EUROPE,
LET’S DO MORE FOR HEALTH!
We believe that a Europe where all people are as healthy as they can be throughout their lives is possible.
A Europe that promotes well-being for all people of all ages, and where people can live, work and age in sustainable and healthy environments.
A Europe that supports timely access to affordable, high quality healthcare for all.
Endorsing Organisations
Who is on board?
Agora
Alzheimer Europe
ANGEA ONLUS Associaziona Nazionale Genitori Eczema Atopico e Allergie Alimentari
Association of European Cancer Leagues (ECL)
Associação Portuguesa de Hospitalização Privada (APHP)
Association of Speech Language Pathologists
Coeliac Association – Malta
Consumers’ Association The Quality of Life (EKPIZO)
Council of Occupational Therapists for European Countries (COTEC)
Council of Representatives of Patients’ organizations of Lithuania
EFCAM – European Federation for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
EUFAMI
European Alcohol Policy Alliance (Eurocare)
European Alliance of Neuromuscular Disorders (EAMDA)
European Ayurveda Association
European CanCer Organisation (ECCO)
European Cancer Patient Coalition (ECPC)
European Committee for Homeopathy
European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients’ Associations (EFA)
European Heart Network (EHN)
European Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and Related Disorder Federation (EU-IPFF)
European Kidney Health Alliance
European Institute of Women’s Health
European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR)
European Multiple Sclerosis Platform
European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention (ENSP)
European Network of (Ex-)Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (ENUSP)
European Parkinson’s Disease Association
European Patients’ Forum (EPF)
European Public Health Alliance (EPHA)
European Public Health Association (EUPHA)
Fertility Europe
Fipra
France Assos Santé
Funktionsrätt Sverige / Swedish Disability Rights Federation
Health Action International (HAI)
Hospice Malta
Hungarian Alzheimer Society
International Patient Organisation for Primary Immunodeficiencies (IPOPI)
International Primary Care Respiratory Group (IPCRG)
IOGT-NTO
Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS)
Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz
Malta Association of Occupational Therapists
Malta Chamber of Pharmacists
Malta Eczema Society
Malta Health Network
Malta Medical Students Association
Pancyprian Federation of Patients’ Associations and Friends
Plataforma de Organizaciones de Pacientes
Salus Charitable Foundation
SCimPULSE foundation
Smoke Free Partnership (SFP)
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Weber Shandwick
Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (ZHAW)
The Lisbon Strategy includes a target of adding two healthy life years on average across the EU by 2020 – a target that still needs to be met. We need strong political leadership from the European Commission to achieve this goal.
This requires a Commission Vice-President and a Directorate General dedicated to health, to ensure that health protection and promotion is guaranteed across all European Commission portfolios.
Strong leadership on health will resonate with European citizens and bring the EU closer to them, restoring people’s trust in the EU institutions.
OUR ACTIONS
ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN
%
Europeans want the EU to do more for health, according to the most recent Eurobarometer survey
In 2017, European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker presented a white paper on the future of Europe, outlining 5 scenarios. In these scenarios, the option to “do less” on some policy areas is contemplated. This could lead to less EU action on health after 2020.
The European Public Health Alliance (EPHA), the European Patients’ Forum (EPF) and a coalition of organisations have teamed up to express their concerns in a letter to European Commission President, Jean Claude Juncker.
The letter ends with a request for a meeting with President Juncker, in order to explore the issues in more detail and agree a viable way forward.
WHY DOES IT MATTER?
Health protection and improvement is a great success story of the European Union.
Why do we need EU action on health?
Unprecedented health and social challenges can only be tackled at a European level.
There has never been a stronger case, or a more vital moment for Europe to work together to protect our health. Whilst life-expectancy has improved, the years gained are often lived in relatively poorer health due to the proliferation of preventable chronic diseases, compounded by huge disparities that persist within and between member states. Average life expectancy is 12 years shorter for a man in Lithuania than in Italy.
Discrimination and inequality remains widespread when it comes to access to healthy living conditions and healthcare.
Europe is facing important health threats which must become a top priority for this Commission. We face common challenges from drug-resistant infections, spikes in chronic diseases, obesity, alcohol-related harm, infectious diseases, emerging technologies, rising prices of medicines, and inequities in access to healthcare, that can be tackled together far more effectively.
What does the EU do for your health?
Health protection and improvement is a great success story of the European Union.
Life expectancy is rising across the EU. Accession to the Union is positively correlated with health gains and longer lives. Without EU level action and support of the Health Programme, EU citizens would be more at risk from health threats.
European integration and collaboration has brought great benefits for our health and provides vital resources for our health services: free movement of health professionals, health technologies and patients. We are assured of our right to treatment in other member states, under common minimum safety and quality standards. Thanks to cross-border collaboration, highly specialised expertise will be shared across borders, thanks to the recent European Reference Networks for Highly Complex and Rare Diseases – an area not only where EU-wide strategies are effective, but also where the added value of EU action is striking.
EUROPE, LET’S DO MORE FOR HEALTH!
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