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Infant feeding in time of crisis: is Italy ready?

Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - 08:01

The National Centre for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (CNaPPS) of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), that is the national institute of health in Italy, will be hosting a conference (Rome; October 2018, 8th) in collaboration with Save the Children and UNICEF-Italy on how breastfeeding and infant feeding can be protected, promoted and supported in case of humanitarian emergencies and natural catastrophes.

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Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Human Rights, Policy, Stakeholders
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Public Health Emergencies

Breastfeeding and infant feeding promotion and support in public health emergencies

Wednesday, July 11, 2018 - 09:54

Within the process of public health emergency preparedness (PHEP), promotion and support to breastfeeding and infant feeding assume high relevance. When a major humanitarian crisis or a natural disaster occurs, the issue of protecting the infant and young child feeding, namely infant feeding in emergency (IFE), seems to be a priority. Actually, the first solutions mainly concern supply and prompt delivery of breast-milk substitutes (BMS), that are carefully regulated by the World Health Organization (WHO) through a specific international code.

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Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Gender, Local Activities, Stakeholders
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breastfeeding, science-in-society, Public Health Emergencies, gender issues

Cross-border health threats preparedness and response

Friday, June 15, 2018 - 14:50

ASSET has been presenting at the international conference “Best practices in implementing the International Health Regulations (IHR)” that was held on June 7th and 8th, 2018 in Athens, Greece. This initiative has been promoted by several European Agencies (Directorate for Health and Food Safety – DG SANTE; Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency – CHAFEA; European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control – ECDC) as well as by the hosting Greek institutions.

Concerning the fields of cross-border health threats preparedness and response and IHR implementation, the specific conference objectives were to present: • an overview of the current European framework • the monitoring and evaluation framework adopted by WHO • experiences and challenges in achieving interoperability • the results of EU-funded projects • lessons to Greek and European public health authorities in revising national plans and improving operational procedures.

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Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Policy, Stakeholders
Tags: 
public health

Finding home: digital storytelling in health communication

Thursday, May 10, 2018 - 10:28

Digital storytelling is an art-based research method that involves the creation of a short video (3-5 minutes) integrating multimedia materials like photos, people’s voices, drawings, and music. It has a great potential to elucidate complex narratives in a compelling manner, increase participant engagement, and enhance the meaning of research findings.

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Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Human Rights, Social Media
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public health communication, Social media

Role of Social Media in Science-in-Society issues

Tuesday, April 10, 2018 - 17:32

Social media and ASSET

Nowadays, social media is an increasingly common and integral part of all people's lives. In ASSET theory and practice about social media have been explored extensively over the four years of work (2014-2017). It has been done by studying to what extent epidemic or pandemic preparedness and response are covered by contents shared on the main social network platforms. Specific studies have been developed such as analysing the social accounts and profiles of relevant pharmaceutical companies. 

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Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Social Media, Stakeholders, Vaccination
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Social media, Vaccine

Women in science, medicine, and global health

Wednesday, March 7, 2018 - 10:45

One of the six parallel sessions at the ASSET Final Event (Rome; 30-31 October 2017) dealt with gender issues, while one presentation was specifically about women and science.

Gender bias is powerful and insidious. It is an expression of unequal distribution of power within societies and of the low value placed on women's work and contributions to public life. Recent reports of sexual harassment and assault of women by men in powerful positions have regalvanised solidarity around women's rights, and remind us that disadvantage, discrimination, and sexism are a regular part of the lived experience of many women. These reflect broader and unjustified inequalities between men and women that have persisted across time, culture, and geography. That disadvantages exist for women in science, medicine, and global health is thus unsurprising—and yet wholly unacceptable. The renewed visibility of women in these areas, such as the Twitter campaign #allmalepanel, offer hope for change.

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Target: 
Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Gender, Human Rights
Tags: 
gender issues

Paper series 7 - Continuous Training for Medical Professionals: The case for health communication and disaster preparedness training

Tuesday, February 13, 2018 - 14:09
Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Stakeholders
Tags: 
Public Health Emergencies, health communication training, medical education
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Words matter. Even more in public health policies

Thursday, January 25, 2018 - 16:25

Policy facts

The editorial entitled Dangerous words published on The Lancet starts stating that “Medicine is underpinned by both art and science. Art that relies upon strong therapeutic relationships with patients and populations. And science that brings statistical rigour to clinical and public health practice”. This statement introduces the decision of Trump administration to ban words like health equity, vulnerable, entitlement, diversity, transgender, fetus, evidence-based, and science-based from government documents for the US$7 billion budget discussions about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Policy
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ethics, communication, science-in-society

Best Practices Guidelines

Based on the collection of best practices on this platform, ASSET experts prepared a document outlining the guidelines of civil society involvement in public health projects.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Citizens' Mobilization, Human Rights, Prevention, Stakeholders
Tags: 
best practice, science-in-society, risk communication, behaviour, public health

Hard to reach groups in public health

Monday, December 11, 2017 - 10:25

There are a number of groups that are especially vulnerable in terms of susceptibility to influenza and barriers to accessing vaccinations. This may lead to larger problems in case of a pandemic; for example, in the H1N1 2009 outbreak in Australia, indigenous Australians, a hard to reach group, were overrepresented in rates of hospitalisation (Seale et al 2010). Hard to reach groups may have adverse health outcomes, and the complex interplay of gender and social and economic marginalisation makes this a particular issue for women (Davidson et al 2011).

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Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Gender, Human Rights, Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
gender, gender issue, inequities, Roma

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