Implementation: 2020-2024, Southern Neighbourhood (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine*, and Tunisia), Eastern Neighbourhood (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine) and EU Enlargement countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo**, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey). On 27 March 2020, the European Commission Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement […]

The European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) webinar series “Gastein goes online: Policy debates during the pandemic” has been created to keep the Gastein-dialogue going during the COVID-19 crisis. Throughout the series the EHFG will address burning questions from the perspective of the EHFG’s four pillars, the public and private sector, […]

Die medizinische Versorgung von PatientInnen, die weder Deutsch noch Englisch sprechen, wird zu einer zunehmenden Herausforderung. Doctopia hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht diese Situation zu verbessern. Ein medizinischer Frage/Antwort-Datensatz mit mehr als 300 Begriffen und Fragen wurde von Doctopia in bisher zehn Sprachen übersetzt. Hieraus wurden Kommunikationsbögen erstellt. Die […]

by Teresa Anzböck. In the summer between my 4th and 5th year of medical school, I completed a one-month clinical elective in Paediatrics and Neonatology at Mater Dei Hospital in Msida, Malta. I had different reasons for choosing Malta as the destination for my paediatric elective. In Malta, English is […]

Every year, the European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) provides a key platform to discuss health and societal well-being in Europe and beyond, bringing together experts, stakeholders and key decision-makers from the public and private sector, civil society and science and academia. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact the world […]

Die medizinische Versorgung von PatientInnen, die weder Deutsch noch Englisch sprechen, wird zu einer zunehmenden Herausforderung in der medizinischen Versorgung. Doctopia hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht diese Situation zu verbessern. Ein medizinischer Frage/Antwort-Datensatz mit mehr als 300 Begriffen und Fragen wurde von Doctopia in bisher zehn Sprachen übersetzt. Hieraus […]

Even though the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that “immunization is one of modern medicine’s greatest success stories” with around 2 to 3 million deaths prevented every year, in 2019 WHO rated vaccine hesitancy as one of the 10 biggest threats to global health worldwide. The session on Vaccine […]

von Jana Ulbrich. Im März 2019 habe ich mein USMLE Step 2 CS in Los Angeles absolviert, das war knapp 4 Monate nachdem ich mein letztes deutsches Staatsexamen und 1,5 Jahre nachdem ich Step 1 und Step 2 CK gemacht hatte. Anfang November habe ich mich um die Formalitäten gekümmert, […]

Call for newcomer applications for the Young Forum Gastein (YFG) 2020 The European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) is pleased to announce it will once more offer a limited number of scholarships to young professionals working in the field of health to enable their participation in the #EHFG2020 conference as YFG […]

Globally, it is estimated that at least 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) in 30 countries, including Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda. The presented report from the United Nations Population Fund brings to light the cross-border dimension of FGM The practice is […]