Positive Health at Mental Health conference EAOF – Leuven

Machteld Huber was touching hearts with her personal story and start of ‘Positive Health in the Netherlands’, during her keynote presentation on the EAOF conference in Leuven, Belgium. The central theme of this conference was: Implementation of community mental health services: making it happen. The paradigm shift from disease oriented care towards health oriented care…

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Second inspiration tour “Resilient Communities with Positive Health”

Looking back at the Positive Health international inspiration tour “Resilient Communities with Positive Health” on May 25th. We connected Healthcare and Well-being with Positive Health. With a bus full of enthusiastic professionals working in healthcare, social domain, policy and in the communities from Belgium, we were visiting three best practices in the Netherlands: Syntein: Hans Peter…

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Handbook ‘Positive Health’ now available for ordering

Handbook Positive Health in Primary Care – The Dutch example is now ready for ordering Increasing numbers of general practitioners are discovering the benefits of working with Positive Health. It helps to talk with patients in a different way, with a focus on possibilities rather than on the impossibilities related to a particular health problem.…

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Inspiration tour on 3 locations working with Positive Health

Resilient Communities and Positive Health International recently organized an inspiration tour for a group of healthcare professionals and an alderman from Belgium. The tour visited three locations where Positive Health was being practiced with great success. The first stop was in Kaag en Braassem, where the first-line care, municipality and De Driemaster (welfare) have been…

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