poverty and health

The Global Healthcare Summit 2012: November 29 -30, London

What are the universal issues uniting healthcare professionals and policy-makers globally? How are people and organisations coming together and creating innovative solutions to major healthcare challenges? How will different healthcare players benefit from this? These and many other questions will be debated at the inaugural Global Healthcare Summit taking place on November 29th and 30th 2012 in London. Global Healthcare Summit that is taking place on November 29th and 30th 2012 in London (...)

Save the date! Setting standards - discussing health inequalities in the context of the European Year of Citizens, November 13, Brussels

This hearing, hosted by Hungarian Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Kinga Göncz (S&D), will discuss inclusive citizenship from the viewpoint of homeless people with mental health problems. Centred on free movement, the discourse around the European Year of Citizens fails to acknowledge the deep inequalities still present in EU Member States, such as health inequalities. Raising awareness of the discrimination and lack of access to health care often experienced by this group, the (...)

EPHA position on the European Commission’s 7th Environment Action Programme

In June 2012 EPHA took part in the European Commission public consultation on the 7th Environment Action Programme (EAP), to operate from July 2012. In its position EPHA emphasized the vital need to consider and promote health and equality issues, in particular the need to tackle overconsumption and inequalities in access and distribution of resources considered as public goods. 2012 EPHA Policy Position on the EU environment policy priorities for 2020: Towards the 7th Environment Action (...)

Report shows huge differences in municipal waste management across EU Member States

In its new report the European Commission highlights the continuing differences in municipal waste management across the EU Member States (MSs). Many MSs still landfill their municipal waste to great environmental and public health concerns. The Commission is to use the results of this study to develop a Roadmap helping the worst MS improve their management performance. According to the study, the worst performing Member States with the greatest waste management failings are Bulgaria, (...)

The Impact of the Economic Downturn and Policy Changes on Health Inequalities - the example of London

A report, published by the UCL Institute of Health Equity (the former Marmot Review Team) and commissioned by the London Health Inequalities Network, looks at the The Impact of the Economic Downturn and the Government’s Welfare Reforms on Health Inequalities in London, with a particular focus on employment, income and housing. The report also presents a set of recommendations for local authorities across the EU Member States in their efforts to prevent and mitigate the negative (...)

Registration open for FEANTSA’s annual conference ‘Existing in Limbo – The conditions of Homeless Migrants in Europe’

FEANTSA, the European Federation of National Organisations Working with Homeless People, and a member of EPHA, is organising its annual conference ‘Existing in Limbo – The conditions of Homeless Migrants in Europe’, on 16th November, in Barcelona, Spain. Registration is now open! Background A growing number of people across Europe are experiencing a housing crisis. Migrants, all too often excluded from society, are amongst the worst affected groups. A large proportion (...)

WHO Europe Recommendations for the EU National Roma Integration Strategies

Following ongoing developments at EU-level around the EU National Roma Integration Strategies, and in response to the poor integration of the Roma community by the healthcare sector, WHO Europe has proposed Potential Criteria for the Review of the Health Component of the National Roma Integration Strategies to support the EC and the Member States in their goal of more comprehensive Roma integration. The Criteria draw from previous work relevant to Roma health, in particular the EU (...)

Social Protection Committee report on Child Poverty and Well-being

EPHA Press Release: MEPs lead urgent plea from health community to prevent health crisis in Europe

Ahead of the European Summit of June (28-29), leading Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) joined a broad coalition of organisations warning European leaders to act urgently to prevent Europe from a health crisis.

EPHA Press Release: “The economic crisis should not turn into a health crisis” – John Dalli, Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection

On June 6th 2012 the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) held a day-long conference entitled ’’Restructuring health systems: How to promote health in times of austerity?’’ The debate, hosted by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), brought together for a first time more than 20 speakers (1) from all across Europe’s health professions, experts and civil society along with several institutional actors (2) and an audience of around 200 people in an (...)