Health educator

peer educator

health educator

There is no health without mental health.

The remaining 215 proposals were submitted to peer review panels composed of independent experts to assess all the criteria covered by Commission Decision 2007/103/EC laying down general principles and criteria for the selection and funding of actions under the Public Health Programme (2003-2008)[9], and also of officials from the Health and Consumer Protection Directorate-General responsible for assessing the policy-relevant criteria.

Globally, improved health also depends on greater social justice.

25. Underlines that women and girls with disabilities must be allowed to enjoy their sexuality as freely as people without impairments, and considers that women with disabilities must be able to live and fulfil their wish either to have or not to have children, as women without disabilities do; stresses that for young girls, teenage girls and women with disabilities to take responsibility for their sexual behaviour, they need access to education on sexuality, given by professionals who are experts in the field, such as local public social services educators, and adapted where necessary to the intellectual ability of the disabled woman o ...[+++]r girl concerned: they need to know and understand how the body functions (how pregnancy occurs and how to avoid it), how to say no to sexual practices they do not wish to engage in, how to avoid sexually transmitted diseases, etc; points to the need to provide specialised support, including childcare assistance, to women with disabilities, together with their families, in order that they may enjoy motherhood to the full; maintains that Member States should, in this case, take particularly into account the needs of women with an intellectual impairment;