Fourth Health2020 national conference: prevention

Alain Berset and Thomas Heiniger, President of the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Health Directors, open the fourth Health2020 national conference. More than 360 participants. The theme: chronic diseases and prevention.

He opens with irony: in Switzerland, the word “prevention” sends some people’s blood pressure up, while others immediately need a drink. His thesis, taken up in the press release: the question is not whether to do prevention, but how. Choosing a healthy life must be simple.

Speeches on this site

• Quatrième Conférence nationale Santé2020 : la prévention des maladies non transmissibles (in German, French-language page)

Sources

• Federal Council, press release of 31.01.2017