As the war in Ukraine entered the second year, the EuroHealthNet Partnership and SEEHN, the South Eastern Europe Health Network, express their concern about its pro-longing and lasting impact on mental health of Ukrainian refugees. Peace and security are among the most fundamental determinants of health and wellbeing. The longer the conflict, the greater the impact on mental health. The people of Ukraine continue to struggle, whilst their communities are being destroyed and many face challenges accessing essential services and goods, like medical and public health services, notably mental h ..read more

Members of EuroHealthNet and the  South-eastern Europe Health Network (SEEHN) met on the 31st of March to mark one year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, to follow up on the discussions held on 12 April 2022 between national health institutes and authorities in the countries neighbouring Ukraine: Poland, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Moldova (Ukraine crisis: supporting neighbouring EU Member States and Moldova in health-related matters, see report).  The purpose of this meeting was to discuss common and specific challenges related to mental health and psychosoci ..read more

EuroHealthNet welcomes the European Commission’s efforts toward the upcoming EU Mental Health approach and this call for evidence. We agree with its rationale, i.e. the need to urgently address the burden of mental health disorders and promote good psychosocial wellbeing, which was already evident and well-documented pre-crises. EuroHealthNet agree with the assumption made that due to the syndemic-pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the climate emergency, and now the rising cost of living crisis (‘the polycrisis’), the figures of 1 in 6 EU citizens, accounting for 4% mortality and 4% GDP are almost ..read more

The main goal of IceHearts Europe is to integrate mental health into the grassroots of sport programmes, aiming to benefit the wellbeing of vulnerable children. By scaling up at European level, IceHearts aims to do this by using the Finnish IceHearts model, which uses team sports as a tool for engaging children with social work. The scale up at European level will be achieved by bringing a group of five grassroot sport partners together, from five pilot implementation countries (early adopters) and a group of expertise and associate partners (next adopters).    ​Results are expected ..read more

MENTALITY (“Implementing MENTal Health QuALITY Practices”), is an EU4Health funded project running from January 2023 – February 2025. This project will address the mental health impacts of COVID-19, by piloting established European promising practices, to create a path for successful and sustainable transfer and adaptation of practices in participating countries. This process will also lead to in country upscale and further future implementation in other EU countries.    ​EuroHealthNet is a key partner in the consortium for the project, focusing on the transfer and implementation of ..read more

The World Health Summit 2022 took place in Berlin on 16-18 October, bringing together over 4000 participants from 141 countries. The aim was to engage global health leaders and stakeholders to pursue innovation in the face of global health challenges and to reaffirm the position of global health as a key political issue to foster health and wellbeing of all.  The summit spotlighted various key topics, including investments for health and wellbeing, climate change and planetary health, the digital transition in health, sustainable food systems and health systems resilience and equity.  ..read more