impact assessment

Can Health Impact Assessment methods be used to tackle global health equity?

A recent survey has examined if current health impact assessment (HIA) methods could be used to tackle global health equity. The poll shows that HIA do not address the issue of equity adequately. Existing HIAs will therefore require new, more sensitive tools measurements. The study looks at whether health equity impact assessments can be used to measure economic agreements, market regulation, and public policies. The results has proven that in current HIAs, equity is not addressed (...)

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7th EAP- General Action Programme - THE 7TH ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMME (EAP) (updated on 18 March 2013) Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) – EP report - EU-wide plan to tackle the proliferation of AMR (updated on 22 March 2013) CAP reform – new regulations - Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) revision for 2014-2020 (updated on 5 April 2013) Car noise pollution - new EU regulation - sound level of motor vehicles (updated on 7 February 2013) Child poverty and well being - Council (...)

EPHA Press Release - Big Business desperate to maintain their unchecked influence on Brussels decision-making

26 September 2012, Brussels - Today the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise and BusinessEurope (1) are holding a seminar on the role of the European Parliament (EP) in assessing the costs and benefits of regulation. Terms such as ‘smart regulation’ (2) and ‘competitiveness proofing’ (3) cannot be used as euphemisms to exploit the fears around the current economic climate in order to persuade regulators that further deregulation and an above-all, pursuit of profit (...)

EPHA Response to the Smart Regulation Consultation 2012: Improving stakeholder dialogue and Impact Assessment?

The European Commission aims to draw lessons from the two year implementation of the Smart Regulation Agenda and on how to improve the quality of legislation through a stakeholder consultation which closed on September 21. Building on EPHA’s previous position on Smart Regulation, EPHA responded to the Commission Consultation. Smart regulation should mean well thought out through, effective and proportionate measures to protect health, improve the quality and safety of goods and (...)

EPHA Policy Recommendations for measuring health in Sustainability Impact Assessments

Using the growing body of evidence that GDP alone cannot measure the progress of society, EPHA has developed a series of policy recommendations aimed at improving health impact assessment at an EU level. This year the European Commission will conduct an assessment of its roadmap on “GDP and beyond: Measuring progress in a changing world.” In February 2012, EPHA undertook an assessment of progress made at an EU level since 2008, and how progress is measured as part of the Europe (...)

EPHA draft response to Smart Regulation Consultation 2012

EPHA Secretariat has drafted a response to the Commission Consultation on Smart Regulation. We are now looking for members’ input until September 5. EPHA Secretariat-drafted response for the Commission Consultation on Smart Regulation The European Commission aims to draw lessons from the two year implementation of the smart regulation agenda as well as on how to improve the quality of legislation and improve stakeholder consultation. The Commission is consulting with stakeholders (...)

European Innovation Partnership on Healthy & Active Ageing - results of the workshops on Care and Cure

On 23-24 June 2011, EPHA attended a workshop on ‘’Care and Cure’’ as part of a series of topical seminars on the European Innovation Partnership on Healthy and Active Ageing. The workshop covered three themes, ‘’Integrated Care’’, ‘’Chronic Conditions Management’’, and ‘’Evidence, Cost-effectiveness and Cost-efficiency’’. It identified a number of objectives for each theme in order to enhance (...)

European Commission report on socio-economic aspects of GMO cultivation in Europe

The European Commission report on the socio-economic implicatoin of GMO cultivation reveals that the existing information is often statistically limited. Background In December 2008, the Environmental Council of Ministers requested the European Commission to collect and exchange relevant information on socio-economic implications of cultivation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) along the food chain in the European Union. Key findings The experience with GMO cultivation in Europe (...)

MEPs want EU countries to be able to ban GMOs on environmental grounds

After MEPs from the Environment Committee, at the plenary sitting in Strasbourg (5 July 2011) all MEPs agree to give Member States a choice of whether to ban or restrict GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms) crops on their territory, adding environmental impacts to a European Commission’s list of grounds on which restrictions could be introduced. The European Commission issued in July 2010 a proposal for a regulation to revise the the current framework regarding the cultivation of (...)

Noise pollution a critical public health problem, new WHO report says

WHO Europe released a new assessment on the burden of disease from environmental pollution - in particular from noise pollution, which shows that noise especially from road traffic, railways and airports is a critical public health problem: it is the second biggest environmental problem affecting health after air pollution. The report on the burden of diseases from noise from the WHO Europe shows that over 1 million healthy years of life are lost every year in the western countries of WHO (...)