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31/05/2012
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work launches a ‘Smoke-Free Workplaces’ campaign
Coinciding with the World No Tobacco Day (May 31st), the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) launched its ‘Smoke-Free Workplaces’ awareness-raising campaign which calls on employers and workers to eliminate environmental tobacco smoke in workplaces all around Europe. It supports the pan-European campaign ‘Ex-smokers are unstoppable’ by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Health and Consumers.
In the European Union (EU), over (...)
27/06/2012
Bridging the Health Divide in Europe: reduce avoidable health inequalities and preventable respiratory diseases
Exchanging experiences to reduce avoidable health inequalities and preventable respiratory diseases were the focus of this year’s European Respiratory Society’s Summit "Bridging the Health Divide in Europe".
The European Respiratory Society (ERS) hosted a Summit on health inequalities and Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in Tallinn in Estonia on June 8th and 9th 2012 to build on the goals set out in the Tallinn Charter: Health Systems for Health and Wealth; address health (...)
31/08/2012
New OECD figures available on obesity and overweight
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has recently published the Obesity update 2012. The document provides an overview of the latest figures on those classified as overweight or obese, as well as documenting the measures being taken to counter the epidemic.
The following trends were emphasised in the Report:
Projections suggest that by 2020, more than 2 out of 3 people will be overweight or obese in several OECD countries;
in financial terms, obesity is (...)
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14/06/2012
Poland: Conference on the harmful success of the tobacco lobby in the country
Coinciding with this year’s World No Tobacco Day (May 31), the Polish Institute of Public Affairs organised a conference addressed at decision-makers and entitled “Protecting public interest from the influences of the tobacco industry.”
This was the first conference in Poland where the prevailing conflict of interest between the industry and the public health was presented in such an overt fashion. Besides emphasising the sizable impact that the tobacco lobby has in (...)
10/06/2012
Report launch: Undernutrition in the elderly (The Netherlands) - Health Council of the Netherlands
The Health Council of the Netherlands presented last May 29 its advisory report on ’Undernutrition in the elderly’ in the Netherlands. The report evaluates the scientific basis for the way protein-energy undernutrition in the elderly is dealt with.
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Characteristic of undernutrition (low body weight, weight loss) are often heavily interwoven with illness. Therefore, it is difficult to determine to what extent an increased risk of illness and mortality is (...)
23/04/2013
EPHA Media Reaction - Scotland backs minimum alcohol price
The Scottish Parliament overwhelmingly passed a bill yesterday introducing a 0.50£ (0.63€) minimum price for a unit of alcohol. Cut-price alcohol beverages will be outlawed in Scotland from as early as April next year.
The measure is expected to reduce binge drinking, having a positive impact on the region’s health and crime levels. As Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish health secretary says “it will help Scotland achieve a ’cultural shift’ in its unhealthy (...)
28/05/2012
WHO Framework implementing its recommendations on the marketing of foods and non-alcoholic to children
In May 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) produced a set of 12 recommendations on the marketing of foods and non-alcoholic beverages to children.
The responsibility fall then upon Member States to take the necessary measures to implement the recommendations and to monitor and evaluate their progress. In order to support policy makers in this process, the WHO produced guidelines. The WHO Framework for implementing the set of recommendations on the marketing of foods and non-alcoholic (...)
29/05/2012
European Commission adopts list of 222 claims ending in misleading marketing practices
The European Commission (EC) adopted last 16 May 2012 a list of 222 authorised claims - out of 2758 submitted- on nutrition and health claims on foods
On 21 March 2012, the European Parliament ENVI Committee voted on a list of 222 general function health claims. Now the European Parliament can either accept or block the proposal, following a three-month period of scrutiny. The 222 marketing health claims submitted to the vote were authorised by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) (...)
25/05/2012
More than 80 per cent of Britons believe that children should not be exposed to tobacco marketing
Cancer Research UK recently published a study on the UK population position on tobacco marketing and children. This comes at a time when the EU framework on the subject, the Tobacco Products Directive, is being revised. Should EU policy makers want to reflect the opinion of the majority...
Cancer Research UK, the world’s leading charity dedicated to research on cancer, an EPHA member, published on 14 May 2012 a study on tobacco marketing targeting children. This study comes at a (...)
28/05/2012
Roundtable: Promoting a Cervical Cancer Prevention Strategy for Europe- European Parliament (Brussels) 6 June 2012
During the European Week against Cancer, the European Institute of Women’s Health , in collaboration with MEPs against Cancer (MAC), is organisaing a Roundtable on the Prevention of Cervical Cancer.
This highly preventable cancer strikes young women under the age forty-four the hardest. At the Roundtable will discuss how better tackle existing gaps across Europe in terms of implementing an effective prevention strategy.
Nessa Childers, MEP from Ireland and Vice President of MEPs (...)
Related documents
- [Joint Press Release] In the fight against alcohol misuse, pricing policies are the way to go
- [Press Release] Out of touch - European Parliament backs tobacco subsidies & votes an agriculture policy unfriendly to public health
- [Joint Press Release] Tobacco Products Directive very unlikely to increase illicit trade
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