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EURO HEALTH Podcast

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15 hours ago

In this episode, host Jiři Svoboda is pleased to welcome Dr. Ernest Groman for the second time in the EuroHealth Podcast to discuss the progresses made in tackling tobacco addiction. We discuss different approach to regulation, taxation, and strategies to reduce the harm caused by smoking. Giving a critical assessment of the policymakers’ approach to restriction, Dr. Groman provides insights into how emerging products, such as e-cigarettes, can play a role in reducing smoking prevalence… if r...

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In this episode, host Jiři Svoboda is pleased to welcome Dr. Ernest Groman for the second time in the EuroHealth Podcast to discuss the progresses made in tackling tobacco addiction. We discuss different approach to regulation, taxation, and strategies to reduce the harm caused by smoking. Giving a critical assessment of the policymakers’ approach to restriction, Dr. Groman provides insights into how emerging products, such as e-cigarettes, can play a role in reducing smoking prevalence… if r...

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Health & Fitness

Episodes (20/31)

EURO HEALTH Podcast

Ernest Groman: Smoke-free generation by 2040: Is the EU on the right track?

In this episode, host Jiři Svoboda is pleased to welcome Dr. Ernest Groman for the second time in the EuroHealth Podcast to discuss the progresses made in tackling tobacco addiction. We discuss different approach to regulation, taxation, and strategies to reduce the harm caused by smoking. Giving a critical assessment of the policymakers’ approach to restriction, Dr. Groman provides insights into how emerging products, such as e-cigarettes, can play a role in reducing smoking prevalence… if r...

8 months ago

36 minutes

EURO HEALTH Podcast

Péter Kéri: Patients at the centre of mental health care

Struggling with illnesses put patients on a long, and sometimes hard, path to healing. Struggling with mental illnesses, which are often invisible and burdened with stigma, brings unexpected obstacles on patients’ journeys and experiences. How can their involvement in care help their recovery? We asked Peter Keri, president of GAMIAN-Europe, a prominent voice for patients struggling with their mental health in Europe. People struggling with mental illnesses are significantly burdened i...

10 months ago

37 minutes

EURO HEALTH Podcast

Euro Health Podcast 2024 Special Episode

It’s a wrap! 2024 came to an end, and it’s been quite a year for European health policies. From the shift in focus to cardiovascular diseases to innovative approaches in the treatment of addictions, from holistic approaches in the treatment of mental health disorders to improving the conditions of patients through advocacy, the Euro Health Podcast was there to cover the developments in the European health policy landscape for you. We had the pleasure to welcome distinguished guests - po...

1 year ago

12 minutes

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Gabriele Fischer: Ending the stigma on substance use disorders (SUD)

Did you know that addictions are mental health disorders? Despite the link not being obvious at first glance, it is clear for scientists and medical professionals: people suffering from substance use disorders should be treated first and foremost as psychiatric patients. Patients, however, still suffer from stigma from the general population, especially when it comes to people who consume drugs, and from being a low priority on the policymakers’ agenda. We discussed it with Dr. Gabriele Fisch...

1 year ago

30 minutes

EURO HEALTH Podcast

Jane Mounteney: EUDA, Europe's new drug watchdog

One of the world’s leading scientific hubs in the field of drugs and addiction is the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drugs Addictions (EMCDDA), which this summer acquired a new mandate and name, becoming the European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA). We asked Dr. Jane Mounteney, Head of the Public Health Union of the Agency, to guide us through this change. The EMCDDA was born in the 1990s to face a health emergency in Europe, the heroine and HIV epidemics. Thanks to its incessant a...

1 year ago

34 minutes

EURO HEALTH Podcast

Judit Bidló: Hungary’s agenda for EU health

The Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the EU (HUPRES) is steering the European Union boat to face present and future challenges for the health of Europeans. We had the chance to discuss them in a conversation with Dr. Judit Bidló, Hungarian Deputy State Secretary for the Professional Management of Health at the Ministry of the Interior, to dive deep into the HUPRES health agenda. Every six months, one of the EU Member States takes control of the Presidency of the Council of the EU...

1 year ago

31 minutes

EURO HEALTH Podcast

Dimitrios Athanasiou: Rare diseases, not as rare as you think

How rare are rare diseases? We asked Dimitrios Athanasiou, a prominent rare diseases patient advocate, president of Rare Diseases Greece and founder of 95 Rare Alliance Greece, and member of the Patients and Consumers Working Party in the European Medicines Agency. In this episode, Mr. Athanasiou reveals that what we think we know about rare diseases is just the tip of the iceberg. Not only do rare diseases affect a far larger number of people than we might imagine, but there is also much mor...

1 year ago

37 minutes

EURO HEALTH Podcast

Philippe Roux: Europe on the path to beating cancer

For this episode of the Euro Health Podcast, we had the honour of welcoming Philippe Roux, Acting Director for ‘Public Health, Cancer and Health Security’ Unit, and Head of Unit for ‘Cancer, Health in all Policies’ at the European Commission Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE), to have a conversation around the EU’s response to cancer. In the past five years, the fight against cancer has been highly prioritised by the European institutions: both the European Commission a...

1 year ago

24 minutes

EURO HEALTH Podcast

Viktor Mravčík: Restrictive approach to drugs is driven by ideology

The 3rd season of the Euro Health Podcast kicks off with a very distinguished guest: Viktor Mravčík, Head of Science at the Institute for Rational Addiction Policies (IRAP) and Advisor to the Czech National Drug Coordinator. MUDr. Mravčík has a long career in the development of drug policies in his home county, the Czech Republic. We discusses with him the evolution of the approach towards the monitoring and the management of drugs and addiction, from the perspective of a country that pioneer...

