by Raymond Gemen | Mar 9, 2023 | EPHA News, Healthy Economic Policy | Analysis & Opinion
© WHO/Andreas Beck More than five decades ago, the Club of Rome warned the world that its natural systems would not be able to support the rates of economic and population growth forever and that indeed there are ’Limits to Growth’. Today, the planetary boundaries...
by Raymond Gemen | Oct 26, 2022 | Healthy Economic Policy | Analysis & Opinion, The View from EPHA
© Image by European Health Forum Gastein via Flickr. One of the cross-cutting topics during this year’s European Health Forum Gastein was the ‘Economy of Wellbeing’, which is a policy and governance approach that puts people and their wellbeing at the centre of...
by Raymond Gemen | Dec 13, 2021 | Children and Youth, Health Inequalities, Roma Health | Latest Developments
The determinants of health shape the conditions in which we are born, grow, live, work, and age, and explain the unfair, systematic, and avoidable differences in health between groups of people: health inequalities. The social determinants of health include income...
by Raymond Gemen | Nov 25, 2021 | Health Inequalities
One in three women face gender-based violence in their lifetime, mostly by their intimate partner.This staggering statistic, however, dates from before COVID-19 and UN Women has reported on emerging evidence that since the outbreak of COVID-19, violence has...
