The European Commission together with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft have developed a code of conduct that includes a series of commitments to combat the spread of illegal hate speech online in Europe. These IT companies recognise they share, together with other platforms and social media companies, a collective responsibility for promoting and facilitating freedom […]
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Across the OECD, the risks of poverty have been shifting from the elderly towards youth since the 1980s. These developments accentuate the need to monitor the well-being of the most disadvantaged children, but income inequality also has far-reaching consequences for society, harming educational attainment, key health outcomes and even economic growth. UNICEF has produced a
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Nearly 800 million people are chronically undernourished and 159 million children under 5 years of age are stunted. Approximately 50 million children under 5 years are wasted and over two billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiencies. Meanwhile 1.9 billion people are overweight – of whom over 600 million are obese – and the prevalence of
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The first WHO Global report on diabetes states that the number of adults living with diabetes has almost quadrupled since 1980 to 422 million adults. Factors driving this dramatic rise include overweight and obesity. In 2012 alone diabetes caused 1.5 million deaths and its complications can lead to heart attack, stroke, blindness, kidney failure and
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In Europe today, 6 of the 7 biggest risk factors for premature death – blood pressure, cholesterol, Body Mass Index, inadequate fruit and vegetable intake, physical inactivity and alcohol abuse – relate to how we eat, drink and move. In April 2016 a conference was held on ‘Diet, Physical Activity and Health: a European Platform
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The number of adults living with diabetes worldwide has almost quadrupled since 1980, to 422 million, according to the first WHO Global report on diabetes. An estimated 64 million people are now living with the disease in the WHO European Region. The growing diabetes epidemic is strongly associated with increasing trends in overweight and obesity,
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The latest statistics (2015) on road safety across the EU have just been released and they show remarkable progress over the last decade. The UK scores well in improving road safety for children and the elderly. Between 2004 and 2013, fatalities of children (under 15 years of age) in the UK have fallen by almost
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This report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness, with experts from a variety of fields (including health and public policy) describing how measurements of well-being can be used effectively to assess the progress of nations. This year Denmark is ranked at number 1, while the UK is sitting at number 23.
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The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study is updated every four years and since 2002 has shown that differences in reported life satisfaction between adolescents in western and eastern Europe have narrowed, with countries such as Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Russian Federation and Ukraine reporting significant increases in life satisfaction over the period.
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Just over half of the 900 million people living in the WHO European Region (463 million) are women and they are living longer than men. Their life expectancy is also increasing but these extra years (women’s “mortality advantage”) are not necessarily healthy years: on average, women spend 10 years in ill health. The main causes
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