1 year ago

40 minutes

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#12 Charlotte De Kock – EURO HEALTH Podcast

For the 12th and final episode of the 2nd season of the Euro Health Podcast, we invited Dr. Charlotte De Kock, postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University, who specializes in drug treatment for people with a migrant background in Belgium and the European Union. Focusing on drug policy, we opened the discussion on the impact of recent international crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine on mental health and substance abuse. Mental health and substance use disorders are co-...

2 years ago

31 minutes

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#11 Tomislav Sokol - EURO HEALTH Podcast

In this episode of the Euro Health Podcast, we discuss with MEP Tomislav Sokol the achievements of the European Parliament in the area of public health over the past four years, and the key priorities for the term to come, following the parliamentary elections next year. Health has been a priority for the European Union during the current term, due to the number of crises the EU had to face and still is facing, from the Covid-19 pandemic to the subsequent aggravation of the mental state of Eu...

2 years ago

23 minutes

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#10 David Eberhard - EURO HEALTH Podcast

In the 10th episode of the 2nd season of the Euro Health Podcast, we explored the perception of risk in society and its implications for public health policies. Our guest, Dr. David Eberhard, talked about a “national panic syndrome” in his book “In the land of Security Junkies”. As society gets safer, people increasingly demand to be protected from even mundane risks and become more mentally vulnerable to the normally occurring hazards of life, developing anxiety and depression. In addition, ...

2 years ago

32 minutes

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#9 José Martínez Raga – EURO HEALTH Podcast

A new episode of the Euro Health podcast discusses dual disorders, which are a combination of mental disorders and substance addiction. Around half of the people who suffer from a mental disorder will also have a substance use disorder at some point in their lives. In this episode, Dr José Martínez Raga, Vice-President of the Spanish Society of Dual Disorders explains this diagnosis and discusses how dual disorders relate to the mental health and addiction debate. He also touches upon the way...

2 years ago

22 minutes

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#08 David Zaruk - EURO HEALTH Podcast

#08 David Zaruk - EURO HEALTH Podcast The guest on the eighth episode of the second series of the Euro Health podcast is David Zaruk. As a member of the team that founded GreenFacts to promote the wider use of evidence-based decision-making in the EU on environmental and health issues, he has been working on the topic of risk and science communications for many years. What was the path to his current profession and why did he choose this topic? David Zaruk says the reason was to make scientif...

2 years ago

42 minutes

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#07 Aileen O´Gorman - EURO HEALTH Podcast

Is it possible to draw a link between the socioeconomic status of individuals and addiction? This is one of the main questions addressed in a new episode of the Euro Health Podcast with Prof. Aileen O'Gorman whose work focuses on social inequalities in health and substance use disorders. In the podcast, Prof. Aileen O´Gorman explains why certain population groups are at a higher risk of getting into substance use problems. What explains the high number of drug-related deaths among young...

2 years ago

46 minutes

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#05 Mika Salminen - EURO HEALTH Podcast

The guest on the 5th episode of the 2nd season of the Euro Health Podcast is Mika Salminen, the Director of Infectious Diseases at the Finnish Institute of Health and Welfare (THL). What does it mean to live with AIDS or HIV nowadays? Mika Salminen says that the situation has changed fundamentally over the last 25 years. Of course, the disease can cause serious health problems, but with the medicines that have been developed in those 25 years, an infected person can have a normal life without...

2 years ago

25 minutes

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#04 Jakub Dvořáček - EURO HEALTH Podcast

“One of the most interesting half a year I have ever had.” With these words, Czech Deputy Minister of Health, Jakub Dvořáček begins the fourth episode of the Euro Health podcast episode on the topic of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU. Did the Czech politicians achieve everything they wanted to achieve in the field of the European Health Union? What were the main priorities of the Ministry of Health at the European level? Minister Dvořáček says that one of the key themes wa...

3 years ago

32 minutes

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#03 Theodora Calinescu – EURO HEALTH Podcast

In the third episode of the Euro Health podcast speaks Theodora Calinescu, Project Manager at the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC). Are we successful in reducing the number of deaths on EU roads? Theodora Calinescu says Europe's roads are among the safest and the results have been steadily improving over the last 20 years, but the safety difference between EU Member states is wide. They can be described by the different approaches of a country depending on its road safety tradition. W...

3 years ago

27 minutes

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#02 Mat Southwell - EURO HEALTH Podcast

The guest on the second episode of the Euro Health podcast is Mat Southwell, one of the UK's leading harm reduction workers and Project executive at the European Network of People who use Drugs (EuroNPUD), an organization that represents people who use drugs in and around the EU and includes drug users as part of the solution and helps drug-focused groups in different countries. Mat Southwell has spoken openly about his own experiences of drug use in a past interview with the BBC. What impact...

3 years ago

21 minutes

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#01 Lucia Goberna Lehmann and Gisela Hansen Rodríguez - EURO HEALTH Podcast

How can people’s live be improved? This is the key question and goal for Dianova International, an NGO with 35 years of experience in that regard. Dianova‘s main fields of work are prevention and treatment of addiction. The organisation provides residential and outpatient programs and services on the ground. Dianova works at the advocacy level at international forums and organizations dealing with drug policies, health as well as human rights. To date, Dianova focuses on helping people in 19 ...

3 years ago

30 minutes