by European Public Health Alliance | Sep 21, 2020 | Opinion, Reports
In Slovakia, as elsewhere in Europe segregated Roma face much greater difficulties accessing and receiving standard healthcare services compared to other citizens. An new briefing by EPHA Roma Health Fellow, Marcela Adamova and Andrej Belak, Institute of Ethnology and...
by European Public Health Alliance | Apr 29, 2019 | Opinion
The fourth EU Roma Week took place on 18- 21 March, under the patronage of the European Commission and the European Parliament, and co-organised by MEPs, the UN Human Rights Office in Brussels and civil society organisations including EPHA, the Open Society European...
by European Public Health Alliance | Mar 19, 2019 | Opinion
By Marcela Adamova, EPHA Fellow, Manager for implementation Roma health mediators in the hospital environment – Healthy Regions Slovakia. A new service in Slovakia aims to support Roma from marginalised communities to better benefit from healthcare to increase...
by European Public Health Alliance | Dec 12, 2018 | Opinion
By Marcela Adamová, EPHA Roma Health Fellow NCDs cost us a fortune Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the world’s leading avoidable killers, but the society we live in is not doing enough to prevent and control their occurrence. NCDs cause most of the early deaths...