Health Status

The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions has just published its annual review of working conditions in the EU for 2006-2007. The review underlines the need to further promote health and well-being of workers.
On 21 May 2007, the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) issued the annual review of working conditions in the EU for 2006-2007.
The fourth annual review of the European Working Conditions Observatory (...)

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 health (...)

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 all (...)

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 (...)

A recent study by the International Longevity Centre-France addresses the issue of data collection, by evaluating the methodology and the indicators used in 24 national or European helth surveys.
Data collection at European level is based on national measurements, so it is important to assess the comparability of national indicators that are used in different countries.
The study claims that there is a need to harmonise information on health at European level. The study shows that at the (...)

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation regularly issues calls of proposals to reduce global inequalities in health.
They have recently updated their website with relevant information for grant seekers such as grantmaking strategies, areas of focus, or grantee profiles: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/GlobalHealth/
A New European Global Health Nertwork
In March 2005, EPHA was part of a large bid submitted to the Gates Foundation to set up a European network on global health. The NGO consortium (...)

The European Commission has made public a comprehensive set of health indicators in order to help policy makers track developments in the health status of the European population.
The ECHI (European Community Health Indicators) project was carried out in the framework of the Health Monitoring Programme and the Community Public Health Programme 2003-2008.
The result is a list of ‘indicators’, developing comparable information on heatlh status, and covering:
Demographic and social economic (...)

"EU Heroes and Villains" is the joint NGO briefing paper published by Oxfam, Eurodad and ActionAid which points out which EU countries are living up to their promises on aid, trade, and debt. It also recommends EU Member States to take very specific actions to improve.
The paper exposes Italy as the EU country that spends the least of its Gross National Income (GNI) on aid. Denmark is the one that gives the most: 0.84 (although it used to give more in the past).
Regarding basic social (...)

To mark the International Day of People with Disabilities, and help to ensure that people with disabilities are given the opportunity to contribute to the social and economic prosperity, the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work issued on December 2004 a fact sheet on the workplace safety and health of people with disabilities.
The fact sheet underlines the rights of people with disabilities to both a fair and safe workplace. It provides user-friendly guidance on how a practical (...)