Healthy Families in Cross-border Rural Area (Be-Healthy)

1. Teaching Institute of Public Health for the Osijek-Baranja County (Croatia)

Project partners:

1. Public Health Institute Sombor (Serbia)
2. Institute of Public Health of Vojvodina (Serbia)
3. Fund for European Affairs and Development of the Autonomous

Province of Vojvodina (Serbia)

EU contribution: EUR 685,642.63

Main objective:

Improving accessibility and equal access to public health services for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes in rural cross-border area. The project will develop the services of mobile clinics in rural areas and access to e-consultation app and will introduce new health service in the programme area: nutrigenetic analysis and nutrition counselling (1500 ppl).

Outputs:

1.       Improving access to health services in the cross-border area,

2.       Established Interactive cross-border app for e-consultation,

3.       Project partners co-operating in cross-border project,

4.       Training for the prevention of chronic non-communicable diseases in the cross-border area.

Activities:

1.       Establishment and implementation of mobile clinics in rural areas,

2.       Introduction of a new service in the area of the project: Nutrigenetic analysis on the tendency to obesity and the development of diabetes,

3.       Introduction of a new service in the area of the project: nutrition counselling,

4.       Communication between patients and healthcare professionals,

5.       Educations,

6.       Walking festival.

Target groups:

The main target groups are local self-government units, educational and research institutions, the general population, hospitals and healthcare institutions.