With the aim of identifying successful approaches to cancer prevention in terms of equity, FISABIO (the Foundation for the Promotion of Health and Biomedical Research in Valencia Region, Spain) launched in May 2019 a Contest of Best Practices tackling social inequalities in cancer prevention.
Objectives:
- Identify and compile relevant European experiences,
- Disseminate them among European countries in order to promote and facilitate their implementation in different health systems and services,
- Contribute to the exchange and replication of best practices on equality in cancer prevention.
As a necessary preliminary step, a call for experts was launched on February 2019 in order to involve independent experts in the evaluation of proposals submitted within the contest. In April 2019, as a result, a team of external experts was designated to provide support throughout evaluation stage.
Contest of Best Practices’ general information and rules were set in the submitters’ guide and published at iPAAC website in June 2019. Proposals were submitted through a specific Best Practice application form and they were assessed by members of the Contest Evaluation Board according to a set of compulsory and basic criteria detailed in assessment guidelines.
Table below shows proposals that have been acknowledged Best Practices tackling social inequalities in cancer prevention within this contest.
Documents
Call for experts
- Call for experts (PDF file, 470 kB)
- Application form (PDF file, 220 kB)
- Call for experts results (PDF file, 290 kB)
Contest of Best Practices
- Contest application form (PDF file, 680 kB)
- Submitter's guide (PDF file, 670 kB)
- Assessment guidelines (PDF file, 340 kB)
- Contest results (PDF file, 260 kB)
Reports
- Report on the Contest of Best Practices (PDF file, 3.9 MB)
Best practices
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Topic |
Title |
Aim |
Person in charge |
Documents |
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Health promotion – Diet, nutrition |
Nutri-Score |
Improving consumer information at the point of purchase so that they can make healthier food choices, by providing at-a-glance interpretation of the overall nutritional quality of the food |
PR Serge HERCBERG |
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Health promotion – Diet, nutrition |
OPTICOURSES programme, participatory workshops (demand side) |
Improve the nutritional quality to price ratio of food for people living in deprived areas |
Nicole DARMON |
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Health promotion – Diet, nutrition and physical activity |
Vivons en Forme (Let’s live healthy) program |
Prevent overweight and obesity in children and reduce social inequalities by promoting healthy lifestyles among vulnerable families |
Agnès LOMMEZ |
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Health promotion – Physical activity |
Programme for prescribing health assets for physical activity |
Increase physical activity practice, especially among women and low-education population |
Elena PÉREZ SANZ |
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Health promotion – Tobacco |
TABADO |
Evaluate the transferability of TABADO (smoking cessation program addressed to students in vocational training centers) |
Antoine DEUTSCH |
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Health promotion and cancer screening |
Bringing cancer prevention closer to the most vulnerable population |
Promote a favourable attitude of deprived population towards cancer (primary and secondary) prevention |
José AÑÓ SAIS |
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Cancer screening |
Improving informing decision making in the Flemish cancer screening programs for persons with a disability |
Improve informed decision making of people with a disability by improving digital accessibility to cancer screening information |
Caroline BRAEKEN |
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Cervical cancer screening |
GP-endorsed cervical screening text reminders in London |
Reduce age inequalities in cervical screening uptake |
Josephine RUWENDE |
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Colorectal cancer screening |
Effects of evidence-based strategies to reduce the socioeconomic gradient of uptake in the English NHS bowel cancer screening programme |
Decrease SES gradient in bowel cancer screening uptake |
Anne MACKIE |
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Colorectal cancer screening |
Primary care involvement as a key to reduce inequalities in the colorectal cancer screening |
Involve primary care staff members in order to increase participation rates and decrease access inequalities |
Mikel SÁNCHEZ FERNÁNDEZ |
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Colorectal cancer screening |
Slovenian national colorectal cancer screening – Svit Programme |
Increase participation of people with lower level of education, male population and communities with the lowest response |
Dominika NOVAK MLAKAR |