European Youth Tackling Obesity will involve partners across England, Spain, Portugal and the Czech Republic developing peer-led social marketing campaigns in a range of settings to promote healthy eating and physical activity amongst young people aged 13-16 who are vulnerable to obesity. With the potential to reach over a million young people, the campaign will transcend cultural barriers to improve motivation among young people to live healthier lifestyles, contributing to a reduction in childhood obesity amongst the four EU Member States involved in the project.

The project represents a new partnership borne from a shared concern over rising levels of obesity, and a lack of innovative and targeted work to tackle obesity amongst adolescents as compared to younger children. There is a recognised need to apply learning from successful social marketing campaigns to address this health problem. The project will help reduce the modifiable causes of obesity amongst disadvantaged young people and contribute to a reduction in the associated negative outcomes.
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The objectives are to develop, test and validate a kit of scientifically tested instruments for measuring mental health in 6- to 11-year-old children in seven participating EU countries and to compare mental health, use of care and risk factors across these countries.
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The general objective of HEALTHEQUITY-2020 is to assist Member States/regions to develop evidence-based action plans on reducing health inequalities, which also informs use of structural funds (SF) in the next cycle. This is achieved by combining available evidence & learning with social innovation to inform knowledge exchange & capacity building. The specific objectives are to: develop and test a toolkit to support the process of evidence-based action planning in participating regions; develop an accessible and interactive online website and database as a resource for use by participating regions; build capacity & competency in participating MS/regions that respects their different starting points; support participating regions to develop & adopt action plans on health inequalities that also informs their use of Structural Funds in the next period; maximise information exchange and sharing of good practice between member states and regions; ensure sustainability and longer-term benefits of the project.

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The main purposes of the ASPHER conferences are:
- to be a scientific forum for discussion on issues relating to public health training and education;
- to reinforce networking among members and to offer an opportunity for discussing ASPHER programmes and projects;
- to present the Andrija Stampar award to a deserving personality in the field of public health;
- to convene the ASPHER General Assembly.

The ASPHER conference contributes to the third objective of the health programme 2008 - 2013, which is to generate and disseminate information and knowledge. The fact that this year`s event is organised in close collaboration with EUPHA significantly strengthen this contribution, bringing together, in one location in Europe, senior and junior researchers, policy advisors, deans and directors and faculty staff of the public health schools; Labour market meets educators; Senior researchers meets PhD students; Interaction between present and current research with research institutes and state of the art methods within the education of researchers within schools; Cross-fertilisation of presenters and the audience, between present and future research workforce; Forum for future research agenda; Indirect support of the WP 2008 priorities through strengthening education and training, focus on innovation and modernization of education in research in PH, in the areas encompasses by the Plan. Capacity building in the area of PH; Promoting the collaboration of research and training; Added value of PH knowledge; Abstracts scored according to transferability; Focus on evidence based public health findings; Information and mobilisation of the public and official bodies in the organising country for the promotion of public health; Producing new knowledge to arrive at a healthier and wealthier society, to protect human health; Dissemination of research results to practice, training, research and policy.

Tools: plenary sessions (1 organised jointly with EUPHA, being the EUPHA-ASPHER plenary); parallel sessions (tracks) (1 organised jointly with EUPHA, being the EUPHA-ASPHER parallel training and education session track); workshops; posters; meetings; active networking support for participants of the conference.

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The general objectives of the 2008 EUPHA conference are to build the capacity of public health experts by actively organising the European (international) exchange of knowledge and best practice and to organise a successful European public health conference.

More particularly, EUPHA 2008 aims to:

• substantially contribute to capacity building in the area of European public health
• share public health knowledge (research, policy, practice and training) between public health experts from over 50 countries from a wide array of public health fields
• provide a plenum for EU policies and projects with an audience of public health experts
• create, support and promote close and active collaboration links among European research and training professionals
• disseminate health innovation concepts and practices by making use of the EUPHA network
• disseminate research results to practise, training, research, policy
• promote innovation in European health care systems and services according to EU strategies and policies
• produce new knowledge to arrive at a healthier and wealthier society, to improve and protect human health
• inform and mobilise public and official bodies in the organising country for the promotion of public health
• present, share and provide a plenum for the state of the art of research and practice

The above objectives contribute mainly to the third objective of the health programme 2008 - 2013 - to generate and disseminate information and knowledge. However, the scientific programme which is based on submitted abstracts (this year over 700) and workshops organised by e.g. our 16 theme-specific sections, widely cover the other two strands of the 2008 Work Plan, as well.

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