EU Enlargement

The Western Balkans Investment Framework invests in health determinants

On the 25th of March 2011, The Western Balkans Investment Framework (WBFI) launched its first annual report, which outlines the next set of projects to be launched in 2011. THis means that some funds are available for project related to health promotion, prevention and systems. The Western Balkans Investment Framework was set up in the light of a potential future accession of the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, (...)

EPHA Report on ‘Left Behind – The impact of economic migration on children left behind and their families’

A conference jointly organized by L’Albero Della Vita, Fondazione Patrizio Paoletti and Eurochild, took place in Brussels on the 2nd of March 2011. The conference addressed the issue of children left behind in the country of origin when parents migrate to another European country in search of employment. This phenomenon is still underestimated and unknown while it concerns approximately half a million children in the European Union. The event gathered experts from all over Europe to (...)

The Impact of EU Accession on Public Health in Croatia

On 17 January 2011, EPHA and ASPHER - the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region - jointly organised a capacity building event on ’’the impact of EU accession on public health in Croatia’’ at the Andrija Štampar School of Public Health (ASSPH) in Zagreb. The purpose of the workshop was to raise awareness of the impact of the EU Single Market on public health, as well as to discuss and understand how EU accession is going to challenge (...)

The Reform Treaty: strengths and shortcomings

On 19 October 2007 EU leaders agreed the precise text of the Reform Treaty, which is due to be formally signed on 13 December 2007 in order to take effect in January 2009. The purpose of this article is to explore the main innovations included in the new treaty. The rejection of the Constitutional Treaty by popular vote in France and the Netherlands was followed by a reflection period. This provided an opportunity to review new options for institutional governance of the European Union. (...)

** Updated ** EPHA’s 2007 International Conference: Health in the Enlarged EU

The European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) concluded its three-year project "Building the Public Health Community across Europe" by organising an international conference. The conference "Health in the Enlarged EU" held in Bratislava on 16-17 April 2007, is settled by a final report now available. Outcomes In June and July 2007, EPHA publised on the Conference website several documents of the conference: The "Health in Enlarged EU"’s Final report including the minutes of the (...)

What is European Citizenship and who is responsible?

The European Citizen Action Service (ECAS) is concerned that "European citizenship" is an issue that belongs to everyone and yet no one is claiming responsibility for it. ECAS has issued a petition to encourage the European Parliament to create a forum in which this increasingly important issues can be discussed. Many questions need to be answered regarding what it means to be a European Citizen. The European institutions need to ensure that their policies and processes represent the views (...)

Exchange of best practice on NGO coallitions in Malta, 2006

On 14th of November, 2006 the Malta Recourse Centre (MRC) held a Practices Exchange Meeting on Networking in Public Health, in Malta . As part of the EPHA’s Central and Eastern European project, the MRC, in cooperation with Civic Alliance Latvia (CAL), held a meeting for a variety of Maltese organisations working on public health in order to discuss the scope for setting up a public health network in Malta. The MRC has previously been successful in establishing an Anti-poverty (...)

Training seminar on alcohol related harm and primary care, 4-5 May 2007, Budapest, Hungary

This two day training was organised within the framework of the EPHA project "Building the health community across Europe" and in partnership with Vilans (a project partner). The main organiser of this event is the European Forum for Primary Care (hosted by Vilans), with several local partners, including the Semmelweis University in Budapest. The programme of the event can be downloaded below. For more information, please contact Mr Diederik Aarendonk, Coordinator of the European Forum (...)

Do people with mental health problems benefit from a personal allocation?

In 2005-2006, Mental Health Europe, an EPHA member, carried out a pan-EUropean survey to determine if a ’personal budget’ (ie the allocation of a certain sum of money received by people suffering from disabilities to pay for people and services that assis them in their daily life) also benefits people with mental health problems. A ’personal budget’ allows the person to be at the centre of a support network and take decision for his/her wn life. The survey shows (...)

Prevalence of TB and Inequalities in Health Care for Roma in Europe

This article gives details of two new reports regarding the health of Roma people in Europe. Firstly the prevalence of TB in Roma communities is addressed in the report Confronting a Hidden Disease: TB in Roma Communities, and secondly, the inequalities in health services is highlighted in a report by the European Roma Rights Centre TB in Roma Communities Confronting a Hidden Disease: TB in Roma Communities is a new report by Marta Schaaf of the World Lung Foundation, on behalf of the (...)