Air pollution remains the biggest environmental health risk in Europe and continues to be a major cause of premature death and disease. Yet, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw a temporary increase in air quality as a result of lockdowns enforced to...
23 March 2021, Brussels – Most cities throughout Europe should restrict traffic to tackle growing levels of air pollution as pandemic restrictions ease, the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) urged today, a call based on a wide-ranging new transport study....
Calls grow to stop the agreement amid growing concerns in Europe and South America. On 15 March, a coalition of more than 450 civil society organisations (CSOs) from both sides of the Atlantic held a press conference showing from various perspectives why the...
Brussels 10 March 2021 A new report, launched today reveals the continued and extensive contacts between the tobacco industry, its allies and pro-vaping groups and industry associations, and eight separate Directorates-General (DGs) of the European Commission (EC);...
19 January 2021 Globally, 80m adolescents are living with obesity, and without substantial intervention, the figure is due to rise to 150m by 2030. But what interventions work? The STOP Project, funded in 2018 by the European Union to identify new interventions to...
Health NGOs are key implementing partners to prepare European health systems to face future health threats Brussels, 15th December Primary prevention takes the place it deserves as at least 20 % of the total budget is reserved for health promotion and disease...
