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Quality health systems and services

According to the World Health Organisation, a ’health system is the sum total of all the organizations, institutions and resources whose primary purpose is to improve health. A health system needs staff, funds, information, supplies, transport, communications and overall guidance and direction. And it needs to provide services that are responsive and financially fair, while treating people decently. A good health system improves people’s lives tangibly every day.’

Strengthening health systems and making them more equitable are of key importance to EPHA.

In this section, EPHA presents its work and information related to:
- health workforce and its recruitment, retention and education,
- tools and means for better delivery of care: technology, medicines and medical devices,
- the provision of information related to care and medicines and health literacy
- Organisation of health services and healthcare
- and communicable diseases

About: Communicable Diseases , Pharmaceuticals and Medicines , Chronic Diseases , HIV/AIDS , Health professionals , Healthcare services , Biotechnology , European Working Time Directive (EWTD) , Patient safety , Nano-technology , Information to Patients , Cross Border Healthcare Directive , eHealth , health literacy , workforce , mobility , technology , medical devices , direct to consumer advertising , patient rights , health threats , malaria , drug resistance , pandemic preparedness , Innovation , counterfeit , pharmacovigilance , intellectual property , recruitment , health system , Directive 36 , clinical trials , single market , equality , global health

24/04/2013

European Immunization Week 2013: Prevent - Protect - Immunize

As the European Immunization Week unfolds (22-27 April 2013), it is worth to re-emphasise immunization as a cost-effective public health preventive measure. It is particularly true in times of economic crisis and public spending cuts affecting essential health services needed to prevent the re-emergence of communicable diseases in Europe (and elsewhere). On an annual basis, for one week in April, all countries across the European Region unite under the European Immunization Week’s (...)
About : Children health , Communicable Diseases , Economic crisis , health threats , prevention , Vaccines and Immunization
30/03/2013

[Save the Date] Third Flu Summit of the European Scientific Working Group on Influenza (ESI)

The third annual Flu Summit organised by EPHA member the European Scientific Working Group on Influenza will take place on 2 May 2013 in Brussels. It will be an opportunity to learn about and discuss with experts issues such as pandemic preparedness, new influenza target groups, and vaccination strategies. This year’s edition focuses on new developments and challenges in the influenza field, with special attention for discussions on safety and effectiveness of influenza vaccines. (...)
About : Access to Medicines , Communicable Diseases , ESWI European Scientific Working Group on Influenza , H1N1 influenza , health literacy , Health professionals , health system , health threats , Patient safety , Pharmaceuticals and Medicines , public health
29/03/2013

Health improves unequally within and among European countries

Every three years the World Health Organisation (WHO) publishes its report on European Health. This year its report has a special focus on well-being. "The European Health Report 2012: Charting the Way to Well-Being", released by the WHO Regional Office for Europe on March 13, reveals some bitter-sweet data: even if there have been important health improvements in the European Region, the inequities across and within the countries are persistent. According to the WHO Regional Director for (...)
About : Austerity , Cancer , cardiovascular , childhood mortality , Communicable Diseases , Health Inequalities , health threats , life expectancy , Non-communicable diseases , well being
1/03/2013

Preventing global non-communicable diseases through low carbon development

Both non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and climate change are enormous threats to global health - synergies attempting to tackle these major health threats have received limited attention to date. The increasing burden of NCDs poses an enormous threat to populations and health systems across the globe. At the same time, the impacts of climate change are predicted to have profound public health effects and there is an urgent need for transition to low-carbon economies. Although important (...)
About : air pollution , air quality , Air Quality and Air Pollution , children and adolescents , Chronic Diseases , climate change , Communicable Diseases , environment , Health-promoting environment , Noise pollution , Non-communicable diseases , social determinants of health , Sustainable Development , WHO
11/12/2012

Council of the EU discusses Serious Cross-Border Threats to Health

The Council of the EU configuration for Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumers (EPSCO) met on Thursday 6 and Friday 7 December 2012. During its deliberations, it discussed the European Commission’s proposal for a Decision on serious cross-border threats to health, which is currently awaiting adoption by the full plenary of the European Parliament. The Commission proposal seeks to extend the mandate of the Early Warning and Response System (EWRS) to cover all serious (...)
About : Communicable Diseases , council of the european union , emergency planning and preparedness , health threats , pandemic preparedness , Pharmaceuticals and Medicines
2/12/2012

EPHA position on General Data Protection Regulation

EPHA’s position on the General Data Protection Regulation highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the existing proposal from the perspective of the health community and lays out the key provisions in protecting patient safety, individual rights and public health. The European Commission (EC) is currently reviewing its existing legal framework on data protection to ensure that the rules are fit for dealing with increasingly complex and sophisticated developments in technology and (...)
About : Communicable Diseases , Cross Border Healthcare Directive , data protection , health system , Patient safety , Research
11/12/2012

EPHA public statement ahead of Commissioner-designate Borg hearing at the European Parliament

In light of the concerns expressed by several civil society organisations over the designation of Malta’s Dr Tonio Borg for the Health and Consumer (DG SANCO) portfolio, the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) would like to raise questions regarding Dr Borg’s political record. EPHA also expresses its confidence in the European Parliament to fulfil its duty of democratic scrutiny in the hearing with Dr Borg on 13 November, and calls on the European Commission to, regardless of (...)
About : Addictive and harmful substances and behaviours , Communicable Diseases , EU Institutions , Health in all policies , Health Inequalities , Reproductive and sexual health , tobacco and smoking
2/12/2012

European Parliament Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee adopts report on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) report

The European Parliament’s ENVI Committee voted on Tuesday 6 November to adopt an own initiative report on the microbial challenge. . The draft report was written by Anna Rosbach MEP (ECR, Denmark) and received recommendations last month in an opinion from the Agriculture Committee. Adopted by 62 votes to 0, the final draft of the ENVI report makes amendments in several areas including: An emphasis on the ’One Health’ principle of treating health as part of a larger (...)
About : agriculture , antibiotic , Communicable Diseases , European Parliament , health threats
4/11/2012

*Updated* EPHA briefing on Antimicrobial Resistance

As consumption of antimicrobials has increased, the natural processes of adaptation and mutation have resulted in new, resistant strains of common diseases. Unresponsive to traditional treatments, these pose a major threat to public health, as demonstrated by the proliferation of regional and global pandemics. EPHA has updated its briefing on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) ahead of 2012 European Antibiotics Awareness Day (November 18) and in light of the European Parliament’s Own (...)
About : Access to Medicines , agriculture , antibiotic , Communicable Diseases , pandemic preparedness , Pharmaceuticals and Medicines , Vaccines and Immunization
4/11/2012

European Health Forum Gastein - 2012 Edition Highlights Austerity Impacts on Health

The 15th European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) took place between 3-6 October 2012 in Austria. This year’s conference theme was “Crisis and Opportunity – Health in an Age of Austerity’’, and the various plenary sessions, parallel forums and workshops covered topics ranging from health system sustainability to disease prevention, global health governance and the future of public health, research and innovation. In a sense, this year’s EHFG felt like a (...)
About : Ageing and Older People , Austerity , Communicable Diseases , Economic crisis , health economics , Health in all policies , Health Inequalities , health literacy , Health professionals , Health Rights and Patients , health system , health threats , Healthcare services , public health , public health programme , Research

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