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The Open Health Forum is the European Commission’s flagship event gathering over 500 health stakeholders from across Europe to discuss health policy. The theme of this year’s conference was ‘Health In All Policies’.
As a member of the Open Health Forum steering group EPHA was invited to organize a workshop to discuss the role of stakeholders, including economic drivers, industry and NGOs, in delivering health in all policies.
As well as discussing the involvement of (...)

An EPHA-organised workshop at the Open Health Forum gathered a wide range of stakeholders, including economic drivers, industry and NGOs.
Participants at the workshop gathered to discuss the involvement of non-health stakeholders in health policy decision making, as well as health stakeholders’ involvement in policies which affect health but over which they do not have direct involvement or ownership. The aim of the workshop was to discuss the opportunities and challenges in delivering the (...)

The European Commission has launched a consultation on sport. The deadline to comment is 1 June 2010. In order to feed into the consultation process, the European Commission launched a Eurobarometer survey which gives indication on current trends in the field of physical activity and sport.
On 8 April 2010, the European Commission has launched a consultation on how to implement the new EU competences on sport policies. The consultation is public and its deadline is 01 June 2010.
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2010 is the Year of Health and Well-being in the Liverpool area of the North West of England.
To promote the initiative, health actors in the community are promoting the 5 ways to well-being, which are proven to make a real difference to the way you feel. Building these actions into a daily routine could add up to 7.5 years to the life span of participants as well as contributing to emotional well being - and feeling good is an important part of being healthy !
2010 Year of Health and (...)

The Robin Hood Tax Campaign has been launched in the UK for a financial transaction tax on banks to fund social spending in the UK and climlate change and development internationally.

The European Forum on Primary Care is organising an international conference in Pisa on August 30-31, 2010. Six subthemes will be discussed, all of them converging around the main theme, “From Patient Centred Innovation to Organisational Change”.
Call for Abstracts, Posters and Multimedia Presentations - Submission Deadline : 1 May 2010
Conference themes are the following :
Chronic disease management
Interdisciplinary collaboration & leadership development
Managing properly (...)

Rotterdam, 10-11 December 2009 - EPHA participated in the International Conference on Healthcare and Trade. The event focused on the influence of the European Union and the World Trade Organization on trade in health services, health insurance services and health goods (pharmaceuticals).
The application of the EC Lisbon Treaty, the GATS (General Agreement on Trade in Services) and the TRIPS (Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights) on national regulation of health services, (...)

The Audiovisual Media Services Directive has now came into force. EPHA has created a briefing on the Directive for EPHA Members. EPHA Members can access the briefing here.
On 19 December 2007, the Audiovisual Media Services Directive came into force. The Directive covers all EU audiovisual media services (including on-demand services) and amends and renames the Television without Frontiers Directive. EPHA was heavily involved in the adoption of the Directive, which had a number of (...)

A representative from the EPHA Secretariat participated in the final meeting of the EURO-PREVOB project as a policy adviser. The meeting brought together project partners and advisers to discuss the work conducted to date and consider strategies for taking this work forward. The project aims to link scientific knowledge to policy making to reduce the burden of obesity in Europe. Partners involved in this project include the WHO Europe Office and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical (...)

President Sarkozy announced his support for a report that redefines economic success. This newly published report highlights the problem of measuring non-economic factors (such as health) with economic tools (i.e. GDP). Health is a reoccurring theme throughout the report, with parts focusing exclusively on health-related issues. The report was commissioned by the French president Nicolas Sarkozy who gave his full support to the outcome of the report in a speech during the launch of the (...)