Health 2.0 Amsterdam Event #3

http://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/4/3/b/d/event_27017341.jpegHello Amsterdam Health 2.0 Community,

I am glad to announce our next event at DesignThinkers which will take place on November 27th at 18:30PM. I am very proud of the community we have grown in such a short amount of time, we went from no members to almost 100.

I also wanted to tell everyone that this will be our last event for this year and we will resume again with an exciting agenda in January. All of you should be very proud of yourself for spreading the word, for attending the meetups and contributing to the great and actionable conversations which helps all of us connect, create and cure!

The next event will focus on solutions in the market place that touch over 10% of the population in Holland - Mental Health Disorders. It is certainly a topic that is difficult to talk about. One of our presenters, Valentina Rao was invited to speak at the “unmentionables” panel at the Health 2.0 Berlin that took place last week (more about Valentina below)

For those of you that don't have time to read on here is the Agenda:

Agenda:

18:30 - Networking & "Healthy Snacks"

19:00 - Introductions & Health 2.0 Berlin update (Eugene/Atilla)

19:30 - IPPZ My Therapy, Joris Moolenaar, Co-founder

20:00 - Blues Buddies Social Network, Valentina Rao, Founder

20:30 - Networking

Contd.

Please take note below on some statistics that were put together by the European Commission in a Mental Health Briefing Sheet (http://ec.europa.eu/health/archive/ph_determinants/life_style/mental/docs/netherlands.pdf). The statistics are astounding but there is hope with new tools that us, the entrepreneurs, are building:

Suicide: According to EUROSTAT standardized suicide rates per 100.000 persons in Netherlands vary from 8.8 to 9.5 for the period from 1995 – 2006. Depression/anxiety: A total 12.4% of all the adults in the Netherlands have had an anxiety disorder in the past year and 19.3% have had a mood disorder at some point in their life. More than 700.000 people a year have a depression. Approximately 15% of the elderly people in the Netherlands have clinically relevant depressive symptoms. Children's mental health: Of all the schoolchildren in the11-17 age group, 12% are in the clinical area as regards internalizing problems such as depression, anxiety and loneliness, and 11% for externalizing problems. http://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/6/f/f/6/event_179368662.jpegJoris & Daan will present myTherapy, which is a online treatment platform for the Mental Healthcare sector in the netherlands. With this platform doctors en patients co-create care, create en deliver treatments. Patients get empowered they receive blended en self-management treatments, share with pears and care tailored to their needs.

Valentina will present Blues Buddies which is a social network that allows people who suffer from mild to moderate depression to find others in the same area through geolocation, and encourages them to engage in positive interaction and mutual healing though its gamified knowledge base and real life meetings.

Currently in alpha, the project aims to offer a prevention tool for more serious depressive conditions, based on different kinds of therapy approaches and scientific research on behavioral change.

Looking forward to seeing everyone to close down the year! Health snacks and maybe something extra will be awaiting!