{"id":13385,"date":"2017-06-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/styrkur-ur-lydheilsusjodi\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T09:00:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T09:00:24","slug":"grant-from-the-public-health-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/styrkur-ur-lydheilsusjodi\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Health Fund Grant 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, Health Minister \u00d3ttarr Propp\u00e9 allocated just over ninety million kroner in grants from the Public Health Fund to 139 projects and research studies. The grant recipients are located throughout the country, and the projects are intended for all age groups. See the list of projects and grant recipients for 2017<\/a>. Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur is one of this year's recipients of a grant.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The health town of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n

The City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur's project is to implement a health promotion strategy (public health policy) in a targeted manner, in cross-disciplinary collaboration with all relevant stakeholders in the community.
\nand prevention in the areas of nutrition, physical activity, mental well-being, and alcohol and drug prevention
\n(and tobacco prevention) for residents. The project promotes health promotion for all age groups within
\nHafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. A focus on four factors: nutrition, exercise, well-being and
\nQuality of life\/prevention. It is intended that each element will be the focus for one
\nyear at a time, but other aspects will also be worked on in the process, which are easy to
\nto carry out. The Municipality of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur received a grant of 500,000 kr for the project from the Public Health Fund in 2017.<\/p>\n

Applications to the Public Health Fund \u2013 2017 allocations<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n

In the 2017 call for applications, emphasis was placed, among other things, on measures to improve mental health, suicide prevention, alcohol, tobacco and drug prevention, and projects aimed at minority groups to promote health equity. The Minister awarded the grants on the basis of recommendations from the Board of the Public Health Fund, which assessed applications according to how they aligned with the fund's role as defined in Act on the Chief Medical Officer and Public Health, no. 41\/2007<\/a>  and The Ministry of Welfare's public health policy<\/a><\/p>\n

The ceremony began with a speech from the Minister of Health, \u00d3ttarr Propp\u00e9. This was followed by a speech from Krist\u00edn Heimisd\u00f3ttir, chairperson of the Public Health Fund, and a presentation of the project by Helga Arnard\u00f3ttir, a former grant recipient. Her project, HappApp, is one of the initiatives to have received a grant from the Public Health Fund. Happ App is an app based on the science of positive psychology. The app contains exercises that promote the users' happiness and mental well-being. Among the projects receiving a grant from the Public Health Fund in 2017 are the Mindfulness Centre's project on the implementation of mindfulness in six primary schools, according to a British model, a project by \u00c1rs\u00e6ll Arnarason which is a study of the health and living conditions of schoolchildren in Iceland in an international comparison, a project by the Municipality of Akranes on advice and measures to promote the health of people aged 60 and over, and a joint project by Kyn\u00ed, of the Astr\u00e1\u00f0 Foundation, FKB and the Health-Promoting Secondary Schools on condom vending machines in secondary schools to combat the unusually high incidence of chlamydia in the country.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00d3ttarr Propp\u00e9, heilbrig\u00f0isr\u00e1\u00f0herra \u00fathluta\u00f0i \u00e1 f\u00f6studaginn r\u00famlega n\u00edut\u00edu millj\u00f3num kr\u00f3na \u00ed styrki \u00far L\u00fd\u00f0heilsusj\u00f3\u00f0i til 139 verkefna og ranns\u00f3kna. Styrk\u00feegar eru sta\u00f0settir um land allt og verkefnin \u00e6tlu\u00f0 \u00f6llum aldursh\u00f3pum. Sj\u00e1 lista yfir verkefni og styrk\u00feega 2017. Hafnarfjar\u00f0arb\u00e6r er einn styrk\u00feega \u00ed \u00e1r. Heilsub\u00e6rinn Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Verkefni Hafnarfjar\u00f0arb\u00e6jar sn\u00fdr a\u00f0 markvissri innlei\u00f0ingu \u00e1 heilsueflingarstefnu (l\u00fd\u00f0heilsustefnu) \u00ed \u00feverfaglegri […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13385"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}