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 European Public Health Alliance | Dec 8, 2021 | Children and Youth, STOP Obesity
The EU Action Plan on Childhood Obesity, the main European political tool to comprehensively address childhood obesity expired in 2020 and will soon be evaluated and renewed.In this light, a debate What next for European action on childhood obesity? Debating the...
by European Public Health Alliance | Oct 12, 2021 | Children and Youth, Health Inequalities
On the 14th of June 2021, EU Member States took a historic decision by unanimously adopting the Council Recommendation establishing the European Child Guarantee. By calling on EU Member States to guarantee access to basic rights and services for children in need, this...
by European Public Health Alliance | Jul 27, 2021 | Children and Youth, Healthy Environments | Latest Developments
As EU policies in the areas of food systems and public health continue to evolve, especially following the adoption of the Farm to Fork Strategy, Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan and the European Child Guarantee, the EU school fruit, vegetables and milk scheme...
by European Public Health Alliance | Jul 22, 2021 | Children and Youth, Health Inequalities
Children represent 20% of the EU’s population, yet, even before the pandemic, almost 18 million children were experiencing poverty and social exclusion. Very young children are often overlooked, despite overwhelming evidence of the benefits of a healthy, safe and...
by European Public Health Alliance | Jun 14, 2021 | Children and Youth, Health Inequalities
EU Ministers have today adopted the Council Recommendation establishing the Child Guarantee, an innovative framework for action which aims to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty and social exclusion by calling on EU Member States to guarantee access to basic...
