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Raising awareness on gender issues in epidemics and pandemics

Friday, December 18, 2015 - 18:56

The consideration of sex and gender are not the most obvious issues that come to mind when discussing epidemics and pandemics. However, sex and gender have an important impact on these issues, since barriers to pandemic preparedness and risk behaviour can often be better understood when viewed from a sex and gender perspective.

Both gender and sex have an impact on experiences and behaviours relating to pandemics, epidemics and vaccination. The difference between sex and gender can be confusing, and the two words are often incorrectly used interchangeably.

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Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, School and Education
Topic: 
Citizens' Mobilization, Gender, Human Rights, Policy, Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
gender issues, Preparedness, awareness, Risk perception

Facing the pandemic threat: the ASSET Summer School

Monday, September 14, 2015 - 17:47

Infectious diseases not only impact on people’s health conditions, but also on several socio-economic aspects. Facing epidemics and pandemics is thus a major challenge for both science and society, a challenge that requires a multidisciplinary approach. Within this context, the first ASSET Summer School will be held in Rome, on September 21-24, at the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS).

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Target: 
Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Gender, Human Rights, Policy, Stakeholders
Tags: 
Summer School

The Bulgarian local communication plan has been released

Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - 15:20

One of the ASSET’s purposes is to develop its approach on different levels, from the global to the local one. This will include both the analysis of specific experiences and the production of new initiatives. According to this aim, the Bulgarian National Center of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (NCIPD) has just released the Local Communication Plan for Bulgaria, which is a complement of the Communication Strategy of the ASSET project.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Gender, Human Rights, Local Activities, Media, Prevention, Social Media, Stakeholders, Vaccination
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Local Communication Plan, Bulgaria

Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - 15:18

The ASSET Communication Strategy consists of a general strategy, drafted for the whole Consortium, and Local Communication Plans for different countries. The Local Communication Plan, prepared for Bulgaria, aims to provide a general strategic framework, which can facilitate the further planning of actions, aimed at fulfilling the objectives, set out in the general communication strategy within the specific national context.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Gender, Human Rights, Local Activities, Media, Policy, Prevention, Social Media, Stakeholders, Vaccination
PDF icon local_communication_plan_ncipd.pdf
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Action plan on Science in Society related issues in Epidemics and Total pandemics
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 612236.

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