by Milka Sokolović | Mar 9, 2023 | EPHA News, Healthy Economic Policy | Analysis & Opinion
Well-being economy and public health The well-being economy provides a long-term way out of an unprecedented existential crisis, a perfect storm of climate and ecological breakdowns, pandemic and wars, the majority of which are direct products of our current economic...
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 European Public Health Alliance | Dec 7, 2022 | Healthy Economic Policy | Analysis & Opinion
This paper reviews key documents and reports at the intersection of health, health systems and the economy to identify potential areas where EPHA could contribute to these debates in line with its mission to further improve public health for all. The paper finds...
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 European Public Health Alliance | Apr 20, 2022 | Antimicrobial Resistance | Analysis & Opinion, COVID-19, Digital Health | Analysis & Opinion, Healthy Economic Policy | Analysis & Opinion, Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs), Universal Access and Affordable Medicines | Analysis & Opinion
The European Parliament is undertaking an extremely important task of examining how the European Union has dealt with the response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. We know that its impact on almost every aspect of our lives and livelihoods has been and often...
by European Public Health Alliance | Mar 31, 2020 | Children and Youth, Healthy Economic Policy | Analysis & Opinion
Guest article by EPHA member, Eurochild Inequalities in access to health and services represent a growing concern in Europe, children in a vulnerable situations are at greater risk of exposure. Eurochild is calling the EU to reinforce the child-centred approach of...