First european NPIS forum – 5th december 2024 – Brussels
Improving Health of European Citizens through a Common Framework for Non-Pharmacological Interventions (NPIs)
Non-pharmacological interventions (NPIs) have been mentioned by health authorities and many scientific and health societies, given their potential to improve health and quality of life in the long-term, reduce healthcare expenditure and trigger behavioral changes.
However, “fake health news” have spread rapidly in the past years. It is therefore urgent to provide a European tool for the citizens (patients,
professionals and healthcare operators) to be identify Evidence-based NPIs.
Such a scientifically validated framework for NPIs has just been co-designed in France in a transdisciplinary, inter-sectoral, participative and independent scientific study supported by INSERM, co-constructed with over 1000 participants. This work resulted not only in the definition of a perimeter of psychosocial, nutritional and physical practices to define NPIs as “an evidence-based, effective, personalized, non-invasive health prevention or care protocol, registered and supervised by a qualified professional”, most importantly, it produced a centralized European register of labelled, described, and codified practices that has just been launched in October 2024 in Paris: the NPIS Registry
The aim of this first European multistakeholder Forum on NPIs is to present the study and the science that led to the construction of the NPIs Registry in France and to explore the interest and feasibility of uptake and deployment at European level.