Table 1 Objectives of the EPHE project

The EPHE project aims to analyse from 2012 to 2015:

▪ The added value of the implementation of an adopted EPODE methodology for the reduction of socioeconomic inequalities in health implemented by 7 European community-based programmes, focusing on four energy balance-related behaviours (fruit and vegetable consumption, tap water intake, sedentary behaviour, sleep duration) and their family-environmental determinants.

▪ Opportunities to sustain the implementation of EPHE best practices in other EU regions and member states via EU structural funds, focusing on the replicability and transferability, at a longer scale, of those to leverage the experience to develop action plans by member states and to make use of structural funds for the promotion of health equity [33].

EPHE worked at the community level in key settings to develop integrated action locally [33].