Our vision & approach

Our name and logo represent our vision, which is that knowledge and experience gained on the ways and means to tackle health issues by the Western European countries and the new Member States of the European Union should also be shared with other Central and Eastern European as well as Asian and African countries. We therefore strongly support the ‘West-East-East' exchange of information and cross-border co-operation.

Next to this, we promote co-operation between NGOs active in the field of health in the mentioned countries, in order to empower local communities.

Yanos approach to health focuses on the entire range of individual and collective factors and the interaction among them:

• Income and social status
• Employment and working conditions
• Social and physical environment
• Culture
• Personal health and coping skills
• Health services