be …
The first EUSPR conference / members’ meeting took place as a pre-conference session during the European Public Health Conference in Amsterdam on 10-11 November 2010. View the full post
The first EUSPR conference / members’ meeting took place as a pre-conference session during the European Public Health Conference in Amsterdam on 10-11 November 2010. Can research on prevention contribute to the reduction of inequalities in health in Europe? 1st European Society for Prevention Research Conference and Members’ Meeting The historical first EUSPR conference / members’ …