Pharos offers tailored advice and support on local approaches to health disparities to 164 targeted municipalities.

This programme aims to improve the effectiveness of care and prevention for people with low literate people and non-western migrants suffering from chronic conditions.

Pharos is working to improve the safe use of medicines among semi-literate people, non-western migrants and people with limited health literacy.

Many children from a migrant background and children from families with a low socioeconomic status (SES) develop less successfully than other children in the Netherlands.

We strengthen the position of the patient by making basic information about the health care system more accessible to them, and promote participation in patient organisations.

Pharos is the national knowledge centre for FGM and has taken up the fight against FGM since 1993.

This Programme directs knowledge towards improving the quality and effectiveness of (preventive) health care for asylum seekers and refugees.

Overarching theme. Helps health care professionals to communicate effectively with low-literate patients. In addition we develop informative visual materials that can be used during conversations with patients/clients.

The number of elderly people is increasing, and that also applies to elderly migrants. Non-Western and lower educated elderly people are generally in poorer health than Western and higher educated elderly people.

A project to stimulate early identification of torture victims in asylum procedures in European countries