At this year’s NKJZ Conference in Slovenia, there was a strong spotlight on the Joint Action PreventNCD (JA PreventNCD), having both a dedicated presentation session, as well as a dedicated project booth.
Moderated by Mojca Gabrijelčič Blenkuš and Monika Robnik Levart, the session featured diverse presentations, including:
- Supportive environments for health as the foundation of disease prevention
- Evaluation of workplace health promotion and recommendations for future development
- Whole-school approach to health promotion
- Health promotion in academic settings with a focus on physical activity
- Expanding smoke-free environments to open and semi-open spaces
- Mechanism for meaningful youth engagement in European public health projects
- Corporate political activities of the food industry and their influence on nutrition policies
- Wellbeing economy as a sustainable tool for preventive action
The first part of the session explored the role of environments in disease prevention and health promotion, while in the second part, concrete approaches and tools of JA PreventNCD for more effective policy implementation were presented.
At the conference, there was also a JA PreventNCD’s dedicated project booth. There, the participants could discover more about the project’s goals and engage with the project team members.
The presentations and dialogues shed importance of the project, raised awareness of the project’s goals and highlighted the importance of placing prevention at the forefront of public health discussions.