Micro-Nutrient Deficiencies & Malnutrition

Date: 09 / 11 / 2010 - 09 / 11 / 2010

Location: Brussels

Description:

NutritionDay Conference 2010
‘Micro-Nutrient Deficiencies & Malnutrition: Solutions for Key Public Health Challenges’

Co-chairs
Belgium Ministry of Health
Alojz Peterle, MEP, co-chair ENVI Committee

Programme

9.00 Welcome

9.30 Opening
Welcome by our host Alojz Peterle, MEP
Introduction speech by the Belgium Ministry of Health

10.00 Micro-nutrient deficiencies
Prof. Jean Neve, chair of the Superior Health Council of Belgium
Relevance for EU public health, health care and economic relevance and urgency

Trudy Wijnhoven, WHO-EURO
Current and future activities of the WHO Regional Office for Europe in nutrition and health

Mojca Gabrijelčič, Head of the Health Promotion centre of the National Institute of Public Health,  WHO Nutrition Counterpart Member, Slovenia
Nutrition and health promotion in Slovenia

Forum discussion

11.00 Coffee break

11.20 Malnutrition and appropriate nutritional care
Prof. Cornel Sieber, University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
The state of malnutrition in Europe in 2010 in the community, nursing homes and hospitals: Outcomes of recent European research

Prof. Alessandro Laviano, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
The role and added value of nutritional care in the prevention and care of cancer and other priority diseases

Prof. Andre van Gossum, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
What can member state policy makers and stakeholders contribute?: The Belgium National Nutritional Care Plan

Forum discussion

12.15 Conclusions and follow up
Belgium Ministry of Health and Alojz Peterle

12.30 – 13.30 Closure and walking lunch
 

More information: http://www.european-nutrition.org

Email address: rhiannonfreeland@ilcuk.org.uk