Woman and e-Health Presentation for the future of Health Information (by Kristin Semanick) Presentation at the European Policy Centre, Brussels, Belgium. PresentationEPC.pdf
OECD 2015 Forum: Health and Innovation
The European Institute of Women’s Health was recently represented at the OECD 2015 Forum on “The Internet of Self: Health and Innovation,” by EIWH’s very own Peggy Maguire. The forum was held to discuss the OECD recent findings that those with the lowest levels of education at the age of 30 are expected to live…
TILDA – The Irish LongituDinal Study on Ageing
TILDA – The Irish LongituDinal Study on Ageing Intending to help make Ireland a better place to become older. TILDA report ‘Obesity in an Ageing Society’ Nearly four out of five adults over the age of 50 are overweight or obese and a similar proportion has an ‘increased’ or ‘substantially increased’ waist circumference. Just one…
Health in Europe, making it fairer
Event Conference: ‘Health in Europe, making it fairer’, Brussels, 18 Mar 2014 The conference addresses the issue of improving fairness and equity in health in Europe, improving access to health and combatting discrimination in health. This Conference aims to: 1. To highlight current issues on fairness in health, access to health and discrimination in health…
UNESCO adopts Open Access policy
From July 2013, UNESCO will make hundreds of digital publications available free with an open license, making UNESCO the first member of the United Nations (UN) to adopt an Open Access policy for its publications. Janis Karklins, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, announced the new policy in May. This Open Access policy will…
