[EQ] Learning from our Neighbours: Cross-national inspiration for Dutch public health policies: smoking, alcohol, overweight, depression, health inequalities, youth, screening

Learning from our Neighbours

Cross-national inspiration for Dutch public health policies: smoking, alcohol, overweight, depression, health inequalities, youth, screening

 

Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, within the framework of International Comparisons of Public Health

Van der Wilk, EA, Melse, JM, Den Broeder, JM,; Achterberg, PA,

National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) - The Netherlands

Report 270626001/2008

 

Available online PDF [208p.] at: http://www.rivm.nl/bibliotheek/rapporten/270626001.pdf

 

“…..Public health policies in other countries can be highly educative and inspiring

This report, 'Learning from our neighbours', describes how different countries design their public health policies with the aim to inspire and educate.

 

The seven chapters in this report – each of which can be read individually – describe several examples of public health policies applied in other countries. The report examines the policies on the lifestyle-related factors smoking, alcohol and obesity, and the policy on depression, which are examined against all of the

spearheads of the recent Dutch ministerial prevention memorandum ‘Opting for a healthy life’.

 

The report goes on to describe the policies other countries apply in areas that are also important in the Netherlands, such as health inequalities and youth. And finally, the report discusses the policies that different countries apply in the constantly evolving area of screening. For each chapter the international context and policy frameworks are briefly described for each theme.

 

The examples discussed in this report about health policy applied in other countries may inspire the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS) and other parties to follow new paths and may also provide useful information on how these paths could be organized. Due to the many differences in how countries organize and finance their public health policy and health care systems, it may not always be possible to implement the examples described without some adaptation. Yet,

together with the international frameworks, they stimulate us to take a fresh look at our own public health policy. The key findings of this study are discussed below. Considering the diversity of subjects in this report and the emphasis on examples, each theme has a list of ‘inspirations and observations’…..”

 

 

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