Health Literacy & Healthy Living

Health Literacy - Involving citizens in their healthcare choices

• Welcome address by Vera Spautz, Mayor of the City of Esch-sur-Alzette, and
• Opening speech by Lydia Mutsch, Minister of Health
• Contexte international et exemples de bonnes pratiques (Pdf, 736 Kb)
  Drⁱⁿ Magⁱⁿ Christina Dietscher, geschäftsführende Leiterin der Abteilung Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention im Bundesministerium für Gesundheit und Frauen Österreich
• Perspective du patient – Patient empowerment
  Katie Gallagher, Policy Adviser, European Patients Forum
• Les défis de la profession infirmière pour le „empowered patient"
  Catarina Fernandes, Healthcare Executive and Head of Unit, Infectious Diseases, Rheumatology, Immunology-Allergology and Prison Healthcare Unit, Centre Hospitalier Luxembourg (CHL)
  Marie Paule Sidon, Healthcare Executive and Head of Department, Centre Hospitalier Luxembourg (CHL)
• Les défis de l'interculturalité - Atteinte des populations à besoins spécifiques en incluant la situation multiculturelle du Luxembourg
  Edel Alvarez, Cultural anthropologist, Cultural Interpreting Department, Croix-Rouge luxembourgeoise

Round-table session: Towards a new National Health Plan: the role of Health Literacy, with representatives from national and international non-profit and professional organisations in the health and healthcare sectors, and from the European Commission:

• Edel Alvarez, Intercultural Interpreting Department, Red Cross
• Artur Furtado, European Commission
• Michèle Halsdorf, ANIL President
• Jean-Paul Nicolay, President, Alformec
• René Pizzaferri, President, Patientevertriedung
• Dr Alain Schmit, President, AMMD

Healthy Living - Promoting a healthy lifestyle = investing in the future

• Health in all policies:
  A priority for the European Union
  John F. Ryan, Director, DG Health and Food Safety, Directorate C – Public Health, Country knowledge, crisis management, European Commission
• The various aspects of a healthy lifestyle
  Dr Jean-Claude Schmit, Director, Health Directorate
• Raising awareness through a healthy diet from a young age
  Danielle Bernard-Krier, Dietician, Socio-Medical League
• Urban Health: Living in a healthy urban environment
  Marianne Halblaub Miranda, Research Assistant for the Urban Health Games, Technische Universität Darmstadt
• Staying active to stay healthy: a societal issue
  Prof. Daniel Theisen, Head and founder of the Sports Medicine Research Laboratory, Luxembourg Institute of Health

Round-table session: Towards a new National Health Plan: the role of Healthy Living

• with representatives from national and international non-profit and civil-society organisations, and from the European Commission:
  • Dr Torsten Bohn, Project Leader, Luxembourg Institute of Health
  • Carrie Cannon, School Health Professionals
  • Benito Florio, Co-founder and Manager, Rawdish
  • Artur Furtado, European Commission
  • Christophe Reuter, Ministry of Sustainable Development and Infrastructure – Soft Mobility Department
  • Christiane Zacharias-Hansen, Nurse

Conclusions and close of the conference by Minister of Health Lydia Mutsch

Conference programme and schedule