The Health Portal

The first stage of this national eSanté plan has been completed with the introduction of the Health Portal, the foundation stone of the future 'one-stop shop' for health through which citizens will be able to access various health applications.

A genuine public health tool, the Health Portal is an online service that offers citizens and professionals privileged and unique access to a wealth of useful information in the health and social domains, such as:

• advice on prevention of major illnesses: healthy diet, exercise, smoking, AIDS, cancer, obesity, cardiovascular disease, etc.,
• medical dictionaries,
• topic factsheets,
• a presentation of how the healthcare system works and who is involved in it,
• information about working in the health and social sector,
• out-of-hours hospitals, pharmacies and veterinary surgeries,
• news on prevention campaigns, new healthcare services available to the public, health and social legislation, scientific breakthroughs, etc.,
• a calendar of health-related conferences,
• over 900 publications from public bodies (Ministries, National Health Fund, long-term care insurance, municipalities, etc.), sector professionals and various institutions and associations working in this field.

The plan is to gradually add further information and services.