Category: Blog

  • European Health Forum Gastein 2019

    By Agnes Kittel Austria has many places famous about their natural beauty and it is for sure that Bad Hofgastein is among the best ones. The mountains with or without snow on their top, surround the little town, which new and older but evenly nicely decorated houses, villas and hotels, everything reveals richness and peacefulness…

  • The importance to combat climate change and environmental pollution to protect human health in Europe

    By Bartolomeo Buscema Healthcare in Europe is provided through a wide range of different systems run at individual national levels. There is a need to harmonize all national systems in order to achieve best practices together with economical results. In this scenery, about six hundred  of  European health policy experts , member of civil society, academia and…

  • Pain, just a symptom or a disease on its right?

    By Merce Piqueras When I told a friend of mine, who is a nurse, that I was to attend a meeting on pain, she asked me: “Is it an anaesthesiology meeting?” My friend, like other professionals of health, assumes that pain is the province of anaesthesiologists, the specialists whose main task is to prevent pain…

  • EFIC 2019 : networking for fighting pain

    By Cinzia Bolschiero, science journalist (UGIS, Italy)  Ten EUSJA journalists attended  recently one of the biggest European congresses. And here is the first blog that has been sent by our members to EUSJA web page.              The Congress, EFIC 2019 held between 4 – 7 September in Valencia, Spain, is the largest scientific congress on…

  • Health literacy and personalised medicine: New technologies, new questions, new skills

    Cristina Junyent, science writer, member of ACCC October 2018  (Picture credits. © Floris Oudshoorn – ComicHouse / EHFG)   Four tracks were debated this year in the European Health Forum Gastein (#EHFG2018): Innovation for All, Sustainable Systems, Evidence for Action and No one left behind. One of the transversal issues was health literacy, considered as…