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Under the EU Treaty, the EU can take action on health. It must aim to improve public health, prevent human illness and diseases, and identify sources of danger to human health, while fully respecting the responsibilities of the Member States for the organisation and delivery of health services and health care.

In practice though, several EU policies impact on health and health systems (be it on professional mobility, agriculture and food, research etc...)

EPHA aims to provide information on the EU institutions and their funding mechanisms in this section.

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2/05/2012

Press Release: Alcohol - Self- regulation is not an answer

Against the European Alcohol and Health Forum which took place on the 26 April 2012, 28 civil society organisations strongly called for regulatory measures to protect consumers against alcohol related-harm. Joint Press Release It cannot be left to the producers of a harmful product to decide how, when and where it will be marketed. Policy makers must not rely on self-regulation, but rather follow through statutory measures aimed at protecting consumers. Last week, major producers from (...)
About : alcohol , Chronic Diseases , EU Alcohol Health Forum , EU Institutions , harmful behaviours , prevention
3/04/2012

Press Release: Polish Ministry of Health refusal to comply with the pictorial warnings update to the Tobacco Products Directive shows lack of political will and commitment to smoking prevention

On the 7 March 2012 the European Commission adopted 14 new written health warnings to appear on tobacco products: the EU Member States have two years to update their own list of health warnings to appear on tobacco products. In his unprecedented move of 27 March however, the Polish Minister of Health Mr Bartosz Arłukowicz refused to mandate such an update and would like to wait until the European Union decides on the Revision of the Tobacco Product Directive. EPHA PRESS RELEASE Polish (...)
About : Addictive and harmful substances and behaviours , EU Institutions , health promotion , tobacco and smoking
27/03/2012

Mid-term review of the EU Health Programme: 5 recommendations for the future Health Programme

In 2010, the Commission launched in parallel the mid-term evaluation of the EU Health Strategy 2008-2013 and the mid-term evaluation of the EU Health Programme 2008-2013. Through interviews with different stakeholders, the evaluation explored the effectiveness of financial mechanisms, the management of funds; and the dissemination or results. The Mid-Term evaluation found that the funding of actions is not spread equally over the three main objectives of the Health Programme, and is not (...)
About : EU Institutions , Health professionals , health strategy , public health programme
27/03/2012

EPHA and EPF call on EU Institutions to promote people`s health beyond the promotion of economic growth

In view of the on-going negotiations on the Multiannual Financial Framework, EPHA and EPF write to MEPs and Health Ministers to address the “Health for Growth” Programme and encourage them to support the European Commission’s initiative to continue action in the field of health until 2020. Patients and EPHA - the largest network of NGOs working on public health in Europe team up with a single voice to ensure better health outcomes and quality and safe services in the (...)
About : EU budget , EU Institutions , promotion , public health programme
27/02/2012

EPHA Report on Beyond GDP

2012 is the year the European Commission will conduct an assessment of its roadmap on “GDP and beyond: Measuring progress in a changing world.” With this in mind, EPHA undertook an assessment of progress made at the EU level since 2008, and how progress is measured as part of the Europe 2020 Strategy.

About : beyond-GDP , equity , EU Institutions , Europe 2020 , social inclusion , Social Issues
27/02/2012

European Parliament and Member States at odds over access to documents

In the December Plenary, the European Parliament voted on a report that called to increase the accessibility of documents to the public. Several Member States strongly oppose the will of MEPs to increase transparency to EU documents. The regulation on access to documents needs to be updated to take account changes in the Lisbon treaty. Currently, the regulation only covers documents of the Parliament, the Council and the Commission, whereas the Lisbon treaty gives the public a right of (...)
About : Civil Society , EU Institutions , Transparency
27/01/2012

EU Health Policy Forum calls on the European Commission to take action on chronic disease

Following the Council conclusions of 7 December 2011, The European Commission launched a consultation on chronic diseases. The European Health Policy Forum (EU HPF) - Commission consultative body on health - and of which EPHA is a member - made public its views on how to best address the issues related to chronic diseases. The EU Health Policy Forum response on chronic diseases called for the EU to quickly take action to reduce the risk of chronic disease, to improve the health of its (...)
About : Ageing and Older People , Chronic Diseases , Communicable Diseases , economic policies , EU Institutions , Health Inequalities , health promotion , Policy coherence
27/01/2012

European Parliament elects a new President, new Bureau and new committee chairs

In the January Plenary, the European parliament elected its new President and Vice Presidents, and afterwards the Committees elected new Chairs and Vice-Chairs, below are the results of the elections. At the Plenary in Strasbourg from 15-19 January, Martin Schulz, a German Social Democrat, was elected the new President of the European Parliament from 2012-2014. Receiving 387 votes, Mr Schulz obtained the absolute majority of votes needed. Mr Schulz was previously the head of the S&D (...)
About : EU Institutions , European Parliament , Social Issues
27/01/2012

18 New MEPs in the European Parliament

In December 2011, 18 new MEPS joined the European Parliament, when changes to a protocol in the Lisbon treaty came into force. Twelve countries are to gain one or more representatives – Spain: 4; Austria, France, and Sweden: 2; Bulgaria, Italy, Malta, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, and the UK: 1 The political affiliation of the new MEPs is 8 new members to the European People Party, 5 new members to the Socialist & Democrats Group, 2 new Members to the Green/EFA (...)
About : council of the european union , EU Institutions
13/12/2011

EPHA highlights positive advocacy results on the Health for Growth programme

About : EU budget , EU Institutions , Europe 2020 , financial , health promotion , public health programme

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