The latest edition of the Global Nutrition Report has been released. This Report acts as a report card on the world’s nutrition—globally, regionally, and country by country—and on efforts to improve it. It assesses progress in meeting Global Nutrition Targets established by the World Health Assembly. For more information about the Global Nutrition Report on […]
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A new initiative for 2016-17 ‘ State of Health in the EU‘ will bring together internationally recognised expertise to provide Member States with evidence on health that is relevant to their specific country and that can help maximise the effectiveness, accessibility and resilience of their health systems. There are four components to this initiative: November
Most health systems face fiscal constraints and Voluntary Health Insurance (VHI) is often seen as a way to address these pressures. This study by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies draws on the experiences of 34 countries to assess VHI’s contribution to health spending and to understand its role in Europe and in
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In 2010 outdoor air pollution caused more than 3 million premature deaths around the world and the OECD is predicting this will rise to between 6 and 9 million premature deaths a year by 2060, with elderly people and children most vulnerable. These projections imply a doubling, or even tripling, of premature deaths from dirty
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UNICEF has launched a campaign – ENDviolence online – to highlight the perils of the internet for children today. As part of this campaign it has produced a report “Perils and possibilities: growing up online” which showcases young people’s perceptions of the risks children and adolescents face coming of age in the digital world. As
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Tara Duthie, who lives in Stirling, Scotland tried to quit smoking four times in 5 years. Then, in 2015 aged just 49, she had a heart attack – it was a wake-up call she could not ignore. She started using an app to help her stop smoking which not only gave her information about physiological
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Air pollution is the largest single environmental health risk and a leading cause of disease and death globally. In the WHO European Region, exposure to particulate matter (PM) accounted for almost 600,000 premature deaths in 2012. The costs associated with premature deaths and diseases caused by air pollution in the Region have been estimated to
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In the WHO European Region, nurses and midwives – an estimated total of 7.3 million – make up the majority of health care professionals, delivering health services to people of all ages. A recently published compendium of good practices in nursing and midwifery illustrates the fundamental importance of these health care professionals to public health
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Cancer is the first cause of work-related deaths in the EU, accounting for 53{ddf8d179d1bf712bb2a88ff2ad95ebdf63eaa5463c845d2f093b25848387ba96} of the total and therefore the single biggest health risk to workers in the European Union. The Commission will improve workers protection by added new limit values in the Carcinogens and Mutagens Directive for 13 cancer-causing chemicals. These limit values set
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Refillable electronic e-cigarettes, and the potential exposure to e-liquids containing nicotine, may pose risks to public health, according to a report recently adopted by the European Commission. The report included input from an external study that analysed physical samples, scientific literature and data from poison centres in eight EU countries. The study also surveyed the
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