Disaster preparedness and resilience is an essential public health function to protect people during times of crisis. Disasters strike unexpectedly, overwhelming response capacity and causing significant human morbidity and mortality. Though the timing of disasters is...
Guest article by the European Organisation for Rare Diseases Gender inequalities have increasingly become visible, reported, and acknowledged in Europe over the past decades. However, according to the World Health Organization, gender inequalities alongside...
Guest article by Devi Mey – Chief Executive Officer, and Luciano Potena – President, The European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT) Solid organ transplantation (SOT) is a treatment, not a cure, for people with an end-stage organ disease. On average, in recent...
More than 32 million adults and 170,000 children live with a form of diabetes in the EU. Although 14 types of diabetes have been identified so far, the most common are Type 1 and Type 2. Most cases of Type 2 Diabetes are preventable. Yet, Type 1 and other forms are...
By Reneta Ilieva, Bulgarian Association for Patients’ Rights Defence For several months, Bulgarian authorities have been advising practitioners not to prescribe antibiotics for COVID-19, but no significant progress has been achieved in terms of fighting antibiotic...
By Benedetta Baldini, Health Policy Lead at the European Social Insurance Platform (ESIP) Solidarity. This defining principle of social protection across Europe is what makes our welfare systems citizen-centred and society-conscious. Applied to the healthcare sector,...