Health Status

The European Parliament’s Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety has adopted a draft opinion to the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs regarding mobility and inclusion of people with disabilities and the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020. Draft opinion on the Mobility and inclusion of people with disabilities and the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020: a renewed commitment to a barrier-free Europe This development comes as a follow-up to the (...)

On 1 February 2011, the European Social Watch Report, ’Time for Action: Responding to Poverty, Social Exclusion and Inequality in Europe and beyond’, was published, with an EPHA contribution on ’Access to Health Services in the EU’. This edition of the European Social Watch report focuses on social exclusion in Europe from different angles, including employment, healthcare, housing and financial exclusion. It also examines the reality of people particularly (...)

The "Health at a Glance: Europe 2010" report was jointly published by the European Commission and the OECD, compiling data from the latter and from Eurostat. The report presents key trends on health, health systems and health spending in the 27 EU Member States, plus the 3 EFTA countries (Iceland, Norway and Switzerland) and Turkey. One of the report findings is that over half of the EU adult population is now overweight or obese. The rate of obesity has more than doubled over the past 20 (...)

In 2009, the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies published its ’’Health in the European Union - Trends and analysis" Report. The report investigates the existing differences between and within Member States regarding health status and access to health. Chronic diseases Cancer rates are generally on the increase in the EU. While men are generally more touched by cancer, with lung cancer the number one killer, national and regional differences exist too. (...)

The EUGLOREH Project published a new Global Report on the Health Status in the European Union. The document is a reference publication on the health status of the European population and on associated time-trends. Background The main objective of the EUGLOREH project was the production of a "Report on Health in the European Union" extending from 1998 till the most recently available data. The purpose of the Report was to provide a valuable tool for the European Commission, national policy (...)

The rapid mass privatisation which followed the break up of the Soviet Union fuelled an increase in death rates among men, research suggests. Background During the early-1990s, adult mortality rates rose in most post-communist European countries. Substantial differences across countries and over time remain unexplained. The study investigates whether mass privatisation can account for differences in adult mortality rates in such countries. Methods The researchers examined death rates (...)

The World Health Organisation Europe Region (WHO EURO) launched a Prison Health Database in order to increase the awareness of the problems relating to health in Prisons, to monitor patterns in prison health and to ensure the promotion of public health in prisons. The database forms part of the WHO’s Health in Prisons project (HIPP). The HIPP was started in 1995 to encourage member states to address health and health care in prisons and to enable better collaboration between prison (...)

A report by the EU’s statistical office, Eurostat, illustrates mortality data by cause for the Member States of the European Union. It also indicates that the leading cause of death differs greatly between the 25 Member States at national and regional levels. According to statistics: two thirds of deaths in the EU are caused by circulatory diseases and cancer. Heart attacks, strokes and other circulatory diseases account for 41% of all deaths. Cancer is responsible for 25% of (...)

The official newspaper “Latvijas Vçstnesis” has published interview with Oskars Velmers, the director of Public Health Agency (SVA) of Latvia. The aim of the interview is to give information on situation on health quality in Latvia - what are the current situation and what are the affected factors. The whole article is available in Latvian www.lv.lv, but here you can read short interpretation of the article in English. The functions of Public Health Agency One of the Public (...)

Eurostat has just released the Statistical Yearbook 2005 addressing regional data covering the European Union (EU) 25, as well as Bulgaria and Romania. The Yearbook is meant to be a practical statistical guide to the major issues relating to the evolution of the European Union. Amongst other issues such as agriculture, transport and science, the Yearbook analyses population statistics and health information. The population chapter particularly focuses on fertility trends and tries to (...)