GPHW2023: Reducing Inequalities by Generating Innovative Health Tools and Services – French Red Cross

Theme: Empowering Our Communities – Protecting Minorities & the Most Vulnerable

Date and Time: 05 April 2023 | 11:00 – 12:00 (CEST)

Event Description: The webinar aims to describe the French Red Cross (FRC) vision and plan to fight against social inequalities in health, with a view to promoting access to prevention, healthcare, and social rights for vulnerable people. In addition to this objective, we work to (re)create social links with isolated and excluded people, and aim to strengthen their autonomy, their empowerment, and their resilience in terms of health. To achieve these objectives, many actors from the FRC network and partners, combine their efforts and skills through four forms of projects:

• A volunteer network involved in social and health centers,
• Mobile teams, driving the outreach approach,
• Medicalized social housing for homeless people,
• Health access points.

Each project can thus offer one or more free services, including medical and paramedical care; delivery of medication for people without health coverage; prevention, health promotion and therapeutic education activities; psychosocial support activities; individualized social support; and coordination of complex pathways. In support of fieldwork, the FRC is working to create tools to improve knowledge of vulnerable populations and their needs, to map and identify good practices, to better communicate with patients, and to facilitate their care pathways.

Event Type: Seminar/Webinar

Event Format: Virtual

Language(s): English

Organiser(s): Croix-Rouge française

How to Attend In-person: N/A

How to Attend Virtually: N/A

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-reducing-inequalities-by-generating-innovative-health-tools-and-services-545991363867