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A person’s social environment includes their living and working conditions, income level, educational background and the communities they are part of. All these have a powerful effect on health. The big differences in social environments within Europe contribute to wide disparities in health. There are big gaps in life expectancy and disease rates between rich and poor, the well and the poorly educated and manual workers and professionals.

Belgium

Flanders
- General welfare work
  Information on the centres for general welfare work
- Poverty reduction
  Flemish Action Plan to Fight Poverty
- Target population: the disadvantaged
  Information on health promotion among the disadvantaged (including social inclusion, nutrition and tobacco)
French Community
- Communauté française de Belgique, Health Department
  Official site of the health department of the French community. It provides general information on health promotion, vaccination, health surveillance and health promotion in schools, etc.

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